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Notes to be typed up and sent to Alden Nowlan.\n- [00:47:45] tape cuts to piano music, presumably the Chopin ballads that had been taped over. - [00:50:50] Can hear tapping in the background—possibly the noise of the radio/record player. - [00:53:43] Alden Nowlan yawns.\n- [00:54:56] tape cuts, muffled noises, and then returns to the Chopin ballad."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558438260738,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":2.6468573},{"id":"8322","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Alden Nowlan fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/alden-nowlan-fonds"],"item_title":["ONE SIDE Hatfield TV Interview / PRE-SCHOOL -- ONE SIDE"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_title_note":["Writing on tape index card: TV interview with Richard Hatfield (then Premier of New Brunswick). 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Does it bother you that no Conservative government has been elected premier a second term? - [00:05:20] Why should the voters believe you’ll keep the promises in this campaign? - [00:09:24] What would your reaction be to the charge that you have been spending the taxpayers’ money? \n- [00:09:39] laughter and comments from Alden Nowlan’s female partner in the background.\n- [00:19:45] Issue of federal government’s proposed cut to equalization payment a central concern for this campaign - [00:23:40] Hatfield addressing the (im)possibility of taking a federal job\n- [00:24:17-end of tape] tape slips as recording\n- [00:25:48] cuts to other people being interviewed about Premier Hatfield; ends with campaign endorsement to vote for Progressive Conservative.\n- [00:27:01] cuts to female reading story (likely Alden Nowlan’s partner Claudine Orser), children playing in the background. Frequent cuts and repeats."],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"\",\"type\":\"\"}]"],"Related_works":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"\"}]"],"_version_":1853670558438260739,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:02.646Z","score":2.6468573},{"id":"8334","cataloger_name":["Leah,Van Dyk"],"partnerInstitution":["University of Calgary"],"collection_source_collection":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"source_collection_label":["Robert Kroetsch fonds"],"collection_contributing_unit":["University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections"],"source_collection_uri":[""],"collection_image_url":[""],"collection_source_collection_id":[""],"persistent_url":["https://searcharchives.ucalgary.ca/robert-kroetsch-fonds"],"item_title":["Narrative Traces: Talking with Robert Kroetsch"],"item_title_source":["Transcribed from the artifact"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Studio recording"],"item_identifiers":["[29.2]"],"rights":["In Copyright (InC)"],"rights_notes":["Enters Public Domain at the end of 2037"],"creator_names":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creator_names_search":["Kroetsch, Robert"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/120613489\",\"name\":\"Kroetsch, Robert\",\"dates\":\"1927-2011\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Author\",\"Performer\"]}]"],"contributors_names":["Edwards, Brian"],"contributors_names_search":["Edwards, Brian"],"contributors":["[{\"url\":\"\",\"name\":\"Edwards, Brian\",\"dates\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Interviewer\"]}]"],"Interviewer_name":["Edwards, Brian"],"Performance_Date":[1995],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"A and B\",\"image\":\"\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"Unknown acetate\",\"generations\":\"\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Good\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Very clear, studio recorded. 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Crow served as inspiration during difficult writing period. Robert Kroetsch prefers magic realism instead of documentary style, finds documentary unnatural to him “because I don’t believe documents are documents, that they themselves are another version of unreality or imagination if you will.” Versions of narrative operating through time, recovery of intermingling voices.\n- Stories of family are important, especially relationships with uncles and aunts because there is a necessary closeness and separation (don’t have the binding structures found with parents).\n- Creative strategies: resisting authorized versions of Alberta (historical, political), recovering personal experience but mediated by words (oral tradition). A few words recover an entire narrative pattern.\n- Interruption and intervention: question of “what is a reader?” The reader has enormous body of narrative in their head which can be tapped into by process of intervention.\n- Influences: earlier texts use myths/stories. In Crow, attempt to let multiple narratives speak at once without privileging one. i.e. the perception of crows as negative in Western world, but is a smart, positive, trickster figure in Indigenous epistemologies.\n- Story doesn’t exist until it is in the reader’s mind? Robert Kroetsch has abandoned romantic notion of the writer/artist. Meta-textualism. \n- Brian: post-modern privileges the reader, reader is invited into the text. Robert Kroetsch: It is difficult and dangerous to be the reader, because reading is no longer a controlled experience, but allows for the reader to explore. There is a sense of play or discovery.\n- Structuring narrative through love and death. Behind comedy there is a notion of great mystery.\n- Plays with the stereotype of active male and passive female\n- The responsibilities of the writer, reader, and critic: It is a gift exchange that goes both ways between reader and writer. The critic extends the reading. Brian: Notion of ideal reading assumes ideal reader. Robert Kroetsch: agrees and resists the ideal reading, through the gift exchange has surrendered himself to the reader. There is no ideal context for reading.\n- Robert Kroetsch writes poetry by resisting poetry. Deprivileging the word and the role of the writer. An interest in language. Poetry is concerned with more than words (he compares this to prose). It is not because of the high rhetoric, but the greater ability to focus on the language.\n- What parts of Crow are distinctly Canadian? 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