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Literary Titans Revisited


Literary Titans Revisited

The Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties

von: Anne Urbancic

10,99 €

Verlag: Dundurn
Format: EPUB
Veröffentl.: 19.08.2017
ISBN/EAN: 9781459738737
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 368

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<b>Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s.</b>
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<br>From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers and poets who went on to become pillars of Canadian literature. These emerging icons of Canadian literature, including Margaret Laurence, Sinclair Ross, and Al Purdy, captured in Toppings’s interviews and readings, give intimate and compelling views of their developing prose and poetry, in their own words.
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<br>The Earle Toppings tapes provide a distinctive and special glimpse into the workshops of emerging CanLit authors, revealing their thoughts about writing, about their successes and failures, about their place in Canada and in Canadian literature. This written version of Toppings’s recordings presents exact transcripts of the spoken interviews, complemented by brief biographies and bibliographies. The interviews were carefully compiled by the inaugural group of four Northrop Frye Research Centre Undergraduate Fellows at Victoria College. This rare portrait would not have been complete without an interview with Mr. Toppings himself, sharing his personal recollections of the authors he recorded and his own insight into their works.
As the sixties became the seventies, legendary interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen emerging Canadian writers who would go on to become icons of CanLit. Presented here alongside critical notes and the recollections of Toppings himself, the transcripts of these recordings are a window on the early careers of Canada’s literary masters.
Introduction
<br>Margaret Laurence
<br>Morley Callaghan
<br>Hugh Garner
<br>Hugh MacLennan
<br>Mordecai Richler
<br>Sinclair Ross
<br>Dorothy Livesay
<br>Gwendolyn MacEwen
<br>Al Purdy
<br>Earle Birney
<br>F.R. Scott
<br>Irving Layton
<br>Miriam Waddington
<br>Raymond Souster
<br>Eli Mandel
<br>James Reaney
<br>Afterword: Interview with Dr. Earle Toppings
<br>Acknowledgements
<br>Permissions
<br>Notes
<br>Index
Anne Urbancic is Mary Rowell Jackman Professor of Humanities at Victoria College (University of Toronto). Along with Earle Toppings, her project collaborators are the Northrop Frye Centre Undergraduate Fellows of 2015–2016. She lives in Toronto.
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<li>Unique look into Canada’s literary history at the birth of modern CanLit</li>
<li>New perspectives on writers including Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, Irving Layton, Al Purdy, and Morley Callaghan</li>
<li>An archival find of lost material that adds to our appreciation of these writers and poets now that they have all passed away</li>
<li>All readers interested in Canadian Literature and literary history will find the contents of the chapters informative and compelling</li>
<li>Of interest to students of CanLit both in at the secondary school level and in university</li>
<li>Researchers and biographers of Canadian authors and poets will also find material and information in the volume not previously available</li>
<li>An excellent celebration of Canada’s 150th anniversary</li>
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