Making It Real by Robert Lecker

An accessible, provocative, and insightful critique of the formation and manipulation of literary taste and the literary canon in English Canada: “Canada matters; Canadian literature matters; critical activity in the field of Canadian literature has a cultural function, social responsibility, historical relevance.” (The Paradox of Meaning, Moss on Lecker, 1999). At a time when thoughtless and uninformed people have lost sight of the very existence of Canadian culture or deny its significance, Lecker provides a convincing rebuttal, more important now than when he published it, fifteen years ago.