Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English
Regional Literature
Encyclopedias
New Brunswick Literary Encyclopedia
Biographical, critical, and bibliographic information about more
than 150 New Brunswick writers and literary subjects. Also includes Acadian and Francophone
authors.
Bibliographies
Peel’s Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953
The revised and enlarged the previous, 1973 edition, this
bibliography is recognized as finest introduction to the literature of the Canadian Prairies.
Biographies
Writers of Newfoundland and Labrador: Twentieth Century
Concise biographies of authors, accopanied by synopses and samples
of their published work.
PR 9189.6 .D4 1985
Reference
History, Literary Interpretation & Criticism
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.
PR 9180.2 .O95 2016
Stacks
The Literary History of Alberta
Volume One, “From Writing-on-Stone to World War II”
explores the provincial identity as something distinct from region, nation, empire or world.
PR 9198.2 .A4 M44 1998
Stacks
Writing Alberta: Building on a Literary Identity
Bio-literary discussions of historical figures, high
and critical studies of single texts, including the works of Robert Kroetsch, Sheila Watson, Alice
Major, Fred Stenson, David Albahari, and Nestor Dmytrow.
New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in
the East
What is the relationship between literature and the society in which
it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during
periods of heightened literary activity? This book considers these questions and explores the
relationships between periods of creative ferment in New Brunswick and the socio-cultural
conditions of those times.
Unnamed Country: The Struggle for a Canadian Prairie Fiction
This book begins before the first prairie novel and traces the
growth of prairie fiction over the last century noting the influence of culture on man’s
reaction to the landscape.
Shaping a World Already Made: Landscape and Poetry of the Canadian
Prairies
Traci, a cultural geographer, explores how reading poetry influences
the way we see the Prairies.
Writing in the Time of Nationalism: From Two Solitudes to Blue Metropolis
Traces the history of Montreal as the literary centre of Quebec and
Toronto as the literary centre of English Canada.
PR 9189.6 .L45 2010
Stacks
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature
Focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the
Canadian North. Writers discussed include Robert Service, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, E.J.
Pratt, Marian Engel, Margaret Laurence and Gwendolyn MacEwan.
PR 9185.2 .A95 2004
Stacks
The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the
Atlantic
Bryant explores how colonized and Indigenous environments occupy the
same given geographical coordinates even while existing in distinct epistemological worlds through
the analysis of a wide range of northeastern texts, including Puritan captivity narratives,
Wabanaki wampum belts, and contemporary Innu poetry.
PR 9184.3 .B79 2017
Stacks
Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of
Atlantic-Canadian Literature
Explores how Atlantic-Canadian writers present a picture of the
region that is much more complex and less quaint than the stereotypes through which it is typically
viewed: Michael Winter, Lisa Moore, George Elliott Clarke, Rita Joe, Frank Barry, Shaun Comish,
and Bernice Morgan, among others.
PR 9198.2 .A8 W95 2011
Stacks
Imagining Toronto
Traces Toronto’s literary genealogies from their origins in
First Nations stories to present-day graphic novels and analyzes the portrayal of the city in local
literature.
PR 9198.3 .T67 H37 2010
Stacks
Jewish Roots, Canadian Soil: Yiddish Culture in Montreal, 1904–
1945
Examines the contributions of performers and other artists to the
Yiddish theatre and culture in Montreal in the first half of the twentieth century, with
consideration to the social landscape of the city.
F 1054.5 .M89 J563 2011
Stacks
Literary Journals
The Prairie Journal: A Magazine of Canadian Literature
An important regional outlet that publishes poetry, short fiction,
drama, literary criticism, reviews, bibliography, interviews, profiles and artwork. Selected works
are available on the journal’s web site.
updated by: Agatha Barc, 12 March 2018
originally compiled by: Irene Dutton, Alison Girling