Author: Mavis Gallant
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 077109891X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The Moslem Wife and Other Stories
Author: Mavis Gallant
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 077109891X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 077109891X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
The Moslem Wife and Other Stories
Author: Mavis Gallant
Publisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN: 1551996324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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.
Publisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN: 1551996324
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
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.
The Canadian Short Story
Author: Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571131270
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571131270
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
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.
Assunta Howard, and Other Stories and Sketches
Learning to Look
Author: Lesley Diana Clement
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773520414
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773520414
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
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.
Light Shining Out of Darkness and Other Stories
Author: Hugh Hood
Publisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: New Canadian Library
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
"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.
His Other Wife
Author: Umm Zakiyyah
Publisher: Al-Walaa Publications
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This special edition of His Other Wife-the viral online short story series-turned-novel and short film-includes never-published-before notes about Umm Zakiyyah's personal inspiration behind writing the original short story series. His Other Wife is a story about love and betrayal, faith and personal crisis, and withstanding deep emotional wounds. Jacob is a successful businessman and college professor, and his wife Deanna is a renowned marriage counselor and author. Together they are their Muslim community's power couple. Aliyah is Deanna's recently divorced best friend who has just accepted a position at the college where Jacob works-and who is the unwilling recipient of Deanna's constant unsolicited relationship advice. Deanna insists that Aliyah needs to learn how to hold a marriage together and keep a man from ever thinking about marrying another woman. But their friendship takes a difficult turn when Aliyah receives a phone call from her uncle saying that Jacob is interested in marrying her as a second wife-without Deanna's knowledge.
Publisher: Al-Walaa Publications
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This special edition of His Other Wife-the viral online short story series-turned-novel and short film-includes never-published-before notes about Umm Zakiyyah's personal inspiration behind writing the original short story series. His Other Wife is a story about love and betrayal, faith and personal crisis, and withstanding deep emotional wounds. Jacob is a successful businessman and college professor, and his wife Deanna is a renowned marriage counselor and author. Together they are their Muslim community's power couple. Aliyah is Deanna's recently divorced best friend who has just accepted a position at the college where Jacob works-and who is the unwilling recipient of Deanna's constant unsolicited relationship advice. Deanna insists that Aliyah needs to learn how to hold a marriage together and keep a man from ever thinking about marrying another woman. But their friendship takes a difficult turn when Aliyah receives a phone call from her uncle saying that Jacob is interested in marrying her as a second wife-without Deanna's knowledge.
New England and the Maritime Provinces
Author: Stephen John Hornsby
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773528659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A wide-reaching, inter-disciplinary examination of the links between New England and the Maritimes.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773528659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
A wide-reaching, inter-disciplinary examination of the links between New England and the Maritimes.
Mordecai
Author: Charles Foran
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0676979653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0676979653
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
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.
The Oxford Guide to Contemporary World Literature
Author: John Sturrock
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192833181
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
opinion, the Guide offers a discriminating - and sometimes controversial - view of a broad range of contemporary literatures.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192833181
Category : Literature, Modern
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
opinion, the Guide offers a discriminating - and sometimes controversial - view of a broad range of contemporary literatures.