The Arts in Canada : The Last Fifty Years / Ben-Z. Shek, William Keith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Keith, William, editor.

Shek, Ben-Z., editor.

Series:

Heritage

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Arts, Canadian.

Arts--Canada.

Arts.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (175 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English and French.

Summary:

In this volume a baker's dozen of creative Canadians make personal responses to the state of the arts in Canada: Northrop Frye and Guy Rocher write on general cultural trends; Hugh MacLennan and Gérard Bessette on fiction; Ralph Gustafson and Michèle Lalonde on poetry; Robertson Davies and Gratien Gélinas on drama; George Woodcock and Jacques Allard on non-fiction prose; Godfrey Ridout on music, and Aba Bayefsky and Humphrey N. Milnes on art. The essays were written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Toronto Quarterly. The contributors were invited to discuss the changes, problems, challenges, and achievements in the arts in the last fifty years. Since all the authors had personal experience of at least a large section of the period surveyed, the editors welcomed personal reminiscence as well as description and assessment. The result is a varied group of essays in each of which the character of the individual artist is clearly evident; together, they provide a complex, many-faceted, lively, and living discussion of the cultural development of Canada. This anniversary collection of essays is a valuable and provocative source for courses in Canadian studies and for anyone interested in the development of the arts and humanities in Canada.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Across the River and Out of the Trees / Frye, Northrop

Un demi-siècle d'évolution culturelle au Québec / Rocher, Guy

Fiction in Canada - 1930 to 1980 / MacLennan, Hugh

Romancier(s) québécois / Bessette, Gérard

New World Northern: Of Poetry and Identity / Gustafson, Ralph

Petit Testament / Lalonde, Michèle

Fifty Years of Theatre in Canada / Davies, Robertson

Le Credo professionnel d'un homme de théâtre / Gélinas, Gratien

When the Past Becomes History: The Half-Century in Non-Fiction Prose / Woodcock, George

Les Lettres québécoises depuis 1930 / Allard, Jacques

Fifty Years of Music in Canada? Good Lord, I Was There for All of Them! / Ridout, Godfrey

Fields of Force in Canadian Art, 1930 to 1980 / Bayefsky, Aba / Milnes, Humphrey N.

A Half-Century of UTQ / Keith, W.J. / Shek, B.-Z.

Contributors

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)

ISBN:

9781487590758

148759075X

9781487589127

1487589123

OCLC:

1091712941