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The Columbia History of the American NovelTheir main appeal was the ambivalently portrayed comic protagonist, Sam Slick, a Yankee peddler in rural Nova Scotia whose verbal facility contributed such expressions as "upper crust," "conniption fit," and "stick-in-the-mud" to North American English. Are the literary Yankee, American humor, and even, perhaps, Uncle Sam all, like the New World novel, Canadian inventions? Stephen Leacock similarly achieved great popularity with Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), his comic exploration of the private and public foibles of life in provincial Ontario. Admittedly, The Clockmaker and Sunshine Sketches seem more collections of stories or sketches than novels. But Canadian writers frequently blur the distinction between the two forms. In Clark -560- Blaise's A North American Education (1973), for example, separate stories of loss and dislocation add up to an appropriately disjointed anti-Bildungsroman. Or, conversely, in Alden Nowlan's Various Persons Named Kevin O'Brien (also published in 1973), what at first seems a novel reconstitutes itself through the refracturing of the protagonist into a series of short stories ...» |
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