Surviving the Paraphrase - Softcover

Davey, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888010753 ISBN 13: 9780888010759

Publisher: Turnstone Press, 1983

Synopsis

The essays collected here have been written against the background of Davey's long and close intellectual engagement with the major critical issues of his day...(and) provide a clear sense of his very substantial contribution to contemporary criticism in Canada... To critical theory he has added his voice on behalf of post-modernist writing, and perhaps as clearly as any other writer has articulated the theory of post-moderism. He has given our criticism its contemporary voice, its sound and its rhythms, and to the mood of our most recent critical writing added his generous and welcoming spirit. A writer on the side of life, he has spoken for life and vitality as an active engaged spirit of our time.

About this title

About the Author:

Frank Davey has been pushing at expanding what poetry can do since helping launch Vancouver's Tish poetry newsletter in 1961 and publishing D-Day and After perceptively described by James Reaney as appearing to have been written by his typewriter in 1962. Along the way he has published more than thirty poetry books. His most recent publications are aka bpNichol, a biography of poet bpNichol, and the artist's book Spectres of London Ont. His books have included the ironically postcolonial The Abbotsford Guide to India (1986), winner of the 1987 Canadian Publishers Association Writers Choice Award, Postcard Translations (1988), described by Lynette Hunter as offering readers Oradically new ways not only of relating to national culture but of contributing to it and shaping it, ' and Bardy Google (2010), a flarf book that reviewer Vanessa Lent observes Oconstructs meaning in a way that has no connection to traditional human means of reasoning and storytelling.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Turnstone Press
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0888010753
• ISBN 13: 9780888010759
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 193