This is Our Writing - Softcover

Rigelhof, T. F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889842183 ISBN 13: 9780889842182

Publisher: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada, 2000

Synopsis

A collection of essays, which asks what is best in what has been written by Canadians in the twentieth century. This work examines works of some writers whose accomplishments need serious revaluation. What are the real achievements of Robertson Davies, Carole Corbeil, Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Hugh Hood, Leonard Cohen and George Grant?

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Review

Over the last decade, The Porcupine's Quill has developed a minor specialty in publishing cantankerous books that challenge the complacency of Canadian literary commentary. ...Now comes T.F. Rigelhof's "This Is Our Writing", which asks the bracing and necessary question: What is truly good in Canadian fiction and what is merely trendy and popular?'--Jeet Heer "The National Post "

Synopsis

Punctuate his title as you like but T.F. Rigelhof considers "This is Our Writing" a declaration, an enquiry and an exclamation. As a writer of half a dozen, a reviewer of dozens upon dozens, and as a reader of a multitude more books, Terry Rigelhof knows much about writing in Canada. In these eleven essays, he asks what is best in what has been written by Canadians in the twentieth century. He examines selected works of some writers whose accomplishments need serious revaluation. What are the real achievements of Robertson Davies, Carole Corbeil, Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Hugh Hood, Leonard Cohen and George Grant? Rigelhof comes up with a list that will surprise some and dismay others. This is a book for readers who have always known in their heart of hearts that Robertson Davies was an egregious windbag and that underneath the inspired silliness of their carefully contrived and managed public images, Mordecai Richler and Leonard Cohen have produced three of the most intelligent novels we have. In a sequence of interlocking personal essays, Rigelhof explores living a writerly life in Canada at the end of the twentieth century. The text is fortified by a dozen photographs, all but one previously unpublished, by Gabor Szilasi, one of Canada's greatest active documentary photographers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Porcupine's Quill Inc.,Canada
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889842183
• ISBN 13: 9780889842182
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208