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Montreal, City of Spires

Author : Clarence Epstein
Publisher : PUQ
ISBN 13 : 2760534235
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Montreal, City of Spires written by Clarence Epstein and published by PUQ. This book was released on 2012-03-19T00:00:00-04:00 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the fifty religious buildings discussed in this book, only a precious few remain standing despite the fact that Montreal boasts one of the largest and most eclectic groupings of Georgian and Victorian structures of any city in North America.Following the British conquest of New France in 1759 a remarkable series of transformations took place in the small, Catholic trading town of Montreal. Given the diversity of settlers forced to live side by side, the new church buildings that were to rise became strategic public spaces, meeting places as well as power bases. It was no wonder that by the time Mark Twain toured Canada’s first metropolis in the 1880s, he found that one could not throw a brick in the place without breaking a church window.By addressing the social, religious and architectural issues surrounding these colonial-era structures, it will become apparent that Montreal was at once a shining jewel in England’s imperial crown, a chief outpost of Catholicism in the New World, as well as the British North American headquarters for more than a dozen independent congregations.

Reading Nelligan

Author : Emile Talbot
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773524798
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Reading Nelligan written by Emile Talbot and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Émile Nelligan (1879–1941) wrote all of his poetry as an adolescent, before spending four decades in a psychiatric asylum. Considering all of Nelligan's work and using a largely textual approach, Émile Talbot points out the Canadian roots of Nelligan's originality. He argues that these are discernable despite Nelligan's use of the discourse of nineteenth-century continental French poetry, particularly that of the Parnassians and the Decadents. Talbot's textual analysis is integrated with a consideration of the social, cultural, artistic, and religious climate of both late nineteenth-century Montreal and the European literary culture to which Nelligan was responding. Talbot considers such pertinent factors as the spirituality of guilt, the role of the mother, and a societal context that rejected both the revelation of the self and the autonomy of art. In doing so he sheds new light on Nelligan's use of European poetic language to fashion a poetry marked by his own culture.

Setting the Stage

Author : Herbert Whittaker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773520028
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Setting the Stage written by Herbert Whittaker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stage designer, director, and critic Whittaker recounts his experiences in the Montreal theater scene between 1920 and 1949. Coverage includes profiles of actors, directors, and producers; descriptions of early theaters; and a discussion of the competition between francophone and anglophone artists. Rittenhouse's (drama, Bishop's University) introduction, chronology, and commentary serve to place the memoir in context. c. Book News Inc.

O'Callaghan

Author : Jack Verney
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780886292331
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (923 download)

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Download or read book O'Callaghan written by Jack Verney and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1994 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Music in Canada

Author : Carl Morey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135570299
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book Music in Canada written by Carl Morey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-26 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing access to virtually any subject related to music and musicians in Canada, more than 900 annotated entries are organized under 13 topics, and indexed by author, subject, and title. Background and supplementary information and suggestions for research are presented in introductory essays. The material covered reflects the broad spectrum of music in Canadian society including historical, analytical, and biographical studies of music derived from the European tradition, First Nations and Inuit music, jazz and popular works, folk and ethnic music, education, research and bibliographical materials. The reader is also directed to some important on-line resources. Musical activity in Canada has developed remarkably in the past 50 years, with a parallel growth of musical scholarship examining historical, social, and ethnological aspects of Canadian musical life. This Guide is the first to draw comprehensively on the wealth of studies now available, which are often dispersed and not easily located. Consequently, this information is invaluable to students and researchers interested in Canadian music, the music of North America, and Canadian studies. Index.

