The Canadian novelist and short-story writer Edward Morley Callaghan (1903-1990) was one of the major figures of 20th-century Canadian fiction. His work was linked with the development in American wri...
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Novelist and short-story writer Morley Callaghan, in the view of many, is Canada's most distinguished writer. He is unquestionably the first to have established a major international reputation, which...
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Critical Essay by Horace Gregory
In some respects Morley Callaghan is by far the most interesting member of the contemporary hard-boiled school of fiction. Under the surfaces of a prose style that ru...
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Critical Essay by Hugo Mcpherson
Callaghan's importance has nothing to do with style. His control of language, despite the triumphs of a dozen short stories and numerous passages in the novels...
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Critical Essay by Howard Engel
In … A Fine and Private Place, Morley Callaghan writes in the familiar parables that have marked his work since his first published novel came out in 1928. He is...
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Critical Essay by Judith Kendle
Content with the assumption that [Morley Callaghan] is a Roman Catholic novelist, most criticism simply ignores the seriousness of his quarrel with the Church, and to ...
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In the following essay, Avison provides an appreciation of Callaghan's work, asserting that his spare narrative style may have been detrimental to his literary legacy.
Rereading this novel [...
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In the following essay, Brown discusses how Callaghan's memoir That Summer in Paris and John Glassco's Memoirs of Montparnasse challenges the American-in-Paris myth of expatriate life in...
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In the following essay, Perz contends that Callaghan employs theatrical techniques in his memoir That Summer in Paris.
The people in the principal cafés … might just sit and drink and...
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In the following essay, Edwards considers Callaghan's portrayal of Toronto in his novel Strange Fugitive.
The City is of Night; perchance of Death, But certainly of Night
(Thomson 34)
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In the following essay, Pell delineates the defining characteristics of Callaghan's fiction.
Although he did not share MacLennan's nationalistic vocation to define this country in fic...
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In the following essay, Boire examines Callaghan's use of the language of the law in his short stories between 1925 and 1928.
This discussion has two discrete, yet intersecting, points of de...
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Critical Essay by Horace Gregory
