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ROBERTSON DAVIES MAN OF MYTH, by Judith Skelton Grant; Viking (787 pages, $35).(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service; 1/10/1996; ; 700+ words
; More than most authors, Robertson Davies earned his readers' affection...that Judith Skelton Grant's ``Robertson Davies: Man of Myth'' is an...from Wales. By the time William Robertson Davies arrived on the scene, Rupert...
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Robertson Davies' Magic
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/7/1996; ; 700+ words
; ROBERTSON DAVIES Man of Myth By Judith Skelton Grant...35 THE TERRITORY of wonder that Robertson Davies means to reclaim in his marvelous...editor's family in Ontario, William Robertson Davies grew up under a distant but beloved...
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A Passion That Melted Snow: Canadian Writer Robertson Davies
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/5/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...People always laughed, Robertson Davies said, when he told...People laughed, but Robertson Davies was trying to...time and late in life, Davies matured exponentially...early this year. "Robertson Davies composes a kind...
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Robertson Davies, the shrewd storyteller
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 12/5/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...profile one of my favorite writers, Robertson Davies, I decided to make an exception...in my coat pocket as I entered Davies' office. He greeted me and rapidly...the rest." That was one side of Robertson Davies: skeptical of technology...
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Robertson Davies.(Canadian author dead at age 82)(Obituary)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 12/9/1995; 700+ words
; THE Canadians, Robertson Davies once wrote, are "a nation of losers...But they have been grateful to Mr Davies for his profundity. Non- Canadians...one, has any interest in Canada." Robertson Davies, reasonably, did not agree...
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 "Mosaic (Winnipeg)")
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The Anatomy of Influence: Robertson Davies's Psychosomatic Medicine.
Magazine article from: Mosaic (Winnipeg); 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; The Cunning Man is Robertson Davies's exploration of the overlapping...This essay argues that, although Davies's doctor protagonist attests to...has most recently been explored in Robertson Davies's own psyc hologizing (and...
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Robertson Davies' Pictures From an Institution
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 12/18/1988; ; 700+ words
; THE LYRE OF ORPHEUS By Robertson Davies Viking. 472 pp. $19.95 IT SEEMS fitting that Robertson Davies' best-known novel, Fifth Business...rescues his career from oblivion. Clearly, Robertson Davies is planning to have some fun with...
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Obituary: Professor Robertson Davies
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/5/1995; ; 700+ words
; William Robertson Davies, novelist, playwright and English...December 1995. My first meal with Robertson Davies in 1986 was celebratory, writes...but also to escape. For in Canada Robertson Davies was a hero. His books were...
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Robertson Davies' Alchemy; The Novelist, Mixing His `Magic Realism' and Brooding Over Canada's Spirit
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/11/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...a former newspaper publisher, Robertson Davies. Fellows at the college wore billowing black gowns, which Davies grandly described as the "national...elsewhere on the university campus, Davies' fondness for ceremony and ritual...
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 "Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA)")
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NOVELIST ROBERTSON DAVIES' ESSAYS PROVIDE POTENT DOSES OF WISDOM.(Lifestyle)(Review)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 7/31/1997; 700+ words
; ...but when it is as diverting as Robertson Davies' ``The Merry Heart,'' it serves as a magic elixir. Davies (1913-1995) pursued three careers...into the roof and disappeared. Robertson Davies practiced the same beguiling...
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William Robertson Davies
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
William Robertson Davies Robertson Davies (1913-1995) enjoyed a distinguished career as a journalist...helping to enhance the literary standing of his native Canada. Robertson Davies was a writer of grand ideas and fertile imagination who...
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Robertson Davies
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Robertson Davies (William Robertson Davies) dā´vĬs , 1913-95, Canadian writer and editor. After receiving a B.Litt. from Oxford (1938), he joined the Old Vic Theatre Company before returning to Canada (1940...
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Davies, Robertson
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Davies, Robertson (1913–95) Canadian novelist, dramatist, and journalist. Davies is best known for The Deptford Trilogy (1970–75), a characteristic mixture of myth, satire and symbolism. Other works include The...
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Davies, (William) Robertson
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Davies, (William) Robertson (1913–95), Canadian novelist, playwright, and critic...of pseudonymous pieces written for the Examiner and other papers. Davies was an important figure in Canadian drama, both as a playwright...
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ENGLISH LITERATURE
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...among those interested in the literature and its description. Critics discussing such writers as Chinua Achebe, Robertson Davies, James Joyce, V. S. Naipaul, and Walter Scott, as part of ‘mainstream’ English literature...
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