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The Canonization of Two Underground Classics: Howard O'Hagan's Tay John and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano Fee, Margery

Abstract

The reception of O'Hagan's Tay John and that of Lowry's Under the Volcano is compared. Although both authors were familiar with avant-garde modernist writing and art, O'Hagan buried his sophisticated allusions and presented himself, not as a well-educated lawyer, but as a "mountain man." Lowry appealed to a much wider audience.

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Title
The Canonization of Two Underground Classics: Howard O'Hagan's Tay John and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano
Creator
Fee, Margery
Publisher
ECW
Date Issued
1992
Description
The reception of O'Hagan's Tay John and that of Lowry's Under the Volcano is compared. Although both authors were familiar with avant-garde modernist writing and art, O'Hagan buried his sophisticated allusions and presented himself, not as a well-educated lawyer, but as a "mountain man." Lowry appealed to a much wider audience.
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993890 bytes
Subject
Howard O'Hagan; Malcolm Lowry; canonization; modernism in literature
Genre
Book Chapter
Type
Text
File Format
application/pdf
Language
eng
Date Available
2009-08-04
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0074540
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/11667
Affiliation
Arts, Faculty of; English, Department of
Citation
Margery Fee. "The Canonization of Two Underground Classics: Howard O'Hagan's Tay John and Malcolm Lowry's Under the Volcano." In Silence Made Visible: Howard O'Hagan and Tay John. Ed, Fee. Toronto: ECW, 1992. 85-91.
Peer Review Status
Reviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Copyright Holder
ECW Press
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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