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[MacLennan, Hugh : Interview]

Item number (ISN):

475621

Series title:

Canadian Writers on Tape

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1970-09-15 ?

Item number (ISN):

475621

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

ONTARIO INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN EDUCATION / INSTITUT D'ÉTUDES PÉDAGOGIQUES DE L'ONTARIO

Accession:

1975-0173

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1970-09-15 ?

Production company:

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

Production credit:

interviewer, Earle Toppings

Description:

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Interview of Hugh Maclennan, Canadian writer and novelist, by Earle Toppings of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, about:Hugh Maclennan, the difficulty in writing about the Canadian experience, his American influenced upbringing as being typically Canadian, his early American writings, literature, the influence of background and upbringing on a writer's style; Hugh Maclennan, the realisation of his identity as a Canadian writer, the Canadian experience as source material for his writing; Ernest Hemingway, events in his life that influenced his writing; Hugh Maclennan, events in his lifetime that influenced his writings, the importance of an apparition as prime inspiration for his writing; literature, the writer's urge to express his identity; the colonial attitude of the Canadian literary establishment; Canada, lack of appreciation of Canadians for their own writers; literature, the evolution of the novel in popularity and style from the l920s, the shallowness of contemporary pornography as an art form; Hugh Maclennan, his novels The Watch That Ends the Night and Barometer Rising; literature, the quality of tenacity in a writer, the necessity for a writer to be in tune with his times, the function of artist to make order out of chaos; Hugh Maclennan, his novel Two Solitudes, his view towards politics, his view toward his works. <30mn>

Language:

English

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1. Produced, recorded, and copyrighted by the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at 315 Queen Street East, Toronto.

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Vault ISN:

701063

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0173/4

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Duration:

30:00

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Open

Copyright owner:

Ontario Institute for Studies in Education

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restricted

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