Rudy Wiebe

Essays On His Works

Bianca Lakoseljac

• Publisher: Guernica World Editions
• Year: 2023
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781771838474
• Subtopic: North American Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

The anthology, Rudy Wiebe: Essays on His Works, compiled and edited by Bianca Lakoseljac, examines Wiebe's works and his achievements as an author, editor, professor and mentor who helped shape successful authors and encouraged a passion for Canadian literature. Intriguingly, while Wiebe's writing has been labeled as "brilliant" and "magnificent," it has also been seen as "challenging" due in part to his propensity for a rather Faulknerian turn of phrase and his use of multifaceted storymaking approaches, such as intertextual and intratextual dynamics, and the sociopolitical views and religious beliefs they embody. Rudy Wiebe's literary work raises him to the status of a Canadian literary icon whose fiction and nonfiction are seen as major contributions to Canadian literature, and will continue to be enjoyed for generations to come.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright
• Bianca LakoseljacWhy This Book
• Bianca Lakoseljac Introduction: Rudy Wiebe’s Works and Academic Life: Changing Times in English Canadian Literature
• Margaret Atwood Teaching Rudy to Dance . . . all true events
• Miriam Toews Peace Shall Destroy Many
• Hildi Froese Tiessen Between Memory and Longing: Rudy Wiebe’s Sweeter Than All the World
• George Melnyk Literary Genealogy: Exploring the legacy of F.M. Salter
• Bianca Lakoseljac Interview with Rudy Wiebe: CanLit in Time of COVID-19
• Milena Kaličanin Fact vs. Fiction in Rudy Wiebe’s Where is the Voice Coming From
• Paul Tiessen Memoir and the Re-reading of Fiction: Rudy Wiebe’s of this earth and Peace Shall Destroy Many
• Olga Stein The “Wistful, Windy Madness of a Gift”: Rudy Wiebe’s Books for Young Readers
• Bianca Lakoseljac Interview with Aritha van Herk: Rudy Wiebe, a Mentor and a Critic
• Uroš Tomić Is Grief Rational? Loss and Pain in Rudy Wiebe’s Come Back
• Scot Morison The “Rudy Wiebe Room”
• Hugh Cook Interview: A Conversation With Rudy Wiebe
• Myrna Kostash A White Man’s View of Big Bear
• Hugh Cook Salted With Fire
• Maureen Scott Harris A Gift of Understanding
• Katherine Govier A Gentle Eye from Afar
• John Longhurst Peace of Mind
• George Melnyk The Other Wiebe: Decoding a Novelist’s Nonfiction
• Bianca Lakoseljac Rudy Wiebe’s “Unearthing” of Big Bear: a Plains Cree Hero of Canada’s Past
• Bianca Lakoseljac Bibliography: Through the Eyes of Rudy Wiebe
• Contributor Notes
• Acknowledgements
• About the Editor