Download or read book God s Plenty written by W. J. Keith and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age, God's Plenty surveys the short fiction of the writer dubbed Canada's Proust. Hugh Hood, an unparalleled stylist, was equally accomplished in short forms and long: this straight-talking assessment of Hood's stories is thorough, insightful, readable, and profound. With its story-by-story breakdown and rigorous engagement with Hood's technique, God's Plenty offers an excellent introduction not just to an undersung master, but to the art of short fiction full stop. W.J. Keith is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.
Download or read book Canadian Odyssey written by W.J. Keith and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-03-11 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published between 1975 and 2000 and completed shortly before his death, Hugh Hood's twelve-volume novel-series The New Age/Le nouveau siècle represents a major achievement in Canadian fiction. Hood takes us on a remarkable, though challenging, journey in time and space while chronicling the life of his intellectually inquisitive protagonist, Matt Goderich. Moving from history and politics to literature and the arts, from popular song to the vagaries of fashion, from urban stress to the relaxations of cottage-country, these novels explore the texture of Canadian life with a depth and comprehensiveness that, when fully grasped, are dazzling. In Canadian Odyssey W.J. Keith steers general readers and specialist students alike through the complexities of Hood's scheme. He presents biographical information about the planning and writing of the series, places it among other examples of "Roman-Fleuve," offers background concerning Hood's literary influences, and provides novel-by-novel discussions of each book. Written in a straightforward style, avoiding jargon and the excesses of literary theory, Canadian Odyssey makes a convincing case for The New Age as a great Canadian masterpiece.
Download or read book Mosaic written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book You ll Catch Your Death written by Hugh Hood and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 1992 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals of all kinds, from a lovesick hippopotamus to a valuable pair of Chelsea dogs make an appearance in Hugh Hood's delightful new collection of short stories You'll Catch Your Death. But mostly one is aware of the birds. As the narrator in Hood's opening story observes, `what I saw was birds and birds and again birds'. Mosaic renderings of peacocks and cranes, a cage of cruelly imprisoned pigeons, a lorikeet named Ronnie Reagan, a couple of stolen cockatoos and a bestselling book entitled `Caring Parenting While Birding' each play a role in these stories, along with a cast of eccentric bird lovers. Amusing, thoughtful, and by turns poignant, the thirteen never-before-published stories in You'll Catch Your Death are Hugh Hood at his eclectic best. `More Birds' and `You'll Catch Your Death' explore mankind's tenuous relationship with the animal world. `Disappearing Creatures of Various Kinds' reveals some of the mysterious ways in which humans reach out and communicate with other living creatures. On the other hand `Deanna and the Ayatollah' invents a fateful encounter between Khomeini and film star Deanna Durbin, while `Getting Funding' is a hilarious send-up of Canadian arts funding and the CBC.
Download or read book Great Realizations written by Hugh Hood and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hugh Hood skillfully presents the penultimate book in his ambitious and highly acclaimed 12-volume New Age series, which poignantly animates the social fabric of Canada in the latter part of the 20th century and beyond."
Download or read book Be Sure to Close Your Eyes written by Hugh Hood and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 1908, and Mary-Beth Sleaford is a five-year-old girl living in the countryside just north of Toronto. She etches an angel into a tower that her father, Professor John Sleaford, is building, one of many he will erect over the next eighteen years. Eventually Mary-Beth and her family move west to Saskatchewan, but one day, as an adult, she returns to the ruin of that first tower and discovers that her angel is almost as bright as the day she carved it with a piece of brick. Hood's heroine, the artist Mary-Beth Sleaford, is a true representative of her age. She embodies the English-Canadian character Ñreticent and caught between American exuberance and British reserve. The three men in her life are also facets of the greater Canadian psyche. Her father is an eccentric inventor imbued with the spirit of Americanism. Petter Arnesson, her first fianc, is a Prairie jazz cornetist with overwhelming artistic ambition tempered with the necessary practicality of the immigrant. And finally Earl Codrington, the pragmatist who becomes her husband, is a small-town Ontario businessman with an optimistic eye on the future.
