Punctuate his title as you like but T.F. Rigelhof considers This is Our Writing a declaration, an enquiry and an exclamation. As a writer of half a dozen, a reviewer of dozens upon dozens, and as a reader of a multitude more books, Terry Rigelhof knows much about writing in Canada.
In these eleven essays, he asks what is best in what has been written by Canadians in the twentieth century. He examines selected works of some writers whose accomplishments need serious revaluation. What are the real achievements of Robertson Davies, Carole Corbeil, Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Hugh Hood, Leonard Cohen and George Grant? Rigelhof comes up with a list that will surprise some and dismay others.
This is a book for readers who have always known in their heart of hearts that Robertson Davies was an egregious windbag and that underneath the inspired silliness of their carefully contrived and managed public images, Mordecai Richler and Leonard Cohen have produced three of the most intelligent novels we have. In a sequence of interlocking personal essays, Rigelhof explores living a writerly life in Canada at the end of the twentieth century. The text is fortified by a dozen photographs, all but one previously unpublished, by Gabor Szilasi, one of Canada`s greatest active documentary photographers.
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- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 810.9/0054
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0889842183 9781459311763
- LCCN
- PR9189.6
- LCCN Item number
- R53 2000eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (211 p.)
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00603314 (OCoLC)288081628 (CaOOCEL)409250
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Table of Contents 10
- This Is Our Writing 14
- Why Read What They Write? 28
- Dull and Very Stiff 46
- In the Wings 60
- She'll Always Have Paris 74
- There's a Purple Dinosaur in My Doghouse 92
- Tales Catching Tales 112
- The Fiction of Leonard Cohen 136
- George Grant at McMaster 154
- Of the Streets Where I Live 172
- Choosing the Best 194
- List of Photographs 212