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Author : Robertson Davies
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Author : Robertson Davies
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book A Voice from the Attic written by Robertson Davies and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Robertson Davies
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (977 download)
Download or read book A Voice from the Attic [by] Robertson Davies. Introd.: Robert Cockburn written by Robertson Davies and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 079535231X
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)
Download or read book A Voice from the Attic written by Robertson Davies and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2019-04-22 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays “filled with pleasantly rambling opinions about everything from self-help books to erotica” from the celebrated Canadian author (The Chronicle Journal). An urbane, robust, and wonderfully opinionated voice from Canada, sometimes called “America’s attic,” speaks here of the delights of reading, and of what mass education has done to readers today, to taste, to books, to culture. With his usual wit and breadth of vision, Robertson Davies ranges through the world of letters—books renowned and obscure, old and recent; English, Irish, Canadian, and American writers both forgotten and fondly remembered. “Sweet reason in the raiment of well-woven prose? Most assuredly. Good humor agraze over broad literary demesnes? No doubt of it. Forgotten popular favorites rescued and rehabilitated? Certainly. A parade of agreeable prejudices? He would not be a true Canadian if he did not have them. Lightheartedness where needed? Yes. Seriousness where it counts? Yes. Wit, satirical touches, firm indignations, sound sense, good taste, judiciousness, cosmopolitan breadth of view, urbanity, sanity, unexpected eccentricities, educated humanism? By all means. It is indeed by all these means and more that this book of essays and observations bestows its multiple benefactions, and anyone picking it up is bound north to pleasure and profit.”—The New York Times
Author : Susan Stone-Blackburn
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774843330
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Robertson Davies, Playwright written by Susan Stone-Blackburn and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2011-11-01 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Susan Stone-Blackburn studies how the tastes and concerns of one of Canada's leading writers have been given dramatic expression, beginning with The King Who Could Not Dream and Benoni and ending with Question Time and Pontiac and the Green Man. She also examines how Davies' playwriting has been influenced by the dominant tastes of his time and by the conditions under which his plays have been performed. Dealing with the plays chronologically, Stone-Blackburn reveals Davies' fondness for theatricality as opposed to realism, for mythic flavour and archetypal character, his romanticism, and his irrepressible humour.
Author : Camille R. La Bossière
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776605313
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Robertson Davies written by Camille R. La Bossière and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies addresses the basic problems in reading his work by looking at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in "gaps" or spaces "in between." The essays present new insights on a broad range of topics in Davies oeuvre and represent one of the first major discussions devoted to Davies' work since his death in 1995. Publishled in English.
Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Penguin Books Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780143195320
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Voice from the Attic written by Robertson Davies and published by Penguin Books Canada. This book was released on 1990-09-04 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Spadoni
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442667281
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book A Bibliography of Robertson Davies written by Carl Spadoni and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robertson Davies (1913–1995), one of Canada’s most distinguished authors of the twentieth century, was known for his work as a novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. This descriptive bibliography is dedicated to his writing career, covering all publications from his first venture into print at the age of nine to works published posthumously to 2011. Entries include each of Davies’ signed publications and those pseudonymous or anonymous writings he acknowledged having written. Included are his plays, novels, journalism, academic writing, translations, interviews, speeches, lectures, unsigned articles and editorials, films, audio recordings, and multimedia editions. Also listed is a generous sampling of unsigned articles and editorials. Using Davies’ archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of Canadian literature and book history scholars.
Author : Nicholas Maes
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770705058
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Robertson Davies written by Nicholas Maes and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-03-23 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913–1995) was one of Canada’s pre-eminent literary voices for more than a half-century. Davies, with his generous beard and donnish manner, was the very epitome of the “man of letters,” a term he abhorred. Best known for his Deptford Trilogy of novels (Fifth Business, The Manticore, World of Wonders), he also wrote two other trilogies (Salterton and Cornish) and was at work on the third volume of another trilogy (Toronto) when he died. With a life as rich in character and colour as that found in his fiction and essays, Davies had a great fondness for magic and myth, both of which are found in abundance in his work, along with a prodigious streak of wry humour.
Author : Craig S. Walker
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077356859X
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Buried Astrolabe written by Craig S. Walker and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-03-29 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Craig Walker devotes the main body of his work to critical readings of James Reaney, Michael Cook, Sharon Pollock, Michel Tremblay, George F. Walker, and Judith Thompson, respecting the distinctive elements of the writer's voice while helping the reader appreciate the cultural context that informs each play. He analyses the poetics or mythological underpinning of the works and investigates the cultural significance of the tropes that typify their works. The Buried Astrolabe stakes the claim of Canadian playwrights to be considered among the most important in the contemporary world.
Author : Jac FITZ-ENZ
Publisher : AMACOM
ISBN 13 : 0814416446
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book The New HR Analytics written by Jac FITZ-ENZ and published by AMACOM. This book was released on 2010-05-12 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using Fitz-enz’s proprietary analytic model, you will be equipped to measure and evaluate past and current returns and apply the information to make predictions about the future value of human capital investments. In his landmark book, The ROI of Human Capital, Jac Fitz-enz presented a system of powerful metrics for quantifying the contributions of individual employees to a company’s bottom line. Now, in The New HR Analytics, he reveals how human resources professionals can apply this expense-based knowledge to make the most strategic staffing decisions for their companies. You’ll learn how to: evaluate and prioritize the skills needed to sustain performance; build an agile workforce through flexible Capability Planning; determine how the organization can stimulate and reward behaviors that matter; apply a proven succession planning strategy that leverages employee engagement and drives top-line revenue growth; and recognize risks and formulate responses that avoid surprises. Brimming with real-world examples and input from thirty top HR practitioners and thought leaders as well as exclusive analytical tools, The New HR Analytics ushers in a new era in human resources and human capital management.
