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Contemporary Canadian fiction / editor, Carol L. Beran, Saint Mary's College of California.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beran, Carol L.
- Series:
- Critical insights.
- Critical insights
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Canadian fiction--20th century--History and criticism.
- Canadian fiction.
- Canadian fiction--21st century--History and criticism.
- Canada--In fiction.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxvii, 245 pages).
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press ; Amenia, NY : Grey Hosue Publishing, [2014]
- Summary:
- This volume addresses the key authors and works in contemporary Canadian fiction. Essays survey the critical conversation regarding these works, explore the cultural and historical contexts, and offer comparative readings of key texts in the genre. Readers seeking a deeper understanding of the themes can explore them in depth through a variety of critical approaches.
- Contents:
- Perceptions of contemporary Canadian fiction / Carol L. Beran
- A literary, sociocultural, and political timeline for Canada and the United States, 1960-2013 / Rita Ross
- Learning how to read in Atwood's MaddAddam / Sharon R. Wilson
- Cultural heroines and Canadian imaginaries : Evangeline and Anne / Rita Ross
- MacLeod's men / Shannon Hengen
- Race roulette : hierarchy, hypersexuality, and hyperbole in Marie-Célie Agnant's The book of Emma and Dany Laferriére's How to make love to a negro without getting tired / Holly L. Collins
- Margaret Atwood's comedy : the fat lady and the gendered body in Lady oracle / Charlotte Templin
- Alice Munro's 1994 "A wilderness station" : storytelling and retelling of historic, biblical, gothic, and Grimm stories / Judith McCombs
- Analogical structure in the novels of Jane Urquhart / Patricia Linton
- "By mistake" : Larry Weller as 'The stone guest' in Carol Shields' novel Larry's party / Nora Foster Stovel
- Listening and loving : reading Margaret Laurence's The diviners / Carol L. Beran
- Riding the waves : Aritha van Herk's Restlessness / Mary K. Kirtz
- Naming and becoming : finding love in the Klondike / Aritha van Herk
- Understanding a father's pain in Madeleine Thien's "Simple recipes" / Janice Fiamengo.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781619254169
- 1619254166
- OCLC:
- 897466918
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