Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Urbancic, Anne, 1954-

Description

1. 363 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Summary

1. "From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers and poets who went on to become pillars of Canadian literature. These emerging icons of Canadian literature, including Margaret Laurence, Sinclair Ross, and Al Purdy, captured in Toppings' interviews and readings, give intimate and compelling views of their developing prose and poetry, in their own words. The Earle Toppings tapes provide a distinctive and special glimpse into the workshops of emerging CanLit authors, revealing their thoughts about writing, about their successes and failures, about their place in Canada and in Canadian literature. This written version of Toppings' recordings presents exact transcripts of the spoken interviews, complemented by brief biographies and bibliographies. The interviews were carefully compiled by the inaugural group of four Northrop Frye Research Centre Undergraduate Fellows at Victoria College. This rare portrait would not have been complete without an interview of Mr. Toppings himself, sharing his personal recollections of the authors he recorded, and his own insight into their works."--

Subject

1. Canadian literature
2. Criticism, interpretation, etc
3. 1900-1999
4. Canadian literature (English) > 20th century > History and criticism
5. Canadian literature > 20th century > History and criticism
6. Interviews
7. Authors, Canadian > Interviews
8. Authors, Canadian (English) > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
2. Interviews.

Call number

1. JFE 17-9353

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional formats (note)

1. Issued also in electronic format.

Author

1. Toppings, Earle, interviewer.

Title

1. Literary titans revisited : the Earle Toppings interviews with CanLit poets and writers of the sixties / edited by Anne Urbancic.

Publisher

1. Toronto : Dundurn, 2017.

Copyright date

1. ©2017

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Additional formats

1. Issued also in electronic format.

Chronological term

1. 1900-1999

Added author

1. Urbancic, Anne, 1954- editor.

Other form:

1. Toppings, Earle, interviewer. Literary titans revisited. (CaOONL)20179023152

ISBN

1. 9781459738713 (softcover)
2. 1459738713 (softcover)

Research call number

1. JFE 17-9353