Sheila Watson

Essays on Her Works

Sheila Watson, Joseph Pivato

• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Year: 2015
• Topic: Literature
• eBook ISBN:
  9781550718959
• Subtopic: Modern Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Sheila Watson published the iconic novel, The Double Hook, in 1959 and influenced the writing styles of many Canadian authors who followed her, including: Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt and others. This is the first collection of essays devoted to all of Watson's writing as well as her work as editor and mentor. The collection examines not only The Double Hook but also the first novel she wrote, Deep Hollow Creek (published in 1992), her short stories and the McLuhan connection. The contributors include: Caterina Edwards, E.D. Blodgett, Mary G. Hamilton, George Melnyk, Margaret Morriss, Margot Northey, Glenn Willmott, and Sergiy Yakovenko. The collection also features material from Sheila Watson herself, including her notes on "How to read Ulysses." Joseph Pivato is editor and contributor. The cover photo is by Rowland McMaster from 1976.

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• Introduction: Scholarship on Sheila Watson
• Brief Biography of Sheila Watson
• The Nature of Modernism in Deep Hollow Creek
• Symbolic Grotesque: The Double Hook
• “No Short Cuts”: The Evolution of The Double Hook
• Originary Grammarians: Laure Conan and Sheila Watson
• The Power of Silence: The Genotext in Sheila Watson’s “Rough Answer”
• Touching Sheila Watson: always someone to kill the doves
• Sheila Watson in Her Own Words
• Sheila Watson: The Habit of Mentoring
• Forests of Symbols: Tay John and The Double Hook
• Sheila Watson in Edmonton: A Student Perspective
• How to read Ulysses
• Bibliography for Sheila Watson
• Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Copyright