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A fresh approach to Montreal fiction, integrating French and English novels into a common literary history.

Title Equivocal city : French and English novels of postwar Montreal / Patrick Coleman.
Publisher Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press
Creation Date 2018
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts and Translations -- Introduction -- Part One Solitude and the City in the 1940s -- 1 Politics and Promiscuity in Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes -- 2 Gendered Mediations: Gwethalyn Graham's Earth and High Heaven -- 3 Temptation and Tenderness in Gabrielle Roy's Bonheur d'occasion (The Tin Flute) -- Part Two Shaky Solidarities: The 1950s -- 4 Witnesses to Weakness Compassion and Civic Consensus in Fictions of the 1950s -- 5 A Precarious Maturity Anglophone Satire at the End of the 1950s -- 6 Failing Better Francophone Novels on the Eve of the Quiet Revolution -- Part Three Solutions and Dissolutions -- 7 Twilight of the Idols, Dawnof a New Day Jacques Ferron's La Nuit (The Night) and Leonard Cohen's Beautiful Losers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Extent 1 online resource (267 pages)
Language English
National Library system number 997010705245205171
MARC RECORDS
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