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- Title: Editing Canadian Modernism (Essay)
- Author : English Studies in Canada
- Release Date : January 01, 2007
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 246 KB
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1. Modernist Editions and Archives Modernist poetry in English Canada would not have a history without its editors. The history of modernism in Canada has largely been that of editors who were also poets and poets who were also editors. Given that so many American and British modernist authors were active in various capacities as editors, it follows that the conjuncture of poetic and editorial practice has long been recognized as a constitutive narrative of Anglo-American modernism (see Bornstein). Although Canada does not really have its own version of Pound editing The Waste Land, the correlation of authors and editors holds true for scholarship on Canadian modernists. The once-dominant critical archive devoted to what Brian Trehearne calls the "two Modernisms" (Aestheticism 313) associated with successive generations of poets, editors, and literary magazines in Montreal in the 1920s and 1940s has, in recent years, undergone revision to include multiple modernisms and little-magazine groups located in cities extending from Halifax to Victoria. (1) Because only a handful of modernist poets in Canada published book collections before the 1940s, and because most relied on little magazines to serve as outlets for their poetry, histories of Canadian modernism have often been shaped by a dual focus on poets and magazine editors. (2) Other histories of Canadian modernism have been aligned with cognate editorial activities, namely the production of literary anthologies and the formation of small presses. (3) These histories of English Canada's modernists have attended to the primary stages of editorial work connected to the production of magazines, anthologies, chapbooks, and books, although without consideration of the later stages of editorial practice associated with the reproduction of Canadian modernist texts in collected and critical editions.