An echo in the mountains : Al Purdy after a century / edited by Nicholas Bradley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bradley, Nicholas, 1978- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Purdy, Al, 1918-2000--Criticism and interpretation.

Purdy, Al.

Purdy, Al, 1918-2000.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 310 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"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 explosion of the sixties and seventies, Purdy has been called the best, the most, and the last Canadian poet. But Purdy's Canada no longer exists. A changing country and shifting attitudes toward Canadian literature demand new perspectives on Purdy's impact and accomplishments. An Echo in the Mountains reassesses Purdy's works, the shape of his career, and his literary legacy, grappling with the question of how to read Purdy today, a century after his birth and in a new era of Canadian literature. Contributors to the volume examine Purdy's critical reception, explore little-known documents and textual problems, and analyze his representations of Canadian history and Indigenous peoples and cultures. They show that much remains to be discovered and understood about the poet and his immense body of work. The first sustained examination of Al Purdy's works in over a decade, An Echo in the Mountains showcases the critical challenges and rewards of rereading an iconic and influential Canadian writer."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. ONE Transcendence, Love, and the Persistent Legend: In Search of Al Purdy

1. The Man Who Lived beyond Himself: Transcendental Al / Doug Beardsley

2. His Muses, a mensa et toro / Linda Rogers

3. Purdy's Mock Love Poetry: Misogyny, Nation, and Progress / Shane Neilson

pt. TWO Land Claims: Al Purdy and the Unpeaceable Kingdom

4. The Too Easily Kept Illusions: Myth-making, Private Canons, and Patterns of Exclusion / J.A. Weingarten

5. Unsettling the North: Shame in North of Summer / Misao Dean

6. Rune and Riddle in "The Runners" / Ian Rae

7. The Poet and the Ethnographer: Purdy, Marius Barbeau, and the Poetry of Myth / Nicholas Bradley

pt. THREE Myths, Masks, and Texts: Al Purdy's Entangled Lives and Works

8. Scholarly Editing: A Way to Read "House Guest" / Eli MacLaren

9. Six Ways of Looking at "Elegy for a Grandfather" / Jamie Dopp

10. "One of us": Purdy, Elite Culture, and the Visual Arts / Ernestine Lahey

11. "Concerning Ms. Atwood": Purdy, Margaret Atwood, and the Mala hat Review / Natalie Boldt

12. Purdy's Poetics: Intuitive Formalism in A Splinter in the Heart / Carl Watts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Echo in the mountains.

ISBN:

0228003377

9780228003373

9780228003366

0228003369

OCLC:

1141508399