Literary titans revisited : the Earle Toppings interviews with CanLit poets and writers of the sixties

Toppings, Earle (interviewer.). Urbancic, Anne, 1954- (editor.). Canadian Electronic Library (Firm), (distributor.). Coherent Digital (Firm) (Added Author).

Summary: "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."--

Record details

ISBN: 9781459738713
ISBN: 9781459738720
Physical Description: 1 electronic text (363 pages) : illustrations
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: Toronto [Ontario] : Dundurn, 2017.
Distributor: Ottawa, Ontario : Canadian Electronic Library, 2017.
Copyright: ©2017

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:january.23 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection. Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction -- Margaret Laurence -- Morley Callaghan -- Hugh Garner -- Hugh MacLennan -- Mordecai Richler -- Sinclair Ross -- Dorothy Livesay -- Gwendolyn MacEwen -- Al Purdy -- Earle Birney -- F.R. Scott -- Irving Layton -- Miriam Waddington -- Raymond Souster -- Eli Mandel -- James Reaney -- Afterword: Interview with Dr. Earle Toppings.
Restrictions on Access Note:	Access restricted to authorized users and institutions.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Also available in print version.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by Canada Commons.