An Equal-Opportunity Satirist: An Interview with Edward Riche
Award-winning Newfoundland novelist, screenwriter, and playwright Edward Riche recounts his upbringing in St. John's and his time studying film at Concordia University. He discusses several issues touching Newfoundland culture, including the virtues of the relatively small St. John's artis...
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ftuninewbrunojs:oai:ojs.journals.lib.unb.ca:article/11237 2023-05-15T17:20:00+02:00 An Equal-Opportunity Satirist: An Interview with Edward Riche Wyile, Herb 2008-06-06 text/html application/pdf https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/11237 eng eng University of New Brunswick https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/11237/12000 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/11237/12001 https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/11237 Copyright (c) 2015 Studies in Canadian Literature / Études en littérature canadienne Studies in Canadian Literature; Volume 33, Number 2 (2008) Études en littérature canadienne; Volume 33, Number 2 (2008) 1718-7850 0380-6995 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion other 2008 ftuninewbrunojs 2022-07-11T11:44:40Z Award-winning Newfoundland novelist, screenwriter, and playwright Edward Riche recounts his upbringing in St. John's and his time studying film at Concordia University. He discusses several issues touching Newfoundland culture, including the virtues of the relatively small St. John's artistic community, Confederation, the collapse of the fisheries, globalization, and the recent boom in the Atlantic Canadian novel. Many of these issues, along with the unfortunate necessity of tourism for Newfoundland's economy, are also explored in Riche's writing, such as his novels Rare Birds (1997) and The Nine Planets (2004). Finally, he discusses his own writerly versatility and the different processes entailed in writing for different venues, including his adapting of Rare Birds for film. Article in Journal/Newspaper Newfoundland University of New Brunswick: Centre for Digital Scholarship Journals |
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Award-winning Newfoundland novelist, screenwriter, and playwright Edward Riche recounts his upbringing in St. John's and his time studying film at Concordia University. He discusses several issues touching Newfoundland culture, including the virtues of the relatively small St. John's artistic community, Confederation, the collapse of the fisheries, globalization, and the recent boom in the Atlantic Canadian novel. Many of these issues, along with the unfortunate necessity of tourism for Newfoundland's economy, are also explored in Riche's writing, such as his novels Rare Birds (1997) and The Nine Planets (2004). Finally, he discusses his own writerly versatility and the different processes entailed in writing for different venues, including his adapting of Rare Birds for film. |
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