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Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (Canadian Literature Collection)
Laurie Kruk
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Description for Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (Canadian Literature Collection)
Paperback. The short story occupies a prominent place in Canadian literature and never more so than since Alice Munro's 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Kruk's work is a singularly original exploration of the layered "double-voicing" in the short fiction of eight acclaimed Canadian writers. Series: Canadian Literature Collection. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; 2AB; DSB; DSK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 142 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 278.
Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. With the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature going to Alice Munro, the master of the contemporary short story, this art form is receiving the recognition that has been its due and-as this book demonstrates-Canadian writers have long excelled in it. From theme to choice of narrative perspective, from emphasis on irony, satire and parody to uncovering the multiple layers that make ... Read more
Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. With the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature going to Alice Munro, the master of the contemporary short story, this art form is receiving the recognition that has been its due and-as this book demonstrates-Canadian writers have long excelled in it. From theme to choice of narrative perspective, from emphasis on irony, satire and parody to uncovering the multiple layers that make ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Condition
New
Series
Canadian Literature Collection
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Ottawa, Canada
ISBN
9780776623238
SKU
V9780776623238
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About Laurie Kruk
Laurie Kruk is the author of The Voice is the Story: Conversations with Canadian Writers of Short Fiction (Mosaic, 2003), which features six of the eight authors included in Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story. She is also a well-published poet: Theories of the World (Netherlandic, 1992), Loving the Alien (YSP, 2006) and My Mother Did Not Tell Stories (Demeter, 2012). ... Read more
Reviews for Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story (Canadian Literature Collection)
Kruk (...) celebrate[s] the achievements of short-story writers as well as the kind of national identity, based mainly on regional identification, that they helped to highlight. (...) Her conclusion reads like a celebration of both family and community, in all its variety, in a remote part of the country. And this is the main point of the book: to celebrate ... Read more