Recognition and revelation : short nonfiction writings / Margaret Laurence ; edited by Nora Foster Stovel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laurence, Margaret, author.

Contributor:

Stovel, Nora Foster, 1942- editor.

Series:

Carleton library series ; 251.

Carleton library series ; 251

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlii, 344 pages)

Place of Publication:

Montreal, Quebec : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"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 Foster Stovel brings together Laurence's short nonfiction works, including many that have not previously been collected and some that have never before been published. These works, including over fifty essays and addresses that span Laurence's writing career from the 1960s to the 1980s, reveal her passionate concern for Canadian literature and for the land and peoples of Canada. Based on extensive archival research, Stovel's introduction contextualizes Laurence's nonfiction writings in her life as a creative artist and political activist and as a woman writing in the twentieth century. The texts range from essays on Laurence's own writings and on other works of Canadian literature to autobiographical essays, several focusing on environmental concerns, to sociopolitical essays and writing advocating for peace and nuclear disarmament. By revealing Laurence as a socially and politically committed artist, this collection of lively and provocative essays illuminates the undercurrents of her creative writing and places her fiction--often informed by her nonfiction writing--in a new light."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. 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)

pt. 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.)

pt. 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)

a. Introductions to New Canadian Library Editions

Afterword to Sinclair Ross, The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories (1968)

Introduction to Jack Ludwig, Above Ground (1973)

Introduction to Percy Janes, House of Hate (1976)

Introduction to Adele Wiseman, Crackpot (1978)

b. Unpublished Speeches and Tributes

W.L. Morton

A Tribute (1981)

Tribute to Malcolm Ross (1982)

Clara Thomas... Biographer, Teacher, Critic... and Pioneer (1984)

Lois Wilson (1984)

For Marian Passmore Engel (1986)

Madeleine Wilkie Dumont (n.d.)

YWCA Woman of the Year Award (1985)

pt. 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)

pt. 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).

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-2280-0476-4

0-2280-0475-6

OCLC:

1151543723