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Man Should Rejoice is one of two hitherto unpublished novels by acclaimed novelist Hugh MacLennan. Completed in 1937 and left unpublished due to economic conditions during the Great Depression, it lay in the McGill archives until now. This critical edition of Man Should Rejoice , which is also the first-ever publication of the work, is comprised of a critical introduction, a bibliography of published and unpublished sources, a fully-edited text based on a typescript of the novel, a list of textual emendations, and explanatory notes. The introduction draws upon extensive research undertaken in three Canadian archival collections located in Montreal and Calgary. It provides relevant historical, cultural, and biographical context for the novel. From hundreds of archival documents, Colin Hill reconstructs a textual history of the novel's production that acknowledges the crucial contribution of Dorothy Duncan, who heavily revised the text and assisted MacLennan behind the scenes. Hill also explores the critical reception of MacLennan's fiction from the 1930s to the present. This book is published in English. - Man Should Rejoice est un des deux romans inedits du grand romancier Hugh MacLennan. Termine en 1937, il fut victime de la Grande Crise et fut conserve dans les archives de McGill jusqu'a maintenant. Cette edition critique de Man Should Rejoice comprend une introduction critique, une bibliographie des sources publiees et non publiees, le texte revise tire d'un tapuscrit du roman, une liste des emendations textuelles, et des notes explicatives. L'introduction, qui repose sur des recherches archivistiques poussees de trois collections canadiennes situees a Montreal et a Calgary, fournit le contexte historique, culturel et biographique du roman. Colin Hill erige l'histoire textuelle de l'ecriture de ce roman a partir de centaines de documents d'archives qui jettent la lumiere sur la contribution cle de Dorothy Duncan, qui a revise en profondeur le texte et a aide MacLennan en coulisses. Il explore par ailleurs la reception critique de la fiction de MacLennan, des annees 1930 jusqu'a aujourd'hui. Ce livre est publie en anglais.

Through the Bottom of a Glass is the continuing story of Donald Jackson, the ex-telephone engineer pretending to be a private eye. There is still no sign of little girls, white rabbits or mad hatters but there is one big girl, a dead dog and a couple of rather annoyed managers.

A book without white rabbits, little girls or mad hatters. But it does feature a dead cat, a couple of prostitutes and a deranged car mechanic. So, there is something for everyone in this story about an ex telephone engineer pretending to be Sam Spade.

A collection of short stories; some dark, some humorous, some darkly humorous, some humorously dark and some neither dark nor humorous, just some.

This is a new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s. Irene Baird's "Waste Heritage" is a groundbreaking work of Canadian fiction based on the dramatic and violent labour disputes that took place in British Columbia in 1938. The story follows the progress of two friends, Matt Striker, a 23-year-old from Saskatchewan, and his simple-minded companion Eddy, as they travel from Vancouver to Victoria following the occupation of the Vancouver Post Office. Like the unemployed masses that took siege of the Post Office, Matt and Eddy yearn for relief after years of economic depression. Empathetic and tragic, "Waste Heritage" has been praised as Canada's "Grapes of Wrath" and the most important Canadian novel of the 1930s. A new critical apparatus surrounds Baird's original text, informing the reader of the historical and literary contexts of the work, as well as providing exhaustive textual analysis.

Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction and poetry. Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction re-evaluates Canadian literary culture to posit that it has been misunderstood because it is a distinct genre, a regional form of the larger international modernist movement.Examining literary magazines, manifestos, archival documents, and major writers such as Frederick Philip Grove, Morley Callaghan, and Raymond Knister, Colin Hill identifies a 'modern realism' that crosses regions as well as urban and rural divides. A bold reading of the modern-realist aesthetic and an articulate challenge to several enduring and limiting myths about Canadian writing, Modern Realism in English- Canadian Fiction will stimulate important debate in literary circles everywhere.