File pertains to the publication of this article by Ellenwood in the edited collection “The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism’s Parlor Game”.
Accession consists of teaching files for Ellenwood’s undergraduate and graduate level courses, files pertaining to the research and writing of his PhD thesis on André Breton and Sigmund Freud, academic files consisting of drafts of papers and talks delivered by Ellenwood at various conferences, translation files consisting of drafts of his translation work and publishing files that document his own writing efforts including correspondence, research material and drafts of "Egregore: The Montréal Automatist Movement".
Accession consists of records pertaining to Ray Ellenwood's work as a York University professor and his research, writing and translation work relating to Surrealism and the Automatist movement in Quebec. Records include e-mail and other correspondence, course materials, research files, subject files, publications, conference papers, draft manuscripts, page proofs, newsletters, agendas, event notices, photographs, posters, and audiovisual materials including DVDs and videocassettes (Hi8 and VHS). These materials document, in general, his scholarly output and communications from 1973 to 2019, including his teaching at York University and six-month teaching contract in Nanjing, China, in 1993; his organization of and participation in a Nov. 1998 York University-hosted conference, exhibition and performance entitled "Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism: 1948 and Onwards"; his work with the Literary Translators' Association of Canada; his involvement with a 2009-2010 travelling exhibition entitled "The Automatist Revolution" and the resulting book, "The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal, 1941–1960", co-written with Roald Nasgaard; his translation of Guillaume Charette's "L'espace de Louis Goulet" and related research; and the publication and translation and publication of Ellenwood's "Egregore: A History of the Montreal Automatist Movement" (2014). Also included in this accession is correspondence pertaining to Ellenwood's research for his PhD thesis, "André Breton and Freud" (1972).
Accession consists of records pertaining to Ellenwood’s PhD thesis and research on Andre Breton and Surrealism. Records include a copy of the thesis, correspondence, notes and articles, and subject files.
File pertains to the travelling exhibition The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960, its stop at the Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) (23 June – 14 October 2012) as well as Ellenwood’s participation as a speaker (with Roald Nasgaard and Françoise Sullivan) at a related event in October 2012 at the gallery. Included are gallery programs and press releases, reviews, invoices, and correspondence.
File consists of correspondence and forms pertaining to various permissions sought by Ellenwood.
File pertains to course planning for Atkinson College’s English program in 2001-2003. Included are correspondence, lists of course offerings, and course descriptions.
File includes reproductions of Two Months in the Camp of Big Bear: the Life and Adventures of Theresa Gowanlock and Theresa Delaney, The Story of Louis Riel, Annette: The Metis Spy, and a copy of a student paper from the course entitled “Footnotes and fiction: historiography and racism in the North-West novels of Joseph Edmund Collins”.
File consists of course materials including an outline, assignments and lecture notes as well as student evaluations for this course taught by Ellenwood.
File consists of course materials including a schedule, outline, resource lists, in-class examinations and lecture notes as well as student evaluations for this course taught by Ellenwood.
Item is a reproduction of Ellenwood’s PhD thesis submitted to the graduate school of Rutgers University and written under the direction of Professor Serge Sobolevitch of the Department of Comparative Literature.
File pertains to Ellenwood’s writing and translation work for the journal and includes correspondence and manuscript material.
File pertains to the Association des traducteurs et traductrices littéraires du Canada/Literary Translators’ Association of Canada and includes a report on the colloquium between the Association des traducteurs littéraires/Literary Translators’ Association, Union des écrivains québécois and the Writers’ Union of Canada; sample translator contracts; the Association’s constitution; a list of members (1982); a short history of the Association and a note from Ellenwood about its origins.
File pertains to a paper given by Ellenwood entitled “Toward non-figuration in New York and Montreal: 1940-1950” at the Nov. 1989 meeting of the American Studies Association in Toronto. Included are a copy of the paper, notes, a bibiography, research materials, and a list of his fellow panellists for the talk.
File consists of contact lists, notes, correspondence, financial statements and memoranda pertaining to the organization of this conference, held at York University’s Centre for Fine Arts on 13-14 November 1998.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
Item is a master recording by York student Ari Grief of the proceedings of the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
File consists of primarily reproductions of archival documents, articles, event notices and other publications pertaining to the Automatists, collated in a binder as part of the Varley Art Gallery exhibition. Included are two photographic prints of Jeanne Renaud dancing, taken by Jean-Paul Riopelle.
File documents the editing process for The Automatiste Revolution. Records include correspondence, annotated drafts and copy-edited manuscripts.
File documents the editing process for The Automatiste Revolution. Records include correspondence, annotated drafts and copy-edited manuscripts.
File consists of correspondence and other material pertaining to an exhibit entitled Art=Liberation, featuring works by Pierre Gauvreau and Janine Carreau, curated by Ellenwood for Baron Gallery in Vancouver. Included is a 1980 photograph of Gauvreau in front of his painting “Avez-vous vu tout ce que nous avons vu?” and a drawing of the gallery floor plan.
File consists of correspondence, forms and invoices pertaining to various permissions sought by Ellenwood.
File consists of correspondence pertaining to Ellenwood and Betty Bednarski’s work to organize the Les voix d’un écrivain: célébration de Jacques Ferron event.
File pertains to Ellenwood’s participation in Avant Canada, a conference organized by the Centre for Canadian Studies at Brock University. File consists of a conference program, correspondence, brochures, and Ellenwood’s speaking notes for his presentation, “Jean Benoît’s Exécution du testament du Marquis de Sade: exposition, translation, commentary”.
