Primary Texts
Novels
- Hugh MacLennan. Two Solitudes
- Sinclair Ross. As for Me and My House
- Margaret Atwood. Surfacing
- Carol Shields. Larry's Party
Texts in Eva-Marie Kröller, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature, Cambridge University Press 2004:
- Penny van Toorn: "Aboriginal Writing." pp.22-48
- David Staines: "Poetry." pp.135-154
- Marta Dvorak: "Fiction." pp.155-174
- Robert Thacker: "Short Fiction." pp.177-193
- Magdalena Redekop: "Canadian Literary Criticism and the Idea of a National Literature." pp.263-275
Articles in Compendium (Available from Kopiutsalget, Akademika, at the beginning of term):
Early Myths:
- Bill Reid og Robert Bringhurst, "The Raven and the First Men"
- Buhkwujjenene, "Nanaboozhoo Creates the World"
- Aisa Qupiqrualuk (overs. Eugene Arima), "Lumaaq"
- Edward M. Weyer (red.), "The Sedna Myth"
- Norval Morriseau, ""The Indian That Became a Thunderbird"
- George Bird Grinnell (red.), "The Race"
- Ella Elizabeth Clark, "Coyote and the Salmon"
- Farnz Boas (red.), "The Sun Tests His Son-in-Law"
Short Stories:
- Thomas C. Haliburton, “The Clockmaker”
- Catherine Parr Traill, "Female Trials in the Bush"
- Susanna Modie, "A Visit to Grosse Isle"
- Charles G. D. Roberts, “When Twilight Falls on Stump Lots”
- Duncan Campbell Scott, "Labrie's Wife"
- Stephen Leacock, "My Financial Career"
- Ethel Wilson, "Hurry, Hurry"
- Morley Callaghan, "A Sick Call"
- Sinclair Ross, "The Painted Door"
- Alistair MacLeod, "As Birds Bring Forth the Sun"
- Mavis Gallant, "The Chosen Husband"
- Jack Hodgins, "The Concert Stages of Europe"
- Thomas King, "A Seat in the Garden"
- Alice Munro, "Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You"
- W. D. Valgardson, "Bloodflowers"
- Rudy Wiebe, "The Naming of Albert Johnson"
Poetry:
- E. J. Pratt, "Come Away, Death"
- A. M. Klein, "The Rocking Chair"
- Al Purdy, "The Cariboo Horses"
- Dorothy Livesay, "The Secret Doctrine of Women"
- P. K. Page, "The Stenographers"
- Phyllis Webb, "To Friends Who Have Also Considered Suicide"
- Robert Kroetsch, ""F. P. Grove: The Finding"
- Irving Layton, "Butterfly on Rock"
- Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows"
- Margaret Atwood, "This Is a Photograph of Me"
- Michael Ondatjee, "To a Sad Daughter"
Literature Critic/History:
- W.H. New, "Indigenous Myths and Tales". In W.H. New, Canadian Short Fiction, 2nd ed. Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice Hall Canada, 1997. pp.16-18
Secondary reading
- Carl F. Klinck, ed. Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English. 1965. 2nd ed. 3 vols. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976. Vol. IV: W. H. New, ed. Toronto University Press, 1990.
- W. H. New, A History of Canadian Literature. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1989.
- Eva-Marie Kröller, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004.