Wild words essays on Alberta literature

Coates, Donna, 1944- (Added Author). Melnyk, George. (Added Author).

Summary: As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right. By critically situating and assessing specific Alberta authors according to genre, this volume continues the work begun with Melnyk's Literary History of Alberta.

Record details

ISBN: 9781897425312 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1897425317 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781897425305
ISBN: 1897425309
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (xi, 204 p.)
Publisher: Edmonton : AU Press, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Publisher's Web site: http://www.aupress.ca/index.php. Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	PREFACE: The Struggle for an Alberta Literature / Donna Coates and George Melnyk -- INTRODUCTION: Wrestling Impossibilities: Wild Words in Alberta / Aritha van Herk -- PART ONE: Poetry. The "Wild Body" of Alberta Poetry / Douglas Barbour -- "To Canada": Michael Gowda's Unique Contribution to the Literary History of Alberta / Jars Balan -- Pastoral Elegy, Memorial, Writing: Robert Kroetsch's "Stone Hammer" Poem / Christian Riegel -- PART TWO: Drama. 4. No Cowpersons on This Range: The Cultural Complexity of Alberta Theatre / Anne Nothof -- Playing Alberta with Sharon Pollock / Sherrill Grace -- PART THREE: Fiction. "No Woman is Natural": The (Re)production of Race, Gender, and Sexuality / in Suzette Mayr's Moon Honey / Helen Hoy -- Wandering Home in Rudy Wiebe's Sweeter Than All the World and Of This Earth / Malin Sigvardson -- Richard Wagamese - An Ojibway in Alberta / Frances W. Kaye -- PART FOUR: Nonfiction. 9. From Grizzly Country to Grizzly Heart: The Grammar of Bear-Human Interactions / in the Work of Andy Russell and Charlie Russell / Pamela Banting -- The Doomed Genre: Myrna Kostash and the Limits of Non-fiction / Lisa Grekul -- AFTERWORD: Writing in Alberta - Up, Down, or Sideways? / Fred Stenson.