Clark Blaise
Essays on His Works
Published on 1. March 2016
257 pages
978-1-77183-112-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume represents the first full-scale appreciation of Clark Blaise's writing in more than 25 years -- and the first comprehensive study of his now more than 20 books. Included are previously published essays by, among others, Robert Lecker, Alexander MacLeod, Catherine Sheldrick Ross, and the volume's editor, J.R. (Tim) Struthers, along with new essays by William Butt, Stephen Henighan, W.H. New, and Sandra Sabatini, as well as a brand-new autobiographical essay by Blaise himself. As important as these essays are for their insights into Blaise's works, they offer something more: a rich range of examples showing us how we, as readers and as writers, can come to understand much more intricately and to practise much more powerfully the art of the essay ourselves.
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Content
- Intro
- The View from Seventy-Five: Autobiographical Annex 2002-2015
- Ariel or Caliban?
- Subcontinental Drift
- Clark Blaise: The First Fifty Years, 1940-1990
- Light Through a Prism: Clark Blaise's I Had a Father: A Post-Modern Autobiography
- Mitteleuropa Mothers in Montreal: Central European Correspondences Between Mavis Gallant and Clark Blaise
- I Once Was Lost but Now Am Found: Rereading Clark Blaise
- Border-Crossing and the Moving Nation: The Stories of Clark Blaise
- Reading by Twilight: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Clark Blaise, and the Technology of the Short Story
- The Other Side of Things: Clark Blaise's "Notes Beyond a History"
- Story and Allegory, the Cast and the Mold: Reading Clark Blaise's "The Birth of the Blues"
- Opening "Eyes"
- The Mini-Cycle in Clark Blaise's Resident Alien
- Of Metaphor and Memoir: Clark Blaise's Lunar Attractions
- Self-Healing through Telling Someone Else's Intimate Story: Clark Blaise's Lusts
- Revisiting Clark Blaise and Bharati Mukherjee's The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy
- Trains and Blaise's Time Lord
- A Checklist of Works by Clark Blaise to 2015
- About the Writer
- About the Artist
- About the Editor
- Contributor Biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Copyright
