The world of Canadian writing : critiques & recollections

Woodcock, George 1912-1995 (Author).

Summary: The celebrated Canadian scholar, George Woodcock, on writers and writing in Canada.

Record details

ISBN: 0888942486 :
Physical Description: print
xi, 306 p. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, [c1980].

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Human Elements: Margaret Laurence's Fiction -- Many Solitudes: Travel Writings of Margaret Laurence -- Taming the Tiger of Power: Notes on Certain Fictions by Hugh Hood -- Memory, Imagination, Artifice: Late Short Fictions of Mavis Gallant -- Private Fantasies: Collective Myths. John Glassco's Decadent Fiction -- On Ethel Wilson -- Armies Moving in the Night: Fictions of Matt Cohen -- Margaret Atwood: Poet as Novelist -- Remembering Roderick Haig-Brown -- Callaghan's Toronto: Persona of a City -- This Fall in Toronto: Late Callaghan Novel -- Own Place of the Mind: Essay in Lowrain Topography -- Novel That Never Ends: David Watmough's Reminiscent Fiction -- Diana's Priest in the Bush Garden: Frye and His Master McLuhan's Utopia -- On the Poetry of Al Purdy -- On A.M. Klein: Tentative Note -- Private and Public Images: Poetry of Pat Lowther -- Wanderer: Earle Birney as Poet and Novelist.