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The Canadian Short Story
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 ...
The Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories
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.
Canadian Short Stories
This selection concentrates on writers whose work belongs to the 1950s and 1960s.
New Women
New Women is an anthology of short fiction written by Canadian women between 1900 and 1920. The carefully selected stories by writers such as L.M. Montgomery, Nellie McClung, and Marjorie Pickthall provide dramatic and imaginative glimpses of Canadian society and of the women who lived during those momentous years.
The Oxford Book of Canadian Short Stories in English
Arranged chronologically from the nineteenth century to the present with forty stories in all, this anthology includes a story by Atwood herself ("The Sin Eater"), as well as stories by Morley Callaghan, Mavis Gallant, Margaret Laurence, Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Jane Rule, Guy Vanderhaeghe, and many others. Drawing together some of the greatest stories in the English language, it also features biographical notes and an index of authors.
Canadian Short Stories, Fifth Series
This collection contains stories by seventeen writers. Works by internationally acclaimed authors appear alongside stories both by younger writers and by writers whose native or non-Canadian heritage is introducing new strains into the noble tradition of the Canadian short story.
The One and the Many
This wide-ranging volume has much to say about the continuing relationship between place and identity in Canadian literature and culture.".
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