Author : J. Woods
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889205493
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Humanities in the Present Day written by J. Woods and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of addresses presented at the Official inauguration of the Faculty of Humanities, university of Calgary, in February 1978, is edited by the Dean and the Associate Dean of the faculty. As well as the essays, the collection includes biographies and photographs of the contributors and a comprehensive index. Robertson Davies, in the inaugural address, discusses “The Relevance and Importance of the Humanities in the Present Day.” Next, the editors discuss the concept of a “liberal undergraduate education,” and Gregory Vlastos, the concept of graduate education. George Grant examines the role of research in the humanities. F.E.L. Priestley discusses the influence of humanistic concepts on scientific ideas from Bacon to Einstein. Marie-Claire Blais examines “The function of Literature in Contemporary Society.” Hans Eichner presents a “Defence of Literature” and discusses the role of a Faculty of Humanities. Finally, Malcolm F. McGregor speaks to the questions, “What are the humanities?” and “What is an education in the humanities?”
Author : John Hayden Woods
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889200769
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Humanities in the Present Day written by John Hayden Woods and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of addresses presented at the Official inauguration of the Faculty of Humanities, university of Calgary, in February 1978, is edited by the Dean and the Associate Dean of the faculty. As well as the essays, the collection includes biographies and photographs of the contributors and a comprehensive index. Robertson Davies, in the inaugural address, discusses “The Relevance and Importance of the Humanities in the Present Day.” Next, the editors discuss the concept of a “liberal undergraduate education,” and Gregory Vlastos, the concept of graduate education. George Grant examines the role of research in the humanities. F.E.L. Priestley discusses the influence of humanistic concepts on scientific ideas from Bacon to Einstein. Marie-Claire Blais examines “The function of Literature in Contemporary Society.” Hans Eichner presents a “Defence of Literature” and discusses the role of a Faculty of Humanities. Finally, Malcolm F. McGregor speaks to the questions, “What are the humanities?” and “What is an education in the humanities?”
Author : W. J. Keith
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889842854
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Canadian Literature in English written by W. J. Keith and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. J. Keith has chosen to ignore utterly both the `popular' at the one extreme (Robert Service, Lucy Maud Montgomery) as well as the `avant-garde' at the other (bpnichol, Anne Carson) in favour of those authors whose style lends itself to the simple pleasure of reading, and to that end Keith dedicates his history to `all those -- including those of the general reading public whose endangered status is much lamented -- who recognize and celebrate the dance of words.'
Author : David Guiliano
Publisher : The United Church of Canada
ISBN 13 : 1551341948
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (513 download)
Download or read book Postcards from the Valley written by David Guiliano and published by The United Church of Canada. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of David Giuliano’s previously published articles and more recent writing is both a personal reflection on his own journey toward the heart of God and the journey being made by many mainline churches. The personal journey is one made through a valley of shadows carved out by cancer. The book invites readers to reflect on fear, faith, joy, and the encounter with the Holy One in their own lives and on the common life of the church. The book includes a study guide for personal or group use.
Author : Michael Dirda
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429900288
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Book by Book written by Michael Dirda and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Pulitzer Prize-winning critic's often surprising meditation on those places where life and books intersect and what might be learned from both Once out of school, most of us read for pleasure. Yet there is another equally important, though often overlooked, reason that we read: to learn how to live. Though books have always been understood as life-teachers, the exact way in which they instruct, cajole, and convince remains a subject of some mystery. Drawing on sources as diverse as Dr. Seuss and Simone Weil, P. G. Wodehouse and Isaiah Berlin, Pulitzer prize-winning critic Michael Dirda shows how the wit, wisdom, and enchantment of the written word can inform and enrich nearly every aspect of life, from education and work to love and death. Organized by significant life events and abounding with quotations from great writers and thinkers, Book by Book showcases Dirda's considerable knowledge, which he wears lightly. Favoring showing rather than telling, Dirda draws the reader deeper into the classics, as well as lesser-known works of literature, history, and philosophy, always with an eye to what is relevant to how we might better understand our lives.
Author : Janet Friskney
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442630477
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book New Canadian Library written by Janet Friskney and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the mid-1950s, much Canadian literature was out of print, making it relatively inaccessible to readers, including those studying the subject in schools and universities. When English professor Malcolm Ross approached Toronto publisher Jack McClelland in 1952 to propose a Canadian literary reprint series, it was still the accepted wisdom among publishers that Canadian literature was of insufficient interest to the educational market to merit any great publishing risks. Eventually convinced by Ross that a latent market for Canadian literary reprints did indeed exist, McClelland & Stewart launched the New Canadian Library (NCL) series in 1958, with Ross as its general editor. In 2008, the NCL will celebrate a half-century of publication. In New Canadian Library, Janet B. Friskney takes the reader through the early history of the NCL series, focusing on the period up to 1978 when Malcolm Ross retired as general editor. A wealth of archival resources, published reviews, and the NCL volumes themselves are used to survey the working relationship between Ross and McClelland, as well as the collaborative participation of those who, through the middle decades of the twentieth century, were committed to studying and nurturing Canada's literary heritage. To place the New Canadian Library in its proper historical context, Friskney examines the simultaneous development of Canadian literary studies as a legitimate area of research and teaching in academe and acknowledges the NCL as a milestone in Canadian publishing history.
