Works by Neil Besner
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Book Reviews by Neil Besner
The Story's the Thing
By Neil Besner
Published in Canadian Literature 177 (Summer 2003): 139-141.
By Neil Besner
Published in Canadian Literature 177 (Summer 2003): 139-141.
- Promise of Shelter by Robyn Sarah
- Sanctuary and Other Stories by Jennifer Duncan
- Birds of Paradise by Helen Pereira
Bishop's Many Arts
By Neil Besner
Published in Urquhart and Munro. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 150 (Autumn 1996): 115-117.
By Neil Besner
Published in Urquhart and Munro. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 150 (Autumn 1996): 115-117.
- Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery by Bonnie Costello
- Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: The Psychodynamics of Creativity by Joanne Feit-Diehl
- Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy by Victoria Harrison
- Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It by Brett Millier
A Poet's Bones
By Neil Besner
Published in Past, Present, Future. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 138-139 (Autumn/Winter 1993): 105-106.
By Neil Besner
Published in Past, Present, Future. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 138-139 (Autumn/Winter 1993): 105-106.
- Good Bones by Margaret Atwood
Local Polarities
By Neil Besner
Published in Forms of the Modern. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 126 (Autumn 1990): 142-143.
By Neil Besner
Published in Forms of the Modern. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 126 (Autumn 1990): 142-143.
- Pilgrim's Progress: A Study of Short Stories of Hugh Hood by Susan Copoloff-Mechanic
Fire & Ice
By Neil Besner
Published in Magic & Other Realisms. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 116 (Spring 1988): 148-149.
By Neil Besner
Published in Magic & Other Realisms. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 116 (Spring 1988): 148-149.
- Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews by Mavis Gallant
Inland Rule
By Neil Besner
Published in Literature & Ideology. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 110 (Autumn 1986): 139-140.
By Neil Besner
Published in Literature & Ideology. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 110 (Autumn 1986): 139-140.
- Inland Passage and Other Stories by Jane Rule
In Distress
By Neil Besner
Published in Popular Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 108 (Spring 1986): 162-163.
By Neil Besner
Published in Popular Culture. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 108 (Spring 1986): 162-163.
- Capital Tales by Brian Fawcett
- chasing her own tail by Nora Keeling
Reading Plays
By Neil Besner
Published in Paradigms of Doubleness. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 104 (Spring 1985): 128-130.
By Neil Besner
Published in Paradigms of Doubleness. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 104 (Spring 1985): 128-130.
- Quiet in the Land by Anne Chislett
- What Is To Be Done? by Mavis Gallant
Abundant Form
By Neil Besner
Published in Documenting the Landscape / Notes on Sinclair Ross. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 103 (Winter 1984): 119-121.
By Neil Besner
Published in Documenting the Landscape / Notes on Sinclair Ross. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 103 (Winter 1984): 119-121.
- Coming Attractions by Sandra Martin
- A House Full of Women by Elizabeth Brewster
- 83: Best Canadian Stories by by Sandra Martin (Editor) and David Helwig (Editor)
The Most Part
By Neil Besner
Published in B.C. Writers / Reviews Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 102 (Autumn 1984): 179-181.
By Neil Besner
Published in B.C. Writers / Reviews Issue. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 102 (Autumn 1984): 179-181.
- Trusting the Tale by Hugh Hood
- Night Games by Robert Currie
Across Broken Globes
By Neil Besner
Published in Stories, Tales & Sketches from Life. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 94 (Autumn 1982): 125-127.
By Neil Besner
Published in Stories, Tales & Sketches from Life. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 94 (Autumn 1982): 125-127.
- The Almost Meeting and Other Stories by Henry Kreisel
Regionalism, Realism
By Neil Besner
Published in Timothy Findley & the War Novel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 91 (Winter 1981): 131-134.
By Neil Besner
Published in Timothy Findley & the War Novel. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 91 (Winter 1981): 131-134.
- The Hockey Sweater and other stories by Roch Carrier and Sheila Fischman
- The Land of Look Behind by Paul Cameron Browne
- The Glace Bay Miner's Museum by Sheldon Currie
- Selected Stories of Mazo de la Roche by Douglas M. Daymond
Editorials by Neil Besner
Articulating New
By Neil Besner
Published in New Directions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 158 (Autumn 1998): 5-9.
By Neil Besner
Published in New Directions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 158 (Autumn 1998): 5-9.
Articles by Neil Besner
Kreisel's Broken Globes
By Neil Besner
Published in The Times Between. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 107 (Winter 1985): 103-111.
By Neil Besner
Published in The Times Between. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 107 (Winter 1985): 103-111.
Book Reviews of Neil Besner's Works
Fishing with Tardelli: A Memoir of Family in Time Lost
By Neil Besner
Reviewed in Cultivating Hope by Julie Cairnie
By Neil Besner
Reviewed in Cultivating Hope by Julie Cairnie
Carol Shields: The Arts of a Writing Life
By Neil Besner
Reviewed in More Brilliantly Alive by Faye Hammill
By Neil Besner
Reviewed in More Brilliantly Alive by Faye Hammill
Rare and Commonplace Flowers: The Story of Elizabeth Bishop and Lota de Macedo Soares
By Carmen L. Oliveira and Neil Besner
Reviewed in Elizabeth Bishop At Home by Sara Jamieson
By Carmen L. Oliveira and Neil Besner
Reviewed in Elizabeth Bishop At Home by Sara Jamieson
Introducing Alice Munro's Lives of Girls and Women
By Neil Besner
Reviewed in Ringing the Changes by Christine Somerville
By Neil Besner
Reviewed in Ringing the Changes by Christine Somerville