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• Title:Paul Tiessen fonds
  
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• Related Title:Malcolm Lowry collection
  
• Author/Creator:Tiessen, Paul, 1944-
  
• Published/Created:1929, 1968-1989
  

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  • Location:RBSC ASRS - (Confirm availability: email rare.books@ubc.ca) Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: RBSC-ARC-1766
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Location Has:Box 1
    
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Lowry, Malcolm, 1909-1957
  
• Description:of textual records. 8 cm
  
• Summary:The collection consists of letters created or received by Paul Tiessen regarding the movie-going practices and environments of Malcolm Lowry. Letters were created from 1968-1988 and address five main topics of Tiessen's queries: Lowry's early years (1909-1927); visit to Bonn, Germany (1928); education at the University of Cambridge (1929-1932); time in the United States, particularly Hollywood; and settlement and activities in Vancouver, especially in relation to the local Film Society movement. Significant correspondents represented in the collection include the following: Russell Lowry, brother of Malcolm Lowry; Margerie Lowry, Malcolm Lowry's widow; Muriel Bradbrook, Cambridge professor and author of a Lowry biography; Rachael Low, film historian; Gerald Noxon, Lowry's Canadian friend; Christopher Isherwood, author and Hollywood reader of one of Lowry's film scripts; and Earl and Esther Birney, Lowry's friends and attendees of Vancouver Film Society screenings.
  
• Biography/history note:Paul Tiessen was born in 1944. He is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, located in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has published widely in the fields of modernism, cultural theory, and film theory. Tiessen retains special interest in the works of Malcolm Lowry: he was editor of the Malcolm Lowry Newsletter (1977-1984); founding editor of The Malcolm Lowry Review (1984 to 2002); and editor and co-editor of works by Lowry and scholarly volumes about Lowry. Significant critical volumes on Lowry that Tiessen has edited or co-edited include The Letters of Malcolm Lowry and Gerald Noxon, 1940-1952 (1988), Apparently Incongruous Parts: The Worlds of Malcolm Lowry (1990), The Cinema of Malcolm Lowry: A Scholarly Edition of Lowry's 'Tender is the Night' (1990), Joyce/Lowry: Critical Perspectives (1997), and A Darkness that Murmured: Essays on Malcolm Lowry and the Twentieth Century (2000). In collaboration with five other academics and the Editing Modernism in Canada (EMiC) project, Tiessen has created a series of new scholarly editions of Lowry's works, including Swinging the Maelstrom (2013), In Ballast to the White Sea (2014), and The 1940 Under the Volcano (2015). Additionally, Tiessen wrote the introduction to Notes on a Screenplay for F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'Tender is the Night' by Malcolm Lowry and Margerie Bonner Lowry (1976).
  
• Indexes and finding aids:Online inventory available.
  
• Notes:Title based on the contents of the fonds.