Illuminating Al Purdy: The process of archival selection

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dc.contributor.authorKim, Soren
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-13T22:29:44Z
dc.date.available2024-09-13T22:29:44Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractIn 2016, my supervising professor Dr. Nicholas Bradley travelled to Ontario to visit the home of late Canadian poet Al Purdy and access his fonds at the respective archives at Queen’s University and the University of Toronto. During this trip, he photographed hundreds of letters, manuscripts, worksheets, rare and inscribed books, and other archival documents belonging to the poet. I was tasked to select from among these photographs those which served notable biographical or scholarly function. I read a variety of Purdy’s poetry and prose as well as literary criticism in order to develop background knowledge on his life and poetics. I then annotated my selections and organised them into a WordPress website which will hopefully serve as grounds for future exploration of underrepresented works and epistolary relationships, and assist Dr. Bradley in his own ongoing research.
dc.description.reviewstatusReviewed
dc.description.scholarlevelUndergraduate
dc.description.sponsorshipValerie Kuehne Undergraduate Research Awards (VKURA)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1828/20414
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of Victoria
dc.subjectEnglish
dc.subjectAl Purdy
dc.subjectpoetry
dc.subjectarchive
dc.subjectCanadian literature
dc.subject20th century
dc.titleIlluminating Al Purdy: The process of archival selection
dc.typePoster

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