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The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature /

"There are more than 14,000 copies in print of the First Edition of The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, edited by William Toye." "This Second Edition has been prepared in response to the extraordinary growth and diversification of Canadian literature since the early 1980s. It...

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Contributors: Toye, William., Benson, Eugene.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects and Genres:
Canadian literature > Dictionaries.
Canadian literature > Bio-bibliography > Dictionaries.
Authors, Canadian > Biography > Dictionaries.
Canadian literature > Bio-bibliography.
Littérature canadienne > Dictionnaires anglais.
Littérature canadienne > Biobibliographie.
Authors, Canadian.
Canadian literature.
Literature.
Letterkunde.
Engels.
Frans.
Écrivains canadiens > Biographies > Dictionnaires.
Littérature canadienne > Dictionnaires.
Littérature canadienne de langue française > Dictionnaires.
Littérature canadienne de langue anglaise > Dictionnaires anglais.
Canada > In literature > Dictionaries.
Canada.
Biographies.
Dictionaries.
Reference works.
Online Access:http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/BOOK_SEARCH.html?book=t201&subject=s13
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Summary: "There are more than 14,000 copies in print of the First Edition of The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature, edited by William Toye." "This Second Edition has been prepared in response to the extraordinary growth and diversification of Canadian literature since the early 1980s. It contains over 1100 entries - 342 of them new - written by 325 contributors covering mainly English-Canadian, Quebecois, and Acadian literatures. The original entries have been updated, the genre and regional surveys extensively. New author entries include many on historians, philosophers, and writers of SF, crime fiction, and children's books. In addition, there are new entries on major titles and a wide range of new subject entries: Awards, Caribbean-Canadian literature, Censorship, Fantastic literature and science fiction in French, Fantastic literature in English, Gay literature, Italian-Canadian literature, Language (English), Language (French), Lesbian literature, Multicultural writing in French, Southeast Asian-Canadian literature, Southern Ontario Gothic, and Sportswriting in English."--Jacket.
Physical Description: xv, 1199 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN: 0195411676
9780195411676
9780191735141
0191735140
Access: Internet access restricted to Vanderbilt users.

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