The Oxford companion to Canadian literature

"There are more than 14,000 copies in print of the First Edition of The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, edited by William Toye." "This Second Edition has been prepared in response to the extraordinary growth and diversification of Canadian literature since the early 1980s. It contains over 1100 entries - 342 of them new - written by 325 contributors covering mainly English-Canadian, Quebecois, and Acadian literatures. The original entries have been updated, the genre and regional surveys extensively. New author entries include many on historians, philosophers, and writers of SF, crime fiction, and children's books. In addition, there are new entries on major titles and a wide range of new subject entries: Awards, Caribbean-Canadian literature, Censorship, Fantastic literature and science fiction in French, Fantastic literature in English, Gay literature, Italian-Canadian literature, Language (English), Language (French), Lesbian literature, Multicultural writing in French, Southeast Asian-Canadian literature, Southern Ontario Gothic, and Sportswriting in English."--Jacket.

Year

1997

Language

English

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Editions

1

ISBN

9780195435634

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