Of Several Branches : : Essays from the Humanities Association Bulletin / / ed. by Gerald McCaughey, Maurice Legris.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Bissell, Claude T.,; Brunet, Michel,; Campbell, A.P.,; Dozois, Camille,; Duncan, A.R.C.,; Lebel, Maurice,; Legris, Maurice,; Lockquell, C.,; Mandel, E.W.,; Marcotte, G.,; Mccaughey, Gerald,; Mcluhan, Marshall,; Morgan, Gerald,; Priestley, F.E.L.,; Robson, John M.,; Rutten, Pierre Van,; Soule, Donald,; Story, G. M.,; Sylvestre, Guy,; Watson, Wilfred,; West, Paul,; Woodhouse, A.S.P.,
• HerausgeberIn: Legris, Maurice,; McCaughey, Gerald,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1968
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

One of the most important functions of the Humanities Association of Canada is to bring together scholars from all disciplines of the humanities. Its boundaries thus extend considerably beyond literary studies. The annual meetings of the Association choose themes designed to demonstrate the relatedness of the humanities, based on a sense of professionalism beyond the narrow professionalism of a single discipline. This function is carried on for a larger audience by the Bulletin of the Association, in which these essays originally appeared. Drawn from issues covering the years 1954 to 1967, they discuss a broad range of topics from Chaucer to Saint-John Perse, from Greek literature to the electronic age. They include areas of Canadian literature both French and English, literary criticism, philosophy studies of the contemporary role of the humanities, a discussion of the "new Quebec." Among the distinguished contributors are A.S.P. Woodhouse, Claude Bissell, F.E.L. Priestley, John M. Robson, Marshall McLuhan, Wilfred Watson, Guy Sylvestre, and Giles Marcott.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. Humanities in the Twentieth Century -- The Humanities in the Electronic Age -- The Catholic Church in the Mid-twentieth Century -- Towards the Discovery of a New Quebec -- Sputnik and the Humanities -- The New Role of the Humanities in Canada -- The Humanities Association and the University -- An Ideal Programme for the Humanities -- PART II. Approaches to Literary Tradition -- Comedy, Irony, and a Sense of Comprehension -- Notes sur l'intuition comme instrument de critique creatrice -- Comment les Grecs concevaient la litterature -- Mill and Arnold: Liberty and Culture- Friends or Enemies? -- Heber the Magnificent: Portrait of a Bibliophile -- Jacob Burckhardt and the "Ideal Past" -- D' une litterature nationale -- A Lack of Ghosts: Canadian Poets and Poetry -- Un Continent litteraire a decouvrir -- PART III. Writers and Their Works -- Tarquin, the Master-Mistress, and the Dark Lady: The Role of the Poet in Shakespeare's Sonnets -- Oiseaux, ou I' esthetique de Saint-John Perse -- Chaucer's "Retraction": Who Retracted What? -- An Approach to Wuthering Heights -- Structure and Allegory in Tennyson's Idylls of the King -- Narcissus Afloat -- Notes on Contributors