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Linda Hutcheon

Bio: Linda Hutcheon is an academic researcher from University of Toronto. The author has contributed to research in topics: Postmodernism & Opera. The author has an hindex of 27, co-authored 146 publications receiving 8146 citations. Previous affiliations of Linda Hutcheon include National Autonomous University of Mexico & McMaster University.


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TL;DR: Hutcheon and Clarke as discussed by the authors explored ways in which opera in Canada is becoming more accessible and attracting a new audience, particularly a youthful one, as a result of economic conditions that demand small-scale productions in intimate spaces.
Abstract: The discussion in this interview explores ways in which opera in Canada is becoming more accessible and attracting a new audience, particularly a youthful one, as a result of economic conditions that demand small-scale productions in intimate spaces. The members of this developing audience want to be able to appreciate the music and understand the language of the operas they attend. Accessibility depends on the use of the audience's language or surtitles. The interview explores the subject matter of modem opera in Canada, concentrating on social issues such as racism, diversity, and gender as well as a distrust of demagoguery and power. Finally, the discussion points out the postmodern aspects of opera, particularly its multidisciplined nature, the blurring of genres and the polyphony inherent in its form. Dans cette entrevue, on examine les moyens par lesquels l'opera au Canada devient plus accessible et attire un nouveau public, surtout chez les jeunes, par suite des conditions economiques qui exigent des productions a petite echelle presents now it commands a listening audience of more than 200,000. Observers in the field also note a proliferation of opera houses and opera companies, as well as growing international recognition of Canadian performers and companies. Two well-known Canadian academics, Linda Hutcheon and George Elliott Clarke, are among those who have turned their critical and creative talents towards the evolving field of opera in Canada. I asked them to locate opera on Canada's cultural landscape as we head into the twenty-first century. We met to talk about opera on 10 July 2000 at the University of Toronto. Following are excerpts of our conversation. Christi Verduyn (Interviewer): There is an interesting gap between general knowledge about opera in Canada and the vibrancy of research and writing in the field. What should we know about opera and Canadian culture in the year 2000? Linda Hutcheon: It may be the single most vibrant and expanding art form in Canada right now. That, I know, is a very strong statement, but I think it's verifiably true. You've alluded to some interesting statistics about an expanding audience for opera. Even more interesting is that this audience is a fairly youthful one - an audience that has been raised on rock music and concerts, film, in other words, on spectacle. Opera appeals to this audience because it brings together the visual arts, the dramatic arts, music, literature. It's a highly multidisciplinary art form - the "total work of art." To a younger generation, that says something. It helps explain why opera and musical theatre are the two largest growing public art forms. There's a second side to this: economics. …

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TL;DR: This article showed that poets who write novels have a different hermeneutic relationship to both their readers and their narrative structures than do most novelists, and that this phenomenon can be seen in Atwood's The Edible Woman and Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel.
Abstract: Poets who write novels have a different hermeneutic relationship to both their readers and their narrative structures than do most novelists. Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman and Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel are examples of this phenomenon.

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01 Jan 1982
Abstract: Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index

7,539 citations

01 Jan 1995

1,882 citations

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TL;DR: This article argued that narrative is a solution to a problem of general human concern, namely, the problem of how to translate knowing into telling, and fashioning human experience into a form assimilable to structures of meaning that are generally human rather than culture-specific.
Abstract: To raise the question of the nature of narrative is to invite reflection on the very nature of culture and, possibly, even on the nature of humanity itself. So natural is the impulse to narrate, so inevitable is the form of narrative for any report of the way things really happened, that narrativity could appear problematical only in a culture in which it was absent-absent or, as in some domains of contemporary Western intellectual and artistic culture, programmatically refused. As a panglobal fact of culture, narrative and narration are less problems than simply data. As the late (and already profoundly missed) Roland Barthes remarked, narrative "is simply there like life itself. . international, transhistorical, transcultural."' Far from being a problem, then, narrative might well be considered a solution to a problem of general human concern, namely, the problem of how to translate knowing into telling,2 the problem of fashioning human experience into a form assimilable to structures of meaning that are generally human rather than culture-specific. We may not be able fully to comprehend specific thought patterns of another culture, but we have relatively less difficulty understanding a story coming from another culture, however exotic that

1,640 citations

Book
20 Jan 1995
TL;DR: The Post-Colonial Studies Reader as discussed by the authors is the essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field.
Abstract: The essential introduction to the most important texts in post-colonial theory and criticism, this second edition has been thoroughly revised and updated to include 121 extracts from key works in the field. Leading, as well as lesser known figures in the fields of writing, theory and criticism contribute to this inspiring body of work that includes sections on nationalism, hybridity, diaspora and globalization. The Reader's wide-ranging approach reflects the remarkable diversity of work in the discipline along with the vibrancy of anti-imperialist writing both within and without the metropolitan centres. Covering more debates, topics and critics than any comparable book in its field, The Post-Colonial Studies Reader is the ideal starting point for students and issues a potent challenge to the ways in which we think and write about literature and culture.

1,355 citations