Coral Ann Howells
Biographic Data
| ID | 290918 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Coral Ann Howells |
| GIVEN NAMES | Coral Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Howells |
| SIGNATURE | HOWELLS C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Reading |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5466-9488 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
David Malouf’s Partnership Narratives: “The Light that Fills the World”
Review to: Antonella Riem Natale. 2024. David Malouf’s Partnership Narratives: “The Light that Fills the World”. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 228
Margaret Atwood’s burning questions: Her Anthropocene poems in Dearly
Margaret Atwood has been engaged with social, political, and environmental issues for over sixty years, and her ecological principles are fundamental to her environmental ethics and her creativity. This article explores her ecopoetic acts of resistance to the challenges of the Anthropocene era in her elegiac volume Dearly (2020), with its disaster scenarios and environmental warnings directly addressed to her readers. It includes detailed analyse…
The Ridge and the Song. Sailing the Archipelago of Poetry, by Francesco Benozzo
Rewiev a: Francesco Benozzo, The Ridge and the Song. Sailing the Archipelago of Poetry, preface by Antonella Riem Natale. Udine: Forum, 2022, 32 pp
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
The field of Margaret Atwood studies, like her own work, is in constant evolution. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood provides substantial reconceptualization of Atwood's writing in multiple genres that has spanned six decades, with particular focus on developments since 2000. Exploring Atwood in our contemporary context, this edition discusses the relationship between her Canadian identity and her role as an intern…
Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
This book explores the history of English-language prose fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific since 1950, focusing not only on the ‘literary’ novel, but also on the processes of production, distribution and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as the work of major novelists, movements, and tendencies. After World War II, the rise of cultural nationalism in Australia, Canada, and New Z…
Canada
This chapter examines the history of the English-language novel in Canada since 1950. It first considers how the promotion of Canadian cultural identity and attempts to articulate a distinctly Canadian social ethos became increasingly mobilized in the decades following World War II. It then discusses the newfound optimism about the future of Canadian literature and culture that flourished following the Massey Commission initiatives, as well as Ca…
True Trash: Genre Fiction Revisited In Margaret Atwood’s Stone Mattress, The Heart Goes Last, And Hag-Seed
Margaret Atwood, an enthusiast for popular fiction since childhood, has frequently described its appeal for her: “I find popular forms interesting because they are collective mythology – a wonderful compost that contains everything. It contains the cultural patterns of the society, and what novels are using are the themes of their culture. Every time” (“How to Spot a Killer” 17). Throughout her fifty-year writing career, Atwood’s wonderfully inve…
Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals): Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s
First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. Coral Ann Howells argues that Canadian women’s fiction throughout the period of study represents how the Canadian cultural identity exceeds its geographical …
Love, Mystery and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction
The current Gothic revival in literature and film encourages us to look again to the earliest Gothic novels written between 1790 and 1820, when Gothic was the most popular kind of fiction in England. Dr. Howells proposes a radical reassessment of these novels to emphasize their importance as experiments in imaginative writing. Her object, the study of feeling, is central to Gothic, for its spell consists in the feelings it arouses and exercises. …
The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
From Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood, this is a complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English and French from its beginnings. The multi-authored volume pays special attention to works from the 1960s and after, to multicultural and indigenous writing, popular literature, and the interaction of anglophone and francophone cultures throughout Canadian history. Established genres such as fiction, drama and poetry are discussed…
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood the writer, but there is also Atwood the media st…
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian visions: The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake
All fictions begin with the question What if. The what if varies from book to book . . . but there is always a what if, to which the novel is the answer.
