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Robert Kroetsch

Canadian author

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contribution to Canadian literature

  • The Handmaid's Tale
    In Canadian literature: Fiction

    Robert Kroetsch’s trilogy The Words of My Roaring (1966), The Studhorse Man (1969), and Gone Indian (1973) transformed the realism of Prairie fiction into postmodern parodies of the quest journey. In The Temptations of Big Bear (1973), The Scorched-Wood People (1977), and A Discovery of…

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  • The Handmaid's Tale
    In Canadian literature: Poetry and poetics

    …past in Steveston (1974), and Robert Kroetsch explored his Prairie roots in Field Notes (1981)—both important examples, along with Bowering’s Kerrisdale Elegies (1984), of the serial long poem, another variation on the documentary mode. In Handwriting (1998) Ondaatje returned to his birthplace, Sri Lanka. Fascination with place and history also…

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