Despite an impressive output and various literary honours, the writings of Marian Engel have not received the critical attention they deserve. A comprehensive study of Engel's body of work from a feminist literary perspective, this book aims to fill the gap in Canadian literary criticism. Prior to her death in 1985 at the age of 51, Engel had ...
Notebooks which track her creative development, illustrating her commitment to the craft of writing, documenting her growth as a major Canadian writer. They also portray her surprising leaps of logic, her fascination with the bizarre, eclecticism of her reading and the depth and variety of her thinking.
A student at McGill in the mid-1950s, Marian Engel wrote her M.A. thesis under the direction of Hugh MacLennan. Their work together became the basis of a correspondence, the MacLennan half of which survives and is detailed here. Both personal and professional in nature, MacLennan's letters to Engel provide fascinating insights into his life's ...
Admired by a generation of Canadian authors and critics, Marian Engel was a writer's writer. This compilation offers an incomparable view into Canadian literature from 1965 to Engel's early death in 1985.
Despite an impressive output and various literary honours, the writings of Marian Engel have not received the critical attention they deserve. A comprehensive study of Engel's body of work from a feminist literary perspective, this book aims to fill the gap in Canadian literary criticism. Prior to her death in 1985 at the age of 51, Engel had ...
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