The Arts in Canada : : The Last Fifty Years / / ed. by William Keith, Ben-Z. Shek.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Allard, Jacques,; Bayefsky, Aba,; Bessette, Gérard,; Davies, Robertson,; Frye, Northrop,; Gustafson, Ralph,; Gélinas, Gratien,; Keith, W.J.,; Lalonde, Michèle,; MacLennan, Hugh,; Milnes, Humphrey N.,; Ridout, Godfrey,; Rocher, Guy,; Shek, B.-Z.,; Woodcock, George,
• HerausgeberIn: Keith, William,; Shek, Ben-Z.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1980
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (174 p.)

In this volume a baker's dozen of creative Canadians make personal responses to the state of the arts in Canada: Northrop Frye and Guy Rocher write on general cultural trends; Hugh MacLennan and Gérard Bessette on fiction; Ralph Gustafson and Michèle Lalonde on poetry; Robertson Davies and Gratien Gélinas on drama; George Woodcock and Jacques Allard on non-fiction prose; Godfrey Ridout on music, and Aba Bayefsky and Humphrey N. Milnes on art. The essays were written to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Toronto Quarterly. The contributors were invited to discuss the changes, problems, challenges, and achievements in the arts in the last fifty years. Since all the authors had personal experience of at least a large section of the period surveyed, the editors welcomed personal reminiscence as well as description and assessment. The result is a varied group of essays in each of which the character of the individual artist is clearly evident; together, they provide a complex, many-faceted, lively, and living discussion of the cultural development of Canada. This anniversary collection of essays is a valuable and provocative source for courses in Canadian studies and for anyone interested in the development of the arts and humanities in Canada.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Across the River and Out of the Trees -- Un demi-siècle d'évolution culturelle au Québec -- Fiction in Canada - 1930 to 1980 -- Romancier(s) québécois -- New World Northern: Of Poetry and Identity -- Petit Testament -- Fifty Years of Theatre in Canada -- Le Credo professionnel d'un homme de théâtre -- When the Past Becomes History: The Half-Century in Non-Fiction Prose -- Les Lettres québécoises depuis 1930 -- Fifty Years of Music in Canada? Good Lord, I Was There for All of Them! -- Fields of Force in Canadian Art, 1930 to 1980 -- A Half-Century of UTQ -- Contributors