Margaret Laurence's much admired Manawaka fiction?The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, The Fire-Dwellers, A Bird in the House, and The Diviners?has achieved remarkable recognition for its compassionate por
This reference compiles career biographies of 43 Canadian authors from various age groups, styles, ethnic backgrounds, and major genres, active from 1989 to 2007, tracing the development of each autho
Scholars of literature from Canada and the US offer a cross-cultural sampling of the literary response to death and portrayal of mourning from the Middle Ages to the late 20th century. Among their exa
In a postmodern and postcolonial age, how do we approach the writing of Margaret Laurence? Challenging Territory demands of the reader a re-evaluation of the basic assumptions that underlie their unde
A re-evaluation of regionalism in Canadian and American writing, A Sense of Place provides a comparative approach to the issue within a continental framework. The contributors to this collection-inclu
