Creative Writing

George Bowering and Stephen Collis (Editor) article on Long Poems

Epic and the Modern Long Poem: Virgil, Blake & Pound by Norman Wacker.

After the Long Poem by Rachel Blau Duplessis

Sharon Thesen

• `We talk anyway/being human': The poetry of Sharon Thesen by Whiteman, Bruce
• Subjective as Objective: The Lyric Poetry of Sharon Thesen by Wah, Fred
• After-Thoughts on the Long Poem (Long Symposium Papers) 

Robert Kroetsch  - Writings  about the Canadian poet, Robert Kroetsch’s work, Field Notes

• Books about Kroetsch's work
• Scholarly Articles:
  • The structural horizons of prairie poetics: The long poem, Eli Mandel, Andrew Suknaski, and Robert Kroetsch by A Munton 
  • Strange Plantings: Robert Kroetsch's Seed Catalogue by Campbell, Wanda
  • Thawing the frozen image/word: vernacular postmodern aesthetics  by W.F. Garrett-Petts and Donald Lawrence
  • Rescaling Robert Kroetsch: A Reading across Communities, Borders, and Practices by Simona Bertacco
  • “An autobiography in which I do not appear”: The Seductive Self in the Poetry of Robert Kroetsch by Janne Korkka,Lydia Kokkola & Elina Valovirta

Rachel Blau Duplesis

• Library resources on her work
• Scholarly articles:
  • The Poetics of Midrash in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts by Paul Jaussen 
  • Between Poet and (Self-)Critic: Scholarly Interventionism in Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts by Megan Swihart Jewell
  • Etant Donné(e) Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Intertextuality and Intermediality in Drafts 1-38, Toll by Nesme, Axel

bpNichol

• Books about bpNichols's work
• Scholarly articles about bpNichol's work:
  • “Resurrection in Adonis’ Garden”: The Life-Long Poems of Louis Dudek and bpNichol by Medrie Purdham
  • Subjects of experience: post-cognitive subjectivity in the work of bp Nichol and Daphne Marlatt by Nichols, Miriam. 
  • Performative Archives: The Visual Poetry of bpNichol and Derek Beaulieu by Fiona McMahon
    Fiona McMahon
• Canadian Encyclopedia article on martyrology 

Ann Carson: Laundry lines : a memoir in stories and poems

• Verglas: narrative technique in Anne Carson's "The Glass Essay" by Ian Rae

Emily Wilson

• How Homer Sounds Now: Emily Wilson's new translation of the Iliad by Greenwood, Emily
• Six Faces of Odysseus: Genre and Characterization Strategies in Four Late Antique Greek "Epyllia" by Verhelst, Berenice
• Odysseus, the Archetypal Spy by Ursula M. Wilder
• From Muse to Material: The Defiance of Homeric Identity Through Creative Adaptation  by Sarah Leidich

T.S. Eliot, The Wasteland - this poem is part of the Norton Anthology of English Literature

• Feeling the Elephant: T.S. Eliot's Bolovian Epic by Loretta Johnson
• The Poetic Afterlife of The Waste Land by Roberts, Andrew Michael
• 'Myth Today': The Bavarian-Austrian Subtext of T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" by Fuchs, Dieter
• T. S. Eliot and the Return of the Soldier by Wei Zhou

Sophocles

• scholarly articles on Antigone
  • The Love That Divides: Sophocles's Antigone by David H. Porter

  • Woman’s Third Face: A Psycho/Social Reconsideration of Sophocles’ "Antigone" by Patricia J. Johnson

  • The Death of the Character by duBois, Page

  • Heroism in Sophocles Antigone by Verkerk, Willow

• Library books on Antigone

Bertolt Brecht

• selected scholarly  articles suitable for undergrad students re:Epic Theatre and the work and plays of Bertold Brecht:
  • Varieties of Epic Theatre in the Modern Drama by John Gassner
  • A Note on Brecht by Eagleton, Terry
• Epic Theatre article from Encyclopaedia Britannica
• epic theatre overview article https://study.com/learn/lesson/bertolts-brechts-epic-theatre-overview-purpose.html   

General Resources

• Epic Theatre Resources 
• Epic theatre and Brecht BBC Bitesize
• Brecht, interruptions and epic theatre British Library

• BRECHT – Tom Kuhn

• Worthwhile explanation of many of Brecht’s theories and techniques check also the plays that he has created.

