"From Cohen to Carson: The Poet's Novel in Canada" - Ian Rae
Join author Ian Rae as he discusses his new book. "From Cohen to Carson" provides the first book-length analysis of one of Canada's most distinctive fields of literary production. Rae argues that Canadian poets have turned to the novel because of the limitations of the lyric, but have used lyric methods - puns, symbolism, repetition, juxtaposition - to create a mode of narrative that contrasts sharply with the descriptive conventions of realist and plot-driven novels. Detailed case studies of novels by Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt and Anne Carson, as well as sections on A.M. Klein and Anne Michaels, reveal how these authors framed their early novels according to formal precedents established in their poetry. Free - RSVPs are encouraged