E J Pratt Letters

Author : E.J. Pratt Library
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442622623

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E.J. Pratt: Letters by E.J. Pratt Library Pdf

This edition of E.J. Pratt’s letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. Because of Pratt’s role in the making of Canadian culture between and after the World Wars, his correspondence highlights key moments in our cultural history and provides a view of the enterprise from its very centre. The letters take us into his "workshop," illuminating the research behind his distinctive documentary long poems and the social nature of his creative production. They also reveal the complex network of writers, critics, artists and political figures of which Pratt was a part, the evolution of the Canadian book trade from the 1920s through to the early 1960s, and the emergence of radio (and specifically, of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) as a tool for forging national identity. Pratt's correspondence both confirms the public persona of one of Canada’s first literary celebrities and provides glimpses of the private character behind the mask.

Author : David George Pitt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Authors, Canadian
ISBN : CHI:11223122

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E.J. Pratt by David George Pitt Pdf

Author : Linda M. Morra,Laura K. Davis
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781772123357

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Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland, Letters by Linda M. Morra,Laura K. Davis Pdf

An edited, annotated collection of funny, affectionate, and insightful letters between two Canadian literary icons.

Author : Dean Irvine,Smaro Kamboureli
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771120944

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Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada by Dean Irvine,Smaro Kamboureli Pdf

This collection of essays focuses on the varied and complex roles that editors have played in the production of literary and scholarly texts in Canada. With contributions from a wide range of participants who have played seminal roles as editors of Canadian literatures—from nineteenth-century works to the contemporary avant-garde, from canonized texts to anthologies of so-called minority writers and the oral literatures of the First Nations—this collection is the first of its kind. Contributors offer incisive analyses of the cultural and publishing politics of editorial practices that question inherited paradigms of literary and scholarly values. They examine specific cases of editorial production as well as theoretical considerations of editing that interrogate such key issues as authorial intentionality, textual authority, historical contingencies of textual production, circumstances of publication and reception, the pedagogical uses of edited anthologies, the instrumentality of editorial projects in relation to canon formation and minoritized literatures, and the role of editors as interpreters, enablers, facilitators, and creators. Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada situates editing in the context of the growing number of collaborative projects in which Canadian scholars are engaged, which brings into relief not only those aspects of editorial work that entail collaborating, as it were, with existing texts and documents but also collaboration as a scholarly practice that perforce involves co-editing.

Author : Abraham Moses Klein
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442641075

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The Letters by Abraham Moses Klein Pdf

In the final volume of the Collected Works of A.M. Klein, Elizabeth Popham completes the process of restoring the public voice of one of Canada's most respected authors. A.M. Klein: The Letters is the first compilation of a significant body of Klein's correspondence. Using his communications to construct a compelling narrative, Popham traces Klein's career from his apprenticeship to great critical success and his tragically premature silence. The content of Klein's letters gives new resonance to his works, most notably to his critically acclaimed novel The Second Scroll (1951) and his Governor General Award-winning The Rocking Chair and Other Poems (1948). In his exchanges with publishers and scholars, Klein glosses his own writing and argues for the integrity of his poetic vision. Samplings of his correspondence with Seagram's Distilleries clarify Klein's controversial role as ghost-writer and PR consultant for Sam Bronfman. A valuable resource for understanding Canadian literary modernism, diasporic Judaism, and the culture of Montreal, A.M. Klein: The Letters is a remarkable portrait of an important Canadian literary figure of the twentieth century. Elizabeth Popham is an associate professor in the Department of English Literature at Trent University

Author : E. J. Pratt
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 71 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:4066338052445

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Towards the Last Spike by E. J. Pratt Pdf

Towards the Last Spike was written in 1952 by Canadian poet E. J. Pratt. It is a long narrative poem in blank verse about the construction of the first transcontinental railroad line in Canada, that of the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), from 1871 through 1885. Excerpt: "It was the same world then as now—the same, Except for little differences of speed And power, and means to treat myopia To show an axe-blade infinitely sharp Splitting things infinitely small, or else Provide the telescopic sight to roam Through curved dominions never found in fables. The same, but for new particles of speech..."

Author : Frank Tierney,Angela Arnold Robbeson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776615509

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Bolder Flights by Frank Tierney,Angela Arnold Robbeson Pdf

A growing number of literary historians and critics now recognize the contemporary long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This collection of essays leads the reader to a deeper understanding of Canadian literary cultures in terms of their local intimacies and idiosyncrasies as well as in their national contexts.

Author : Michael John DiSanto
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773599710

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The Complete Poems of George Whalley by Michael John DiSanto Pdf

An eminent Canadian man of letters, scholar, naval officer and secret intelligence agent, CBC scriptwriter, musician, biographer, and translator, George Whalley (1915-1983) was also a gifted poet whose work spans five decades. Along with his major critical work, Poetic Process, and his superb biography, The Legend of John Hornby, Whalley’s poetry is an important contribution to the emergence and development of twentieth-century modernism. The Complete Poems of George Whalley is the first collection of Whalley’s entire poetic oeuvre. It contains the previously published work from his two books of poetry, Poems 1939-1944 and No Man An Island, as well as pieces that appeared in periodicals and edited collections. It gathers all his unpublished poems found in public archives and his personal papers, letters, and journals. This collection reinforces Whalley’s place as the foremost Canadian poet of the Second World War, during and immediately after which the majority of these works were written. It also emphasizes the humour and playfulness of his early and late poems. Michael DiSanto’s introduction provides an overview of Whalley’s life and career, and examines the relationship between his poetics and criticism by consulting his essays, letters, and unpublished papers. Restoring Whalley’s poetry and literary contributions to their rightful place in the Canadian canon, this comprehensive collection opens new chapters on mid-twentieth-century modernism and war poetry.

Author : Robert D. Denham
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786480166

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Remembering Northrop Frye by Robert D. Denham Pdf

This book brings together letters from 89 of Northrop Frye's students, friends, and acquaintances in which they record their recollections of him as a teacher and a person during the 1940s and 1950s. A number of the correspondents also provide their impressions of Victoria College at the time, where Frye taught for more than 50 years. The letters provide insights into Frye as a teacher that are not elsewhere available, and reveal a consistent portrait of an intellectually superlative, generous, and thoughtful man.

Author : Edwin John Pratt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1989-01-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780802057754

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Complete Poems by Edwin John Pratt Pdf

The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen both for their representativeness and for their intrinsic value.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Concessions (Amusements, etc.)
ISBN : UOM:39015069602335

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National Park Service Concessions Policy by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Parks, Recreation, and Renewable Resources Pdf

Author : Edwin John Pratt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015001738825

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E.J. Pratt on His Life and Poetry by Edwin John Pratt Pdf

Author : Deanna Shemek
Publisher : Medieval & Renais Text Studies
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0866985727

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Isabella D'Este: Selected Letters by Deanna Shemek Pdf

Author : Bliss Carman,Margaret Lawrence,Margaret Maciejewski
Publisher : London, Ont. : Canadian Poetry Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Poets, Canadian
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020327461

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Bliss Carman's Letters to Margaret Lawrence, 1927-1929 by Bliss Carman,Margaret Lawrence,Margaret Maciejewski Pdf

Author : E. J. Pratt
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : EAN:4057664604439

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Newfoundland Verse by E. J. Pratt Pdf

E.J. Pratt was the premier Canadian poet of the first half of the 20th century. He was an author of 13 volumes of poetry and one of Canada's most prominent literary figures by the 1940s. Newfoundland Verse, published in 1923, was one of his first poetic collections.