Twenty-Five Years

Peers, E. Allison

doi:10.3828/bhs.25.100.199

Bulletin of Hispanic Studies

1948

DOI: 10.3828/bhs.25.100.199

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Twenty-Five Years

E. Allison Peers¹

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“…14 His 'Columbus-and a Biography' (1925) revealed an early interest in the New World. 15 In four 'Studies in Literary Decadence' (1927), which were still remembered with admiration twenty years later by the Bulletin's founder-editor as 'a striking series of articles', 16 he discussed, in turn, three major Golden-Age literary genres: 'The Picaresque Novel', 'La comedia de capa y espada' and 'The Pastoral Novel'. 17 These articles show a scholar with the gift for elucidating the principal directions taken in Spanish literary history, and with the courage to be critical of the genres he studied when he perceived criticism to be justified.…”

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Introduction II: William C. Atkinson (1902–1992) Scholar of Spain, Portugal and Latin America

Mackenzie

2018

Bulletin of Spanish Studies

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A pioneering Hispanist who was to ensure that not only Spain but Portugal and Latin America would become subjects of major study at universities in the United Kingdom, William Christopher Atkinson was born in Belfast on 9 August 1902, son of Robert Joseph Atkinson, schoolmaster and his wife Rachel (née Abraham). He attended Woodvale National School and the Methodist College, Belfast and was awarded several entrance scholarships, including a Belfast City Scholarship, to Queen's University Belfast, where he studied in the Department headed by Ignacio González-Llubera. He was to become the first professor of our discipline in the British Isles to have read Spanish as an undergraduate. He graduated with a First Class Honours BA in French and Spanish in June 1924. His degree results were so outstanding that he was awarded the Henry Hutchinson-Stewart Literary Scholarship for being the best graduate of his year in Modern Languages (including English). This scholarship enabled him to spend a full year in Spain studying for a postgraduate degree and getting to know the country and its people. 1 Based at Madrid, besides taking courses at the University, he did research at the Biblioteca Nacional and various other libraries, and completed his thesis for a research MA, awarded by Queen's University Belfast in June 1925. His thesis dealt with the important but until then scarcely studied sixteenth-century Spanish humanist, Hernán Pérez de Oliva. 2 By the time he was appointed Lecturer in charge of the 1 Some account is given of his year in Madrid, 1924-1925, in

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Introduction II: William C. Atkinson (1902–1992) Scholar of Spain, Portugal and Latin America

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2018

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Politicking for Postwar Modernism: The Architectural Research Group of Ottawa and Montreal

Valen¹

2017

Urban History Review

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The diffusion of modernist principles in Canadian building and planning occurred through many channels, but among these the Architectural Research Group of Ottawa and Montreal played a crucial role. Formed in 1938 to conduct research into postwar reconstruction, the group produced articles, radio addresses, and exhibitions in an effort to nurture modernist sentiment across the country. For these young architects, the federal government’s commitment to replanning and rebuilding postwar Canadian cities presented them with an opportunity to intervene in the future of Canadian practice. They decried the “backwardness” of conservative practitioners while promoting the ideas of a European avant-garde and orchestrating numerous transatlantic exchanges. This article discusses the group’s role in politicking for architectural and urban modernism, as well as the contributions of some of its key members. It shows that Canadian professionals were not simply passive receptors of international modernism but played an active part in shaping these ideas during the immediate postwar period, and that Canada’s federal government played a unique role in accelerating this process by allowing modernist architects and planners to operate within and through a number of government-sponsored agencies.

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Politicking for Postwar Modernism: The Architectural Research Group of Ottawa and Montreal

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2018

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Twenty-Five Years

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Introduction II: William C. Atkinson (1902–1992) Scholar of Spain, Portugal and Latin America

Introduction II: William C. Atkinson (1902–1992) Scholar of Spain, Portugal and Latin America

Politicking for Postwar Modernism: The Architectural Research Group of Ottawa and Montreal

Politicking for Postwar Modernism: The Architectural Research Group of Ottawa and Montreal

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