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B. W. Powe fonds
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Interviews

File consists of questions pertaining to interviews given by Powe about his work as a writer and professor.

Bookstore talk : York U

File consists of speaking notes and a notice pertaining to Powe’s talk at the opening ceremonies of the newly renovated Keele Campus bookstore at York University.

B. W. Powe fonds

  • F0103
  • Fonds
  • 1955-2017

Fonds consists of diaries, journals, professional and personal correspondence, manuscript drafts and other material that document Powe's career as a writer and educator.

Powe, B. W (Bruce W.), 1955-

Correspondence and subject files

The series consists of personal and professional correspondence including manuscript and typescript copies of letters received by Powe, copies of letters written by Powe, as well as printed copies of incoming and outgoing e-mail. It includes correspondence with friends, students, publishers, fellow writers and academics, among them R. Murray Shafer, Don DeLillo, Gary Geddes, Susan Swan, John Ralston Saul, Joe Keogh, John Robert Colombo, Eric McLuhan and Pierre Trudeau. Series also consists of subject files containing clippings, publicity material, audio recordings, video cassettes, photographs, brochures, notes and other material pertaining to speaking engagements, conferences such as the "Trudeau Era Conference" and "Rethinking McLuhan", and York University's Living Literacies Initiative, Foundation and Endeavour (LLIFE).

Literary manuscripts and other writings files

The series consists of research material, notes, drafts and manuscripts of Powe's published and unpublished works including his books "A Climate Changed" (1984), "Noise of Time" (1989), "A Tremendous Canada of Light" (1993), "Outage: A Journey Into Electric City" (1995), "The Solitary Outlaw: Trudeau, Lewis, Gould, Canetti, McLuhan", "Mystic Trudeau" (1997), "Towards a Canada of Light" (2006), "These Shadows Remain" (2011), his 2009 PhD thesis, "Apocalypse and alchemy: visions of Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye", the reworked and published version of his PhD thesis, "Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy" (2014), "Where Seas and Fables Meet" (2015), and "Decoding Dust" (2016). It also includes drafts and/or printed copies of numerous reviews, essays and articles written by or about him, and drafts pertaining to the "Opening Time: On the Energy Threshold" collaborative project. Series also includes correspondence with publishers and fellow writers such as Irving Layton, Hugh Kenner and J.G. Ballard in reference to his work, publicity material for several of his books, and copies of journals and magazines in which Powe's work appeared.

Correspondence with Allison Sarkar

File pertains to a Parks Canada report on Northrop Frye prepared by historian Allison Sarkar and Powe’s commentary on and review of the report. Records in this file are printed e-mail and a copy of the report.

Personal files

The series consists of material which documents Powe's personal life and his relationship with his family. It includes correspondence, photographs, legal and medical records and other collected ephemera.

Photos, memorabilia

File consists of a Christmas card from Pierre Elliott Trudeau featuring a photo of his family, Powe's 1977 graduation portrait, a photograph of Powe and his mother, Alys, at his 1980 graduation ceremony, and two other photographs of Powe.

Recent things

File consists of a copy of an interview with Powe for "Brainstorm" and an article by Powe entitled "The Charge in the Global Membrane: Notes on Paradigm Change",

MOOC/EMMA project : IN3 : collaborative work : Spain/Italy/Canada

File consists of correspondence, printed e-mail, forms and course material pertaining to Powe’s involvement with the European Multiple MOOC (massive open online courses) Aggregator (EMMA), specifically his role as an instructor of two e-seminars for project partner Universita Delgi Studi di Napoli Federico II.

York admin stuff

File consists of printed e-mail pertaining to a variety of subjects relating to Powe’s work as a York University professor.

Elaine Kahn's dissertation

File consists of Powe’s notes pertaining to the dissertation of Elaine Kahn, a student at Rutgers University, as well as a draft of the dissertation annotated by Powe.

Journals, calendars, notebooks

The series consists of notebooks and journals kept by Powe in which he documented his thoughts and reflected on both his personal life and on works in progress. Also included are calendars on which Powe recorded appointments and other scheduled events.

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