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Journey with No Maps

A Life of P.K. Page

By: Sandra Djwa

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Journey with No Maps is the first biography of P.K. Page, a brilliant twentieth-century poet and a fine artist. The product of over a decade's research and writing, the book follows Page as she becomes one of Canada's best-loved and most influential writers. "A borderline being," as she called herself, she recognized the new choices offered to women by modern life but followed only those related to her quest for self-discovery. Tracing Page's life through two wars, world travels, the rise of modernist and Canadian cultures, and later Sufi study, biographer Sandra Djwa details the people and events that inspired her work. Page's independent spirit propelled her from Canada to England, from work as a radio actress to a scriptwriter for the National Film Board, from an affair with poet F.R. Scott to an enduring marriage with diplomat Arthur Irwin. Page wrote her story in poems, fiction, diaries, librettos, and her visual art. Journey with No Maps reads like a novel, drawing on the poet's voice from interviews, diaries, letters, and writings as well as the voices of her contemporaries. With the vividness of a work of fiction and the thoroughness of scholarly dedication, Djwa illustrates the complexities of Page's private experience while also documenting her public emergence as an internationally known poet. It is both the captivating story of a remarkable woman and a major contribution to the study of Canada's literary and artistic history.

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773587764

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9780773587762

Giving Canada a Literary History

A Memoir by Carl F. Klinck

By: Sandra Djwa

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A Memoir by Carl F. Klinck

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Carl Klinck's autobiography is combined with a history of the development of Canadian literature as a

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Professing English

A Life of Roy Daniells

By: Sandra Djwa

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Professing English

A Life of Roy Daniells

By: Sandra Djwa

Roy Daniells (1902-1979), an English professor who finished his career at the University of British Columbia, and an outstanding scholar, teacher and poet, influenced at least four generations of students.

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University of Toronto Press

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080204770X

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9780802047700

Both Hands

A Life of Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press

By: Sandra Campbell

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Both Hands

A Life of Lorne Pierce of Ryerson Press

By: Sandra Campbell

Editor and publisher, workaholic and romantic, idealist and pioneer, Lorne Pierce once described his editorial desk as "an altar at which I serve - the entire cultural life of Canada." Pierce laboured at his altar between 1920 and 1960 as the driving force behind Ryerson Press, the leading publisher of Canadian works during the mid-twentieth century. In Both Hands, Sandra Campbell captures the inimitable cultural role of a remarkable man whose work paved the way for the creation of a national identity. Both Hands delves into the encounters, trials, and triumphs that inspired Pierce's vision of cultural nationalism - from his rural upbringing in eastern Ontario, to the philosophical ideals he acquired at Queen's University, to his service as a teacher, a Methodist preacher, and a military man during the First World War. All these experiences coalesced in his work at Ryerson Press - then Canada's largest publishing house - even as he battled lupus and deafness to make his mark on the country's literary scene. Campbell situates this unflinching look into Pierce's personal and public life within the context of Canadian society, detailing his relationships with major figures such as the Group of Seven, Harold Innis, Donald Creighton, E.J. Pratt, the modernist Montreal poets, Northrop Frye, and many others. Set against the rich backdrop of Canada's early literary and artistic heritage, Both Hands vividly presents the life and work of an impresario of literary, historical, and art publishing of indisputable influence throughout the country's cultural milieus.

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0773588655

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Journey with No Maps

A Life of P.K. Page

By: Sandra Djwa

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A Life of P.K. Page

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Professing English

A Life of Roy Daniells

By: Sandra Djwa

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A Life of Roy Daniells

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University of Toronto Press

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Professing English at UBC

The Legacy of Roy Daniells and Garnett Sedgewick : the 1999 Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture

By: Sandra Djwa

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Professing English at UBC

The Legacy of Roy Daniells and Garnett Sedgewick : the 1999 Garnett Sedgewick Memorial Lecture

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In her University of BC Sedgewick Lecture for 1999, Sandra Djwa relates the life and times of two illustrious professors of English, who were among the most influential teachers in Canada's history. From the 1920s to the 1970s, Garnett Sedgewick and Roy Daniells shaped the way tens of thousands of students experienced literature.Sedgewick, the first Head of UBC's English Department, was renowned for his reading Shakespeare's plays with such intensity that one could believe Falstaff or Rosalind stood beside the lectern. Daniells was equally famous for his lectures on Milton, in which Milton's epic vision and baroque splendour became felt presences in the classroom - even at 9:30 a.m. on a rainy Vancouver day. In her discussion of the Earle Birney-Roy Daniells feud, Djwa sheds new light on that battle of titans.Djwa also extends her research beyond the personalities of Sedgewick and Daniells to discuss how both men participated in the development of an ideal of the humanities in Canadian universities. Indeed, this lecture, complete with photos, is a contribution to the developing history of the Canadian university.

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Giving Canada a Literary History

A Memoir by Carl F. Klinck

By: Sandra Djwa

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A Memoir by Carl F. Klinck

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Carl Klinck's autobiography is combined with a history of the development of Canadian literature as a

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Saul and Selected Poems

Including Excerpts from Jephthah's Daughter and Jezebel, a Poem in Three Cantos

By: Charles Heavysege

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Saul and Selected Poems

Including Excerpts from Jephthah's Daughter and Jezebel, a Poem in Three Cantos

By: Charles Heavysege

Saul and Selected Poems is an original and useful introduction to the work and poetic personality of Charles Heavysege (1816-76), an important but currently neglected nineteenth-century Canadian writer. Heavysege was handicapped by a limited education and a lack of public support, yet nonetheless established himself in Great Britain and America as the 'leading intellect of [the] Dominion' in a period when native literature was scantily regarded. His struggle to express himself and to find an audience for his work mirrors the dilemma of the {acute}emigr{acute}e writer of his time. Heavysege's work is related in this volume to the early nineteenth-century English revival of poetic drama, and seen in the context of the Canadian cultural milieu of the 1860s. Saul is a powerful presentation of the tormented soul caught in a world of order and universal degree. Its main interest is to be found in the psychological frankness - Saul's recognition of his demon resonates with the deeper implication of the recognition of the d{uml}oppelg{uml}anger - and in passages of sinewy verse written with a directness that anticipates E.J. Pratt. The text of Saul and 'Jezebel,' selections from Jephthah's Daughter, an original commentary on the major poems, a bibliography, and a review of Heavysege criticism are all included in this volume.

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1487592930

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Journey with No Maps

Journey with No Maps

Giving Canada a Literary History

Giving Canada a Literary History

Professing English

Professing English

Both Hands

Both Hands

Journey with No Maps

Journey with No Maps

Professing English

Professing English

Professing English at UBC

Professing English at UBC

Giving Canada a Literary History

Giving Canada a Literary History

Saul and Selected Poems

Saul and Selected Poems

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