Bøger af Reingard M. Nischik

The first anthology of critical interpretations of major Canadian short stories.

A collection of new essays on the multi-talented Canadian writerMargaret Atwood.

The development of literature in Canada with an eye to its multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nature.

In 2013, the Nobel Prize for Literature was for the first time awarded to a short story writer, and to a Canadian, Alice Munro. The award focused international attention on a genre that had long been thriving in Canada. This book traces the development and highlights of the Canadian short story from the late 19th century up to the present.

Merging selected approaches to Comparative North American Studies with detailed textual analyses, this book studies works of writers as diverse as Ernest Hemingway, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, and Margaret Atwood.

Analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Margaret Atwood's works. This title approaches Atwood's oeuvre by genre - poetry, short fiction, novels, criticism, comics, and film - and examines them individually. It explores how Atwood has developed her genres to be gender-sensitive in both content and form.