On the Front Line of Life: Stephen Leacock : Memories and Reflections, 1935-1944In the last decade of his life, Leacock turned to writing informal essays that blended humour with a conversational style and ripened wisdom to address the issues he cared about most - education, literature, economics, Canada and its place in the world - and to confront the joys and sorrows of his own life. With an introduction that sets them in the context of his life, thoughts and times, these essays reveal a passionate, intellegent, personal Leacock, against a backdrop of Depression and war, finding hope and conveying the timeless message that only the human spirit can bring social justice, peace, and progress. |
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... humour . He gave the same lectures time after time , and no one complained about that . Why should he not rework good material when it was likely that his readers would not have previously encountered it ? Surely what was important was ...
... humour . He gave the same lectures time after time , and no one complained about that . Why should he not rework good material when it was likely that his readers would not have previously encountered it ? Surely what was important was ...
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... humour was becoming forced and stale . But it was characteristic of Leacock that his biggest concern was the economic collapse in the fall of 1929 that was beginning to deepen into the Great Depression . He could not have foreseen that ...
... humour was becoming forced and stale . But it was characteristic of Leacock that his biggest concern was the economic collapse in the fall of 1929 that was beginning to deepen into the Great Depression . He could not have foreseen that ...
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... humour was running dry he would write popular biography , literary criticism , history , economics , books about humour , and even poetry . Nonetheless , by 1936 the crisis in his personal and professional life was coming to a head ...
... humour was running dry he would write popular biography , literary criticism , history , economics , books about humour , and even poetry . Nonetheless , by 1936 the crisis in his personal and professional life was coming to a head ...
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... humour , women , prohibition , and other subjects . " The apogee of this early essay voice was My Discovery of England ( 1922 ) , which contained the master- piece " Oxford As I See It . " Leacock wrote few essays in the 1920s , and ...
... humour , women , prohibition , and other subjects . " The apogee of this early essay voice was My Discovery of England ( 1922 ) , which contained the master- piece " Oxford As I See It . " Leacock wrote few essays in the 1920s , and ...
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... humour growing out of and reinforcing the subject matter . Macphail recognized this development in 1935 : “ I admired even more your choice and use of words , as if you had a secret joy in them . There is a faint echo from the 17th ...
... humour growing out of and reinforcing the subject matter . Macphail recognized this development in 1935 : “ I admired even more your choice and use of words , as if you had a secret joy in them . There is a faint echo from the 17th ...
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