The Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium

Author : Frank Tierney
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776617305

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The Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium by Frank Tierney Pdf

Thomas Chandler Haliburton was perhaps the only Canadian writer whose name was a household word in nineteenth-century Canada. The ten papers in this volume reappraise the historical, geographical, political and literary contexts within which Haliburton lived and worked. His letters, his historical books, the Club papers and Sam Slick sketches are all included in these valuable and lively criticisms.

Author : Richard A. Davies
Publisher : Wolfville, N.S. : Gaspereau Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Authors, Canadian
ISBN : 1894031024

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The Haliburton Bi-centenary Chaplet by Richard A. Davies Pdf

In September 1996, the bi-centenary of Thomas Chandler Haliburton's birth was marked with a symposium in his honour at Acadia University, in Wolfville, NS. The papers presented at that conference and collected in this volume illuminate the life of Canada's first internationally renowned writer, critically engaging the man, his works and his era. The creator of Sam Slick, Haliburton left a legacy of memorable writing. Two hundred years later, his signature works such as The Clockmaker and The Old Judge still excite critical debate. These essays investigate Haliburton in various contexts, drawing on our curiosity about the man and the world in which he lived. Contributors include Gerald C. Boudreau, Colin Boyd, Barry Cahill, George Elliott Clarke, Gwendolyn Davies, Richard A. Davies, Naomi Griffiths, Carrie MacMillan, Greg Marquis, Peter Mitham, Barry Moody, Ruth Panofsky, George L. Parker, Allen Penney, Henry Roper, David Staines and Tom Vincent.

Author : Richard A. Davies
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781442658080

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Inventing Sam Slick by Richard A. Davies Pdf

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796–1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not only a writer, but also a lawyer, judge, politician, and historian. He gained fame for his writing in 1836 with The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville for a Halifax newspaper. It became a hit in England and was followed by six sequels. Although Haliburton tried to put Sam Slick aside and work in other genres, he found himself invariably returning to the character in his later books. This commitment to Slick resulted in a curious effacement of Haliburton's own personal gentlemanly identity, which he spent the second half of his life affirming by fostering links with socially well connected family in England. In the public imagination, however, he remained linked with Sam Slick. Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia.

Author : H. R. Percy
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 088902670X

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Thomas Chandler Haliburton by H. R. Percy Pdf

Author : Gerald Lynch,Angela Arnold Robbeson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776615806

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Dominant Impressions by Gerald Lynch,Angela Arnold Robbeson Pdf

Canadian critics and scholars, along with a growing number from around the world, have long recognized the achievements of Canadian short story writers. However, these critics have tended to view the Canadian short story as a historically recent phenomenon. This reappraisal corrects this mistaken view by exploring the literary and cultural antecedents of the Canadian short story.

Author : Jean-François Leroux,Camille La Bossière
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-02-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776617459

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Worlds of Wonder by Jean-François Leroux,Camille La Bossière Pdf

No longer dismissed as "escapist" reading, critics have finally discovered a brave new world of science fiction and fantasy literature. This book is a long-overdue tribute to this previously ignored genre, placing these works within a general context of Canadian literature and culture.

Author : David Staines
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776616582

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Margaret Laurence by David Staines Pdf

This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers today.

Author : Angela Robbeson,Frank M. Tierney
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780776604831

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Bolder Flights by Angela Robbeson,Frank M. Tierney 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. Published in English.

Author : Camille La Bossière
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776615714

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Context North America by Camille La Bossière Pdf

Context North America is a comparative study of Canadian and American literary relations that emphasizes the cultural and institutional contexts in which Canadian literature is taught and read. This volume exemplifies the question of how the literatures of Canada might aptly be studied and contextualized in the days of heightened discontinuity and increasingly ambiguous borderlines both between and within the many narratives that make up North America.

Author : Gerald Lynch
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776602868

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Bliss Carman by Gerald Lynch Pdf

The tarnished reputation of this turn-of-the-century poet is persuasively burnished anew by fifteen scholars, editors, and poets. Published in English.

Author : Lorraine McMullen
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780776601977

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Re(dis)covering Our Foremothers by Lorraine McMullen Pdf

The modern literary searchlight has flushed out Canada's long neglected nineteenth century female writers. New critical approaches are advocated and others are encouraged to take on the difficulties - and rewards - of research into the lives of our foremothers. Published in English.

Author : David Staines
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780776601465

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Stephen Leacock by David Staines Pdf

This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Published in English.

Author : John Moss
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776610580

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Future Indicative by John Moss Pdf

The format of this book is arbitrary and exact, the way paint is in a landscape by Alex Colville. It follows the program of the symposium that took place at the University of Ottawa, from April 25 to 27, 1986. As Bakhtin leaps from the sidelines to centre stage, as Derrida clambers out of orchestra pit into the prompter's box, and Lancan swings from the flies, as Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, Barthes, and a throng of others rhubarb their way through the text, one recognizes just how connected all the disparate elements of this critical extravaganza really are.

Author : Eugene Benson,L.W. Conolly
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 2597 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134468478

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Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English by Eugene Benson,L.W. Conolly Pdf

Post-Colonial Literatures in English, together with English Literature and American Literature, form one of the three major groupings of literature in English, and, as such, are widely studied around the world. Their significance derives from the richness and variety of experience which they reflect. In three volumes, this Encyclopedia documents the history and development of this body of work and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.

Author : Richard A. Davies
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802050014

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Inventing Sam Slick by Richard A. Davies Pdf

Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1796-1865) was one of pre-confederation Canada's best-known authors. His popular 'Sam Slick the Clockmaker' character was a household name not only in his home country, but also in England and the United States. Born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, Haliburton was not only a writer, but also a lawyer, judge, politician, and historian. He gained fame for his writing in 1836 with The Clockmaker: or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick of Slickville for a Halifax newspaper. It became a hit in England and was followed by six sequels. Although Haliburton tried to put Sam Slick aside and work in other genres, he found himself invariably returning to the character in his later books. This commitment to Slick resulted in a curious effacement of Haliburton's own personal gentlemanly identity, which he spent the second half of his life affirming by fostering links with socially well connected family in England. In the public imagination, however, he remained linked with Sam Slick. Based on over ten years of archival research, Richard A. Davies's scholarly biography of Haliburton is the first since 1924. It is an engaging examination of a controversial and contradictory Canadian writer and significant figure in the history of pre-confederation Nova Scotia.