Robert Kroetsch: Essays on His Works (Essential Writers Series #46)

Robert Kroetsch: Essays on His Works (Essential Writers Series #46)

Nicole Markotic (Editor)
$20.00
Publication Date: March 1st, 2017
Publisher:
Guernica Editions
ISBN:
9781771831710
Pages:
275

Description

These essays span the period of Kroetsch's writing. Included are previously published and new essays that cover (some of) his novels, (some of) his poetry, and even (some of) his critical writing. The contributors include writers who knew Kroetsch well and those who only met him on the page; critics at the beginning of their careers and those well established in the Canadian literary field; men and women, writers and poets and critics and damn fine thinkers. The contributors featured are: Robert Archambeau, Catherine Bates, George Bowering, Jenna Butler, Pauline Butling, Dennis Cooley, Tom Dilworth, Nathan Dueck, Jasmine Elliott, Ryan Fitzpatrick, Jon R. Flieger, Jay Gamble, Gary Geddes, Susan Holbrook, Christine Jackman, Brian Jensen, Wiktor Kulinski, Michael Laverty, John Lent, Ann Mandel, Nicole Markotic, John Matias, Roy Miki, John Moss, Brianne O'Grady, Jeff Pardy, and Aritha van Herk.

About the Author

Nicole Markotic is a novelist, critic, and poet. She has written eight books, including: Yellow Pages (Fitzhenry and Whiteside), Bent at the Spine (BookThug), Whelmed (Coach House), her YA novel, Rough Patch (Arsenal Press), and a critical book, Disability in Film and Literature (McFarland & Co.). As well, she has edited a collection of poetry by Dennis Cooley: By Word of Mouth (Wilfrid Laurier University Press), co-edited an anthology of essays: The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film (Ohio State UP), and is a fiction editor for NeWest Press. Currently, she is Professor of English Literature, Creative Writing, and Canadian Literature at the University of Windsor.

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