Making it Real: The Canonization of English-Canadian Literature

by Robert Lecker

In these wide-ranging and controversial essays, Lecker explores-and explodes-many of the myths surrounding the business of studying, teaching, and evaluating English-Canadian literature. Making It Real challenges our preconceptions of our literature, offering new insights into its historic connection with the idea of Canada.

Genres: Canada

Paperback

Published January 1, 1995

About the author

Robert Lecker is Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University. He is the editor of several anthologies, most recently Open Country: Canadian Literature in English, and the author of numerous books and articles, including On the Line, Robert Kroetsch, Another I, Making It Real, Dr. Delicious, The Cadence of Civil Elegies, and Keepers of the Code.