An echo in the mountains : Al Purdy after a century /

"From the 1960s until his death in 2000, Al Purdy was one of the most prominent writers in Canada, famous for his frank language and his boisterous personality. He travelled the country and wrote about its people and places from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island. A central figure in the CanLit e...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bradley, Nicholas, 1978- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]
Temas:
Purdy, Al, > 1918-2000 > Criticism and interpretation.
Purdy, Al, > 1918-2000.
Canadian poetry (English) > 20th century > History and criticism.
Poets, Canadian (English) > 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Al Purdy's Century: A Programmatic Beginning
  • Transcendence, Love, and the Persistent Legend: In Search of Al Purdy
  • The Man Who Lived beyond Himself: Transcendental Al
  • His Muses, a mensa et toro
  • Purdy's Mock Love Poetry: Misogyny, Nation, and Progress
  • Land Claims: Al Purdy and the Unpeaceable Kingdom
  • The Too Easily Kept Illusions: Myth-making, Private Canons, and Patterns of Exclusion
  • Unsettling the North: Shame in North of Summer
  • Rune and Riddle in "The Runners"
  • The Poet and the Ethnographer: Purdy, Marius Barbeau, and the Poetry of Myth
  • Myths, Masks, and Texts: Al Purdy's Entangled Lives and Works
  • Scholarly Editing: A Way to Read "House Guest"
  • Six Ways of Looking at "Elegy for a Grandfather"
  • "One of us": Purdy, Elite Culture, and the Visual Arts
  • "Concerning Ms. Atwood": Purdy, Margaret Atwood, and the Malahat Review
  • Purdy's Poetics: Intuitive Formalism in A Splinter in the Heart
  • Purdy's Self-Repetitions
  • Contributors
  • Index

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