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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>One of the largest Canadian cultural research
projects was concluded at this year's Congress of the Social Sciences and
Humanities at Bishop's University June 4 with the publication launch by the
University of Toronto Press of <EM>Establishing Our Boundaries: English-Canadian
Theatre Criticism</EM>.<BR> <BR>The book, edited by Anton Wagner, is the
first cultural history of Canada as seen through the eyes of twenty-one leading
theatre critics commenting on the creation of an indigenous Canadian theatre and
drama over two centuries.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The nation-wide research project by seventeen
members of the Association for Canadian Theatre Research/Association de la
recherche theatrale au Canada, was made possible by a $50,000 grant from the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Additional project
funding was provided by the Herman Voaden Trust Fund, the HSSFC Aid to Scholarly
Publications Programme, York University, McGill University, Mount Saint Vincent
University, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Brock University, the University of
Saskatchewan, and the University College of the Cariboo.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The book's eighteen essays cover the range of
influential theatre reviewing from the 1820s to 1998, and from Halifax to
Vancouver. The collection addresses the ongoing dilemma of the artist and
cultural industries in Canada: how to create for local and international
audiences in competition with the best theatre and drama the world has to
offer.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><EM>Establishing Our Boundaries </EM>examines
this tension between the positive stimulus of open artistic borders and cultural
globalization--particularly the preponderant influence of American popular
culture on Canadian artistic creation and self-expression. The essays analyze
the attempts of theatre critics to stimulate an indigenous Canadian theatre and
drama, and their views on religious, moral and political issues, censorship,
cultural colonialism and cultural nationalism, government support of the arts,
English-French cultural relations, and Canadian national, regional and minority
identities.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The University of Toronto Press has extended its
20% publication discount off the $60 428-page hard cover price to ACTR/ARTC
members. Please quote the "UTP Marketing Code 1025" when ordering
copies from the UTP toll-free number 1-800-565-9523.<BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><EM>Establishing Our Boundaries:
English-Canadian Theatre Criticism. </EM>Toronto: University of Toronto Press,
1999. </FONT></DIV>
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<BR>Introduction: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Establishing Our Boundaries:
English-Canadian Theatre Criticism"--Anton Wagner</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Editor/Critics:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"From Puffery to Criticism--William Lyon
Mackenzie, Joseph Howe and Daniel Morrison: Theatre Criticism in Halifax and
Toronto 1826-1857"--Patrick O'Neill </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Reviewer/Critics:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"The Critic as Reviewer: E.R. Parkhurst at
the Toronto Mail and Globe 1876-1924"--Ross Stuart
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"The Cosmopolitan, the Cultural Nationalist
and the Egocentric Critic: Harriet Walker, Charles W. Handscomb and Charles H.
Wheeler in Winnipeg 1898-1906"--Douglas Arrell
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Cultural Nationalism:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Hector Willoughby Charlesworth and the
Nationalization of Cultural Authority 1890-1945"--Denis
Salter </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2><BR>"Saving the Nation's Aesthetic Soul:
B.K. Sandwell at the Montreal Herald 1900-1914 and Saturday Night
1932-1951"--Anton Wagner </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Becoming Actively Creative: Dr. Lawrence
Mason, The Globe's Critic 1924-1939"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>--Anton Wagner </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Herbert Whittaker, Reporting >From the
Front: Montreal Gazette 1937-1949 and the Globe and Mail
1949-1975"--Jennifer Harvie and Richard Paul Knowles </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Criticism in a Canadian Social Context:
Nathan Cohen's Theatre Criticism 1946-1971"--Don Rubin
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"In Hope and Anger: Oscar Ryan at the
Canadian Tribune 1955-1988" --Mayte Gómez
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"The Classical Humanist: Jamie Portman at
the Calgary Herald 1959-1975 and the Southam News Service 1975-1987"--Moira
Day </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"The Archetypal Enthusiast: Urjo Kareda at
the Toronto Star 1971-1975"--Denis Johnston </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"The Critic as Cultural Nationalist: Don
Rubin at the Toronto Star 1968-1972 and the Canadian Theatre Review
1974-1983"--Ira Levine </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>The Post-Nationalist Period:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Subverting Modernisms in B.C.: Christopher
Dafoe at the Vancouver Sun 1968-1975"--James Hoffman
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Journalist or Critic?: Brian Brennan at
the Calgary Herald 1975-1988"--Diane Bessai </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"The Iconoclast Sceptic on the Beat: Gina
Mallet at the Toronto Star 1976-1984"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>--Alan Filewod </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Establishing Contact Between Two Cultures:
Marianne Ackerman at the Montreal Gazette 1983-1987"--Leanore Lieblein
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>"Theatre: Transgression or Tribal
Celebration--Ray Conlogue at the Globe and Mail 1978-1997"--Robert
Nunn </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>Selected Bibliography:--Anton
Wagner </FONT></DIV>
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