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FRENCH STUDIES: FRENCH CANADIAN LITERATURE

FRENCH STUDIES: FRENCH CANADIAN LITERATURE French Studies FRENCH CANADIAN LITERATURE By CEDRIC MAY, Guest Lecturer in French and Canadian Studies, University of Minnesota, Duluth The critical process in French Canada dates from the beginnings of French-Canadian writing in the I 83os. James Huston's four volume Repertoire national (I848-52) already raised all the main questions about the precarious and ephemeral nature of a colonial culture. A steady stream of essays, Casgrain (I872), Lareau (I874), Dugas (I929), Camille Roy (I930), Marion (I93g-), Brunet (I946), and foreigners ab der Halden (I904), Bisson (I932), and Viatte (I954), have generally damned with faint praise and questioned even the existence of a distinct literature. From the late I950s, the debate has become progressively more confident and sophisticated with Tougas (I96o), Wyczynski (I96I), Marcotte (I962), De Grandpre (I967), Ethier-Blais (I967). Latterly, with the academicization of Quebec literature, large-scale research projects have set about inventorying the repertoire, establishing the canon, fixing periodicity, producing critical editions and describing what is usefully referred to as the 'institution litteraire'. With the Dictionnaire des a;uvres litteraires du Quebec (DOLQ), Montreal, Fides, vol. v, I987, lxxxvii + II33PP·, Maurice Lemire and his team of researchers have completed their sixteen-year project which set out to collect, record, and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

FRENCH STUDIES: FRENCH CANADIAN LITERATURE

Mar 13, 1989

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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0084-4152
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2222-4297
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10.1163/22224297-90002942
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French Studies FRENCH CANADIAN LITERATURE By CEDRIC MAY, Guest Lecturer in French and Canadian Studies, University of Minnesota, Duluth The critical process in French Canada dates from the beginnings of French-Canadian writing in the I 83os. James Huston's four volume Repertoire national (I848-52) already raised all the main questions about the precarious and ephemeral nature of a colonial culture. A steady stream of essays, Casgrain (I872), Lareau (I874), Dugas (I929), Camille Roy (I930), Marion (I93g-), Brunet (I946), and foreigners ab der Halden (I904), Bisson (I932), and Viatte (I954), have generally damned with faint praise and questioned even the existence of a distinct literature. From the late I950s, the debate has become progressively more confident and sophisticated with Tougas (I96o), Wyczynski (I96I), Marcotte (I962), De Grandpre (I967), Ethier-Blais (I967). Latterly, with the academicization of Quebec literature, large-scale research projects have set about inventorying the repertoire, establishing the canon, fixing periodicity, producing critical editions and describing what is usefully referred to as the 'institution litteraire'. With the Dictionnaire des a;uvres litteraires du Quebec (DOLQ), Montreal, Fides, vol. v, I987, lxxxvii + II33PP·, Maurice Lemire and his team of researchers have completed their sixteen-year project which set out to collect, record, and

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