Hard-headed and big-hearted : writing Newfoundland / Stuart Ogden Pierson.
Hard-headed and big-hearted : writing Newfoundland / Stuart Ogden Pierson.
By
:
Pierson, Stuart O.
Publication Date
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2006
Publication Information
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St. John's, N.L. : Pennywell Books,
Physical Description
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437 p. : ill.
Geographic Term
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Newfoundland -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Summary
:
"I am not a 'Newfoundlander,'" Stuart Pierson wrote in "A Diatribe," his controversial review of Historical Atlas of Canada; "it takes a few generations to achieve that." But he had with passion observed and commented on Newfoundland culture for many years before his early death in 2001. To adapt his own words, he was a "terrieresque reader" who sank his teeth into a subject and never let go, a scholar of encyclopedic knowledge in several fields who achieved a plainly eloquent literary style. This book presents all of Stuart Pierson's significant writings on Newfoundland culture-historical, literary, and visual. It is a posthumous gift to his adopted nation/province and to readers everywhere, because in Pierson's spacious thinking Newfoundland culture is a fascinating instance of world culture.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9781894463911
General Note
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Includes index.
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number |
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Carbonear | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.8 P61 |
Corner Brook | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.8 P61 |
Daniel's Harbour | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.8 P61 |
Deer Lake | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.8 P61 |
Fogo Island | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.8 P61 |
Gander | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.8 P61 |
Grand Falls-Windsor - Harmsworth | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.8 P61 |
Marystown | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.8 P61 |
Mount Pearl - Ross King Memorial Public Library | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.8 P61 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.8 P61 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | ADULT NFIC NL - BASEMENT OVERFLOW | Adult Non-Fiction NL - Basement Overflow | 819.8 P61 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic NL Ref - NL Rm | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference - NL Room | 819.8 P61 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic NL Ref - Prov Coll | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference Provincial Collection | 819.8 P61 |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter | Adult NFic NL Ref - Vault | Adult Non-Fiction NL Reference - Vault | 819.8 P61 |
Stephenville - Kindale | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.8 P61 |
Woody Point | Adult NFic NL | Adult Non-Fiction NL | 819.8 P61 |