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End Side One\nTwo\t\t000\t\n\t\t010\tTallman talks about the pockets of resistance between the poet subculture, publishing poets, and the academic world\n\t\t070\tThe political/academic environment within B.C.\n\t\t170\t“I think B.C. in particular suffers from the kind of counter movement you are talking about… in the East… there is a desire to find a new kind of B.C. writing…” Davey\n\t\t180\tDavey suggests that Ontario has a tendency to dismiss the canon of B.C. writing as “American-style” writing\n\t\t235\tDavey characterizes the creative writing program at York\n\t\t330\tPoetic risk taking Toronto vs. B.C.\n\t\t350\tThe relationship of this conservative government to Canadian Cultural Councils, and the dangers of assigning political control over creative money\n\t\t381\tTallman summarizes his efforts to create local support for poetry within Vancouver: “I have just about written U.B.C. off, I think they are enemies of literature, the institutional, bureaucratic, professional attitude toward literature is killing off any real interest…”\n\t\t400\tBoth speakers embark on a long discussion about the attitude towards creative writing in B.C.’s universities\n\t\t465\tTallman draws an analogy between theology and the professionalism of B.C. universities\n\t\t545\tDavey focuses upon modern Quebec writing\n\t\t580\tTallman asks Davey what kind of a critical theory he employs when writing\n\t\t610\tEnd.  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End side One\nTwo\t\t000\t\n\t\t005\tThe interviewer points out that in the graduate programs – women seem genuinely more interested in the literature; where men seem more interested in a career\n\t\t100\tThe interviewer goes on to point out that marriages between faculty members and outsiders (those who have no graduate training in English) often fail; while the tendency for a woman to leave school upon marriage – continues\n\t\t124\tThe interviewer asks whether these conditions still prevail\n\t\t158\tEli maintains that men in positions of power continue to marginalize women\n\t\t180\tEli states that a feminist movement is being propelled by a language which accommodates female expression – this language can be found in poetic movements\n\t\t250\tAnn responds that women are constantly placed in a subordinate position by institutional mechanism such as marriage and university\n\t\t290\tAnn points out that women, in university are still associated with creative writing\n\t\t328\tEli argues that women are allocated a kind of mystical rule in our culture through writing\n\t\t350\tAnn explains that women are in a double bind – they are frustrated, and forbidden to be militant\n\t\t383\tBoth speakers discuss the discriminatory practices of English faculty departments\n\t\t430\tEnd. 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