W. P. Kinsella Summary

Critical Essay by George Woodcock [Readers of Canadian literature] have had a plethora of guilt-ridden fiction written by white authors about Indians, and a little fiction written by Indians and Meti... Read more

Critical Essay by Anthony Brennan When I learn that a book is populated by characters called Robert Coyote, Frank Fence-Post, Sadie One-Wound, and Poppy Twelvetrees, my response is usually a groan in... Read more

Critical Essay by Choice W. P. Kinsella is a gifted Canadian writer who chooses rather oddly to present his stories through the persona of a Cree Indian, Silas Ermineskin. [In Scars, the] narrator&#x... Read more

Critical Essay by Anthony Bukoski [The ten short stories in Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa] mark a considerable change in direction for W. P. Kinsella whose first two collections, Dance Me Outsid... Read more

In the following review, Murray asserts that humor is one of the dominant motifs in Kinsella's body of work. The Canadian author W. P. Kinsella has published two novels and over one hundred ... Read more

In the following review, Murray evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the short stories in The Fencepost Chronicles. The Fencepost Chronicles is the fifth of Kinsella's Indian books (Dan... Read more

In the following review, Campbell offers a positive assessment of Red Wolf, Red Wolf. While W. P. Kinsella has written 15 books and more than 200 short stories, he is undoubtedly best known for his... Read more

In the following essay, Hamblin examines the elements of “magic realism” present in Kinsella's works. As Robert Francis's well-known poem, “Pitcher,” persu... Read more

In the following excerpt, Panofsky evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of The Winter Helen Dropped By. Although each addresses such contemporary issues as the often diminished lives of Native Ca... Read more

In the following review, the critic delivers a brief plot summary and contends that while not as strong as Kinsella's previous works, Magic Time still provides a satisfying ending, genuine char... Read more

In the following review, Kahn examines the plot structure and prose of The Iowa Baseball Confederacy. The centerpiece in W. P. Kinsella's intriguing and sometimes perplexing new novel [The I... Read more

In the following essay, Randall draws comparisons between the ways that Kinsella and authors Thomas Carlyle and J. R. R. Tolkien approach humor in their works. In his essay on Jean Paul Friedrich R... Read more