The Other Side of Dailiness: Photography in the Works of Alice Munro, Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, and Margaret Laurence

190 Pages·1988·11.4 MB·English

by  Lorraine York

The Other Side of Dailiness

Photography in the Works of Alice Munro,
Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, and
Margaret Laurence
Lorraine Mo York
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CANADIAN CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION DATA
York, Lorraine Mary, 1958-
The other side of dailiness
Bibliography: p.
Incl udes index.
ISBN 1-55022-003-9 (bound). - ISBN 1-55022-002-0 (pbk.).
1. Canadian literature (English) - 20th century
History and criticism.* 2. Literature and photography - Canada.
I. Title.
PS8191.P43Y671988 C813'.54'09 C87-093316-7
PR9192.6.P43Y671988
The Other Side of Da il in ess has been published
with the assistance of a grant from the
Canadian Federation for the Humanities,
using funds provided by the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
Additional grants have been provided by
The Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council.
Co ver design and artwork by The Dragon's Eye Press, Toronto.
Typeset by ECW Production Services, Oakville.
Printed and bound by the University of Toronto Press, Downsview.
Published by ECW PRESS, 307 Coxwell Avenue, Toronto, Ont. M4L 3B5
Copyright © ECW PRESS, 1988
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+ TABLE OF CONTENTS +
mibroduooon
"A Message with a Code"
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C1M1P~eJI' One
"The Delicate Moment of Exposure":
Alice Munro and Photography
21
C1M1P~eJI' Two
''Vi olent Stillness":
Timothy Findley' s Use of Photography
51
C1M1P~eJI' 11huree
"The Making and Destroying":
The Photographie Image in Miehael Ondaatje' s Works
93
C1M1P~eJI' Fo1!.U'
"Today Facing Yesterday":
Photography in Margaret Laurence's Works
121
WorbCited
167
mdex
173
+ ILLUSTRATIONS +
Fig. 1 Diane Arbus, A Family on Their Lawn One Sunday in
Westchester, N. Y. (1968)
[courtesy The Estate of Diane Arbus]
Fig. 2 Walker Evans, Boots, from Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
(1941)
[courtesy The Estate of Walker Evans]
Fig. 3 Joseph Devellano, Telephoto (1982)
[Art Gallery of Hamilton]
Fig. 4 Anonymous, Les abords du crematoire à la liberation en 1945,
Dachau
Fig. 5 from Running in the Family
[by permission of Michael Ondaatje]
Fig. 6 What We Think of Married Life, from Running in the Family
[by permission of Michael Ondaatje1
+ ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS +
A number of people read this work in its early stages and gave me
valuable adviee about its publication: John Ferns, Carl Ballstadt, Linda
Hutcheon, Joan ColdweIl, Magdalene Redekop, Louis Greenspan, Paul
Walton, Robert Lecker, and Francesca Worral1; and readers for the
Canadian Federation for the Humanities.
l owe as weIl special thanks to Reginald and Margaret York for
kindnesses too numerous to count, to Gillian Middleton for friendship,
and to Miehael Ross for sharing so cheerfully my photographie obsessions.

No one escapes the perjury of time;
This permanence that light and shade have struck
So brave in attitude, l would believe
Essential and innocent of change.
Howard Nemerov, "An Old Photograph"