Theatre in French Canada

Author : Leonard E. Doucette
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442638370
Total Pages : 469 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Theatre in French Canada written by Leonard E. Doucette and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1984-12-15 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is only recently that historians of the theatre in French Canada have turned their attention to playwrights active before the twentieth century. Their practice had been to trace the roots of theatre to mid-1930s, to the appearance of Father Emile Legault and his troupe, the Compagnons de Saint-Laurent, dismissing what had gone before. In this innovative history, Leonard Doucette sets out deal for the first time with all plays that have survived to 1867 and to link them with the evolution of politics, institutions, and culture in French Canada. The study of theatre has often been handicapped also by the outdated practice of defining the literary-cultural history of a nation by identifying the masterpieces produced in specific periods and then defining other works in terms of what they are not. The surprisingly rich and varied history of theatrical forms in French Canada has just begun to receive the attention it deserves from scholars. Some of the texts and authors referred to in this history are identified for the first time: the materials cited and conclusions drawn are based upon original research in major Canadian libraries as well as the works of published critics and historians. The result is an excellent introduction to the various forms theatre has taken and the problems it has encountered in French Canada.

Canada and it's Provinces

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada and it's Provinces written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Early Stages

Author : Anne Saddlemyer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487586728
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book Early Stages written by Anne Saddlemyer and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1990-12-15 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A circus, a production of Shakespeare, an evening of song and ventriloquism, a performance by a ‘learned pig’ – all of these offered an evening’s entertainment to the citizens of early nineteenth-century Upper Canada. Although the population in 1800 was only 90,000, a wide range of entertainers performed in towns across the province: touring companies, variety and animal acts, and theatrical troupes, professional and amateur, some home-grown and based in the garrisons, others from Montreal, New York, and London. By the end of the century, some 250 touring groups were on the road across Ontario, from Ottawa to Rat Portage (now Kenora). The lively theatre tradition of that century would extend into the next, beyond the appointment in 1913 of Ontario’s first official censor, until the outbreak the following year of the First World War. This collection of essays covers a number of facets of the growth of theatre in Ontario. Ann Saddlemyer’s introduction provides an overview of the period, and historian J.M.S. Careless focuses on the cultural environment. Novelist Robertson Davies writes on the dramatic repertoire of the period. Architect Robert Fairfield explores the structures that housed performances, from the small community halls to the grand opera houses. Theatre scholar and professional actor and director Geralrd Lenton-Young discusses variety performances. Leslie O’Dell, scholar, actor, and playwright, writes on garrison theatre, while Mary M. Brown, a teacher, actress, and director, covers travelling troupes. A chronology and bibliography, both by the theatre scholar Richard Plant, complete the work. A second volume, scheduled for future publication, will look at the development of theatre in Ontario in the twentieth century. (Ontario Historical Studies Series)

Theatre on the American Frontier

Author : Thomas A. Bogar
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807180513
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Theatre on the American Frontier written by Thomas A. Bogar and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2023-11-22 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For two centuries, nearly all historical accounts of American theatre have focused on New York, Boston, and Philadelphia. As a result, the story of theatre on the frontier consists primarily of regional studies with limited scope. Thomas A. Bogar’s Theatre on the American Frontier provides an overdue, balanced treatment of the accomplishments of the troupes working in the trans-Appalachian West. From its origins in late eighteenth-century Pittsburgh, New Orleans, and Louisville, frontier theatre grew by the close of the nineteenth century to encompass more than a dozen centers of vibrant theatrical activity. Audiences—mainly pioneers struggling with the hardships of establishing a life in the backcountry—enjoyed thrilling melodramas, the comedies of George Colman the Younger and John O’Keeffe, and even the tragedies of William Shakespeare. Theatre companies that ventured into this challenging and unfamiliar territory did so with a combination of daring and determination. Bogar’s comprehensive study brings this neglected history into the spotlight, cementing these figures and their theatrical productions and practices in their rightful place.

The Theatre of Empire

Author : Douglas S Harvey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317324048
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Empire written by Douglas S Harvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the years between 1750 and 1860, this study follows the creation and perpetuation of an imperial culture, from the London metropole to the Great Plains.

