Alistair MacLeod is the most important chronicler in fiction of the landscape and folkways of Cape Breton to appear on the Canadian literary scene in recent years. Although his creative output is smal...
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In the following essay, Hiscock examines how MacLeod subverts the tenets of literary postmodernism in his fiction with respect to the significance of personal and communal metanarratives and their rel...
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In the following review, Wood discusses the principal characteristics of MacLeod's fiction in Island: The Complete Stories, contrasting them to the prevailing modes of American short story writ...
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In the following interview, MacLeod discusses the appeal of the short story genre, his literary influences, and various aspects of particular stories.
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Alistair MacLeod
Critical Essay by Andrew Hiscock
