Barbara Pell

January 29, 2015


Works by Barbara Pell

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Asylum: Prison or Home
By Barbara Pell
Published in Sport and the Athletic Body. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 202 (Autumn 2009): 96-97.
  • Asylum by André Alexis
Spies and Romances
By Barbara Pell
Published in Predators and Gardens. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 197 (Summer 2008): 147-148.
  • The Halifax Connection by Marie Jakober
Novel
Di Brandt's World
By Barbara Pell
Published in Predators and Gardens. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 197 (Summer 2008): 119-120.
  • So This Is the World & Here I Am in It by Di Brandt
Gothic and Pomo History
By Barbara Pell
Published in Visual/Textual Intersections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 194 (Autumn 2007): 139-141.
  • The Custodian of Paradise by Wayne Johnston
  • Consolation by Michael Redhill
Ecocriticism Feminism
Oprah Will Love It
By Barbara Pell
Published in Canada Reads. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 193 (Summer 2007): 153-154.
  • Before I Wake by Robert J. Wiersema
Historical Fiction
Massacres and Floods
By Barbara Pell
Published in Canadian Literature 191 (Winter 2006): 167-168.
  • Children of the Day by Sandra Birdsell
  • The Wreckage by Michael Crummy
Novel
The Bible Fryed
By Barbara Pell
Published in The Literature of Atlantic Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 189 (Summer 2006): 172-173.
  • Frye and the Word: Religious Contexts in the Writing of Northrop Frye by Jeffery Donaldson (Editor) and Alan Mendelson (Editor)
First Nations Historical Fiction Mennonite Novel
Not After All!
By Barbara Pell
Published in Women & the Politics of Memory. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 186 (Autumn 2005): 144-145.
  • After All! The Collected Stories: V by Hugh Hood
Religion
Complicated Lives
By Barbara Pell
Published in Women & the Politics of Memory. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 186 (Autumn 2005): 103-104.
  • Sitting Practice by Caroline Adderson
  • Beyond Measure by Pauline Holdstock
  • A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews
Short Fiction
Religious Quest
By Barbara Pell
Published in Canadian Literature 184 (Spring 2005): 122-123.
  • Northrop Frye's Notebooks and Lectures on the Bible and Other Religious Texts by Robert D. Denham (Editor)
Mennonite Novel
Mennonite Masterpiece
By Barbara Pell
Published in Black Writing in Canada. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 182 (Autumn 2004): 185-186.
  • Sweeter Than All the World by Rudy Wiebe (Author)
Religion
Community and Solitary
By Barbara Pell
Published in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 181-182.
  • The Stone Carvers by Jane Urquhart
  • Solitaire: The Intimate Lives of Single Women by Marian Botsford Fraser
Mennonite Novel
A Celestial Hierarchy
By Barbara Pell
Published in Anne Carson. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 176 (Spring 2003): 157-158.
  • Near Water by Hugh Hood
Novel War Women's Studies World War I
Selected and Sanctified
By Barbara Pell
Published in Travel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 174 (Autumn 2002): 128-129.
  • Between the Temple and the Cave: The Religious Dimensions of the Poetry of E.J. Pratt by Angela T. McAuliffe
  • E.J. Pratt: Selected Poems by W. J. Keith (Editor), Zailig Pollock (Editor) and Sandra Djwa (Editor)
Novel Religion
A Good Book
By Barbara Pell
Published in First Nations Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 167 (Winter 2000): 115-116.
  • A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
Poetry Religion
Poetry of Faith and Loss
By Barbara Pell
Published in Canadian Literature 164 (Spring 2000): 176-178.
  • Crossword: A Woman's Narrative by Margo Swiss
  • Near Finisterre by John Reibetanz
  • Why Couldn't You See Blue? by Caroline Heath
Novel Ontario
International Cancrit
By Barbara Pell
Published in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 165-167.
  • Canadian Women Writing Fiction by Mickey Pearlman (Editor)
  • Margaret Atwood by Coral Ann Howells
Poetry
Bibliotherapy
By Barbara Pell
Published in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 113-114.
  • Private Voices, Public Lives: Women Speak on the Literary Life by Nancy Owen Nelson (Editor)
