The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019541523X ISBN 13: 9780195415230

Publisher: OUP Canada, 2001

Synopsis

Reducing its 1200 pages by almost one half, this concise edition of the "Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature" is intended to make the core contents of the original volume accessible to a much wider range of readers. Some entries have been shortened and others have been dropped, including many genre and regional surveys (except for Aboriginal literature, Exploration literature, and Writing in New France) and articles on Quebecois and Acadian writers whose works have not been translated into English. The remaining entries, however, have all been updated to include new publications, and those on leading writers have in many cases been expanded. Over 60 new entries have been added - including those on Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Anne Cameron, Wayson Choy, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Travor Ferguson, Cecil Foster, D.M. Fraser, The Giller Prize, Elizabeth Hay, David Macfarlane, Peter Oliva, Kenneth Opel, Witold Rybczynski, Shyam Selvadurai, Russell Smith, and Margaret Visser.

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Review

Praise for The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature 2/e "Quite simply, the best there is, and the release of the second edition, a monumental accomplishment."--Quill & Quire Praise for The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature 2/e: "Quite simply, the best there is, and the release of the second edition, a monumental accomplishment."--Quill & Quire Praise for The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature 2/e: "Quite simply, the best there is, and the release of the second edition, a monumental accomplishment."--Quill & Quire Praise for The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature 2/e: "Quite simply, the best there is, and the release of the second edition, a monumental accomplishment."--Quill & Quire

About the Author

William Toye was the general editor of the first edition of The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature and co-editor of the second edition. He was a founding member of the literary quarterly The Tamarack Review and was Editorial Director of Oxford University Press Canada from 1969 until his retirement in 1991. In 1995 he was awarded the Order of Canada, and in 1996 he received an honorary M.A. from Oxford University.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP Canada
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019541523X
• ISBN 13: 9780195415230
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 536
• Editor: Toye . William