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Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990) was a widely respected Canadian novelist and academic. He wrote primarily of Canadian themes and was credited with being the first writer to establish a national literary id...
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When the American critic, Edmund Wilson, first encountered the essays of Hugh MacLennan in 1960, he claimed to find in them "a point of view surprisingly and agreeably different from anything else I k...
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In the following excerpt, Lucas remarks on the main themes of MacLennan's fiction.
MacLennan served a long apprenticeship to his trade. He never woke to find himself famous. His was a long, slo...
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In the following excerpt, Morley discusses MacLennan's treatment of puritanism and sexuality in Barometer Rising, Two Solitudes, and The Precipice.
In his study of the psychoanalytical meaning ...
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In the following interview, MacLennan discusses various influences on his writing.
[Sutherland]: How long have you been here in Quebec, Hugh?
[MacLennan]: I came to Quebec the fall of 1935 to teach fo...
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In the essay below, Chambers discusses The Precipice as an examination of "developments in modern North American consciousness."
A few years ago, in the course of a review [in University...
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In the following essay, Bonnycastle provides a structural analysis of MacLennan's novel, focusing on the protagonist's consciousness and MacLennan's recurring passages of lyrical ...
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In the following excerpt, Cameron examines MacLennan's thematic treatment of technology and power.
"If I have been prophetic in my earlier novels, it would not be pleasant if I were prop...
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Critical Essay by George Woodcock
The reason for MacLennan's reputation, and for his undoubted importance as a novelist, are to be found in the original way in which he has interpreted the Cana...
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Critical Essay by Ronald Sutherland
[Return of the Sphinx] contains a great many insights which are pertinent and valuable…. [It] is probably the most important Canadian novel to appear for man...
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Critical Essay by Dave Godfrey
[The] charge of turgidness or parochialism which comes from misunderstanding MacLennan's novels cannot in all fairness be levelled at [the essays in The Other Sid...
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Critical Essay by Alec Lucas