  • Where the Rivers Join: A Personal Account of Healing from Ritual Abuse by Beckylane
Biography Canadian Studies Women's Literature
Romance and Realism?
By Barbara Pell
Published in Hispanic-Canadian Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 142-143 (Autumn/Winter 1994): 223-225.
  • Raised by the River by Jake MacDonald
  • White Buick by Greg Hollingshead
Life Writing Women's Literature
Deliberate Ordinariness
By Barbara Pell
Published in Nature, Politics, Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 136 (Spring 1993): 157-158.
  • The Invention of Truth by Elizabeth Brewster
  • Fever by Sharon Butala
Novel Short Fiction
Canon or Not
By Barbara Pell
Published in Transcreations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 135 (Winter 1992): 133-135.
  • Bliss Carman: A Reappraisal by Gerald Lynch
  • A Poetics of Place: The Poetry of Ralph Gustafson by Dermot McCarthy
Life Writing Short Fiction
Country Novel
By Barbara Pell
Published in Background, Foreground. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 127 (Winter 1990): 180-181.
  • Prospero's Daughter by Constance Beresford-Howe
Twentieth Century
Truth & Lie
By Barbara Pell
Published in Background, Foreground. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 127 (Winter 1990): 155-156.
  • The Western Kingdom: Part Two of The Grapefruit Tree by Bryan Moon
  • Union Day: Part Three of The Grapefruit Tree by Bryan Moon
  • Harvest: Part Four of The Grapefruit Tree by Bryan Moon
British Novel
(Dis)Illusions
By Barbara Pell
Published in Slavic and East-European Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 120 (Spring 1989): 165-167.
  • Some Kind of Hero by Max Layton
  • the half-finished christ by James Misfeldt
  • Seeds by Bryan Moon
Cameo & Conflict
By Barbara Pell
Published in Contemporary Drama. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 118 (Autumn 1988): 169-171.
  • Visitations by Elizabeth Brewster
  • As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories by Alistair Macleod
Novel
Quests & Journals
By Barbara Pell
Published in Contemporary Drama. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 118 (Autumn 1988): 171-173.
  • Psalms from the Suburbs by Roger Nash
  • Rip Current by Harold Enrico
  • A Sacrifice of Fire: Expeditions into the Interior by Gregory Grace
Introductory
By Barbara Pell
Published in Atwood, Carrier, Grandbois, Lowry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 112 (Spring 1987): 179-180.
  • Canadian Writers and Their Works by Robert Lecker (Editor), Jack David (Editor) and Ellen Quigley (Editor)
Sifting the Dross
By Barbara Pell
Published in Paradigms of Doubleness. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 104 (Spring 1985): 136-137.
  • Un Dozen: Thirteen Canadian Poets by Judith Fitzgerald (Editor)
  • The Inner Ear: An Anthology of New Poets by Gary Geddes (Editor)
  • The Third Taboo: A Collection of Poems on Jealousy by Heather Cadsby (Editor) and Maria Jacobs (Editor)
Essays Literary Criticism
Towards Poetry
By Barbara Pell
Published in Poetic Form. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 97 (Summer 1983): 112-113.
  • Surplus Waste and Other Poems by Shaunt Basmajian
  • The Arrivals by Robert Clayton Casto
  • The Prinzhorn Collection by Don Coles
  • White Noise by Garry Raddysh
Anthologies Poetry
Intimate Prairie
By Barbara Pell
Published in Fiction in the Seventies. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 92 (Spring 1982): 128-130.
  • A Shored Up House by Elizabeth Allen
  • Lacuna by Laura McLauchlan
  • A Game of Angels by Anne Szumigalski
  • Humans and Other Beasts by Lorna Uher
Poetry

Articles by Barbara Pell

Faith and Fiction: Hugh MacLennan's "The Watch That Ends the Night"
By Barbara Pell
Published in Systems of Value, Structures of Belief. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 128 (Spring 1991): 39-50.
Essays Modernism Poetry Postmodernism

Book Reviews of Barbara Pell's Works

Faith and Fiction: A Theological Critique of the Narrative Strategies of Hugh MacLennan and Money Callaghan
By Barbara Pell
Reviewed in Awake to the Sacred by Laurie Aikman
A Portrait of the Artist: Ernest Buckler's The Mountain and the Valley
By Barbara Pell
Reviewed in Promoting Canadian Writers by Heather Sanderson
Literary Criticism Poetry Religion