Crocus, the small prairie town that W. O. Mitchell has created in his novels and stories, like Stephen Leacock's Mariposa, has been mapped in the Canadian imagination. The original of this mythic plac...
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Critical Essay by Richard Sullivan
["Who Has Seen the Wind"] is a piece of brilliantly sustained prose, a very beautiful, keen, perceptive rendering of human beings engaged in the ordina...
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Critical Essay by Paul Roberts
The story [of How I Spent My Summer Holidays], as you might expect from Mitchell, concerns a distant. rather happy childhood on the south Saskatchewan prairie. It differ...
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Critical Essay by Mark Abley
[W. O. Mitchell's] first and most famous book, Who Has Seen the Wind, told the story of a sensitive boy growing up in a small Saskatchewan town. Later novels, notab...
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Critical Essay by Guy Hamel
Mitchell has been much preoccupied with innocence. His sympathies have always attached themselves to those, whether children or not, who are subject to authorities imposed ...
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Critical Essay by Walter Havighurst
This ardent but unsure first novel [Who Has Seen the Wind] portrays a number of people in [a town on a Saskatchewan W(illiam) O(rmond) Mitchell 1914– Photogr...
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Critical Essay by Margaret Laurence
W. O. Mitchell's stories about Jake and the kid began appearing in Maclean's during the war. A great many Canadians must have found them then, as I di...
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Critical Essay by William H. New
In his two novels, The Kite and Who Has Seen the Wind, W. O. Mitchell makes use of [the transition from childhood to maturity] as a means to consider man's awar...
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Critical Essay by W. H. New
In 1953, W. O. Mitchell published in serial form a novel called The Alien. It told the story of a part-Blood Indian named Carlyle Sinclair, a teacher at the Paradise Valley...
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Critical Essay by Herbert Rosengarten
The title of W. O. Mitchell's new novel alludes to the pictorial device by which converging lines, meeting at a "vanishing point" on the hori...
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Critical Essay by Catherine Mclay
The place, the bald-headed prairie of southern Saskatchewan…. The time, the present … the principal characters, Jake and the Kid. And here, as the first...
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Critical Essay by S. Gingell
In studies of Canadian Prairie literature and in surveys of the development and outstanding achievements of Canadian fiction, W. O. Mitchell's novel Who Has Seen th...
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Critical Essay by Martin Knelman
Daddy Sherry [is] the hero of W. O. Mitchell's new play The Kite, based on his 1962 novel. Daddy is reputed to be the oldest human being in the world. As his bi...
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W(illiam) O(rmond) Mitchell
