God's Plenty (eBook)

W. J. Keith (William John Keith) was born in 1934 in England. After school he was called up for two years National Service (1953-5), where he taught as a Sergeant-Instructor in the Royal Army Education Corps both in Sussex and with the British Army of the Rhine. From 1955-1961 he obtained degrees in English from Cambridge and the University of Toronto, where he then taught for nearly a quarter-century. Now a Professor Emeritus, Keith was editor of the University of Toronto Quarterly from 1976 to 1985, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1979. He is the author of A Sense of Style: Studies in the Art of Fiction in English-Speaking Canada, Epic Fiction: The Art of Rudy Wiebe (1981), Canadian Literature in English (1985), and Introducing Margaret Atwood's The Edible Woman (1989).

ContentsPreface 11Abbreviations 161Biographical 172Critical Considerations 233Starting from the States: 37A Short Walk in the Rain, The Isolation Booth4Displaying His Wares: 51Flying a Red Kite5Anatomy of a City: 77Around the Mountain6Short Stories or Short-Story Collection: 107The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager7The Morality of Vision: 120Dark Glasses8Signs and Portents: 139None Genuine Without This Signature9Every Piece Different: 160August Nights10Art in Crisis: 178Five New Facts About Giorgione11Miscellany of Tones: 192You’ll Catch Your Death12Late Harvest: 209After All!Check-List of Short Fiction 231Other Works Cited 239Index 245 ContentsPreface 11Abbreviations 161Biographical 172Critical Considerations 233Starting from the States: 37A Short Walk in the Rain, The Isolation Booth4Displaying His Wares: 51Flying a Red Kite5Anatomy of a City: 77Around the Mountain6Short Stories or Short-Story Collection: 107The Fruit Man, the Meat Man & the Manager7The Morality of Vision: 120Dark Glasses8Signs and Portents: 139None Genuine Without This Signature9Every Piece Different: 160August Nights10Art in Crisis: 178Five New Facts About Giorgione11Miscellany of Tones: 192Youâll Catch Your Death12Late Harvest: 209After All!Check-List of Short Fiction 231Other Works Cited 239Index 245