Research Guides
The following sources are provided to supplement the primary information source, L4U, our Online Public Access Catalogue. These titles are suggested as a starting point for your searches. If you need assistance using L4U or any of the materials listed below, please ask the library staff.
Canadian Literature in English
Background Information
New Oxford book of Canadian verse in English / Margaret Atwood. PS8273 .N47
Survival: a thematic guide to Canadian literature / Margaret Atwood. PS8061 .A88
Writings on Canadian English / Walter Avis. REF Z1379 .A9
Canadian book review annual. REF PS8003 .C224
Penguin book of Canadian verse / Ralph Gustafson. PS 8279 .P4
Profiles in Canadian literature / Jeffrey Heath. REF PS8071 .P76
Literary history of Canada / Carl Klinck. PS8077 .L5 1977
Reader's guide to the Canadian novel / John Moss. PS8189 .M68
Poetry by Canadian women / Rosemary Sullivan. PS8283 .W6 P64 1989
Oxford companion to Canadian literature / William Toye. REF PS8015 .O93 1983
Checklist of Canadian literature 1628-1960 / Reginald Watters. REF Z1375 .W344
On Canadian literature 1806-1960 / Reginald Watters. REF Z1375 .W33
Manitoba authors. PS8131 .M301 B5 1970
Supplement to the Oxford Companion to Canadian history and literature.
REF OCCM PR9106 .S88 Supp
Concise bibliography of English Canadian literature / Michael Gnarowski. REF Z1375 .G53
Bibliography of feminist criticism / Barbara Godard. REF PN98 .W64 G63
Read Canadian / Robert Fulford. REF Z1365 .R43
Seas of earth / Jill M. Robinson. EARTHCARE Z1392 .S27 R62
Saskatchewan books!: a selected annotated bibliography of Saskatchewan literature / Saskatchewan Writers Guild. OVERSIZE Z1392 .S27 S2
Biography
Canadian encyclopedia. REF FC23 .C36
Canadian writers: a biographical dictionary. REF PS 8081 .S8
Contemporary literary criticism. REF PN771 .C59
Dictionary of Canadian biography. REF FC25 .D5
Canadian writers and their works: fiction series / Robert Lecker. REF OCCM PR9197 .C38
Canadian writers and their works: poetry series / Robert Lecker. REF OCCM PR9161 .C35
Who's who in the League of Canadian poets / Edita Petrauskaite. REF PS8081 .L434
Twentieth century literary criticism. REF PN771 .T9
Who's who in Canadian literature. REF PS8081 .W46
From there to here / Franklin Wilmot Davey. PS8071.3 .D3
Who's Who in the Writer's Union of Canada REF. PS8081 .W74 1993
Read Up On It. OVERSIZE Z1037 .A1 R42
Periodicals
Canadian literature. PS8061 .C3
Prairie fire. PS8001 .P7
Internet Resources
Canadian Literature Archive: “information about Canadian writers, novelists, poets, playwrights, essayists, Canadian literary organizations, magazines, publications, texts and library archives.”
http://www.umanitoba.ca/canlit/
Canadian poets online ("writing Canada into the millenium project") “An organized guide to the chronological, geographical, and publication histories of selected Twentieth-Century Canadian poets writing in English.” http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/HUM/ENGL/canada/frames.html
CanLinks directory of web resources relevant to Canadian Studies "Writers & works" page contains links to detailed information about Canadian writers. "Online texts" and "Criticism" pages contain full text. CONNECT: http://lucking.net/canlinks/
National Library of Canada's "Canadian Information By Subject - Canadian Literature" CONNECT: http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/caninfo/ep08.htm#C810
National Library of Canada's "Selected Canadian Literature Web Sites" Includes "Native sites". CONNECT: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/caninfo/ep08.htm#C810
Native American authors Information on contemporary Native North American authors, including Canadian, with bibliographies of their works, biographical information, and links to online resources including interviews, online texts and tribal websites. CONNECT: http://www.ipl.org/ref/native/
