Dominant Impressions: Essays on the Canadian Short Story (Reappraisals: Canadian Writers)

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. It Almost Always Starts This Way / Bonnie Burnard -- Of Kings And Cabbages: Short Stories By Early Canadian Women / Wanda Campbell -- The Thing Is Found To Be Symbolic: Symboliste Elements In The Early Short Stories Of Gilbert Parker, Charles G. D. Roberts And Duncan Campbell Scott / D. M. R. Bentley -- Present But Unaccounted For: The Canadian Young Adult Short Story Of The Nineteenth Century Comes Of Age / Jean Stringam -- Just Above The Breadline: Social(ist) Realism In Canadian Short Stories Of The 1930s / James Doyle -- The Language Of The Law: The Cases Of Morley Callaghan / Gary Boire -- Rediscovering The Popular Canadian Short Story / Allan Weiss -- Love And Death: Romance And Reality In Margaret Laurence's A Bird In The House / Nora Foster Stovel -- Oedipus And Anti-oedipus, Myth And Counter-myth: Sheila Watson's Short Fiction / Dean Irvine -- Mapping Munro: Reading The Clues / Robert Thacker -- Hands And Mirrors: Gender Reflections In The Short Stories Of Alistair Macleod And Timothy Findley / Laurie Kruk -- To Make The Necessary Dream Perpetual: Postrealist Heroes In Canadian Short Fiction / Deborah Bowen -- The Canadian Short Story / Alistair Macleod. Edited By Gerald Lynch And Angela Arnold Robbeson. Includes Bibliographical References. Canadian critics and scholars 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 title aims to correct this mistaken view by exploring the literary and cultural antecedents of the Canadian short story.