Literary + Artistic Movements
These Montreal-based poets rejected Romanticist values in favour of Anglo-American Modernism.
What is the McGill Movement?
A form of the novel popular in the later 19th century that features stories of crime and mystery and an element of suspense.
A Royal Commission that assessed the state of the arts and sciences in postwar Canada.
What is the Massey Commission?
An early 20th-century movement that embraced the mantra "make it new."
What is Modernism?
A long verse narrative on a serious subject that is centered on a heroic figure.
What is an epic?
A late 20th-century federal initiative that sought to end Indian Status and treaty rights.
What is the White Paper?
A late 19th- and early 20th-century movement especially pronounced in visual art that evinced a desire for cultures prior to "civilization."
What is modernist primitivism?
A poem that laments the loss of someone or something.
What is an elegy?
A late 20th-century federal policy and then an Act that acknowledges the cultural plurality of Canadian society.
What is multiculturalism?
A movement that promotes the engagement with the specific cultural traditions and ways of knowing that inform a particular Indigenous author’s work.
What is Indigenous Literary Nationalism?
The German term for a "novel of formation."
What is a bildungsroman?
Métis leader of the Red River Resistance (1869) and the North-West Resistance (1885).
Who is Louis Riel?
A later 20th- and early 21st-century movement in poetry that moves beyond appreciation or idealization of nature (i.e., the Romanticist conception of nature as vehicle for human transcendence) to express an active or ethical relationship with a natural world.
What is ecopoetry?
A figure of thought that involves the use of expressions meaning the opposite, or nearly the opposite, of what is literally said.
What is irony?
An ideology that prizes the British connection; traditionalism; community; elitism; the strong state / public ownership; and generally anti-liberal values.
What is the "Tory Touch" / "Red Toryism"?