The Canadian short story : interpretations

• Other Authors: Nischik, Reingard M.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2007.
• Series: European studies in American literature and culture.
• Subjects: Short stories, Canadian > History and criticism.; Canadian fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.; Authors, Canadian > Biography.; Kanada; Englisch.; 1900-1999; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781571136886; 9781571131270
• Physical Description: 1 online zdroj (x, 426 stran).

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 in...

Table of 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" (1926/1932) / 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 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 Kloo
• 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.