dc.contributor.author	Schmaltz, Eric
dc.date.accessioned	2023-08-24T16:24:42Z
dc.date.available	2023-08-24T16:24:42Z
dc.date.issued	2023-08-15
dc.description.abstract	Beginning in 1963 and continuing through the late 1980s, a loose coterie of like-minded Canadian poets challenged the conventions of writing and poetic meaning by fusing their practice with strategies from visual art, sound art, sculpture, installation, and performance. They called it “borderblur.” Borderblur Poetics traces the emergence and proliferation of this node of poetic activity, an avant-garde movement comprising concrete poetry, sound poetry, and kinetic poetry, practiced by poets and artists like bpNichol, bill bissett, Judith Copithorne, Steve McCaffery, Penn Kemp, Ann Rosenberg, Gerry Shikatani, Shaunt Basmajian, among others. Author Eric Schmaltz demonstrates how these poets formed an alternative tradition, one that embraced intermediality to challenge the hegemony of Canadian literature established during the heydays of cultural nationalism. He shows the importance of intermediality as a driving cultural force and how its proliferation significantly altered Canadian cultural expression. Drawing on a combination of archival research, historical analysis, and literary criticism, Borderblur Poetics adds significant nuance to theories and criticisms of Canadian literature.
dc.identifier.isbn	9781773854588
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1880/116888
dc.identifier.uri	https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/41730
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	University of Calgary Press	en
dc.publisher.institution	York University
dc.publisher.url	http://press.ucalgary.ca/	en
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dc.rights	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International	en
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subject	Literary Studies
dc.subject	Literary Criticism
dc.subject	Canadian Literature
dc.subject	Poetry
dc.subject	Avant-Garde
dc.subject	Literary Theory
dc.title	Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988
dc.type	book	en

Borderblur Poetics: Intermedia and Avant-Gardism in Canada, 1963-1988

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