Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Canadian short story : status, criticism, historical survey / Reingard M. Nischik -- Canadian animal stories : Charles G.D. Roberts, "Do seek their meat from God" (1892) / Martina Seifert -- Tory humanism, ironic humor, and satire : Stephen Leacock, "The marine excursion of the Knights of Pythias" (1912) / Heinz Antor -- The beginnings of Canadian modernism : Raymond Knister, "The first day of spring" (written 1924/25) / Julia Breitbach -- From old world aestheticist immoralist to prairie moral realist : Frederick Philip Grove, "Snow" (1926/1932) / Konrad Gross -- Psychological realism, immigration, and city fiction : Morley Callaghan, "Last spring they came over" (1927) / Paul Goetsch -- Modernism, prairie fiction, and gender : Sinclair Ross, "The lamp at noon" (1938) / Dieter Meindl -- "An artful artlessness" : Ethel Wilson, "We have to sit opposite" (1945) / Nina Kück -- Social realism and compassion for the underdog : Hugh Garner, "One-two-three little Indians" (1950) / Stefan Ferguson -- The perils of human relationships : Joyce Marshall, "The old woman" (1952) / Rudolf Bader -- The social critic at work : Mordecai Richler, "Benny, the war in Europe, and Myerson's daughter Bella" (1956) / Fabienne C. Quennet -- Myth and the postmodernist turn in Canadian short fiction : Sheila Watson, "Antigone" (1959) / Martin Kuester -- The modernist aesthetic : Hugh Hood, "Flying a red kite" (1962) / Jutta Zimmermann -- Doing well in the international thing? : Mavis Gallant, "The ice wagon going down the street" (1963) / Silvia Mergenthal -- (Un-)doing gender : Alice Munro, "Boys and girls" (1964) / Reingard M. Nischik -- Collective memory and personal identity in the prairie town of Manawaka : Margaret Laurence, "The loons" (1966) / Caroline Rosenthal -- "Out of place" : Clark Blaise, "A class of new Canadians" (1970) / Wolfgang Kloo€ -- Realism and parodic postmodernism : Audrey Thomas, "Aquarius" (1971) / Lothar Hönnighausen -- "The problem is to make the story" : Rudy Wiebe, "Where is the voice coming from?" (1971) / Heinz Ickstadt -- The Canadian writer as expatriate : Norman Levine, "We all begin in a little magazine" (1972) / Gordon Bölling -- Canadian artist stories : John Metcalf, "The strange aberration of Mr. Ken Smythe" (1973) / Reingard M. Nischik -- "A literature of a whole world and of a real world" : Jane Rule, "Lilian" (1977) / Christina Strobel -- Failure as liberation : Jack Hodgins, "The concert stages of Europe" (1978) / Waldemar Zacharasiewicz -- Figures in a landscape : William Dempsey Valgardson, "A matter of balance" (1982) / Maria and Martin Löschnigg -- "The translation of the world into words" and the female tradition : Margaret Atwood, "Significant moments in the life of my mother" (1983) / Reingard M. Nischik -- "Southern preacher" : Leon Rooke, "The woman who talked to horses" (1984) / Nadja Gernalzick -- Nativeness as third space : Thomas King, "Borders" (1991) / Eva Gruber -- Digressing to inner worlds : Carol Shields, "Our men and women" (1999) / Brigitte Glaser -- A sentimental journey : Janice Kulyk Keefer, "Dreams: storms: dogs" (1999) / Georgiana Banita.