Black Ice and Yellow Snow: On Digging into Canuck Pulp Fiction
2015 Morton Lecture
Event Details
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Thursday, November 26, 2015
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Building: Traill College
Room: Bagnani Hall
Cost: Free
Synopsis: From Glassco to Vizinczey, Engel to Nikolits, from Proctor-Mills to Williams, Clarke will survey 'classic' and recent examples of works that may be considered Canadian versions of pulp fiction, or popular-reader-oriented texts, exploiting sex and/or violence, to determine whether there are any specifically Canadian hallmarks--or aesthetics--related to the bastard texts of the Can Lit canon.
George Elliot Clarke is a poet, playwright and literary critic who infuses a strong sense of history in all his writings. He is also the current Poet Laureate of Toronto. This free public event is presented by The School for the Study of Canada (Undergraduate and Graduate), the History Undergraduate Department, and Catherine Parr Traill College. The W.L. Morton Lecture is named in honour of W.L. Morton, the Canadian historian and former Master of Trent's Champlain College. All are welcome.
Location: Bagnani Hall, Traill College
For more information please contact: canadianstudies@trentu.ca