Product Description: Yves Thériault, Master Storyteller is the first comprehensive analytical and critical introduction in English to the works of one of French-Canada's most versatile authors. Individual chapters discuss the life of Thériault (1915-1983), the literary milieu of his period and the critical reception of a writer who prided himself on his independence as an artist...read more

Product Description: This study is an investigation into one of the most persistently recurrent themes of Quebecois literature: images of childhood. The child as innocent victim and observer of deplorable social conditions, as well as the adult narrator, figure prominently in Quebecois novels of the 1960s and 1970s...read more

Product Description: French-Canadian novels began as a marginal offshoot of French metropolitan writing and are now read and studied not only in English Canada but around the world. This collection of essays offers a history and analysis of French-Canadian fiction from the 1830s to the present day...read more