Rudy Wiebe's unique contribution to Canadian literature has been to articulate an intense and comprehensive vision of human experience rooted in his Mennonite Christianity. For his seven novels, three...
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Critical Essay by Ina Ferris
Rudy Wiebe's The Blue Mountains of China centres upon the problem of belief—the sustaining relationship of the self to something beyond itself. As a Christi...
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Critical Essay by George Woodcock
I thought of War and Peace when I read … Rudy Wiebe's The Scorched-Wood People, which too, on a very different scale, is about war and defeat in a vast...
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Critical Essay by Hildegard E. Tiessen
Rudy Wiebe's Peace Shall Destroy Many (1962) and The Blue Mountains of China (1970) function within the Canadian literary context not only as works of Pr...
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Critical Essay by W. J. Keith
Sir Walter Scott employed the historical novel to analyze the process of history; Tolstoy used it to illustrate his own philosophy of history. Rudy Wiebe (and I should s...
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Critical Essay by Francis Mansbridge
Most contemporary Canadian novelists are writing within an urban context. To be more precise, their concerns are generally those of our society in its more ...
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Critical Essay by R. P. Bilan
[The Blue Mountains of China] is an impressive achievement. Although the problem of didacticism and the "syntactical awkwardness" in Wiebe's style&#...
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Rudy (Henry) Wiebe
Critical Essay by Ina Ferris
