[PDF] The English Short Story In Canada eBook

Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 43,40 MB
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476668590

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In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused international attention on a genre that had long been thriving in Canada, particularly since the 1960s. This book traces the development and highlights of the English-language Canadian short story from the late 19th century up to the present. The history as well as the theoretical approaches to the genre are covered, with in-depth examination of exemplary stories by prominent writers such as Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.

Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571131270

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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.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 35,12 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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Arranged chronologically with forty stories in all, the book provides an excellent survey of Canada's leading writers, including a story by Atwood herself ("The Sin Eater"), as well as stories by Morley Callaghan ("Last Spring They Came Over"), Mordecai Richler ("The Summer My Grandmother Was Supposed to Die"), and Stephen Leacock ("The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias"). The book features biographical notes and an index of authors.

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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A survey of Canada's leading writers features forty-seven stories, with new pieces by writers in the original Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories. Included are short stories by W. P. Kinsella, Morley Callaghan, Timothy Findlay, Matt Cohen, Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood.

Author : Richard Teleky
Publisher : Brantford : W. Ross Macdonald School, 1985. (Toronto : CNIB)
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 25,71 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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The first major historical collection of French-Canadian short stories in translation, spanning a century and a half, this anthology offers twenty-two stories that will entertain, charm, and often disturb. At the same time they reveal the development of the French-Canadian short-story form, and present many of the leading writers of French Canada.

Author : Jane Urquhart
Publisher : Penguin Books Canada
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 48,67 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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This stunning collection of 60 stories--over a century's worth of the best Canadian literature by an extraordinary array of our finest writers--has been selected and is introduced by award-winning writer Jane Urquhart. Urquhart's selection includes stories by major literary figures such as Mavis Gallant, Carol Shields, Alistair MacLeod, and Margaret Atwood, and wonderful stories by younger writers, including Dennis Bock, Joseph Boyden, and Madeleine Thien. This collection is uniquely organized into five parts: the immigrant experience, urban life, family drama, fantasy and metaphor, and celebrating the past.

Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,81 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476628076

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In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused international attention on a genre that had long been thriving in Canada, particularly since the 1960s. This book traces the development and highlights of the English-language Canadian short story from the late 19th century up to the present. The history as well as the theoretical approaches to the genre are covered, with in-depth examination of exemplary stories by prominent writers such as Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.

Author : Donna Bennett
Publisher : Pearson Longman/Penguin Academics
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 26,98 MB
Release : 2005
Category : College readers
ISBN : 9780321248503

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Canadian Short Stories is an exciting collection of both old and new. The 39 stories place the historic writers of the short story in Canada alongside both established living writers and new practitioners of the form.

Author : Frances Brooke
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 38,73 MB
Release : 2010-04-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551993732

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This charming love story captures the lives of Quebec City’s early English-speaking inhabitants, the Québécois, and the Native people, in the decade between Wolfe’s victory on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and the American War of Independence in the 1770s. First published in 1769, The History of Emily Montague, which brings the 18th-century novel into a New World context, is rightly called Canada’s – indeed North America’s – first novel.