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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)"All dreams," Janet Frame writes in her 1970 novel Intensive Care, "lead back to the nightmare garden." And all nightmares lead circuitously into truth. In all her novels, the looming threat of disorder, violent and...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)W.O. Mitchell, generally considered a "regional humorist," perhaps himself encourages such a reputation. In the guise of the homespun philosopher he finds a traditional folk identity with which to meet contemporary life...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)The contrast between The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea, with its local "realism," and Tourmaline, which makes a symbolic landscape out of Randolph Stow's native land, indicates the initial range of his fiction. The...
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From: Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writing in Context[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Tadié examines the orality, simplicity, and evocative nature of Narayan's short fiction, highlighting the author's ability to convey complex themes through the use of small...
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From: Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections[(essay date 2001) In the following essay, New examines the function and meaning of cities as they appear in Laurence’s short fiction. He argues that the city is “both a social strategy and an ethical proposition” and...
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From: Native Writers and Canadian Writing[(essay date 1990) In the following essay, Johnston differentiates Tomson Highway's two commercially successful plays, The Rez Sisters and Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, stating that "in contrast to the...
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From: Inside the Poem: Essays and Poems in Honour of Donald Stephens[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, Trehearne outlines the professional significance of "Whatever Else Poetry Is Freedom" in Layton's career, highlighting the strategies and motives underlying his public pursuit...
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From: Journal of Modern Literature[(essay date 1996) In the following essay, New examines Mansfield’s journals, her lifelong journal writing, and the selection of her journals made by John Middleton Murry, her second husband. New sees value in the...
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From: Essays on Canadian Writing[(essay date Spring 1984) New is a Canadian educator, essayist, editor, and critic. In the following essay, he discusses the theoretical structure and narrative framing devices commonly used by Frame in her writing.]...
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From: A Search for America[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, published as his afterword in the 1991 edition of Grove's A Search for America, New claims that the novel "tries continually to make fictions seem real, at the same time calling...
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From: Inside the Poem: Essays and Poems in Honour of Donald Stephens[(essay date 1992) In the following essay, originally published under the name Susan Rudy Dorscht, the critic explores Wah's concerns with language and identity as evidenced in the long poem Breathin' My Name with a...