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David Staines

January 29, 2015


Works by David Staines

Book ReviewsArticlesEditorialsBook Reviews of Author

Book Reviews by David Staines

Selection
By David Staines
Published in Mothers & Daughters. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 109 (Summer 1986): 117-119.
  • Everson at Eighty: Poems by R. G. Everson by R. G. Everson
  • Windfalls for Cider: The Poems of Raymond Knister by Raymond Knister
  • The Land They Gave Away: New and Selected Poems by Andrew Suknaski
  • Collected Poems by George Woodcock
Home Word
By David Staines
Published in Mothers & Daughters. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 109 (Summer 1986): 103-104.
  • Bluebeard's Egg by Margaret Atwood
Anthologies Poetry
Historical Biography
By David Staines
Published in Canadian Literature 191 (Winter 2006): 117-118.
  • Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton by Richard A. Davies
Religion

Articles by David Staines

E. K. Brown (1905-1951): The Critic and His Writings
By David Staines
Published in Intellectual History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 83 (Winter 1979): 176-189.
Short Fiction
Observance without Belief
By David Staines
Published in Exiles and Expatriates. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 73 (Summer 1977): 8-24.
Bibliography Biography Literary Criticism

Editorials by David Staines

Canadian Literature at 45
By David Staines
Published in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 6-8.
Biography

Book Reviews of David Staines's Works

A History of Canadian Fiction
By David Staines
Reviewed in Post-Dated by Shane Neilson
Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet
By David Staines
Reviewed in “It Takes a Lifetime to Write a Poem” by Robert Thacker
The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro
By David Staines
Reviewed in Retrospective Recursion by Lorraine York
The Callaghan Symposium
By David Staines
Reviewed in Writing about Writing by David O'Rourke
Literary Criticism Munro Short Fiction
The Canadian Imagination: Dimensions of a Literary Culture
By David Staines
Reviewed in Haunted by “Can Lit” by Linda Leith
Anthologies Essays Novel
The Letters of Stephen Leacock
By David Staines
Reviewed in In My Fashion by Coral Ann Howells
Northrop Frye on Canada: Collected Works of Northrop Frye. Volume 12
By Jean O'Grady and David Staines
Reviewed in Rereading Frye by Waldemar Zacharasiewicz
Culture
Beyond the Provinces: Literary Canada at Century's End
By David Staines
Reviewed in Dispassionate Witnesses by Graham Nicol Forst
Culture
Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflection
By David Staines
Reviewed in Pas de Deux by Lorna Hutchison
Canadian Studies Nineteenth Century Postcolonialism United States
Stephen Leacock: A Reappraisal
By David Staines
Reviewed in Bits of Steel by Gerald Noonan
Essays Literary Criticism