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From:Canadian Literature (Issue 212) Peer-ReviewedTimothy Findley's fiction has been the subject of much attention focusing on its feminist, or even "queer," (1) interrogation of sexual identities and gender roles, but his short stories have been curiously neglected....
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From: Journal of Canadian Studies[(essay date winter 1998/1999) In the essay below, Wyile studies Findley's dialogic use of italics as a fundamental aspect of his postmodernist strategy, employed to destabilize authority and fragment subjectivity.] In...
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From:Mosaic: A journal for the interdisciplinary study of literature (Vol. 34, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis essay examines the increasing influence of postmodern thinking in literary studies and psychology. It explores, both theoretically and through case studies from both fields, the increasing convergence between the...
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From: MultiCultural Review[(essay date March 2002) In the essay below, Goldblatt examines four novels by male authors depicting female characters that defy stereotype: The Old Wives' Tale (1908), by Arnold Bennett; Not Wanted on the Journey, by...
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From: Front Lines: The Fiction of Timothy Findley[(essay date 1991) In the following essay, York compares the depiction of domestic conflict in "Lemonade" and The Last of the Crazy People, and follows the move from figurative warring in the story to literal warfare in...
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From:Contemporary Novelists (6th ed.)Timothy Findley began writing fiction in his early twenties and contributed a story to the first issue of Tamarack Review in 1956, but during this earlier period he was largely involved in acting, playing at the first...
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From: English Studies in Canada[(essay date June-September 2006) In the following essay on The Wars, Pennee argues that the novel's allegorization of Canada's national progress in the coming-of-age story of its soldier-protagonist is problematized by...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 32, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedA POSTMODERN INCREDULITY toward master narratives has been celebrated as a sign that Canadian literature and letters not only survived the paraphrase of thematic criticism and arrived at a new stage of cultural maturity...
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From:St. James Guide to Fantasy WritersAlthough most of Timothy Findley's work is mainstream fiction, he has made a significant contribution to that small sub-genre perhaps best described as rewritings of Noah's Flood, with his novel Not Wanted on the Voyage....
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From: Canadian Literature[(essay date Winter 1981) In the following essay, Hulcoop provides a stylisticc discussion of Findley's work, examining how Findley uses textual and sensual markers in his early fiction as a means of drawing the reader...
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From: University of Toronto Quarterly[(essay date fall 2002) In the following essay on The Last of the Crazy People, Salem-Wiseman analyzes the madness of the Winslow family within the context of the anti-psychiatry movement of the 1960s. Led by the...
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From: English Studies in Canada[(essay date September 1989) York is an educator. In the essay below, she delineates Findley's focus on war and conflict in The Last of the Crazy People, "Lemonade," and other early works.] It is no coincidence or...
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From: Publishers Weekly[(review date 26 November 2001) In this review, Zaleski regards Spadework as a "slapdash performance" in comparison with Findley's other novels.] Bestselling Canadian writer Findley, whose stylish and complexly plotted...
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From:Yearbook of English StudiesAbstract In the Bragg and Minna stories, Findley continues his war against inner monsters, particularly the codes which constitute the conservative ideal of 'manhood'. The character of Bragg is a sympathetic portrait...
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From:Twentieth-Century Romance & Historical Writers (3rd ed.)One of Canada's most successful novelists today, Timothy Findley began his career as an actor and scriptwriter, working on various stage, television, and radio productions. By 1962 he began to write full-time resulting...
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From: Timothy Findley[(essay date 1998) In the following excerpt, Brydon highlights the contradictory aspects of life and the link between personal and historical trauma depicted in Findley's short fiction.] Immortal Mortality Findley...
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From: Journal of Medical Humanities
Murder by Milligrams': Enhancement Technologies and Therapeutic Zeal in Timothy Findley's Headhunter
[(essay date 2012) In this essay, Reed studies Headhunter as it exposes the dangers of therapeutic zeal, when a patient's interests are subordinated to the ambitions of the doctor. Reed is especially interested in the... -
From: Atlantis[(essay date 2007) In the following essay, Kruk probes the impact of maternal visitation in Findley's "Almeyer's Mother," Jack Hodgins's "Invasions '79," and Alistair MacLeod's "The Road to Rankin Point," maintaining...
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From: Dominant Impressions: Essays on the Canadian Short Story[(essay date 1999) In the following essay, Kruk analyzes the representation of masculine identity in Timothy Findley's "Stones" and MacLeod's "The Boat."] What do the short stories of Alistair MacLeod and Timothy...
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From: Mosaic[(essay date September 1997) In the following essay, Lamont-Stewart traces how Green Grass, Running Water and Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage "challenge the authoritarian ideology of the Judaeo-Christian...