CRI 550 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Hugh Maclennan, Morley Callaghan, Northrop Frye
28 Jan 2016
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Difficult therefore for unis to offer courses not taught in am schools, to. Is it true, then, that we are a people without a literature? - 1951 report of the royal commission on national development in the arts, letters, and sciences. Aka massey commission after chairman vincent massey studying. Massey-levesque commission after sole francophone member pere. Report eventually leads to creation of the canada council and the. Report found hostile cultural environment, indifferent to writer. In 1948, english language publishers issued only 14 fiction books and. 35 poetry and drama, far lower than at turn of century or 1920s. Reflected prolonged lean times that began in depression all through. Massey levesque identified systemic causes of canada"s cultural malaise, e. g. excessive dependence on am materials in educational system function as centres of indigenous research, to foster intellectual exchange bet en and fr cultures. Lack of cd books = lack of cd studies = lack of knowledge about the country.
