The Canadian short story : interpretations / edited by Reingard M. Nischik.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nischik, Reingard M.

Series:

European studies in American literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Short stories, Canadian--History and criticism.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.

Canadian fiction.

Genre:

Short stories, Canadian.

Physical Description:

x, 426 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2007.

Summary:

The first anthology of critical interpretations of major Canadian short stories.

Contents:

The Canadian short story : status, crticism, historical survey / Reingard M. Nischik

Canadian animal stories : Charles G.D. Roberts, "Do seek their meat from God" (1892) / Martina Seifert

Tory humanism, ironic humor, and satire : Stephen Leacock, "The marine excursion of the Knights of Pythias" (1912) / Heinz Antor

The beginnings of Canadian modernism : Raymond Knister, "The first day of spring" (written 1924/25) / Julia Breitbach

From old world aestheticist immoralist to prairie moral realist : Frederick Philip Grove, "Snow" (1926/1932) / Konrad Groβ

Psychological realism, immigration, and city fiction : Morley Callaghan, "Last spring they came over" (1927) / Paul Goetsch

Modernism, prairie fiction, and gender : Sinclair Ross, "The lamp at noon" (1938) / Dieter Meindl

"An artful artlessness" : Ethel Wilson, "We have to sit opposite" (1945) / Nina Kück

Social realism and compassion for the underdog : Hugh Garner, "One-two-three little Indians" (1950) / Stefan Ferguson

The perils of human relationships : Joyce Marshall, "The old woman" (1952) / Rudolf Bader

The social critic at work : Mordecai Richler, "Benny, the war in Europe, and Myerson's daughter Bella" (1956) / Fabienne C. Quennet

Myth and the postmodernist turn in Canadian short fiction : Sheila Watson, "Antigone" (1959) / Martin Kuester

The modernist aesthetic : Hugh Hood, "Flying a red kite" (1962) / Jutta Zimmermann

Doing well in the international thing? : Mavis Gallant, "The ice wagon going down the street" (1963) / Silvia Mergenthal

(Un-)doing gender : Alice Munro, "Boys and girls" (1964) / Reingard M. Nischik

Collective memory and personal identity in the prairie town of Manawaka : Margaret Laurence, "The loons" (1966) / Caroline Rosenthal

"Out of place" : Clark Blaise, "A class of new Canadians" (1970) / Wolfgang Klooβ

Realism and parodic postmodernism : Audrey Thomas, "Aquarius" (1971) / Lothar Hönnighausen

"The problem is to make the story" : Rudy Wiebe, "Where is the voice coming from?" (1971) / Heinz Ickstadt

The Canadian writer as expatriate : Norman Levine, "We all begin in a little magazine" (1972) / Gordon Bölling

Canadian artist stories : John Metcalf, "The strange aberration of Mr. Ken Smythe" (1973) / Reingard M. Nischik

"A literature of a whole world and of a real world" : Jane Rule, "Lilian" (1977) / Christina Strobel

Failure as liberation : Jack Hodgins, "The concert stages of Europe" (1978) / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

Figures in a landscape : William Dempsey Valgardson, "A matter of balance" (1982) / Maria and Martin Löschnigg

"The translation of the world into words" and the female tradition : Margaret Atwood, "Significant moments in the life of my mother" (1983) / Reingard M. Nischik

"Southern preacher" : Leon Rooke, "The woman who talked to horses" (1984) / Nadja Gernalzick

Nativeness as third space : Thomas King, "Borders" (1991) / Eva Gruber

Digressing to inner worlds : Carol Shields, "Our men and women" (1999) / Brigitte Glaser

A sentimental journey : Janice Kulyk Keefer, "Dreams: storms: dogs" (1999) / Georgiana Banita.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781571131270

1571131272

OCLC:

74964652