The Canadian Short Story : Interpretations /: Interpretations. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Reingard M. Nischik, Heinz Antor, Heinz Ickstadt, Julia Breitbach, Jutta Zimmermann, Konrad Gross, Lothar Honnighausen, Maria Loschnigg, Martin Kuester, Martin Loschnigg, Martina Seifert, Brigitte Glaser, Nadja Gernalzick, Nina Kuck, Paul Goetsch, Reingard M. Nischik, Rudolf Bader, Silvia Mergenthal, Stefan Ferguson, Waldemar Zacharasiewicz, Wolfgang Klooss, Caroline Rosenthal, Christina Strobel, Dieter Meindl, Eva Gruber, Fabienne C. Quennet, Georgiana Banita, Gordon Bolling.
• Editors: Nischik, Reingard M
• Other Names: Antor, Heinz contributor.; Ickstadt, Heinz contributor.; Breitbach, Julia contributor.; Zimmermann, Jutta contributor.; Gross, Konrad contributor.; Hönnighausen, Lothar contributor.; Löschnigg, Maria contributor.; Kuester, Martin contributor.; Löschnigg, Martin contributor.; Seifert, Martina contributor.; Glaser, Brigitte contributor.; Gernalzick, Nadja contributor.; Kuck, Nina contributor.; Goetsch, Paul contributor.; Nischik, Reingard M contributor.; Bader, Rudolf contributor.; Mergenthal, Silvia contributor.; Ferguson, Stefan contributor.; Zacharasiewicz, Waldemar contributor.; Klooss, Wolfgang contributor.; Rosenthal, Caroline contributor.; Strobel, Christina contributor.; Meindl, Dieter contributor.; Gruber, Eva contributor.; Quennet, Fabienne C contributor.; Banita, Georgiana contributor.; Bölling, Gordon contributor.
• Contents: The Canadian Short Story: Status, Criticism, 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" (1926/32) - Konrad Gross; 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 Kuck; 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 Klooss; Realsim and Parodic Postmodernism: Audrey Thomas, "Aquarius" (1971) - Lothar Honnighausen; "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 Bolling; 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 Loschnigg; Figures in a Landscape: William Dempsey Valgardson, "A Matter of Balance" (1982) - Martin Loschnigg; "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; Further Reading on the Canadian Short Story; Time Chart: The Short Story in the USA, Canada, and Great Britain; Notes on the Contributors; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Rochester : Camden House
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (436 pages)
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Short Stories; Literary companions
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781571136886; 1571136886
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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