File includes email correspondence from Barbara Godard and others about their panel on translation, “Found in Translation”, held as part of this event.
File consists of correspondence, lists of artwork, and notes pertaining to the photography of Yvan Boulerice and its use in Egregore.
File consists of articles about Breton and Ellenwood’s notes.
File consists of copies of articles and bibliographic information.
File consists of Ellenwood’s research notes and a reproduction of a letter written by Freud.
File predominantly pertains to the travelling exhibition, The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960, and its stop at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo in 2010. Records include promotional material, correspondence, reviews, notes, and photographs. Photographs depict Ellenwood, Brenda Ellenwood, Karen McCormack, Françoise Sullivan, and Steve McCaffery.
File pertains to the travelling exhibit, The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960, at the Varley Art Gallery in Unionville (23 Oct. 2009-28 Feb. 2010) and at the Albright-Knox Gallery in Buffalo (19 March-30 May 2010), Ellenwood’s participation at their opening events as well as at a panel discussion held at the International Festival of Authors at Harbourfront Centre in October 2009. Included are event notices and schedules, press releases, invoices and receipts, correspondence, press clippings, exhibition text, Ellenwood’s speaking notes for a talk entitled, “The Three Graces: Françoise Sullivan, Françoise Riopelle, Jeanne Renaud”, and a CD consisting of reproductions of images and captions from the Varley Art Gallery.
File pertains to government grants for translation work in Canada and includes a report by the Multiculturalism Directorate of the Department of the Secretary of State and lists of grants provided for translation projects.
File pertains to Ellenwood’s contribution to the anthology Canadian Plays and Perfomance Documents: 1606-1967, which was a translation of and commentary about Bien-être (The Good Life) by Claude Gauvreau. Records include email correspondence, notes from a conference about the project, draft copies of other pieces from the anthology, and drafts of Ellenwood’s commentary and his translation.
File pertains to Ellenwood’s contribution to the anthology Canadian Plays and Perfomance Documents: 1606-1967, which was a translation of and commentary about Bien-être (The Good Life) by Claude Gauvreau. Records include email correspondence, notes from a conference about the project, draft copies of other pieces from the anthology, and drafts of Ellenwood’s commentary and his translation.
File consists of correspondence and application forms pertaining to grants in aid of publication for Egregore (original and translation), as well as reader responses to the early manuscript from 1988.
File consists of conference materials pertaining to the Canadian Conference of the Arts’ Crossroads 2001 policy conference. Included is a report by Barbara Godard, a program (annotated by Ellenwood), a participant list, a conference agenda, workshop list, and evaluation form.
File includes a paper by Ming Xie entitled “Chinese modernity and the other” and correspondence and poetry from Jonathan Hart.
File pertains to Ellenwood’s participation in a conference about Pierre Mercure held in Montreal. Included in the file is a copy of Ellenwood’s unpublished paper presented at the conference, “Pierre Mercure, l’automatisme, et le danse moderne au Québec”, related email, an itinerary, and papers written by others.
File includes photographs of Ellenwood, Pierre Gauvreau, Francoise Sullivan, and other participants at the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference, as well as correspondence exchanged between Ellenwood, organizers and attendees.
File consists of correspondence, a grant application, and receipts pertaining to the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
File pertains to Ellenwood’s research for and writing of an essay for “Barry Callaghan: Essays on His Works”, edited by Uppal, focused on Callaghan’s role to include translated works for publication in Exile.
File pertains to Ellenwood’s queries to Les Éditions des Plaines about his out-of-print translation of L’Espace de Louis Goulet, entitled Vanishing Spaces: Memoirs of a Prairie Métis.
File consists of correspondence exchanged between Ellenwood and Beatriz Hausner regarding Ellenwood’s letter sent to the PLR Commission about a paper by Roy MacSkimming for the Canada Council of the Arts entitled “The policy foundations of Public Lending Right in Canada: a research paper”. Included are Ellenwood’s 2011 letter and a copy of MacSkimming’s paper.
File consists of a course outline, lecture notes, correspondence, and copies of articles and other readings used in a graduate course taught by Ellenwood, AS/EN 6791 Special Topics: Frog Lake: History/Literature/Myth, in May-June 2004.
File consists of a course outline, lecture notes, correspondence, and copies of articles and other readings used in a graduate course taught by Ellenwood, AS/EN 6791 Special Topics: Frog Lake: History/Literature/Myth, in May-June 2004.
File consists of two contact sheets depicting images of Ginette Boutin’s dance performance at the Make Way for Magic! Montreal Automatism, 1948 and Onwards conference.
File includes correspondence and unpublished translations by Ellenwood of articles by Jeannette Biondi, Valérie Laforge, and Vincent Giguère, as well as a eulogy written for Gauvreau’s memorial service in May 2011.
File includes letters of permissions from Jean Benoit, Mimi Parent, Claude Mabille, Aube Ellouët and Claude Courtet pertaining to Ellenwood’s visit to the Bibliothèque Littéraire Jacques Doucet in Paris to consult correspondence of Pierre Mabille, Benjamin Peret, Andre Breton, Jean Benoît and Mimi Parent.
File consists of a draft manuscripts, notes, email correspondence and research material pertaining to Ellenwood’s review for The Review of Canadian Art of Stan Dragland’s book about painter Gerald Squires.
File consists of notes and lists pertaining to works held by the Galerie Dresdnere. Also included is correspondence pertaining to an opinion article written for La Presse by Serge Lemoyne entitled “Toronto a-t-elle eau peur de Borduas”?.