Canadian Literature & Poetry
in English
Short Stories
Anthologies
My Home as I Remember
An edited anthology comprising poetry, short stories, and
artwork created by First Nations, Inuit and Métis women across Canada and the United States,
including contributions from New Zealand and Mexico.
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
Stacks
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
Stacks
The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology
An comprehensive anthology of fiction and nonfiction writings by
Black authors from the Prairies, from nineteenthth-century fur traders to avant-garde writers
of the present day.
Includes correspondence, memoirs, excerpts from autobiographies
political treatises and writings, photographs, interviews, short stories, poems and other types
of writing from Daniel T. Williams, Mildred Jane Lewis Ware, George Washington Slater, Jr.
Lawrence Hill, Esi Edugyan, Miranda Martini, and other contributors.
The Vancouver Stories: West Coast Fiction from Canada’s Best
Writers
The stories in this collection take place in Vancouver
and are written by 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
Stacks
Encyclopedias, Dictionaries & Handbooks
The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature
A comprehensive, authoritative guide to many different genres,
topics, and aspects of Canadian literary history, including short stories.
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
A comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics
in Canadian literature, including short fiction.
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, including short fiction.
Bibliographies
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
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
Stacks
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
Stacks
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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How Stories Mean
Canadian short-story writers provide short articles on how they
write short stories and approach literary theory.
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
Stacks
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.
reviewed & updated 20 May 2021 | compiled by Agatha Barc, MI