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The only critical guide to the short fiction of Hugh Hood (Montreal's Proust, and author of 30 full-length prose works).
List of contents
Contents
Preface 11
Abbreviations 16
1
Biographical 17
2
Critical Considerations 23
3
Starting from the States: 37
A Short Walk in the Rain, The Isolation Booth
4
Displaying His Wares: 51
Flying a Red Kite
5
Anatomy of a City: 77
Around the Mountain
6
Short Stories or Short-Story Collection: 107
The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager
7
The Morality of Vision: 120
Dark Glasses
8
Signs and Portents: 139
None Genuine Without This Signature
9
Every Piece Different: 160
August Nights
10
Art in Crisis: 178
Five New Facts About Giorgione
11
Miscellany of Tones: 192
You’ll Catch Your Death
12
Late Harvest: 209
After All!
Check-List of Short Fiction 231
Other Works Cited 239
Index 245
About the author
W. J. Keith (William John Keith) was born in 1934 in England. After school he was called up for two years National Service (1953-5), where he taught as a Sergeant-Instructor in the Royal Army Education Corps both in Sussex and with the British Army of the Rhine. From 1955-1961 he obtained degrees in English from Cambridge and the University of Toronto, where he then taught for nearly a quarter-century. Now a Professor Emeritus, Keith was editor of the
University of Toronto Quarterly from 1976 to 1985, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1979. He is the author of
A Sense of Style: Studies in the Art of Fiction in English-Speaking Canada,
Epic Fiction: The Art of Rudy Wiebe (1981),
Canadian Literature in English (1985), and
Introducing Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman (1989).
Summary
The only critical guide to the short fiction of Hugh Hood (Montreal's Proust, and author of 30 full-length prose works).
