Dennis Cooley, Bloody Jack

John Lent (Independent Scholar - Europe); Alexis Ratz (Independent Scholar - North America)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.1.2: Canadian Writing and Culture (Anglophone): The Twentieth Century and beyond, 1900-present.
Vol. editors: Sarah Henzi (Simon Fraser University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Glen Nichols (Mount Allison University), Wendy Roy (University of Saskatchewan), Denis Salter (McGill University), Karis Shearer (University of British Columbia)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1984

Places

Canada (Country of Origin)

Genres and Modes

Poem collection

Resources

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The 2nd Edition of Dennis Cooley's

Bloody Jack

is a 280-page volume written with an often maniacal sense of humor, spanning a wide range of genres. Only three pieces from the original edition (published in 1984) are excluded, 28 new pieces are added. Though the majority of the pieces are poetry, the text also contains prose, songs, a crossword puzzle and a mock quiz as well as letters, reviews of the earlier edition, newspaper articles, and excerpts from a movie script which has never existed, all of which require the reader to constantly query the factual basis of what s/he is reading. As Douglas Barbour states in the text's introduction, Cooley “[...] undermines the documentary impulse at every turn, using documents in order to subvert the apparently solid reality they represent”…

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Citation: Lent, John, Alexis Ratz. "Bloody Jack". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 18 August 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=15618, accessed 19 April 2024.]

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