16 Ergebnisse.

In this first full biography of Timothy Findley, Sherrill Grace explores Findley's life-long struggle with his craft, his bouts of despair and fear of failure, and his sustaining faith in the human imagination. In her penetrating examination of his award-winning novels, plays, stories, and non-fiction, and using his diaries and letters, interviews, and archival materials, Grace draws points of departure and development from Findley's life and ...

Sherrill Grace is a professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She was named an Officer of the Order of Canada and was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013.

Artists and humanists reflect upon the paradox of war.

Artists and humanists reflect upon the paradox of war

Sherrill Grace is a professor of English at the University of British Columbia. She was named an Officer of the Order of Canada and was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013.

That Canada remains a society haunted by its war history seems clear." Since 1977, a new generation of Canadian writers and artists has been mapping the cultural landscapes formed by the memories of war we have inherited, and also the ones we are expected to forget. Challenging, even painful, the art and literature in Grace's magisterial study build causeways into history, connecting us to trials and traumas many Canadians have never known but...

Canada and the Idea of North examines the ways in which Canadians have defined themselves as a northern people in their literature, art, music, drama, history, geography, politics, and popular culture. From the Franklin Mystery to the comic book superheroine Nelvana, Glenn Gould's documentaries, the paintings of Lawren Harris, and Molson beer ads, the idea of the north has been central to the Canadian imagination.

Swinging the Maelstrom is a collection of new critical essays on the work and life of Malcolm Lowry (1909-1957). An international group of literary critics and artists examines a wide range of Lowry's work from the diverse perspectives of biography, correspondence, translation, manuscript editing, poetry, and inter-artistic comparison, including a number of investigations of his masterpiece, Under the Volcano, and his post-Volcano fiction.

Strange Comfort" collects the best of Sherrill Grace's many published essays on the novelist and writer Malcolm Lowry.

This groundbreaking exploration of a wide range of contemporary theorists and playwrights covers an extraordinary breadth of styles and performances.

These plays by Canada's leading playwrights, address timeless issues of memory, history, trauma, and identity.

Sets out to make the best critical and scholarly work in the field readily available.

The story of Pollock's life from her family roots in New Brunswick through her pioneering years as a Canadian playwright.

A collection of 18 original essays on contemporary Canadian theatre by drama specialists in Belgium, Finland, Germany, Hungary and elsewhere.

Includes, "I Claudia, " by Kristen Thomson--Claudia is an official pre-teen reeling from her parent's recent divorce. "Alien Creature: A Visitation from Gwendolyn MacEwen"--MacEwen, as invoked by playwright Linda Griffiths, returns to a modern world one night, bringing images and a prophetic warning, and "Getting it Straight"--speaking from a place where sanity and insanity are shuffled like a deck of cards. Sharon Pollock's Eme is determined ...

Since his drowning in 1917, Tom Thomson has been recreated by poets, playwrights, novelists, filmmakers, biographers, and other artists as a legendary figure synonymous with Canada and its northern identity. Touted as a great artist cut off in his prime, his mysterious death in Canoe Lake, Algonquin Park, and the controversy about his final resting-place fired the popular imagination and raised him to the status of a national hero. In Inventin...