Download or read book The Canadian Short Story written by John Metcalf and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other person has done more to celebrate and encourage the short story in Canada than John Metcalf. For more than five decades he has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher to help shape our understanding of the form and what it can do. The long-time editor of the yearly Best Canadian Stories anthology, as well as a fiction editor at some of the pre-eminent literary presses in the country for more than forty years, he has worked to support and champion several generations of our best writers. Literature in Canada would be far less without his efforts. Sifting through a lifetime of reading, writing, and thinking about the short story in this country, and where it fits within the larger currents of world literature, Metcalf’s magisterial The Canadian Short Story offers the most authoritative book on the subject to date. Most importantly, it includes an expanded and reconsidered Century List, Metcalf’s critical guide to the best Canadian short story collections of the last 100 years. But more than a critical book, The Canadian Short Story is a love-letter to the form, a passionate defense of the best of our literature, and a championing of those books and writers most often over-looked. It is a guide not only to what to read, but also one, its author’s most fervent desire, which aims to make better readers of us all.
Download or read book An Aesthetic Underground written by John Metcalf and published by Biblioasis. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."—Alice Munro The Argus-eyed editor; the magisterial prose stylist; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the mentor and iconoclast. John Metcalf is a literary legend whose memoir maps the underground he labored tirelessly to establish.
Download or read book Near Water written by Hugh Hood and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near Water is the final volume in Hugh Hood's spectacular New Age series, an epic saga that is already treasured and revered as a meticulous chronicle of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Beginning with an almost stream-of-consciousness meditation on identity, religion, angels, Dionysius, Aristotle, Freud, and you name it, Hugh Hood's prose scintillates in Near Water, animating a kinetic imagination that never misses a beat. Son of a Nobel laureate, father of a space voyager, friend of a movie star, estranged husband of a painter, and semi-famous because of it all, Matthew Goderich is driving up to the lake for a possible reunion with Edie, from whom he has been separated for 30 years. Then it happens, and we feel it happening too -- the pain, the delusions, the awful, sudden, interior crisis of a cerebrovascular accident. A stroke. And we stay with him, this self-proclaimed "hope man" who is never alone, while his mind roves over the vivid details of the life he has loved at this place near water.
Download or read book Dead Men s Watches written by Hugh Hood and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1995 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tenth book in Hugh Hood's highly acclaimed series, The New Age, two linked novellas explore the transforming powers of love. In the first novella Matthew Goderich discovers that his late Uncle Philip has had a secret and emotionally rewarding romantic life. In the second novella Matthew nurses his childhood friend, Adam, through a long, painful, and terminal AIDS-induced illness. Matthew, in the first novella, is the detached observer and dogged detective who comes to understand love; in the second, he finally becomes fully engaged with the emotion of loving as he rids himself of his homophobia and learns to appreciate and embrace Adam, his lifelong friend. Matthew's emotional awakening corresponds with society's growing awareness in the early 1980s of the nature and extent of the AIDS crisis. Dead Men's Watches continues Hugh Hood's vivid portrayal of Canadian social history and teaches us that the gift of love is all that matters in the end.
Download or read book Unsupported Assertions written by Hugh Hood and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1991 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This, his third collection of essays, following The Governor's Bridge Is Closed (1973) and Trusting the Tale (1973), shows Hugh Hood to be a virtuoso writer of belles lettres as well as of novels and short stories."
Download or read book Property Value written by Hugh Hood and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1990 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighth novel in the New Age series, Property and Value is a further installment in the lives of the Goderich family of Toronto and a reflection on currencyÑ it's price, worth, intrinsic value, and goodness in relation to time.
Download or read book Giorgione London 1900 145 S written by Herbert Frederick Cook and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Queen s Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canadian Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Giorgione s Tempest written by Salvatore Settis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tempest is Giorgione's most enigmatic painting. It is a depiction of Giorgione's own family, of the "family of man" tale from Boccaccio, or of the myth of Apollo's birth? In this remarkable study, Salvatore Settis uses the mystery of the painting to shed light on the relationship between artist, patron, work, and critic. The result is a brilliant piece of detective work in the history and sociology of culture that stresses the function of Giorgione's art for the emerging, classically educated connoisseur elite of sixteenth-century Venice.
