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Literature in and from Canada is now receiving international recognition and acclaim. A major part of this success is due to the quality of Canadian short fiction.Critics, scholars, and readers both in Canada and worldwide are now recognizing the exceptionally high achievements of Canadian short story authors. The short story is both one of the oldest and one of the youngest literary genres, and in Canada it has reached a remarkable apogee of craft, success, and repute. This volume is a 'who's who' of the short story genre in Canada. Each of these writers is known not just as a short story...

Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. With the 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature going to Alice Munro, the "master of the contemporary short story," this art form is receiving the recognition that has been its due and--as this book demonstrates--Canadian writers have long excelled in it. From theme to choice of narrative perspective, from emphasis on...