Canadian Literature and Poetry in English

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.

A collection of sixty stories by Mavis Gallant, Carol Shields, Alistair MacLeod, and Margaret Atwood, Dennis Bock, Joseph Boyden, and Madeleine Thien.

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.

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.

PR9194.5 .B55 B527 2020
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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.

A comprehensive, authoritative guide to many different genres, topics, and aspects of Canadian literary history, including short stories.

PR9180.2 .O95 2016
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A comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature, including short fiction.

PR9184.3 .C34 2017
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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.

PR9184.6 .C26 2009
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

Canadian short-story writers provide short articles on how they write short stories and approach literary theory.

PR9192.52 H68 1993
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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.

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.

PR9084 .T76 2007
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