Author: Henry Scadding
Publisher: s.n.], 1894 (Toronto : Copp, Clark)
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Category : Frontier and pioneer life
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Carl Ballstadt
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442633220
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 259

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The search for a distinctive Canadian literature is not new. It began in the 1820s, and even then involved many of the same issues that concern critics today. Much of this early material is now inaccessible to most Canadians. Carl Ballstadt has selected for this volume a number of the most importance statements from a century of growth. The pieces come from essays, prefaces, and editorials published between 1823 and 1926 in a variety of works including the major literary periodicals of the time. Among the authors are Thomas D’Arcy McGee, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Daniel Wilson, Goldwin Smith, G. Mercer Adam, Pelham Edgar, J.D. Robins, J.D. Logan, and Charles Mair. The major themes they treated, with frequent diversity of views, are the kind of writing best suited to a new country; the economic and spiritual barriers to the creation of literature; the feasibility of creating a ‘national’ literature; the need for serious criticism; the relationship between European traditions and the developing Canadian imagination; Canada’s ‘northern’ character; the advantages of two cultural streams; and the significance of Canadian achievements in poetry. This book provides essential background to anyone concerned with the path Canadian literature followed to modern times.

Author: James Cleland Hamilton
Publisher: Carswell
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Category : Lawyers
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Author: Diana Brydon
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802036551
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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Is there a distinctly Canadian Shakespeare? What is the status and function of Shakespeare in various locations within the nation: at Stratford, on CBC radio, in regional and university theatres, in Canadian drama and popular culture? Shakespeare in Canada brings insights from a little explored but extensive archive to contemporary debates about the cultural uses of Shakespeare and what it means to be Canadian. Canada's long history of Shakespeare productions and reception, including adaptations, literary reworkings, and parodies, is analysed and contextualized within the four sections of the book. A timely addition to the growing field that studies the transnational reach of Shakespeare across cultures, this collection examines the political and cultural agendas invoked not only by Shakespeare's plays, but also by his very name. In part a historical and regional survey of Shakespeare in performance, adaptation, and criticism, this is the first work to engage Shakespeare with distinctly Canadian debates addressing nationalism, separatism, cultural appropriation, cultural nationalism, feminism, and postcolonialism.

Author: History of the Book in Canada Project
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802089434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 590

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Impressive in its scope and depth of scholarship, this first volume of the History of the Book in Canada is a landmark in the chronicle of writing, publishing, bookselling, and reading in Canada.

Author: Bibliographical Society of Canada
Publisher:
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Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1216

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Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 826

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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 712

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Category : Political science
Languages : en
Pages : 966

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