Margaret Atwood
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
This book offers a comprehensive and lively introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature. Addressing traditional assumptions and current issues, contributors pay attention to the social, political and economic developments that have informed literary events. Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, and the emergen…
Where Are the Voices Coming From: Canadian Culture and the Legacies of History
This collection of essays focuses on Canadian history and its legacies as represented in novels and films in English and French, produced in Canada mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. The approach is both cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, aiming at articulating Canadian differences through a comparison of anglophone and francophone cultures, illustrated by works treating some of the different groups which make up Canadian society - English-Canadia…
Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities
This book charts the significant changes in contemporary Canada's literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the new national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking closely at a repre
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's versatility as a writer and her use of a variety of novel forms from Gothic romance to science fiction are explored in this comprehensive introductory study of her work. Coral Ann Ho
Disruptive Geographies: Or, Mapping the Region of Woman in Contemporary Canadian Women's Writing in English
History from a Different Angle: Narrative Strategies in The Temptations of Big Bear
Dreams and Visions in George Eliot's Fiction
Where Are the Voices Coming From: Canadian Culture and the Legacies of History
This collection of essays focuses on Canadian history and its legacies as represented in novels and films in English and French, produced in Canada mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. The approach is both cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, aiming at articulating Canadian differences through a comparison of anglophone and francophone cultures, illustrated by works treating some of the different groups which make up Canadian society - English-Canadia…
Disruptive Geographies: Or, Mapping the Region of Woman in Contemporary Canadian Women's Writing in English
Dreams and Visions in George Eliot's Fiction
Dreams and Visions in George Eliot's Fiction
History from a Different Angle: Narrative Strategies in The Temptations of Big Bear
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's versatility as a writer and her use of a variety of novel forms from Gothic romance to science fiction are explored in this comprehensive introductory study of her work. Coral Ann Ho
Disruptive Geographies: Or, Mapping the Region of Woman in Contemporary Canadian Women's Writing in English
Contemporary Canadian Women's Fiction: Refiguring Identities
This book charts the significant changes in contemporary Canada's literary profile since the mid-1990s, within a context of the new national rhetoric of multiculturalism. By looking closely at a repre
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
This book offers a comprehensive and lively introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature. Addressing traditional assumptions and current issues, contributors pay attention to the social, political and economic developments that have informed literary events. Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry are complemented by chapters on Aboriginal writing, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, and the emergen…
Where Are the Voices Coming From: Canadian Culture and the Legacies of History
This collection of essays focuses on Canadian history and its legacies as represented in novels and films in English and French, produced in Canada mainly in the 1980s and 1990s. The approach is both cross-cultural and interdisciplinary, aiming at articulating Canadian differences through a comparison of anglophone and francophone cultures, illustrated by works treating some of the different groups which make up Canadian society - English-Canadia…
Margaret Atwood
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood the writer, but there is also Atwood the media st…
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian visions: The Handmaid’s Tale and Oryx and Crake
All fictions begin with the question What if. The what if varies from book to book . . . but there is always a what if, to which the novel is the answer.
The Cambridge History of Canadian Literature
From Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood, this is a complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English and French from its beginnings. The multi-authored volume pays special attention to works from the 1960s and after, to multicultural and indigenous writing, popular literature, and the interaction of anglophone and francophone cultures throughout Canadian history. Established genres such as fiction, drama and poetry are discussed…
Love, Mystery and Misery: Feeling in Gothic Fiction
The current Gothic revival in literature and film encourages us to look again to the earliest Gothic novels written between 1790 and 1820, when Gothic was the most popular kind of fiction in England. Dr. Howells proposes a radical reassessment of these novels to emphasize their importance as experiments in imaginative writing. Her object, the study of feeling, is central to Gothic, for its spell consists in the feelings it arouses and exercises. …
Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals): Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s
First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. Coral Ann Howells argues that Canadian women’s fiction throughout the period of study represents how the Canadian cultural identity exceeds its geographical …
True Trash: Genre Fiction Revisited In Margaret Atwood’s Stone Mattress, The Heart Goes Last, And Hag-Seed
Margaret Atwood, an enthusiast for popular fiction since childhood, has frequently described its appeal for her: “I find popular forms interesting because they are collective mythology – a wonderful compost that contains everything. It contains the cultural patterns of the society, and what novels are using are the themes of their culture. Every time” (“How to Spot a Killer” 17). Throughout her fifty-year writing career, Atwood’s wonderfully inve…
The Oxford History of the Novel in English
This book explores the history of English-language prose fiction in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the South Pacific since 1950, focusing not only on the ‘literary’ novel, but also on the processes of production, distribution and reception, and on popular fiction and the fictional sub-genres, as well as the work of major novelists, movements, and tendencies. After World War II, the rise of cultural nationalism in Australia, Canada, and New Z…
Canada
This chapter examines the history of the English-language novel in Canada since 1950. It first considers how the promotion of Canadian cultural identity and attempts to articulate a distinctly Canadian social ethos became increasingly mobilized in the decades following World War II. It then discusses the newfound optimism about the future of Canadian literature and culture that flourished following the Massey Commission initiatives, as well as Ca…
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
The field of Margaret Atwood studies, like her own work, is in constant evolution. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood provides substantial reconceptualization of Atwood's writing in multiple genres that has spanned six decades, with particular focus on developments since 2000. Exploring Atwood in our contemporary context, this edition discusses the relationship between her Canadian identity and her role as an intern…
Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood
The Ridge and the Song. Sailing the Archipelago of Poetry, by Francesco Benozzo
Rewiev a: Francesco Benozzo, The Ridge and the Song. Sailing the Archipelago of Poetry, preface by Antonella Riem Natale. Udine: Forum, 2022, 32 pp
David Malouf’s Partnership Narratives: “The Light that Fills the World”
Review to: Antonella Riem Natale. 2024. David Malouf’s Partnership Narratives: “The Light that Fills the World”. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 228
Margaret Atwood’s burning questions: Her Anthropocene poems in Dearly
Margaret Atwood has been engaged with social, political, and environmental issues for over sixty years, and her ecological principles are fundamental to her environmental ethics and her creativity. This article explores her ecopoetic acts of resistance to the challenges of the Anthropocene era in her elegiac volume Dearly (2020), with its disaster scenarios and environmental warnings directly addressed to her readers. It includes detailed analyse…
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