How Stories Mean - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889841276 ISBN 13: 9780889841277

Publisher: Porcupine's Quill, 1993

Synopsis

How Stories Mean gathers together criticism and theory written by short story writers themselves. Several of the essays were newly written for this book. The essays document the establishment and growth of the story form in Canada over the last twenty-five years but the collection is far more than archival. It offers endless insights into how writers write and how they wish to be read.

In discussing the nuts and bolts of their craft, the writers are inviting us into their workshops so that we can see how stories are made and come to a more intimate understanding of them. How Stories Mean is the one indispensable book for all those interested in the short story in Canada.

Contributors include: Margaret Atwood; Clark Blaise; George Bowering; Keath Fraser; Mavis Gallant; Jack Hodgins; Hugh Hood; Norman Levine; John Metcalf; Alice Munro; Leon Rooke; Carol Shields; Ray Smith; Audrey Thomas and Kent Thompson.

About this title

About the Authors

John Metcalf was born in Carlisle, England, and was educated at the University of Bristol. He emigrated to Canada in 1962. In addition to working on his own writings (novels, stories and essays), he held for many years the unsalaried post of Senior Editor of the Porcupine' Quill. John Metcalf is the editor of Canadian Notes and Queries and book publisher Biblioasis. He resides in Ottawa with his wife, Myrna.

J. R. (Tim) Struthers has won wide recognition for his efforts as a bibliographer, interviewer, critic, editor, and publisher. He completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Western Ontario with a specialization in Canadian literature, was awarded a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada post-doctoral fellowship for study of the works of Hugh Hood, then joined the Department of English at the University of Guelph on July 1, 1985. He is the editor of three critical books: Before the Flood, a volume of criticism on Hugh Hood; The Montreal Story Tellers, a collection of autobiography and criticism; and New Directions from Old, a volume of criticism on Canadian short fiction. He has also prepared the two-volume anthology The Possibilities of Story and, with John Metcalf, the collections Canadian Classics and How Stories Mean. As an editor for The Porcupine's Quill and as the publisher of Red Kite Press, J. R. (Tim) Struthers has arranged for and supervised the publication of a considerable number and variety of books of criticism and literature.

Edition details

• Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0889841276
• ISBN 13: 9780889841277
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Metcalf John, Struthers Tim