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 Jo...
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Critical Essay by Roy Macskimming
[Jack Hodgin's] first book, Spit Delaney's Island, was a collection of compassionate and gracefully crafted stories set in his native Vancouver Island. ...
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Critical Essay by Rupert Schieder
[The] themes that occupy Hodgins are [not] specifically Canadian: the question of identity, the isolation of the individual and the seeming impossibility of communica...
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Critical Essay by Robert Lecker
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 recov...
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Critical Essay by Susan Beckmann
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 bo...
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Critical Essay by J. R. (tim) Struthers
As in The Tempest, the action of Jack Hodgins' second novel originates in a giant wave, which shipwrecks characters on an island of romance and is follow...
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Critical Essay by Rupert Schieder
There is nothing in [The Barclay Family Theatre] that I'd rather [Hodgins] hadn't included, unlike one or two of the collected stories in Spit Delaney&#...
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Critical Essay by Barbara Amiel
[In The Invention of the World] Hodgins has produced a work of ambitious scope that should entertain, if not fully satisfy, both readers and critics. (p. 76)
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Critical Essay by George Woodcock
I read The Invention of the World with part of my mind wandering through the world that had seemed so strange to me when I entered it half a life ago—the world...
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Critical Essay by Denis Salter
The Invention of the World is informed with the messianic spirit of the Irishman Donal Keneally, whose birth in County Cork around 1860 is predicted by Cathleen ni Houli...
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Critical Essay by Michael Mewshaw
The title of his novel alone—"The Invention of the World"—indicates the extent of Jack Hodgins's ambition. Like Faulkner he wants t...
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Critical Essay by Laurence Ricou
Hodgins' collection of ten stories [Spit Delaney's Island] takes Vancouver Island as its centre and the personalities of its apparently ordinary, usually...
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Critical Essay by David L. Jeffrey
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 ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Harlow
Jack Hodgins is an author whose mind has an innocent eye. You might say that it launders everything that comes into view. The world it sees is one we're familiar...
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Critical Essay by George Woodcock
My doubts [about The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne] come from a feeling that, while Hodgins sustains the vividness of his writing and the surreal wildness of his humo...
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Jack Hodgins
Critical Essay by Roy Macskimming
