Hugh Hood's The New Age/Le Nouveau Siècle: A Contemporary Divine Comedy
Hugh Hood's twelve‐volume epic, The New Age/Le nouveau siècle (1975–2000), is ‘the most ambitious literary undertaking to date in English‐speaking Canada’, but most Canadian critics have ignored or rejected it because their contemporary narrative expectations are antithetical to Hood's gen...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2003
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Literature and theology
Year: 2003, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 127-140 |
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| Summary: | Hugh Hood's twelve‐volume epic, The New Age/Le nouveau siècle (1975–2000), is ‘the most ambitious literary undertaking to date in English‐speaking Canada’, but most Canadian critics have ignored or rejected it because their contemporary narrative expectations are antithetical to Hood's genre, Christian moral allegory. I argue that only through a close‐reading of this series within a theological/tropological framework can one appreciate the tremendous accomplishment of this uniquely Canadian religious epic and, therefore, make the considerable effort to understand it. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/17.2.127 |