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Recognition and revelation : short nonfiction writings /
"Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation's most respected authors. She was also an accomplished essayist, yet today her nonfiction writing is largely unavailable and therefore little known. In Recognition and Revelation Nora...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago :
McGill-Queen's University Press,
[2020]
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| Colección: | Carleton library series ;
251. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- PART ONE: Essays about Laurence's Writing: "Gadgetry or Growing"; Sources (1970); Ten Years' Sentences (1969); Time and the Narrative Voice (1972); Half War
- Half Peace: A Writer's Working Relationship with Publishers (n.d.); Gadgetry or Growing: Form and Voice in the Novel (1980) ; On "The Loons" (1993); Eye on Books: The Writer as Performer (n.d.); A Tale of Typewriters (1984); Ivory Tower or Grassroots? The Novelist as Socio-political Being (1978) PART TWO: Personal and Creative Essays: "The River Flows Both Ways": Where the World Began (1972) ; Love and Madness in the Steel Forest (1969); Upon a Midnight Clear (1974);Don't Whisper Sudden; I Scare Easy (1969); The River Flows Both Ways (1971); Salute of the Swallows (1971); The Shack (1974); A Fantasy Fulfilled (n.d.); The More Interesting Country (n.d.); Down East (1971); Journey from Lakefield (n.d.)
- PART THREE: Essays on Canada and Canadian Literature: "The Case for Canadian Literature": Canadian Novels: Change in the Past Decade (1967); Canada Still Too Canada-Focused (1966); Voices from Future Places (1972); The Case for Canadian Literature (1977); Canadian Writers: From Neglect to Special Treatment (1970); When You Were Five and I Was Fourteen (1985); Books That Mattered to Me (1981) PART FOUR: Essays on Nuclear Disarmament: "The Most Pressing Practical, Moral, and Spiritual Issue of Our Times": A Message to the Inheritors (n.d.); A Matter of Life or Death (1982);The Artist Then, Now, and Always (1984); A Statement of Faith (1982); "Peace": A Word's Meaning (1986); Operation Dismantle (1982); My Final Hour (1983) PART FIVE: Socio-political Essays: "Listen, Just Listen": "Listen, Just Listen" (1977); Quebec's "Freedom" Is a Vital Concern, but Freedom Itself Is That and More (1978); Open Letter to the Mother of Joe Bass (1968); The Greater Evil: Pornography or Censorship? (1984); Statement
- pen (1985); A Constant Hope: Women in the Now and Future High Tech Age (1985); Afterword: Rediscovering Margaret Laurence Aritha van Herk