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Portraits of Canadian Writers

Author : Bruce Meyer
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 0889843961
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Canadian Writers written by Bruce Meyer and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Ray Robertson, Bronwen Wallace—these are just a few authors whose unforgettable words have made them icons of Canadian literary expression. In Portraits of Canadian Writers, Bruce Meyer presents his own personal experience of these and many more seminal Canadian authors, sharing their portraits alongside amusing anecdotes that reveal personality, creativity, and humour. Meyer’s snapshots, both visual and textual, reveal far more than just physical appearance. He captures tantalizing glimpses into the creative lives of writers, from contextual information of place and time to more intangible details that reveal persona, personality and sources of imaginative inspiration. Through these portraits, Meyer has amassed a visual archive of CanLit that illustrates and celebrates an unparalleled generation of Canadian authorship.

Portraits of Canadian Writers

Author : Bruce Meyer
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 0889848386
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (898 download)

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Portraits of Canadian Writers

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Total Pages : 11 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Canadian Writers written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Portraits of Canadian Writers

Author : Sam Tata
Publisher : Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889841314
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (413 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Canadian Writers written by Sam Tata and published by Erin, Ont. : Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 1991 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: `A portrait,' Sam has said, `is a passport to friendship', and many of his anecdotes concern his great company of friends, friends who tend to be writers, photographers, painters, musicians, architects, and actors. This volume contains the portraits of 50 of Sam's literary friends. Although these portraits are a record of people at a certain time and place, they are not merely an archive. These portraits are works of art in their own right. The background details are not merely descriptive. Sam is an artist and a considerable one. His pictures are carefully composed. He is, of course, concerned with capturing the `inner lines of force in the being of his subject' but he is equally concerned with the making of a picture, with composition, with shapes, with blackness and whiteness. In Sam's portraits, psychological and artistic concerns fuse. The images define both us and him and will live on to become a part of our national heritage. He has said of portraiture: `The sitter must be willing to be photographed. The photographer must be sensitive to the sitter. And a rapport between the two has to be established.' At the beginning of a photographic session, people are wary. Sam works at establishing the necessary rapport through conversation. He usually takes 24 or 36 exposures and his experience is that the better pictures start to arrive somewhere in the middle of the roll -- that is, when the sitter has moved from acquiescence to active participation in the session. Another way Sam helps the sitter relax is by using the natural light in the familiar surroundings of the subject's home; he sees the studio and the paraphernalia of tripods, flashes, and reflectors as inhibiting. Many of Sam's portraits, then, offer us the almost voyeuristic pleasure of observing domestic interiors for there are usually things in Sam's pictures -- ornaments, paintings, books, plants, pianos, sculpture, dogs, furniture. These furnishings and possessions further express and suggest the sitter's personality; Sam has actually called these photographs `environmental portraits'.

Portraits of Canadian Writers

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Closer to Home

Author : Terence Byrnes
Publisher : Vehicule Press
ISBN 13 : 9781550652482
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Closer to Home written by Terence Byrnes and published by Vehicule Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Closer to Home: The Author and the Author Portrait fixes its searching and intimate gaze on writers as they have seldom been seen before. These striking images were captured at a location where the writer lives, works or plays. Each is accompanied by a crisp and insightful vignette about the experience of photographing the writer, thoughts about the uses of artists' portraits, and, often, a touch of refined literary gossip. Terence Byrnes, whose own collection of short stories, Wintering Over, garnered critical praise, removed himself from the limelight tobehind the camera to photograph other writers. For a period of ten years, he visited writers in their homes and, while discussing the writing life with them, photographed them at their ease. "The literary portrait," Byrnes says, "had become moribund, showing writers as stalwart or fetching in various degrees, and barricaded by books like a university don from a British novel of manners. These portraits show the photographer as an interloper to whom the writer must react as an individual, not as a role." The history of the literary portrait and its place in the creation of commercial success and literary canons will be examined in an introductory critical essay, "The Seductive Frontispiece."

Portraits of Canadian Writers [manuscript]

Author : Sam Tata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Canadian Writers [manuscript] written by Sam Tata and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

PORTRAITS OF CANADIAN WRITERS. EDITED BY JOHN METCALF.

