Author: Marian EngelPublisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN: 9780771093432
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Lunatic Villas
Author: Marian EngelPublisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN: 9780771093432
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
The Glassy Sea
Author: Marian EngelPublisher: Markham, Ont. : Penguin Books Canada
ISBN: 9780140096590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Birds of a Lesser Paradise
Author: Megan Mayhew BergmanPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451643365
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Presents a collection of stories focusing on the moments when bonds with nature become evident, including the story of a mother and son attempting to reclaim an African gray parrot and of a population control activist who longs to have a baby.
Marian Engel
Author: Marian EngelPublisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 9780802036872
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Admired by a generation of Canadian authors and critics, Marian Engel was a writer's writer. This compilation offers an incomparable view into Canadian literature from 1965 to Engel's early death in 1985.
No Clouds of Glory
Author: Marian EngelPublisher: New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
ISBN:
Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Honeyman Festival
Author: Marian EngelPublisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770898514
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
First published in 1970, The Honeyman Festival chronicles one night in the life of Minn Burge, a woman in her mid-thirties who is torn between affection for her family and the need for a life in which impulse and intelligence can once again find play. Pregnant with her fourth child, and unable to take refuge in facile resolutions, Minn interrogates her life with a razor-edge passion in which many readers will find they too are involved. This groundbreaking novel by one of Canada’s most beloved novelists is now available in a beautifully packaged A List edition, featuring an introduction by novelist and short story writer Caroline Adderson.
Monsieur Venus
Author: RachildePublisher: Modern Language Association
ISBN: 1603292551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
When the rich and well-connected Raoule de Vénérande becomes enamored of Jacques Silvert, a poor young man who makes artificial flowers for a living, she turns him into her mistress and eventually into her wife. Raoule's suitor, a cigar-smoking former hussar officer, becomes an accomplice in the complications that ensue.
Lifelines
Author: Christl VerduynPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773565582
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Christl Verduyn analyses Engel's work from a feminist literary perspective, examining Engel's concern with women's experiences and perception of the world, female identity and the social constraints on its development, female subjectivity and self, the mother-daughter relationship, and forces opposing women's artistic self-expression. Verduyn presents in-depth readings of both the novels and Engel's reflections on her experiences as a woman and a writer as found in her personal journals and other writings. Verduyn demonstrates the extent to which Engel's work not only deserves to be ranked with the best of Canadian literature but also enriches our understanding of women's experiences and broadens our view of women's worlds. Lifelines makes an important contribution to Canadian literature, women's studies, and the growing genre of life writing.
Marian Engel’s Notebooks
Author: Christl VerduynPublisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 0889205698
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 585
Book Description
Marian Engel emerged as a writer during that period in Canada when nationalism increased and “new feminism” dawned. Although she is recognized as a distinguished woman of letters, she has not been widely studied; consequently we know relatively little about her and her craft. The material collected in Marian Engel’s Notebooks: “Ah, mon cahier, écoute...” is a major step in redressing that neglect. Extracts carefully chosen by Christl Verduyn from Marian Engel’s forty-nine notebooks — notebooks Engel began in the late 1940s and which she maintained until her death in 1985 — track Engel’s creative development, illustrate her commitment to the craft of writing and document her growth as a major Canadian writer. The notebooks also portray Engel’s surprising leaps of logic, her fascination with the bizarre, the eclecticism of her reading and the depth and variety of her thinking. Finally, they present moving documentation of a woman facing cancer and early death. Christl Verduyn’s illuminating introductory discussions to each of the notebooks unobtrusively guide us in the reading of these sometimes difficult writings. Marian Engel’s Notebooks: “Ah, mon cahier, écoute...” leaves readers with a vivid sense of Canadian culture during the 1960s and 1970s. It provides insight into the literary life of one of Canada’s significant woman writers, including her connections with other Canadian writers, and will be of special interest to scholars working in the field of literature.
My Name is Not Odessa Yarker
Author: Marian EngelPublisher:
ISBN: 9780919964709
Category : Brothers and sisters
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
When Geraldine's brother announces that his sister has changed her name to Odessa Yarker, Geraldine has a difficult time convincing people to use her real name.