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POETICS AND PUBLIC CULTURE IN CANADA: A CONFERENCE IN HONOUR OF FRANK DAVEY
| Biography & Research |
Manina
Jones is a specialist in Canadian Literature, with interests in Popular
Culture and Critical Theory. She has held faculty positions in the
Department
of English at Carleton
University (1990-91), the University of
Waterloo (1991-1995) and has been a full-time faculty member at
Western since 1995. Her current research includes a book-length study
of Canadian literary collaboration, "Creative Differences:
Collaborative Writing in Contemporary Canada" (see a bibliography
of secondary sources).
| Publications |
FORTHCOMING...
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Dvorak, Marta, and Manina Jones, eds. Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. |
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Walton, Priscilla L. and Manina Jones. Detective Agency: Women Rewriting the Hard-Boiled Tradition. University of California Press, 1999.
"The authors of the present volume explore how women writers, positioning professional female detectives in the world of contemporary crime, have reimagined the hard-boiled novel, challenging not only the patriarchal culture that defines these fictional worlds but the linguistic, intellectual, and narrative paradigms that traditionally have shaped the genre....[Detective Agency] focuses on leading writers such as Paretsky, Grafton, and Muller while considering an ample range of titles by other practitioners....[it] provides a deft analysis of the political and economic role of the genre's readership....the engaging prose will draw in undergraduate and general readers as well as scholars. Highly recommended." Choice See the Modern Fiction Studies review. See the Amazon.com review. 
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Jones, Manina. That Art of Difference: 'Documentary-Collage' and English-Canadian Writing. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. "Why are contemporary Canadian writers so interested in the possibilities of documentary? For Jones, 'the documentary ... paradoxically reminds readers both of the 'factuality' of history and of the construction of that factuality through the collection and interpretation of textual or materially 'documentary' evidence .... Beginning with a fine discussion of Dorothy Livesay's influential criticism, Jones shows herself to be a resourceful reader of Canadian literature and literary theory .... [T]his book is always worthwhile, and the chapters on Robert Kroetsch's The Ledger and Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid are brilliant. Recommended." Choice See the Canadian Poetry review. |
| Teaching |
Current
and Recent Teaching: English 274E: Canadian Literature, English
406G: "The Art of Murder: Detective Fiction from Poe to Paretsky"
English
200: Reading Criticism Reading Literature, English 201F: History of
Literary Theory and Criticism
| Contact Information |
Office:
University College (see map)
room
372
E-mail.
Phone/voice
mail: (519) 661-2111, extension 85783.
Mailing
address:
Department
of English
University
of Western Ontario
London,
Ontario
CANADA
N6A 3K7
| Web Sites |
Other sites of
interest:
Association of Canadian College and
University Teachers of English
Dictionary of Canadian
Biography
National Library
of Canada
Canadian Poetry
Early Canadiana Online
last updated: 31 October 2006