Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English
Fiction
Anthologies
Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island
A range of Indigenous stories from across Turtle Island (North
America): short fiction, narratives, illustrated stories, and personal essays. This collection
explores core concepts in Indigenous literary expression, such as the relations between land,
language, and community.
Ten Canadian Writers in Context
A survey of some of the most diverse and powerful voices in
contemporary Canadian literature from Newfoundland to British Columbia.
Each piece is accompanied by a concise critical essay addressing the author’s writerly
preoccupations and practices.
Canadian Literature in English: Texts and Contexts
The anthology includes important fiction and nonfiction by both
canonical and non-canonical Canadian authors, published since the sixteenth century to 1920:
Jan van der Straet, Joseph Brant (Thayendanegea), Oliver Goldsmith, Emily Murphy, and others.
PR9184.3 .S93
2009
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The Search for English-Canadian Literature
An anthology of literary and poetic interpretations and
criticisms from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries reflecting the major issues in
the search for a distinctive literature in Canada during this time period.
The volumes includes articles by prominent poets, authors, and
critics: Duncan Campbell Scott, Sara Jeannette Duncan, J.D. Logan, Pelham Edgar, Thomas D’Arcy McGee, G. Mercer Adam, J.D. Robins, Raymond Knister, Goldwin Smith, and many others.
PR 9184.6 .S4
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Women’s Writing in Canada
A comprehensive anthology containing excerpts from fiction,
filmmaking, poetry, song-writing, drama, and non-fiction, memoirs, autobiographies, comic
books, and cookbooks.
The works in the anthology were selected to illustrate disruptive feminist practices that
transformed cultural life in Canada and the tensions of colonial society.
Black Writers Matter
An anthology of African-Canadian writing, it offers a
cross-section of established writers and newcomers to the literary world who tackle
contemporary and pressing issues with prose.
All contributions are written from the first-person perspectve
and include writings by Simone Makeba Dalton, Cason Sharpe, Rowan McCandless, Phillip Dwight
Morgan, Fatuma Adar, Whitney French, Christina Brobby, and others.
Literary Titans Revisited: the Earle Toppings Interviews with
CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties
In 1969 and 1970, Toppings recorded sixteen prominent Canadian
writers and poets, including Margaret Laurence, Sinclair Ross, Hugh Garner, and Al Purdy,
captured in in the interviews and accompanying readings, giving insight into their prose and
poetry.
This book porvides transcripts of the spoken interviews,
complemented by brief biographies and bibliographies.
PR 9189.6 .T66
2017
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Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks
Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada
Discusses literature in English and French, and also in such
other languages as Yiddish, Spanish, Haida and Cree; authors and their work; related literary
and social issues; professional institutions that play a role in the lives of Canadian
writers; and the major historical and cultural events that have shaped Canada. Although the
volume was published in 2002, it is highly recommended.
The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature
A comprehensive, authoritative guide to many different genres,
topics, and aspects of Canadian literary history, including the
influence of literature on the Canadian national identity, authorship, postcolonialism, short
story, drama, poetry, Indigenous literatures, women’s writing, children’s
literature, gay and lesbian literature, creative work from the Confederation period, regional
fiction, and minority writers.
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
A comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and
topics in Canadian literature: fiction, drama, and poetry, Aboriginal writing, autobiography,
literary criticism, writing by women, urban writing, nature-writing, exploration and
travel-writing, and short fiction.
The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
An abridged, streamlined version of the 1998 work, Oxford
Companion to Canadian Literature, containing entries for individual writers, genres, and
themes of Canadian literature. Includes a list of Governor General Literary Award winners.
PR 9180.2 .C66
2011
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The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
A complete English-language history of Canadian writing in
English and French from its beginnings, with an emphasis on literary, poetic, and dramatic
works published since the 1960s.
Analyzes the emergence of multicultural and Indigenous
writing, popular literature, nature-writing, life-writing, and the interaction of anglophone
and francophone cultures throughout Canadian history.
Reference Sources for Canadian Literary Studies
An extensive bibliography to Canadian literature in English.
Here you will find annotated references to dictionaries, handbooks, bibliographies,
anthologies, special collections and archival guides, information about literary periodicals,
dissertations and theses, works in translation, databases, web sites, children’s
literature, and small literary press publications.
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2005
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The Oxford Illustrated Literary Guide to Canada
Includes places associated with specific writers and depicted
in Canadian poems and novels. A regional arrangement with individual chapters for each
province and the territories.
PR 9187 .M67
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reviewed & updated 20 May 2021 | compiled by Agatha Barc, MI