Celebrated Canadian writer Mavis Gallant passed away yesterday at the age of 91. Gallant, who spent most of her career in Paris, France, was best known for short stories but also wrote novels, plays, and essays. In 1981, Gallant won the Governor General’s Award in fiction for her collection Home Truths: Selected Canadian Stories and was named to the Order of Canada.
Despite living most of her life outside of Canada, Gallant’s work received much critical attention in the pages of Canadian Literature. Here is a list of all articles, reviews of Gallant’s works, and reviews of scholarship on Gallant’s writing published in Canadian Literature:
Articles
by Tamas Dobozy. #158 (Autumn 1998): 65–88. Article: PDF available.Designed Anarchy
in Mavis Gallant’s The Moslem Wife and Other StoriesThe Secular Opiate: Marxisms as an Ersatz Religion in Three Canadian Texts
by Christian Bök. #147 (Winter 1995): 11–22. Article: PDF available.Structural Patterns of Alienation & Disjunction: Mavis Gallant’s Firmly-Structured Stories
by Danielle Schaub. #136 (Spring 1993): 45–57. Article: PDF available.Artistry in Mavis Gallant’s
by Lesley D. Clement. #129 (Summer 1991): 57–73. Article: PDF available.Green Water, Green Sky
: The Composition of Structure, Pattern, and GyreTo Be (And Not To Be) Continued: Closure and Consolation in Gallant’s
by Karen Smythe. #129 (Summer 1991): 74–86. Article: PDF available.Linnet Muir Sequence
Exiles in Time: Gallant’s
by David O’Rourke. #93 (Summer 1982): 98–107. Article: PDF available.My Heart Is Broken
Book Reviews of Mavis Gallant’s Works
Selected Gallant
by Ronald Hatch. #160 (Spring 1999): 159–61. HTML available. Review of: The Selected Stories of Mavis Gallant by Mavis Gallant.Home & Abroad
by Herb Wyile. #131 (Winter 1991): 235–37. Reviews section PDF available.
Review of: In Transit by Mavis Gallant.Fire & Ice
by Neil K. Besner. #116 (Spring 1988): 148–49. Reviews section PDF available. Review of: Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews by Mavis Gallant.From a Balloon
by Peter Buitenhuis. #111 (Winter 1986): 154–56. Reviews section PDF available. Review of: Overheard in a Balloon: Stories of Paris by Mavis Gallant.Reading Plays
by Neil K. Besner. #104 (Spring 1985): 128–30. Reviews section PDF available. Review of: What Is To Be Done? by Mavis Gallant.The Art of Haunting Ghosts
by W. H. New. #85 (Summer 1980): 153–55. HTML available. Review of: From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant.
Reviews of Scholarship on Mavis Gallant’s Work
Editing Talent
by Dee Horne. #205 (Summer 2010): 160. HTML available. Review of: Douglas Gibson Unedited: On Editing Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Mavis Gallant, Jack Hodgins, Alistair MacLeod, etc. by Christine Evain.Reclamation, Exploration
by Laurie Kruk. #189 (Summer 2006): 149–50. HTML available. Review of: Transient Questions: New Essays on Mavis Gallant edited by Kristjana Gunnars.The Craft of Fiction
by Annette Kern-Stá?hler. #186 (Autumn 2005): 190–92. HTML available. Review of: Varieties of Exile: New Essays on Mavis Gallant edited by Nicole Côté and Peter Sabor.Introducing Oeuvres
by Robert Thacker. #167 (Winter 2000): 124–26. HTML available. Review of: Mavis Gallant by Danielle Schaub.Mystery
by Ron Hatch. #129 (Summer 1991): 184–84. Reviews section PDF available. Review of: Reading Mavis Gallant by Janice Kulyk Keefer.