God's Plenty: A Study of Hugh Hood's Short Fiction by W.J. Keith (English) Paper

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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).

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A companion volume to Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age, God's Plenty surveys the short fiction of the writer dubbed Canada's Marcel Proust. Hugh Hood, an unparalleled stylist, was equally accomplished in short forms and long: this straight-talking assessment of Hood's stories is thorough, insightful, readable, and profound. With its story-by-story breakdown and rigorous engagement with Hood's technique, God's Plenty offers an excellent introduction not just to an undersung master, but to the art of short fiction full stop.W.J. Keith is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.

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A companion volume to Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age, God's Plenty surveys the short fiction of the writer dubbed Canada's Marcel Proust. Hugh Hood, an unparalleled stylist, was equally accomplished in short forms and long: this straight-talking assessment of Hood's stories is thorough, insightful, readable, and profound. With its story-by-story breakdown and rigorous engagement with Hood's technique, God's Plenty offers an excellent introduction not just to an undersung master, but to the art of short fiction full stop.

Author Biography

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).

Table 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

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A companion volume to Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age , God's Plenty surveys the short fiction of the writer dubbed Canada's Marcel Proust. Hugh Hood, an unparalleled stylist, was equally accomplished in short forms and long: this straight-talking assessment of Hood's stories is thorough, insightful, readable, and profound. With its story-by-story breakdown and rigorous engagement with Hood's technique, God's Plenty offers an excellent introduction not just to an undersung master, but to the art of short fiction full stop. W.J. Keith is a professor emeritus at the University of Toronto.

Competing Titles

Canadian Odyssey W.J. Keith 9780773523890 23.95 McGill-Queens 2002 Mr. Proust's Library Anka Muhlstein 9781933527581 9.00 Turtle Point 2012

Description for Sales People

One-of-a-kind: there are few full-length monographs on Hugh Hood full stop, and no full-length books on his short fiction Hood's fiction itself provides Proust-like meditations on temporality and place, but is informed by the stylistic/entertaining vivacity of the Montreal Story-Tellers, of which Hood was a member.

Details ISBN1927428475 Author W.J. Keith Short Title GODS PLENTY Pages 248 Publisher Biblioasis Language English ISBN-10 1927428475 ISBN-13 9781927428474 Media Book Format Paperback Residence -CN Birth 1934 Imprint Biblioasis Place of Publication Emeryville Country of Publication Canada Subtitle A Study of Hugh Hood's Short Fiction DEWEY 813.54 Year 2015 Publication Date 2015-07-30 UK Release Date 2015-07-30 Audience General AU Release Date 2015-08-10 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this

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