STOUCK, DAVID

As for Sinclair Ross

Univ of Toronto Pr, 2005. Linnen band met stofomslag. Pp: 353. Sinclair Ross (19081996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941), and for such familiar short stories as The Lamp at Noon and The Painted Door, is an elusive figure in Canadian literature. A master at portraying the hardships and harsh beauty of the Prairies during the Great Depression, Ross nevertheless received only modest attention from the public during his lifetime. His reluctance to give readings or interviews further contributed to this faint public perception of the man. In As for Sinclair Ross, David Stouck tells the story of a lonely childhood in rural Saskatchewan, of a long and unrewarding career in a bank, and of many failed attempts to be published and to find an audience. The book also tells the story of a man who fell in love with both men and women and who wrote from a position outside any single definition of gender and sexuality. Stoucks biography draws on archival records and on insights gathered during an acquaintance late in Rosss life to illuminate this difficult author, describing in detail the struggles of a gifted artist living in an inhospitable time and place. Stouck argues that when Ross was writing about prairie farmers and small towns, he wanted his readers to see the kind of society they were creating, to feel uncomfortable with religion as coercive rhetoric, prejudices based on race and ethnicity, and rigid notions of gender. As for Sinclair Ross is the story of a remarkable writer whose works continue to challenge us and are rightly considered classics of Canadian literature. ISBN: 9780802043887. Cond./Kwaliteit: Als nieuw.

-- Boekhandel De Slegte b.v.

Book number: U717843

Catalogue: Engelse literatuur

Keywords: 9780802043887

STOUCK, DAVID

Ethel Wilson : A Critical Biography

North York, ON, Canada, University of Toronto Press. 2003. (ISBN: 0802087418). hardcover. Used, Jacket and binding is well preserved. Pages are clean and crisp, and printing is tight, clean and bright throughout. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: 220853

Catalogue: Biographies

Keywords: Authors, Canadian Authors_biography 0802087418

STOUCK, DAVID

Ethel Wilson: A Critical Biography

Downsview, Ontario, Canada, Univ of Toronto Pr. 2003, First Edition. (ISBN: 0802087418). Hb, 8vo. pp. xvii, (4), 353, as new. "David Stouck's engaging biography of this elusive Canadian writer draws on archival material and interviews to describe, in detail, her early life as an orphan in England and Vancouver and her long writer's apprenticeship, spanning from the publication of some children's stories in 1919 to the appearance of Hetty Dorval in 1947. Stouck's narrative charts the resistance among publishers, critics, and readers to the curious mixture in her work of an Edwardian sensibility and a postmodern intelligence. He also documents her own resistance to both literary nationalism and creative writing classes as strategies for promoting literature. She was nevertheless one of the few Canadian women writers to emerge from the 1950s, and she is still being read - all her books remaining in print. Stouck observes that Wilson's writing is marked by epistemological and ethical uncertainties that are rooted in the contingencies of language, because, as Wilson herself liked to quote from Lewis Carroll, the 'meaning [of words depends on who is the master.'. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: A02015

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: Ethel Wilson, Canadian Novelists 0802087418

STOUCK, DAVID

Ethel Wilson: Stories, Essays, and Letters

Vancouver, Univ of British Columbia Pr. 1988, First Edition. (ISBN: 0774802901). Hardcover, 8vo. pp. xx [5] 260. Very Good/Very Good.

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Book number: A00693

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: Canadian Writers 0774802901

STOUCK, DAVID; WILKINSON, MYLER: EDITORS

Genius of Place: Writing About British Columbia

Canada, Polestar. 2000, First Printing. (ISBN: 1896095488) Soft Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 431 pages. "Combines history, landscape, politics and culture in an astonishing portrait of the 'storm-washed green' of BC." - from back cover. Clean and unmarked with moderate wear. Sound copy. Good+.

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Book number: 321a8230

Catalogue: British Columbia

Keywords: British Columbia Description Travel America 1896095488

STOUCK, DAVID; WILKINSON, MYLER

Genius of Place: Writing About British Columbia

Vancouver, Polestar Press. 2000, First Edition. (ISBN: 1896095488). Softcover, Larger 8vo. pp. [8] 431."Genius of Place combines history, landscape, politics and culture in an astonishing portrait of British Columbia. The works of the 30 contributors span two centuries and are as complex and diverse as their subject. Included are works from explorer Simon Fraser, naturalist Roderick Haig-Brown, memoirist Muriel Kitigawa, social commentator George Woodcock, architect Arthur Erikson, humorists Eric Nicol, and many more.". Very Good/Paperback.

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Book number: 078887

Catalogue: Canadian Literature

Keywords: Canadian Literature Canadian Fiction British Columbia 1896095488