The Winnipeg connection : writing lives at mid-century

Sproxton, Birk, (editor.).

Record details

ISBN: 9780973160819 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 0973160810 :
Physical Description: print
367 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Winnipeg : Prairie Fire Press, 2006.
Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introducing The Winnipeg Connection: A series -- Making Way: Loss and Transformation in Winnipeg's Urban Landscape-A Miscellaneous Photo Album --radio Days: Remembering Chester Duncan -- Two Poems -- Moviemaking in Manitoba: The World War II Era -- A Note on Sinclair Ross and the City -- Star Chamber Day in the Committee Room -- Introduction to the paperback edition of Confusions -- The Riverworlds of Jack Ludwig: An Interview -- Jack Ludwig's Winnipeg: Cold City, Warm People -- Surrational Dreams: A.E. van Vogt and Mennonite Science Fiction -- Memoir of a Poet -- Souwestoegg on Winnipuzz: Reaney's Winnipeg -- Before the Beginning: We Were There -- North Main Car -- North Main Car: A Contest -- The Dance Begins: Margaret Laurence and the Winnipeg Citizen -- Flooding, Polio and Nuclear Bombs: The Culture of Anxiety in Winnipeg in the Early Fifties -- Crossing Portage and Main -- The Myth of McLuhan: Talks with an Elder of the Global Village -- Sonia and the Bear; Madame Eckhardt-Gramatté Meets the New Canadian Frontier -- More Than Just a 'Spotlight': Early Television in Winnipeg -- On John Hirsch: A Observer's Footnotes -- A City Divided in Memory -- Reading and Reviewing Canadian Fiction in the Post-World-War-II Era -- Questionable Fathers and the Ghosts of Empire in Laurence, Wiseman and Blondal -- Patricia Blondal's Long Poem -- Transcribed from Patricia Blondal's Notes -- Renegade Cells: Patricia Blondal's Last Poem -- Underground in Winnipeg: Patricia Blondal's A Candle to Light the Sun -- Exploring a Voice: Patricia Blondal (1926-1959) -- Henry Avenure, Where Are You Now That We Need You? John Marlyn's Under the Ribs of Death -- Looking Home: Location and Dislocation in Margaret Laurence's This Side Jordan -- Time, the Paper Fan and the Villanelle: Form and Forcefulness in the Stone Angel -- The Green Room