CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5784
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
George Bowering English 414 Lecture 16 at SFU on November 5, 1973 #675
Title Source:
cassette and j-card
Title Note:
On J-card: English 414 Lecture 16 Nov. 5, 1973; W. C. Williams continued - Paterson, Book I
Language:
English
Production Context:
Classroom recording
Genre:
Speeches: Talks
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Bowering, George
Dates:
1935-
Role:
"Speaker"
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Generations:
Second generation from Reel-to-Reel
Sound Quality:
Excellent
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:30
Size:
34.3 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:30:21
Size:
33.7 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
1973-11-05
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
J-card
LOCATION
Address:
8888 University Dr, Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Venue:
Simon Fraser University
Latitude:
49.2784
Longitude:
-122.9231
CONTENT
Contents:
Side
Track
No.
Comments
One
0000
0015
Bowering notes that he feels that he is learning even more now from Paterson despite his experience and travails as a writer – each reading brings to light new issues and ideas
0045
Paterson is an example of how to write a long imagist or objectivist poem”, notes Bowering. Paterson is very much about writing
0071
Discussion of the symbolic setting of Paterson, esp. the river and the falls
0087
Bowering makes the point that one can look at the river in terms of its representation of the passage of one’s life, a familiar metaphor. The river also can be viewed as representative of thought that has not yet been turned into voice
0120
Comparison of the treatment of water as a metaphor in a poem of Whitman’s Starting from Paumanok
0161
There is a ‘set-up’ structure to Paterson, its original four books were each divided into three sections, for a total of twelve divisions, suggesting ‘the year’. The physical setting matches also – Book II about the spring
0180
Another sense of structure in the books parallels the subject matter; Book I is relatively clear and straight-forward, but as we progress through the books, the writing grows progressively more ‘muddied’, as does the river in Paterson in its journey to the sea
0203
“There are some very particular oppositions to Eliot in Paterson…”
0218
The image of the Dog
0275
The image of the ‘particulars’ of the river
0279
Williams: “Beauty cannot exist in a museum out of time and away from the human”
0294
The idea of ‘Quest’ in literature is discussed
0314
The theme of Marriage/Union as compared to Divorce/Rape is investigated
0363
The metaphor of the City (Man) and the Park (Woman), with the river as thought is looked at. Male and female images are investigated
0373
Williams’ reading of Freud played, perhaps, some bearing on the creation of Paterson, especially in terms of dream signification
0419
Continued discussion of ‘Marriage’ vs.’Rape’ in the poetry of Paterson
0503
Williams’ attack on university writers is examined
0520
The symbolism of the dead water of ‘the moat’ of poetry created as a result of middle-class motivations
0595
Williams’ attempts to deal with the masculine, puritanical, death-wish drive in which the masculine values are championed. The American hero at the time was the quiet, unspeaking man of action vs. the suspect, effete man of words (i.e. European). In Selected Essays (p. 68), Williams said “The perfect type of the man of action is the suicide”
0642
End of lecture
Two
Side two is blank
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
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