TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deshaye,Joel
TI  - The metaphor of celebrity: Canadian poetry and the public, 1955-1980 
SN  - 9781442666160
AV  - PR9190 .M483 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Toronto, Buffalo, London
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Canadian poetry
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Poets, Canadian
KW  - Public relations
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Authors and readers
KW  - Canada
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Introduction --; The metaphor of celebrity --; The era of celebrity in Canadian poetry --; Becoming "too public" in the poetry of Irving Layton --; Fighting words : Layton on radio and television --; Recognition, anonymity, and Leonard Cohen's stranger music --; "I like that line because it's got my name in it" : masochistic stardom in Cohen's poetry --; Celebrity, sexuality, and the uncanny in Michael Ondaatje's The collected works of Billy the Kid --; "A razor in the body" : Ondaatje's Rat jelly and Secular love --; The magician and his public in the poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen --; Passing and celebrity in MacEwen's The T.E. Lawrence pomes --; Conclusion: public, nation, now --; Acknowledgments --; Appendix : four tables --; Notes --; References --; Index; 2; b
N2  - The Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry. It focuses on the lives and writing of four widely recognized authors who wrote about stardom --
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