Popular Narratives

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Talonbooks, 1991 - Poetry - 96 pages
This book of prose poems strips down the codes and conventions that make up our society's "popular narratives." A revealing and witty, exploded view of our culture.

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About the author (1991)

Born in Vancouver, Frank Davey was Carl F. Klinck Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Western Ontario. Upon his retirement in 2005, the conference "Poetics and Public Culture in Canada" was held in his honour. Davey attended the University of British Columbia where he was a co-founder of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. Since 1963, he has been the editor-publisher of the poetics journal Open Letter. With fellow TISH poet Fred Wah, Davey founded the world's first on-line literary magazine, SwiftCurrent in 1984. A prolific and highly-esteemed author of numerous books and scholarly articles on Canadian literary criticism and poetry, Davey writes with a unique panache as he examines with humour and irony the ambiguous play of signs in contemporary culture, the popular stories that lie behind it, and the struggles between different identity-based groups in our globalizing society--racial, regional, gender-based, ethnic, economic--that drive this play.

Bibliographic information

TitlePopular Narratives
AuthorFrank Davey
PublisherTalonbooks, 1991
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedNov 7, 2006
ISBN0889222851, 9780889222854
Length96 pages
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Poetry / Canadian
Poetry / General
Poetry / Subjects & Themes / General
  
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