TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klinck,Carl F.
AU  - Djwa,Sandra
TI  - Giving Canada a literary history: a memoir 
SN  - 0886291623
AV  - PR9184.3.K5 G585 1991eb
U1  - C810.9/00092 21
PY  - 1991///
CY  - [Ottawa, Ont.]
PB  - Carleton University Press for the University of Western Ontario
KW  - Klinck, Carl F.,
KW  - Literary historians
KW  - Canada
KW  - Biography
KW  - Canadian literature (English)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Litt�erature canadienne-anglaise
KW  - Histoire et critique
KW  - Historiens de la litt�erature
KW  - Literatur
KW  - swd
KW  - Geschichte (1930-1990)
KW  - Erlebnisbericht
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
KW  - Kanada
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-216) and index; 1. Early Years: 1908-28 -- 2. Columbia and Toronto -- 3. Waterloo and Europe -- 4. Wilfred Campbell -- 5. Laying the Foundations -- 6. Research into the Literature of the Canadas -- 7. Canadian Anthology -- 8. Literary History of Canada -- 9. Canadian Writers and the New Canadian Library -- 10. Later Research -- 11. The 1970s and Retirement
N2  - In Giving Canada a Literary History, Carl Klinck combines his autobiography with a history of the development of Canadian Literature as a serious field of study. When he set out to find out the "facts," he did so because he was convinced that "Our national soul is hidden within us, in what we are, in our expression of ourselves, in our literature." Indeed, the present strong state of the discipline is largely the result of Carl Klinck's efforts to establish a canon and to provide the basic tools of study through his own publications and through collaborative efforts with other scholars. He believed that the work he had undertaken was a "patriotic duty," and his role in the creation of student texts, editions of classic works, and especially, The Literary History of Canada made him the principal architect of the systematic scholarship that has emerged in Canada since the early 1960s
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