The Duncan Campbell Scott Symposium
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- Synopsis
- On April 27-29, 1979, the Department of English at the University of Ottawa held the sixth conference in its series of symposia on major Canadian writers. In the tradition of the series, the Duncan Campbell Scott Symposium attracted scholars from across North America to examine and discuss Scott's life and writings. Coincidentally, one might add, the Symposium took place within only a short walk from where Scott lived and worked in Ottawa. Presenting a breadth of papers and topics, the program was intended to reappraise as much as possible the impressive range of Scott's lyrical, dramatic and narrative poetry as well as his fiction, and to open new vistas on his public and private life. With Scott such reappraisals were particularly timely because our faith in late nineteenth-century Canadian poets needs the support of microscopes: "'Faith' is a fine invention /," says Emily Dickinson, "When Gentlemen can see --But Microscopes are prudent / In an Emergency." The emergency of either unduly magnifying or belittling older Canadian literature is real and the Symposium has helped to clarify the significance of Scott as a writer and of his work as a "moment of becoming" and a "watershed" -- to borrow phrases from John P. Matthews's and Gordon Johnston's papers -- in the making of this country's literature.
- Copyright:
- 1980
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 157 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9782760343863
- Publisher:
- University of Ottawa Press
- Date of Addition:
- 04/06/11
- Copyrighted By:
- University of Ottawa Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
- Submitted By:
- Worth Trust
- Proofread By:
- Worth Trust
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.