Author : Hugh Garner
Publisher : Canadian Literature Collection
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,56 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Short stories, Canadian
ISBN : 9780776622613
Includes explanatory notes and textual notes.
Author : Hugh Garner
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0776622633
Social justice is at the core of these award-winning stories exploring the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, feminism, racism, disenfranchisement, and mistreatment.
Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 17,82 MB
Release : 2007
Category : 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 : Seth Godin
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 27,99 MB
Release : 2012-12-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 067092346X
V is for Vulnerable by Seth Godin is a full-color ABC book for grown-ups, with a powerful message about doing great work. V is for Vulnerable looks and feels like a classic picture book. But it's not for kids, it's for hardworking adults. It highlights twenty-six of Seth Godin's principles about treating your work as a form of art, with illustrations by acclaimed cartoonist Hugh MacLeod. A sample: A is for Anxiety, which is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better. F is for Feedback, which can be either a crutch or a weapon. Use it to make your work smaller, safer, and more likely to please everyone (and fail in the long run). Or use it as a lever to further push you to embrace what you fear and what you're capable of. This is unlike any previous Godin book and makes a great gift, both for loyal fans and those who've never read him before. Seth Godin is the author of thirteen international bestsellers that have changed the way people think about marketing, the ways ideas spread, leadership and change including Permission Marketing, Purple Cow, All Marketers are Liars, The Dip and Tribes. He is the CEO of Squidoo.com and a very popular lecturer. His blog, www.sethgodin.typepad.com, is the most influential business blog in the world, and consistently one of the 100 most popular blogs on any subject.
Author : Hugh Garner
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 44,83 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Short stories, Canadian
ISBN : 0671774670
Author : Hugh Garner
Publisher :
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 48,14 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Cabbagetown (Toronto, Ont.)
ISBN : 9780070915527
Toronto's Cabbagetown in the Depression...North America's largest Anglo-Saxon slum. Ken Tilling leaves school to face the bleak prospects of the dirty thirties-where do you go, what do you do, how do you make a life for yourself when all the world offers in unemployment, poverty and uncertainty? "As a social document, Cabbagetown is as important and revealing as either The Tin Flute or The Grapes of Wrath. Stern realism has also projected upon the pages of a whole gallery of types, lifelike and convincing. He is well fitted to hold the mirror up to human nature." Globe and Mail. Cabbagetown was first published in an abbreviated paperback edition in 1950 and was published in its entirety in 1968. This, the first quality paperback edition, contains the full unexpurgated text of Cabbagetown.
Author : Eugene Benson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1950 pages
File Size : 46,34 MB
Release : 2004-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134468482
" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Author : Rolf Kalman
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 15,16 MB
Release : 1972-06-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780969045502
Wedding in White, by William Fruet; Three Women, by Hugh Garner; The Devil's Instrument, by W.O. Mitchell; The Pile, The Store, and Inside Out, by Mavor Moore; Westbound 12:01, by Brock Shoveller.
Author : Hugh Garner
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 467 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1554888514
Originally published in 1962, The Silence on the Shore is considered by many critics to be Hugh Garners best, most ambitious novel. Truly, in the person of Grace Hill, the landlady of the Toronto rooming house where most of the books events take place, Garner has created a fictional character never to be forgotten. Grace is a middle-aged snoop and an overweight nudist whose sexual release comes from watching wrestling matches at a hockey arena that is a thinly disguised Maple Leaf Gardens. Around Grace orbit her various boarders: alcoholic Gordon Lightfoot; Walter Fowler, an aspiring writer whose marriage has just broken up; Aline Garfield, a fundamentalist Christian grappling with various urges and torments; a Polish refugee woman; and a colourful cast of others whose lives intersect in drama that arises from arbitrary or coincidental encounters. According to scholar John Moss, the book is the best realistic novel of Canadian city life yet to be written.
Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 20,86 MB
Release : 2017-04-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1476628076
In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused international attention on a genre that had long been thriving in Canada, particularly since the 1960s. This book traces the development and highlights of the English-language Canadian short story from the late 19th century up to the present. The history as well as the theoretical approaches to the genre are covered, with in-depth examination of exemplary stories by prominent writers such as Margaret Atwood and Alice Munro.
