In:
University of Toronto Quarterly, University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress), Vol. 25, No. 3 ( 1956-04-01), p. 269-282
Kurzfassung:
"Non-fiction" is an inelegant and unflattering description, invented no doubt by librarians, which is firmly established in Canadian usage. The literary journals of Great Britain and western Europe still attempt to be more discriminating. In their old-fashioned and pedantic way, they go on recognizing the separate categories of history, biography, politics, economics and world affairs; but in Canada these refined European distinctions are cheerfully disregarded. A survey of Canadian literature, by Canadians, normally begins with an article on Canadian poetry, which is followed immediately by an article on the Canadian novel; and then everything that is left over, philosophy, history, economics, as well as literary and art criticism, is swept summarily into a huge residual heap, labelled "remaining material." Poetry and fiction are, of course, "creative." But the claims of "remaining material" to this proud distinction are regarded, in Canada, as decidedly more dubious. A few small items in the vast, amorphous mass of "non-fiction" may be accepted as "creative," but only on the inflexibly enforced condition that they have not been written by members of universities. Works by members of universities are in all cases dismissed as "academic"; and in Canada, as in other parts of the English-speaking world, "academic" is very definitely a pejorative word.[...] It may be worth while to lift Canadian history and Canadian work in the social sciences out of the undifferentiated mass of "remaining material" for a brief inspection.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0042-0247
,
1712-5278
DOI:
10.3138/utq.25.2.269
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Publikationsdatum:
1956
ZDB Id:
2067134-9
ZDB Id:
2159811-3
SSG:
25
