Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English
Poetry
Anthologies
The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories
A collection of sixty stories by Mavis Gallant, Carol Shields,
Alistair MacLeod, and Margaret Atwood, Dennis Bock, Joseph Boyden, and Madeleine Thien.
PR 9197.32 .P455 2007
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The Penguin Book of Contemporary Canadian Women’s Short Stories
Includes stories published between the 1980s and the early
twenty-first century from Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Carol Shields, Mavis Gallant, Jane
Urquhart, Jacqueline Baker, Bonnie Burnard, Lynn Coady, Camilla Gibb, Eden Robinson, and Madeleine
Thien.
PR 9197.33 .W65 P45 2006
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The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada’s Best
Writers
The stories in this collection all take place in Vancouver. Pauline
Johnson, Emily Carr, Alice Munro, Ethel Wilson and Malcolm Lowry, William Gibson, Timothy Taylor,
Zsuzsi Gartner, and Madeline Thien.
PR 9198.3 .V3 V36 2005
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Biographies
Literature Online
A database of English and American poetry, drama and prose. It
includes texts, secondary criticism, bibliographies, links to internet sites and video clips of
poets reading.
Bibliographies
Short Story Index
Includes citations as well as bibliographical and publication
information pertaining to short stories. The database can be search by a specific title of a short
story, author, subject, and keyword.
A Comprehensive Bibliography of English-Canadian Short Stories, 1950–1983
Main section of the work (Part Two) is a Canadian author index,
listing short stories published in both large and small circulation magazines, anthologies, and
story collections. Part One lists the cited publications and Part Three is a title index.
Z 1377 .F4 W44 1988
Reference
History, Literary Interpretation & Criticism: Online Sources
Short Story Criticism
Entries provide an introductory biographical essay of short-story
writers, a primary bibliography, a selection of full-text or excerpted critical essays reproduced
from books, magazines, literary reviews, newspapers and scholarly journals. Also provide sources
for additional research.
Literature Online
A database of English and American poetry, drama and prose. It
includes texts, secondary criticism,bibliographies, links to internet sites and video clips of
poets reading.
History, Literary Interpretation & Criticism: Books
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
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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.
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 Canadian Short Story
Metcalf, an editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher, has written an authoritative book on the place of short stories in the
Canadian literary canon. It also includes an expanded and reconsidered “Century List”, Metcalf’s critical guide to the best Canadian short story
collections of the last one hundred years.
PR 9192.52 .M47 2018
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The English Short Story in Canada: From the Dawn of Modernism to the 2013 Nobel Prize
Traces the development and highlights of the Canadian short story from the late nineteenth century up to the present. The history
and theoretical approaches to the genre are covered, with in-depth examination of exemplary stories by prominent writers, such as Margaret Atwood, Thomas King,
John Metcalf, and Alice Munro.
PR 9192.52 .N576 2017
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How Stories Mean
Canadian short-story writers provide short articles on how they
write short stories and cope with literary theory.
The Canadian Short Story: Interpretations
An anthology of critical interpretations of major Canadian short
stories, composed by Charles G.D. Roberts, Stephen Leacock, Raymond Knister, Frederick Philip
Grove, Morley Callaghan, Sinclair Ross, Ethel Wilson, Hugh Garner, Mordecai Richler, Sheila Watson,
Thomas King, and Carol Shields, among others.
PR 9192.52 .C36 2007
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Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story: Birdsell, Findley, Hodgins, King, MacLeod, Senior, Shields, Vanderhaeghe
A comparative study of eight nationally and internationally-acclaimed Canadian short story writers in English: Sandra Birdsell,
Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. Drawing on narratological and formalist theory,
including an interpretation of Bakhtin’s important discussion of the “dialogical” nature of fiction, the author examines the multiple ways and
means whereby this “double-voicing” manifests itself in the authors’ stories.
PR 9192.52 .K77 2016
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The Voice is the Story: Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short
Fiction
Kruk is interested in the “voice” in the short story,
she follows this theme in her interviews with ten writers who in many cases write longer fiction as
well. Following the conversations, there are short notes on each author and the interviews are
indexed. Carol Shields, “Inhabiting the World”; Timothy Findley, “I Want Edge”; Alistair MacLeod, “The World is Full of Exiles.”
PR 9192.52 .K78 2003
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The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism
A collection of essays written by scholars from various disciplines
who investigate the geographical, sociological, political, economic, literary, and cultural
implications attached to the concept of the Canadian mosaic in an age of mobility and
globalization. Includes a chapter on short fiction composed by First Nations and Chinese Canadian
writers.
PR 9189.7 .C36 2010
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Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian
Writing in Context
Analyzes the influence of postcolonial criticism on the reading,
writing, and status of short fiction: Métis narratives, Maori myth, and stories by Alice Munro,
Salman Rushdie, Alistair MacLeod, Mavis Gallant, Emily Carr, and Thomas King.
PR 9084 .T76 2007
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updated by: Agatha Barc, 9 May 2019
originally compiled by: Irene Dutton, Alison Girling