Jack Hodgins is one of the most important talents to emerge in English-Canadian fiction in the decade of the 1970s. Especially since his receiving a Governor General's Award for The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne in 1980, his work has been accorded...

Material from wire services and other sources was used in this column. When New York investment banker Felix G. Rohatyn got official confirmation on Thursday to be ambassador to France, Back Bay decorator William Hodgins started packing his bags. That's because he and associate...

NORFOLK -- NORFOLK - Frank D. Hodgin, 73, died Dec. 16, 2007, in his home after a long illness with close friends and family by his side. A native of Norfolk, he had spent most of his life there except for a brief...

Jack Hodgins is possibly the most important new talent to emerge in English Canadian writing during the last several years…. His work has color and humor. It has a rich literacy and intellectual depth, and yet it is uncluttered by the pretentiousness of compulsive and overbearing credential-mongering which so often accompanies straining attempts at those qualities. Hodgins is both a good craftsman and a gifted stylist. (p. 70)

The Invention of the World is about the process of uninventing narrative worlds. I want to show how that process of uninvention undermines the assumption that the recovery of myth engenders the discovery of identity. Jack Hodgins establishes blatant connections between mythical structure and self awareness in order to purposefully break them down…. [Through parody and burlesque, Hodgins undercuts] a view shared by several Canadian novelists today: that the meaning of the moment is part and parcel of ...

There are two distinct tones discernible in The Invention of the World: one results in a powerful and apparently serious examination of history, legend, and myth in both Old World and New World contexts, a consideration of the physical, psychological, and spiritual problems of the immigrant and contemporary Canadian as types of nineteenth- and twentieth-century man; the other amounts to a burlesquing of Old and New World conventions, traditions, legends, and myths, and is satiric of the very things that in ...