• Bertolt Brecht - Study Guide Robert Leach University of Birmingham

**** include any available you tube etc links to embed that students can watch for the epic plays and or novel that have been made into movies such of course the truly epic David Lean's Zhivago and also Cold Mountain

Octavia Butler

• Science fiction, imperialism and the third world: essays on postcolonial literature and film / edited by Ericka Hoagland and Reema Sarwal ; foreword by Andy Sawyer. (see the chapter in the following:  chapter 14 Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower: The Third World as Topos for a U.S. Utopia, p.202.)

Roberto Bolano: 2666 (on order) (trigger warning!)

• Degeneration of Society as an Apocalyptic Symptom: Gender-Driven Crime and Violence in Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 by 
  Jorisse Campado Gumanay
• Scenes from the Global South: Women’s Bodies as Waste in Bolaño’s 2666 by Alfred J. López
• Globalized Philomels: State Patriarchy, Transnational Capital, and the Fermicides on the US-Mexican Border in Roberto Bolaño's 2666 by Laura Barberán Reinares
• Roberto Bolaño’s 2666: Serial Murder and Narrative Necrosis by Bede Scott
• Keep writing: the critique of the university in Roberto Bolaño's 2666 by Martin Paul Eve
• The Forensic Fiction of Roberto Bolaño’s 2666 by Mikkel Krause Frantzen

Charles Frazier: Cold Mountain

• 'A World Properly Put Together': Environmental Knowledge in Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain by Way, Albert G
• Epic or Philosophic, Homeric or Heraclitean? The Anonymous Philosopher in Charles Frazier's: "Cold Mountain" by Chitwood, Ava
• Ecofeminism and a New Agrarianism: The Female Farmer in Barbara Kingsolver's "Prodigal Summer" and Charles Frazier's "Cold Mountain" by Kristin Van Tassel
• “The Metal Face of the Age”: Hesiod, Virgil, and the Iron Age on Cold Mountain by Emily A. McDermott
• Cold Mountain (Motion picture), Directed by Anthony Minghella.

James Joyce, Ulysses

• Corresponding with the Greeks: An Overview of "Ulysses" as an Irish Epic by Platt, Len
• Imagined Authors: Reading the Homeric Question in James Joyce’s Ulysses by Corser, Sophie
• Form of Forms': Meter and Sound as Registers of Irish Identity in James Joyce's Ulysses by Starkowski, Kristen H
• The Thousand and One Nights of Ulysses: Joyce's Empathetic by Logan, Katie
• The Hags of "Ulysses": The "Poor Old Woman," Cathleen Ni Houlihan, and the Phallic Mother by Moloney, Caitriona

Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago

• Doctor Zhivago and the Tradition of National Epic by Griffiths, F. T.; Rabinowitz, S. J.
• Staging 'Hamlet': The Ethical and Aesthetic Dimensions of Space in Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago by Pettus, Mark
• Boris Pasternak and Silver Age Intellectual Culture: From Modernist Aesthetics to the New Classical
  by Zhukova, Olga A.
• Cultural Transformation as Transdisfiguration in Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago" by Martha M. F. Kelly

Marcel Proust:: In Search of Lost Time

• The Creative Transformation of Trauma: Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time by Blum, Harold, P.
• The Poetics of Domestic Space in Proust's In Search of Lost Time by Soto, Juliette De
• Proustian Temptation: Narrative, Sexual, and Readerly TRansgressions in la Recherche by Soldin, Adeline

Victor Hugo: Les Miserables

• History's Unconscious in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables Rosalina de la Carrera
• Embodying Ecopoetry: Victor Hugo, Love, and Landscape by Quandt, Karen F.
• Inscribing his Ideal Reader(ship) Victor Hugo and the Shaping of le lecteur pensif by Isabel K. Roche
• Mistrust and mastery: Goethe, Victor Hugo, Mario Vargas Llosa and the art of rhetoric by Kollmann, Sabine

George Eliot: Middlemarch

• This particular web: essays on Middlemarch / edited by Ian Adam
• Landmarks of World Literature, George Eliot, Middlemarch
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Charles Dickens: Bleak House

• "Who Is This in Pain?": Scarring, Disfigurement, and Female Identity in "Bleak House" and "Our Mutual Friend" by Helena Michie
• The Ghost in "Bleak House" by Jordan, John O.
• "Bleak House" as an Allegory of a Middle-Class Nation by Olga Stuchebrukhov

Renee Gladman - the Ravicka Novels

• Speculative World-Building, Modernity, and the Text in Crisis: An Ecological Reading of Renee Gladman’s Ravicka Novels
  by Schauss, Martin
• Writing and the Space It Makes by Kate Briggs, Renee Gladman
• Houses of Ravicka by Tremblay, Jean-Thomas