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Author | : Mavis Gallant |
Publisher | : New Canadian Library |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2011-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1551996324 |
Internationally celebrated as among the finest stories written in English today, Mavis Gallant's fiction offers a penetrating and powerful vision of contemporary human relationships in Europe and North America. The Moslem Wife and Other Stories brings together eleven of Gallant's best stories from over three decades. These embody the beauty, irony, and compassion of a master writer's fictional universe. Amid the complex perceptions of the past that haunt her characters, Gallant deploys her sharp comic eye to superb effect: in the figures who move through her stories, we catch troubling, fleeting glimpses of our own lives. Selected and with an afterword by Mordecai Richler.
Author | : Reingard M. Nischik |
Publisher | : Camden House |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781571131270 |
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 range of thirty well-known and often-anthologized Canadian short stories from the genre's beginnings through the twentieth century. A historical survey of the genre introduces the volume and a timeline comparing the genre's development in Canada, the US, and Great Britain via representative examples completes it. The collection is geared both to specialists in and to students of Canadian literature. For the latter it is of particular benefit that the volume provides not only a collection of interpretations, but a comprehensive introduction to the history of the Canadian short story. Reingard M. Nischik is professor and chair of American Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.
Author | : Lesley Hazleton |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Islam |
ISBN | : 1594487286 |
Muhammad's was a life of almost unparalleled historical importance; yet for all the iconic power of his name, the intensely dramatic story of the prophet of Islam is not well known. In The First Muslim, Lesley Hazleton brings him vibrantly to life. Drawing on early eyewitness sources and on history, politics, religion, and psychology, she renders him as a man in full, in all his complexity and vitality. Hazleton's account follows the arc of Muhammad's rise from powerlessness to power, from anonymity to renown, from insignificance to lasting significance. How did a child shunted to the margins end up revolutionizing his world? How did a merchant come to challenge the established order with a new vision of social justice? How did the pariah hounded out of Mecca turn exile into a new and victorious beginning? How did the outsider become the ultimate insider?
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Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : American fiction |
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Author | : Lesley Diana Clement |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 0773520414 |
In Learning to Look Lesley Clement traces the evolution of Mavis Gallant's visually evocative style through five decades of her short fictional works. Gallant explores the boundaries between visible and invisible worlds as the lines, shapes, and colours suggested by her allusions, analogies, and structures challenge us as readers.
Author | : Hugh Hood |
Publisher | : New Canadian Library |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"Selected and with an Afterword by John Metcalf" In Hugh Hood's electrifying and elusive stories, apparently placid surfaces conceal violent emotions and human failures. This book brings together 12 of Hood's best stories, including "The Small Birds," "Flying a Red Kite," and "Le Grand Demenagement." Written over three decades, the stories explore ordinary human behaviour and the moral order we constantly seek. Hood's achievement is to moralize without judging, to balance his insight into human failings with his expansive sympathy for people and their plight. This is an original New Canadian Library collection.
Author | : Stephen John Hornsby |
Publisher | : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780773528659 |
A wide-reaching, inter-disciplinary examination of the links between New England and the Maritimes.
Author | : Charles Foran |
Publisher | : Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | : 802 |
Release | : 2011-07-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0676979653 |
Foran's book is the first major biography with access to family letters and archives: the definitive, detailed, intimate portrait of Mordecai Richler, the lion of Canadian literature, and the turbulent, changing times that nurtured him. It is also an extraordinary love story that lasted half a century. Mordecai Richler won multiple Governor General's Literary Awards, the Giller Prize, the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, among others, as well as many awards for his children's books. He also wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. In Mordecai, award-winning novelist and journalist Charles Foran brings to the page the richness of Mordecai's life as young bohemian, irreverent writer, passionate and controversial Canadian, loyal friend and deeply romantic lover. He explores Mordecai's distraught childhood, and gives us the "portrait of a marriage"—the lifelong love affair with Florence, with Mordecai as beloved father of five. The portrait is alive and intimate—warts and all.
Author | : John Sturrock |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Literature, Modern |
ISBN | : 9780192833181 |
opinion, the Guide offers a discriminating - and sometimes controversial - view of a broad range of contemporary literatures.
Author | : Mavis Gallant |
Publisher | : Emblem Editions |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2011-06-22 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1551996278 |
Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes to the south of France for the sake of the father’s health, and to get away from an England of rationing and poverty. A displaced person turned French soldier in Algeria now makes a living as an actor in Paris. A group of selfish English expatriates on the Italian Riviera are incredulous that Mussolini and the Germans may affect their lives. A great writer’s quiet widow blossoms in widowhood, to the surprise and alarm of her children, who send a ten-year-old grandson to Switzerland to keep her company one Christmas. Full of wry humour and penetrating insights, this is Mavis Gallant at her most unforgettable.