Sinclair Ross is best known for his prairie fiction. His first novel, As For Me and My House (1941), and his most recent, Sawbones Memorial (1974), along with his short stories are his most memorable ...
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Critical Essay by Warren Tallman
The bleak assumption of this beautiful novel [As For Me And My House] is that Philip Bentley has no ground whatsoever upon which he might stand, no communion at all t...
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Critical Essay by Donald Stephens
Horizon, the town that is the setting for [As For Me and My House], could be any place on the prairie in the thirties; yet again, it can be anywhere at any time. It ...
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Critical Essay by Keath Fraser
The futile cycle of eking existence from an indifferent world predominates [The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories]—a kind of rural Dubliners in which the same adult...
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Critical Essay by Robert D. Chambers
A number of the stories [in The Lamp At Noon and Other Stories] are narrated from the viewpoint of a young boy between the ages of ten and fifteen. While he seldo...
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Laurence was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist, editor, and translator. She is considered a prominent figure in contemporary Canadian literature. In the essay, she acknowled...
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In the following essay, Djwa determines the quintessential Canadian nature of Ross's short fiction.
As a Newfoundlander, I have always felt a great fondness for the writings of Sinclair Ross...
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In the following essay, Chambers explores the pervasive sense of isolation, claustrophobia, and cramped imagination found in Ross's short fiction, particularly "A Field of Wheat, "...
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In the following excerpt, Mitchell surveys the major themes of Ross's short fiction.
The short stories of Sinclair Ross are worth examining first because of what they tell us about his craf...
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In the following essay, Whitman contends that the little girl in Ross's "One's a Heifer" is an imaginary construct of Vickers's "schizoid personality."...
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In the following essay, McMullen provides a stylistic and thematic analysis of Ross's short fiction.
The Race and Other Stories includes all of Sinclair Ross's previously uncollected...
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In the following essay, Bishop traces the metaphor of the horse in Ross's childhood stories, maintaining that the image of the horse "becomes the enspiriting essence of the imagination. ...
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In the following essay, Carpenter offers an overview of the critical reaction to Ross's short fiction and notes the comic elements in eight of his stories.
I began reading Sinclair Ross�...
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The short story "A Field of Wheat" was written by a Canadian author Sinclair Ross. It is a tale of a woman's struggle to find her place in her marriage. Martha's husband John has always been the pill...
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(James) Sinclair Ross
Critical Essay by Warren Tallman
"A Field of Wheat" Response