The Changing Room

Author : Laurence Senelick
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113472201X
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Changing Room written by Laurence Senelick and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The answers to these questions - and much, much more - are to be found in The Changing Room , which traces the origins and variations of theatrical cross-dressing through the ages and across cultures. It examines: * tribal rituals and shamanic practices in the Balkans and Chinese-Tibet * the gender-bending elements of Greek and early Christian religion * the homosexual appeal of the boy actor on the traditional stage of China, Japan and England * the origins of the dame comedian, the principal boy, the glamour drag artiste and the male impersonator * artists such as David Bowie, Boy George, Charles Ludlam, Dame Edna Everage, Lily Savage, Candy Darling, Julian Clary and the New York Dolls. Lavishly illustrated with unusual and rare pictures, this is the first ever cross-cultural study of theatrical transvestism. It is a must for anyone interested in cross-dressing, theatre, and gender.

Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre

Author : Shauna Vey
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 0809334399
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre written by Shauna Vey and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1855 until 1863, the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Comedians, a professional acting company of approximately thirty children, entertained audiences with their nuanced performances of adult roles on stages around the globe. In Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre: The Work of the Marsh Troupe of Juvenile Actors, author Shauna Vey provides an insightful account not only of this unique antebellum stage troupe but also of contemporary theatre practices and the larger American culture, including shifts in the definition of childhood itself. Looking at the daily work lives of five members of the Marsh Troupe—the father and manager, Robert Marsh, and four child performers, Mary Marsh, Alfred Stewart, Louise Arnot, and Georgie Marsh—Vey reveals the realities of the antebellum theatre and American society: the rise of the nineteenth-century impresario; the emerging societal constructions of girlhood and goodness; the realities of child labor; the decline of the apprenticeship model of actor training; shifts in gender roles and the status of working women; and changes in the economic models of theatre production, including the development of the stock company system. Both a microhistory of a professional theatre company and its juvenile players in the decade before the Civil War and a larger narrative of cultural change in the United States, Childhood and Nineteenth-Century American Theatre sheds light on how childhood was idealized both on and off the stage, how the role of the child in society shifted in the nineteenth century, and the ways economic value and sentiment contributed to how children were viewed.

Crossing the Stage

Author : Lesley Ferris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134924534
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Crossing the Stage written by Lesley Ferris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing the Stage brings together for the first time essays which explore cross-dressing in theatre, cabaret, opera and dance. The volume contains seminal pieces which have become standard texts in the field, as well as new work especially commissioned from leading writers on performance. Crossing the Stage is an indispensable sourcebook on theatrical cross-dressing. It will be essential reading for all those interested in performance and the representation of gender.

Staging Family

Author : Nan Mullenneaux
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803284624
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Staging Family written by Nan Mullenneaux and published by University of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2018-12-01 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking every prescription of ideal femininity, American actresses of the mid-nineteenth century appeared in public alongside men, financially supported nuclear and extended families, challenged domestic common law, and traveled the globe in the transnational theater market. While these women expanded professional, artistic, and geographic frontiers, they expanded domestic frontiers as well: publicly, actresses used the traditional rhetoric of domesticity to mask their very nontraditional personal lives, instigating historically significant domestic innovations to circumvent the gender constraints of the mid-nineteenth century, reinventing themselves and their families in the process. Nan Mullenneaux focuses on the personal and professional lives of more than sixty women who, despite their diverse backgrounds, each made complex conscious and unconscious compromises to create profit and power. Mullenneaux identifies patterns of macro and micro negotiation and reinvention and maps them onto the waves of legal, economic, and social change to identify broader historical links that complicate notions of the influence of gendered power and the definition of feminism; the role of the body/embodiment in race, class, and gender issues; the relevance of family history to the achievements of influential Americans; and national versus inter- and transnational cultural trends. While Staging Family expands our understanding of how nineteenth-century actresses both negotiated power and then hid that power, it also informs contemporary questions of how women juggle professional and personal responsibilities—achieving success in spite of gender constraints and societal expectations.

Canadian Literature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Canadian Men and Women of the Time

Author : Henry James Morgan
Publisher : William Briggs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Men and Women of the Time written by Henry James Morgan and published by William Briggs. This book was released on 1912 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Canada and Its Provinces

Author : Adam Shortt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Canada and Its Provinces written by Adam Shortt and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: