Literary Titans Revisited (eBook)

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

Anne Urbancic (Herausgeber)

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2017
368 Seiten
Dundurn (Verlag)
978-1-4597-3873-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

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Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s.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.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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Introduction
Margaret Laurence
Morley Callaghan
Hugh Garner
Hugh MacLennan
Mordecai Richler
Sinclair Ross
Dorothy Livesay
Gwendolyn MacEwen
Al Purdy
Earle Birney
F.R. Scott
Irving Layton
Miriam Waddington
Raymond Souster
Eli Mandel
James Reaney
Afterword: Interview with Dr. Earle Toppings
Acknowledgements
Permissions
Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.8.2017
• Verlagsort: Toronto
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Anthologien
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Briefe / Präsentation / Rhetorik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1960s • archives,writers • Birney • Callaghan • Canlit • Earle Toppings • Garner • Interviews • Laurence • Layton • Livesay • MacEwen • maclennan • Mandel • Northrop Frye Centre • poets • Purdy • Reaney • Richler • Ross • Scott • Souster • Unpublished • Waddington
• ISBN-10: 1-4597-3873-X / 145973873X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4597-3873-7 / 9781459738737