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Publisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 9781550503890
Category : Women
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Ratna Omidvar and Dana Wagner
Publisher: Between the Lines
ISBN: 1771132302
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Publisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 1550504541
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Author: Janet Louise Swoboda Lunn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780545996167
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 116

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Author: John Metcalf
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 177196085X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 567

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No other person has done more to celebrate and encourage the short story in Canada than John Metcalf. For more than five decades he has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher to help shape our understanding of the form and what it can do. The long-time editor of the yearly Best Canadian Stories anthology, as well as a fiction editor at some of the pre-eminent literary presses in the country for more than forty years, he has worked to support and champion several generations of our best writers. Literature in Canada would be far less without his efforts. Sifting through a lifetime of reading, writing, and thinking about the short story in this country, and where it fits within the larger currents of world literature, Metcalf’s magisterial The Canadian Short Story offers the most authoritative book on the subject to date. Most importantly, it includes an expanded and reconsidered Century List, Metcalf’s critical guide to the best Canadian short story collections of the last 100 years. But more than a critical book, The Canadian Short Story is a love-letter to the form, a passionate defense of the best of our literature, and a championing of those books and writers most often over-looked. It is a guide not only to what to read, but also one, its author’s most fervent desire, which aims to make better readers of us all.

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Publisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 1550504274
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Author: Amy Newmark
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1611599687
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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A collection of anecdotes about Canada from the people who love Canada and everything it represents.

Author: Gail Youngberg
Publisher: Coteau Books
ISBN: 9781550502046
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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"The history of women in Canada is one of starting out struggling to feed and clothe their families and ending up writing the great Canadian novel. Inspiring Women charts women's course from subsistence to cultural production.

Author: David Staines
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108304702
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323

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A History of Canadian Fiction is the first one-volume history to chart its development from earliest times to the present day. Recounting the struggles and the glories of this burgeoning area of investigation, it explains Canada's literary growth alongside its remarkable history. Highlighting the people who have shaped and are shaping Canadian literary culture, the book examines such major figures as Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Thomas King, concluding with young authors of today whose major successes reflect their indebtedness to their Canadian forbearers.

Author: Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571131270
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 442

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Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has become Canada's flagship genre. It continues to attract the country's most accomplished and innovative writers today, among them Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, and many others. Yet in contrast to the stature and popularity of the genre and the writers who partake in it, surprisingly little literary criticism and theory has been devoted to the Canadian short story. This collection redresses that imbalance by providing the first collection of critical interpretations of a range of thirty well-known and often-anthologized Canadian short stories from the genre's beginnings through the twentieth century. A historical survey of the genre introduces the volume and a timeline comparing the genre's development in Canada, the US, and Great Britain via representative examples completes it. The collection is geared both to specialists in and to students of Canadian literature. For the latter it is of particular benefit that the volume provides not only a collection of interpretations, but a comprehensive introduction to the history of the Canadian short story. Reingard M. Nischik is professor and chair of American Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.