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Literary Criticism Canadian

On the Line

Readings in the Short Fiction of Clark Blaise, John Metcalf, and Hugh Hood

by (author) Robert Lecker

Publisher
ECW Press
Initial publish date
Jun 1982
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780920802311
    Publish Date
    Jun 1982
    List Price
    $8.95

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Description

Unhampered by any predetermined theme or critical mould, Lecker is free to respond to the qualities and idiosyncrasies which make Blaise, Metcalf, and Hood unique. Lecker's introduction discusses the writers' development and traces their impact on the modern Canadian short story. Three diverse readings follow. The first reveals Blaise's tragic view of life; the second focuses on how Metcalf's stories are structured on their protagonists' aesthetic stance; and the third provides a close reading of Hood's “Looking Down From Above.”

About the author

Robert Lecker is Greenshields Professor of English at McGill University. He is the editor of several anthologies, most recently Open Country: Canadian Literature in English, and the author of numerous books and articles, including On the Line, Robert Kroetsch, Another I, Making It Real, Dr. Delicious, The Cadence of Civil Elegies, and Keepers of the Code.

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Editorial Reviews

“Short fiction is an area of Canadian literature which has never received the full attention that it deserves. Robert Lecker has remedied this imbalance with . . . On the Line.”  —Scrivener

“ . . . sets a new standard for Canadian literary criticism.”  —Quill & Quire