Format:
Online-Ressource (xii, 416 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
1442674628
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9781442674622
Content:
›Establishing Our Boundaries is a cultural history of Canada as seen through the eyes of twenty-one of English Canada's leading theatre critics commenting on the creation of an indigenous Canadian national theatre and drama over two centuries. Canadians have always had an intense relationship to the theatre. As Canada has transformed from colony to Dominion to independent nation, the development of a national theatre and the public responses to it have both reflected and affected how we know ourselves. Eighteen essays, written by top scholars in the field, cover the range of influential English-language theatre reviewing from 1829 to 1998, and from Vancouver to Halifax. The word 'critic,' refers primarily to newspaper columnists. The criticism under scrutiny here-much of it only available on microfiche-is generally short (ten column inches) and reflects an immediate, often heated response to the show. Some longer pieces, Hector Charlesworth's (1890-1945) and B.K. Sandwell's (1932-51) work at Saturday Night, are also examined. The editor's extensive introductory essay explains the cultural context for the material considered and suggests a current crisis in criticism.A forceful and provoking tradition of theatre criticism in Canada developed long before Nathan Cohen's outspoken voice called attention to it-of course his confident and controversial work is given a full treatment here. The call for an indigenous theatre arose simultaneously with the proliferation of Canadian newspapers. Patrick O'Neill's meticulously thorough essay 'From Puffery to Criticism- William Lyon Mackenzie, Joseph Howe and Daniel Morrison: Theatre Criticism in Halifax and Toronto 1826-1857' discusses both the status of journalism and the instrumental roles those three played in creating an actual theatre criticism. Issues such as the creation of colourful personae and the implicated nature of criticism are broached by Douglas Arrell. Gina Mallet's iconoclast
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [407]-416)
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Originally published : Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1999
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Establishing our boundaries : English-Canadian theatre criticism
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Part oneEditor-criticsFrom puffery to criticism : William Lyon Mackenzie, Joseph Howe, and Daniel Morrison : theatre criticism in Halifax and Toronto, 1826-1857
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g Part twoReviewer-criticsThe critic as reviewer : E.R. Parkhurst at the Toronto Mail and Globe, 1876-1924
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The cosmopolitan, the cultural nationalist, and the egocentric critic : Harriet Walker, Charles W. Handscomb, and Charles H. Wheeler in Winnipeg, 1898-1906
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Part threeCultural nationalismHector Willoughby Charlesworth and the nationalization of cultural authority, 1890-1945
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Saving the nation's aesthetic soul : B.K. Sandwell at the Montreal herald, 1900-1914, and Saturday night, 1932-1951
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Becoming actively creative : Dr Lawrence Mason, the Globe's critic, 1924-1939
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Herbert Whittaker, reporting from the front : the Montreal Gazette, 1937-1949, and the Globe and mail, 1949-1975
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Criticism in a Canadian social context : Nathan Cohen's threatre criticism, 1946-1971
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In anger and hope : Oscar Ryan at the Canadian tribune, 1955-1988
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The classical humanist : Jamie Portman at the Calgary herald, 1959-1975, and the Southam News Service, 1975-1987
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The archetypal enthusiast : Urjo Kareda at the Toronto star, 1971-1975
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The critic as cultural nationalist : Don Rubin at the Toronto star, 1968-1972, and the Canadian theatre review, 1974-1983
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Part fourThe post-nationalist periodSubverting modernisms in British Columbia : Christopher Dafoe at the Vancouver sun, 1968-1975
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Journalist or critic? Brian Brennan at the Calgary Herald, 1975-1988
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The iconoclast sceptic on the beat : Gina Mallet at the Toronto star, 1976-1984
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Establishing contact between two cultures : Marianne Ackerman at the Montreal gazette, 1983-1987
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Theatre : transgression or tribal celebration? Ray Conlogue at the Globe and mail, 1978-1998
Additional Edition:
1442611839
Additional Edition:
9781442611832
Additional Edition:
Print version Establishing our boundaries
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3138/9781442674622
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