English 2060E Lecture : Unit 3 Kroetsch Lecture
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Another poet, novelist, and academic, kroetsch reverses the generic trajectory of. Ondaatje"s career in that he was first a novelist, then an academic, and finally a poet. His poetry accordingly takes elements from all three, and his poetic voice has been deemed. Canada"s diverse geography and accents, it"s important to note that kroetsch"s literature tends to use the history and traditions of his birthplace, alberta and the prairies, rather than a more urban cadence. After earning his phd at the iowa writer"s. Workshop he was a major figure in postmodernism at suny binghampton, engaged in promoting its thought and criticism through co-founding boundary 2: a journal of. Postmodern literature in the 60s and early 70s. In 1975 he returned to canada, to a position as professor of english at the university of manitoba. He also began writing poetry at this point, and his work has continued despite his retirement from the university in 1995.