Author : Sam Tata
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book PORTRAITS OF CANADIAN WRITERS. EDITED BY JOHN METCALF. written by Sam Tata and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Canadian Climate

Author : Mary Alice Downie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781525262609
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (626 download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Climate written by Mary Alice Downie and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of writings by twenty-nine women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman's wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of a dangerous voyage out from France, a famous children's writer writes home about the fun of canoeing, and a German general's wife describes habitant customs. All demonstrate how women's experiences not only shared, but helped shape this new country.

Portraits of Canadian Authors

Author : Orenstein, Paul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (465 download)

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Download or read book Portraits of Canadian Authors written by Orenstein, Paul and published by . This book was released on 1983* with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Portrait of Canada's Parliament

Author : William P. McElligott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780773555105
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book A Portrait of Canada's Parliament written by William P. McElligott and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Canadian architectural and cultural marvel, Canada's Parliament Building, or Centre Block, has been the focal point of Canadian parliamentary democracy for much of the past century. As the Parliament Building, with its iconic gothic revival Peace Tower, approaches its 100th anniversary, it will be closed for a decade or more for much-needed renovations. Although an entire generation will miss the opportunity to see this building's wonders, A Portrait of Canada's Parliament provides a permanent written and illustrated record of it at this watershed moment. With spectacular photographs by William McElligott and inspiring thematic articles by established professional subject specialists, this volume collectively paints a portrait of one of Canada's greatest symbols from its origins into the present and on to the plans for its future. The Parliament Building, which contains both the Senate and the House of Commons, is unveiled from various angles: the astonishing history, the visionary architects, the lofty aspirations, the democratic functions housed within, the urban features, the picturesque landscape, the powerful architecture, the engineering ingenuity, the decorations' symbolic meanings, the harsher memories, the evolution echoing a growing nation, and the challenges, opportunities, and technological innovations for the most ambitious architectural renovation in Canada's history - a revitalized Parliament Building fit for the twenty-first century and beyond. This portrait provides, for the first time, an intimate analysis of the character and spirit of Canada's Parliament, and how the building's design, contents, and setting have performed their role so successfully for successive generations of Canadians.

Every Summer After

Author : Carley Fortune
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 059343854X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book Every Summer After written by Carley Fortune and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A radiant debut."—Emily Henry, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Named One of the Hottest Reads of Summer 2022 by Today ∙ Parade ∙ PopSugar ∙ USA Today ∙ SheReads ∙ BuzzFeed ∙ BookBub ∙ Bustle ∙ and more! Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past. Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever.

Early Voices

Author : Mary Alice Downie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780889954298
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (542 download)

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Download or read book Early Voices written by Mary Alice Downie and published by . This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a collection of real life writings, Canadian women write about real life events and conditions from all corners of the nation. Famous and non-famous women alike, tell of disastrous events that shook the nation, social issues that affected Canadians, and present a woman's perspective of life in Canada from the 17th through the 20th centuries.

The Canadian Writer's Guide

Author : Jonathan-James Associates
Publisher : Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside
ISBN 13 : 9780889020009
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Canadian Writer's Guide written by Jonathan-James Associates and published by Markham, Ont. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside. This book was released on 1976 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Peter Wilkins

Author : Peter Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (294 download)

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Download or read book Peter Wilkins written by Peter Wilkins and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Many Lives Mark this Place

Author : John Hartman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781773270944
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Many Lives Mark this Place written by John Hartman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Hartman paints thirty-two of Canada?s finest authors into their chosen landscape-- cities, mountains, towns, and beaches ranging from Tofino, British Columbia, to Elliston, Newfoundland. Each portrait is accompanied by a personal essay that describes how place influences the author?s life and work. The result is a unique and striking look at this country, overflowing with life.

Early Voices

Author : Mary Alice Downie
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459705319
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book Early Voices written by Mary Alice Downie and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-10-29 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This selection of writings by 29 women, known and unknown, professional and amateur, presents a unique portrait of Canada through time and space, from the 17th to the early 20th century, from the Maritimes to British Columbia and the Far North. There is a range of voices from high-born wives of governors general, to an Icelandic immigrant and a fisherman's wife in Labrador. A Loyalist wife and mother describes the first hard weather in New Brunswick, a seasick nun tells of a dangerous voyage out from France, a famous children's writer writes home about the fun of canoeing, and a German general's wife describes habitant customs. All demonstrate how women's experiences not only shared, but helped shape this new country.