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"The search for the 'Great Canadian Novel' has long continued throughout our history. Controversially, to say the least, Gerald Lynch maintains that a version of it may already have been written - as a great Canadian short story cycle. In this unique text, the author provides a fascinating literary-historical survey and genre study of the English-Canadian short story cycle - the literary form that occupies the middle ground between short stories and novels. This wide-ranging volume has much to say about the continuing relationship between place and identity in Canadian literature and culture." "Initially, using Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town for illustrative purposes, Lynch discusses two definitive features of short story cycles: the ways in which their form conveys meaning and the paramount function of their concluding - or 'return' - stories. Lynch then devotes five discrete but related chapters to six Canadian short story cycles, spanning some one hundred years from Duncan Campbell Scott to Thomas King, and tracing some surprising continuities in this distinctive genre. A number of the works are discussed extensively for the first time within the tradition of the Canadian short story cycle, which has never before been accorded book-length study. This engaging and intelligent volume will be of interest to the general reader as well as specialists in Canadian literature."--Jacket
820 <71> --- 820-32 --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle --- 820-32 Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Canadian fiction --- Cycles (Literature) --- Short stories, Canadian --- Canadian short stories --- Literature --- Sequels (Literature) --- History and criticism --- Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Canada --- Cycles (Literature). --- History and criticism. --- Englisch. --- Kanada --- Dominion of Canada --- Puissance du Canada --- Kanadier --- Provinz Kanada --- 01.07.1867 --- -Short stories, Canadian --- -Fiction
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From the preface: "Stephen Leacock is still often regarded as a writer of lightweight amusements and unchallenging satire, as an author without an imaginative centre who lacked a vision of sufficient power and clarity to sustain a lifetime of serious writing. According to this view, which has been too easily received, Leacock squandered an early, promising talent (though he was in fact, middle-aged when he published Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town in 1912), and consequently his writings, like his legendary Lord Ronald, "rode madly off in all directions." After years of chasing down Leacock's numerous literary mounts, I can assert that none of this is true. Leacock's writing emerges from a centre that is the confluence of the two traditions of humanism and toryism, traditions that found in Leacock fertile ground for the propagation of such qualities as tolerance of human fallibility and acceptance of social responsibility. What is remarkable with respect to Leacock's literary output is that even his furthest-flung, seemingly inconsequential humourous pieces move in relation to this tory-humanist centre." Lynch invites us to accompany him on an odyssey through Leacock's two main works, Sunshine Sketches and Arcadian Adventures of the Idle Rich . He aspires to enlighten the open-minded reader, and is highly successful in doing so." Elspeth Cameron, Coordinator of Canadian Literature and Language Program, New College, University of Toronto
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The tarnished reputation of this turn-of-the-century poet is persuasively burnished anew by fifteen scholars, editors, and poets.
Carman, Bliss, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Canada --- In literature. --- Canadian literature.
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A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, told by one of its workers.
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Canadian critics and scholars, along with a growing number from around the world, have long recognized the achievements of Canadian short story writers. However, these critics have tended to view the Canadian short story as a historically recent phenomenon. This reappraisal corrects this mistaken view by exploring the literary and cultural antecedents of the Canadian short story.
Nouvelles canadiennes-anglaises --- Short stories, Canadian (English) --- Histoire et critique. --- History and criticism. --- 820 <71> --- 820-32 --- 820-32 Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle --- Engelse literatuur: kort verhaal; novelle --- 820 <71> Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Engelse literatuur--Canada --- Short stories, Canadian --- Canadian literature
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Human rights --- Police-community relations --- Police ethics --- Police psychology --- Police social work --- Police --- Attitudes
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Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings.
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