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Essential Writers Series
Dedicated to individual writers. Every title is edited by a guest editor and contains essays by different critics, scholars, and colleagues, an in-depth interview, and biographical notes. Ideal tools for students and anyone interested in the work of write
Compulsive Acts explores the films, plays and personality of prolific playwright, novelist, filmmaker and poet...
The ten essays included in this volume address the themes of immigration, migration, and history...
This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir, “Alice Munro: Not Bad Short Story...
A master of magic realism Jack Hodgins has set his novels in rural Vancouver Island...
Cultural activist, teacher and editor Maria Mazziotti Gillan is one of the leaders of the...
Al Purdy struggled initially as a poet, yet persevered and thrived along with his burgeoning...
This book of essays examines the fictional work of Nino Ricci from a variety of critical perspectives. These perspectives include ideas about literature, culture, identity, politics, and society in terms of Canada and the modern world. Each contributor examines a specific novel or several novels, focusing on the prevailing themes and literary elements used by Nino Ricci to construct his work of fiction. This critical study allows the reader to enhance one's understanding of Nino Ricci's particular style and vision. It also provides an understanding of Nino Ricci's valuable contribution to contemporary Canadian fiction and world literature. The contributors in...
"The fact that there is a mythology attached to the experience of immigration … connects itself to the whole history of Western mythology …. That … is very much operative in the immigrant mind … I wanted to tie into that larger mythology."
