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Literary Criticism Canadian

Dominant Impressions

Essays on the Canadian Short Story

edited by Gerald Lynch & Angela Arnold Robbeson

Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Initial publish date
Nov 1999
Category
Canadian
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780776615806
    Publish Date
    Nov 1999
    List Price
    $11.99
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780776605050
    Publish Date
    Nov 1999
    List Price
    $25.00

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Canadian critics and scholars, along with a growing number from around the world, have long recognized the achievements of Canadian short story writers. However, these critics have tended to view the Canadian short story as a historically recent phenomenon. This reappraisal corrects this mistaken view by exploring the literary and cultural antecedents of the Canadian short story.

About the authors

Gerald Lynch was born in Ireland, where he frequently visits, and grew up in Canada. Omphalos is his sixth book of fiction. In 2015 Signature Editions published Missing Children, his fifth, the novel that introduced Detective Kevin Beldon. These novels were preceded by Troutstream, Exotic Dancers, and two books of short stories, Kisbey and One’s Company. A Professor mainly of Canadian literature at the University of Ottawa (occasionally offering a seminar in contemporary Irish fiction), earlier this year Gerald published the co-edited Alice Munro's Miraculous Art: Critical Essays. He has edited a number of other books and published many short stories, essays, and reviews, and had his work translated into a number of languages. He has also authored two books of non-fiction, Stephen Leacock: Humour and Humanity and The One and the Many: Canadian Short Story Cycles. He has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the gold award for short fiction in Canada’s National Magazine Awards.

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