Centring the Margins: Essays and Reviews

Centring the Margins: Essays and Reviews

by Jeff Bursey
Centring the Margins: Essays and Reviews

Centring the Margins: Essays and Reviews

by Jeff Bursey

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Overview

Centring the Margins is a collection of reviews and essays written between 2001 and 2014 of writers from Canada, the United States, the UK, and Europe. Most are neglected, obscure, or considered difficult, and include Mati Unt, Ornela Vorpsi, S.D. Chrostowska, Blaise Cendrars and Joseph McElroy, among others.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781785354007
Publisher: Collective Ink
Publication date: 07/29/2016
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Canadian writer Jeff Bursey is a novelist, short-story writer, and literary critic. He lives in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Part I Panorama 12

Schneiderman [SIC] Davis

The Sea-God's Herb: Essays & Criticism, 1975-2014 John Domini 17

Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature Herb Wyile 24

'"A realm forever beyond reach': Steinbeck and Solzhenitsyn as presences in William Vollmann's Expelled from Eden and Poor People" William T. Vollmann 29

The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings 1947-2005 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 62

Part II Selected Reviews 69

Canadian Tales

The Big Dream Rebecca Rosenblum

Ascension Steven Galloway 73

And Also Sharks Jessica Westhead 75

Drive-By Saviours Chris Benjamin 77

Double-Blind Michelle Butler Hallett 81

Permission S.D. Chrostowska 84

A Biography Chris Eaton Chris Eaton 90

Realism and Suffering 93

The Parson's Widow Marja-Liisa Vartio

The Fountain at the Center of the World Robert Newman 97

Larry Fondation Fish, Soap and Bonds 103

The End: Hamburg 1943 Hans Erich Nossack 106

Right and Left Joseph Roth 111

The Country Where No One Ever Dies Ornela Vorpsi 116

Glass Sam Savage 121

Widow Michelle Latiolais 126

Outliers, Innovators, and Explorers 133

Blaise Cendrars Gold, Dan Yack, and Confessions of Dan Yack

The Rush for Second Place and Agape Agape William Gaddis 138

Letters of John Cowper Powys and Dorothy Richardson John Cowper Powys 143

The Abyss of Human Illusion Gilbert Sorrentino 150

Brecht at Night Mati Unt 157

Night Soul and Other Stories Joseph McElroy 162

The Truth About Marie Jean-Philippe Toussaint 165

Kissed By Alexandra Chasin 169

The Short Fall Marek Waldorf 170

Shantytown César Aira 176

Postface 182

Endnotes 184

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