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1 1 y separately published work icon The Oxford History of the Novel in English : The Novel in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific Since 1950 Coral Ann Howells (editor), Paul Sharrad (editor), Gerry Turcotte (editor), Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2017 12006182 2017 anthology criticism

'The Oxford History of the Novel in English is a 12-volume series presenting a comprehensive, global, and up-to-date history of English-language prose fiction and written by a large, international team of scholars. The series is concerned with novels as a whole, not just the 'literary' novel, and each volume includes chapters on the processes of production, distribution and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as outlining the work of major novelists, movements and tendencies.

'This volume offers a comprehensive account of the production of English language novels and related prose fiction since 1950 in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific. After the Second World War, the rise of cultural nationalism in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand and movements towards independence in the Pacific islands, together with the turn toward multiculturalism and transnationalism in the postcolonial world, has called into question the standard national frames for literary history. This has resulted in an increasing recognition of formerly marginalised peoples and a repositioning of these national literatures in a world literary context. This multi-authored volume explores the implications of such radical change through its focus on the novel and the short story, which model the crises in evolving narratives of nationhood and the reinvention of postcolonial identities. The constant interplay between national and regional specificity and transnational linkages is mirrored in the structure of this volume, where parallel sections on national literatures are situated within a broadly inclusive comparative framework. Shifting socio-political and cultural contexts and their effects on novels and novelists, together with shifts in literary genres (realism, modernism, the Gothic, postmodernism) are traced across these different regions. Attention is given not only to major authors but also to Indigenous and multicultural fiction, children's and young adult novels, and popular fiction. A significant feature of this volume is its extensive treatment of the novel in the South Pacific. Chapters on book publishing, critical reception, and literary histories for all four areas are included in this innovative presentation of a TransPacific postcolonial history of the novel.' (Publication summary)

1 [Review Essay] Patrick White Centenary : The Legacy of a Prodigal Son Coral Ann Howells , 2014 single work review essay
— Appears in: Le Simplegadi , November no. 13 2014; (p. 88-91)

— Review of Patrick White Centenary : The Legacy of a Prodigal Son 2014 anthology criticism

'White is known to have speculated, at times, as to whether his works would be read after his death. That his reputation is in no danger of fading is surely attested by this birth centenary publication – the outcome of a conference held in India in December, 2012. It was attended by some of the best-known of White scholars as well as some excellent new contributors from all over the world; the latter being a promising augury for the future. White had an awareness of Indian culture, though it was his wide acquaintance with European culture that saturated his work, along with his deep roots in his native Australia. Perhaps it needs to be stated here that the epigraph to White’s earliest novel, Happy Valley (1939) was a quotation from Gandhi; and his earliest published short story, “The Twitching Colonel” (1937) records the experience of a retired British colonel who is literally consumed, it would appear, by what he has experienced in India.' (Introduction)

1 'Nothing' : Writing Poetry of Place and Belonging in World Literatures in English Coral Ann Howells , 2013 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Tapestry of the Creative Word in Anglophone Literatures 2013; (p. 117-130)
1 Literary History and National Narrative in The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature, The Cambridge History of Australian Literature, and A New Literary History of America Coral Ann Howells , Eve Marie Kroller , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Anglistik , September vol. 21 no. 2 2010; (p. 115-132)
1 Untitled Coral Ann Howells , 1988 single work review
— Appears in: Australian-Canadian Studies , vol. 6 no. 1 1988; (p. 138-140)

— Review of Australian / Canadian Literatures in English : Comparative Perspectives 1987 anthology criticism bibliography
1 In Search of Lost Mothers : Margaret Laurence's "The Diviners" and Elizabeth Jolley's "Miss Peabody's Inheritance" Coral Ann Howells , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Ariel , January vol. 19 no. 1 1988; (p. 57-70)
'Considers both works as explorations by post-colonial women novelists who are writing "their way out of dispossession into inheritance." Finds that both writers recover their female literary inheritance through showing no preference for any tradition but by creating their "own aesthetic"' (Annotation in Robert L. Ross, Australian Literary Criticism 1945-1988, 238).
1 Marian Engel 'Bear', Joy Kogawa 'Obasan', Janette Turner Hospital 'The Ivory Swing' Coral Ann Howells , 1987 single work criticism
— Appears in: Private and Fictional Words : Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s 1987; (p. 106-138)
1 y separately published work icon Private and Fictional Words : Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s Coral Ann Howells , London New York (City) : Methuen , 1987 Z1614214 1987 selected work poetry
1 Tis Sixty Years Since : Timothy Findley's "The Wars" and Roger McDonald's "1915" Coral Ann Howells , 1984 single work criticism
— Appears in: World Literature Written in English , Winter vol. 23 no. 1 1984; (p. 129-136)
1 Untitled Coral Ann Howells , 1982 single work review
— Appears in: World Literature Written in English , vol. 21 no. 3 1982; (p. 571-575)

— Review of Slipstream Roger McDonald , 1982 single work novel
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