At the Margins: Chapbook Presses in Canada

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dc.contributor.advisorBök, Christian
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Colin Jan
dc.contributor.committeememberKertzer, Jonathan
dc.contributor.committeememberVandervlist, Harry
dc.contributor.committeememberTepperman, Charles
dc.contributor.committeememberBetts, Gregory
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-01T14:39:44Z
dc.date.available2016-09-01T14:39:44Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.date.submitted2016en
dc.description.abstractPierre Bourdieu has famously argued that the rules and currencies in artistic fields differ than those in financial or political fields of social interaction. In the restricted economy of the avant-garde, those artists who produce work for the least money or power gain the greatest influence among their peers. In the realm of Canadian ephemeral publishing, those presses that produce poetry chapbooks, broadsheets, and experimental books function in a field similar to that of the avant-garde artist committed to working in such a restricted economy. These poetry micropresses operate at the fringe of mainstream literary publishing, and they disrupt the publishing activity, changing it from a commercial activity into a creative practice for a small, but influential audience of other artists and producers. In this study, I draw from previous, smaller surveys of micropresses published variously by Angela Rawlings and rob mclennan, and I examine their outcomes alongside my own, survey of micropress publishers operating in Canada within the last 30 years. This study permits a clearer understanding of how these little presses transform literary publishing within Canada, and shows that the micropresses innovate both the aesthetics of contemporary poetry and the practice of publishing poetry. The presses draw influence from the little magazines that dot the Canadian literary landscape from the mid-1920s to the late 1970s, and that generally eschew institutional hierarchies in order to experiment with innovative publishing and distribution strategies. In doing so, the micropresses revolutionize the Canadian publishing institution, but fail to avoid being co-opted and undermined by that institution.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMartin, C. J. (2016). At the Margins: Chapbook Presses in Canada (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/25065en_US
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/25065
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11023/3247
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisher.facultyGraduate Studies
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Calgaryen
dc.publisher.placeCalgaryen
dc.rightsUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.
dc.subjectLiterature--Modern
dc.subjectLiterature--Canadian (English)
dc.subjectLiterature--English
dc.subject.classificationpoetryen_US
dc.subject.classificationmicropressen_US
dc.subject.classificationavant-gardeen_US
dc.subject.classificationpublishingen_US
dc.subject.classificationarchiveen_US
dc.subject.classificationradicalen_US
dc.subject.classificationDigitalen_US
dc.titleAt the Margins: Chapbook Presses in Canada
dc.typedoctoral thesis
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglish
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Calgary
thesis.degree.nameDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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