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Bibliography of Works about Timothy Findley

Interviews

Aitken, Johan. "‘Long Live the Dead’: An Interview with Timothy Findley." Journal of Canadian Fiction 33 (1981-1982): 79-93.

Benson, Eugene. "Interview with Timothy Findley" World Literature Written in English 26 (1986): 107-115.

Buitenhuis, Peter. "Return of the Crazy People" Books in Canada Dec. 1988: 17-20.

Cameron, Donald. "Timothy Findley: Make Peace with Nature, Now" Conversations with Canadian Novelists. Toronto: Macmillan, 1973. 49-63.

Canton, Jeffrey. "The Whole Lake Beneath: Timothy Findley" The Power to Bend Spoons: Interviews with Canadian Novelists. Ed. Beverley Daurio. Toronto: Mercury, 1998. 59-68.

Goldie, Terry. "Interview" Kunapipi 6.1 (1984): 56-67.

Kruk, Laurie. "I Want Edge: An Interview with Timothy Findley" Canadian Literature 148 (1996): 115-29.

Manguel, Alberto. "On the Art of Detection: An Interview with Timothy Findley" Descant Winter 2002: 22-32.

Mellor, W.M. "Timothy Findley’s True Fictions: A Conversation at Stone Orchard" Studies in Canadian Literature 19.2 (1994): 77-101.

Meyer, Bruce. "The Marvel of Reality: An Interview with Timothy Findley" Waves: Fine Canadian Writing Spring 1982: 5-11.

Mulhallen, Karen. "Conversation with Timothy Findley" Descant Winter 2002: 33-48.

Off, Carol. "Robin Phillips and Timothy Findley Discuss the Sound and Fury of The Wars" Cinema Canada Jan. 1984: 14-19.

Reichard, William. "Who Am I... This Time?" Lambda Book Report. Feb. 2000: 6-9.

Richards, Linda. Interview with Timothy Findley. January Magazine Nov. 1999.

____. Interview with Timothy Findley. January Magazine June 2002.

Rogers, Kate. "Timothy Findley: A Finely-Tuned Empathy" B&A: New Fiction. Spring 1997: 38-41.

Sandor, Suzanne. "The Mystery of Violence" Maclean’s 27 Oct. 1986: 10-12.

Summers, Alison. "Interview with Timothy Findley" Canadian Literature 91 (1981): 49-55.

Documentaries

Timothy Findley: Anatomy of a Writer. Dir. Terence Macartney-Filgate. National Film Board, 1992.

Life and Times: Timothy Findley. Dir. Diane Ngui-Yen. CBC, 1999.

Adaptations

The Piano Man’s Daughter. Dir. Kevin Sullivan. Sullivan Entertainment, 2003.

Articles and Books

Arnovick, Leslie K. "It’s a Sign of the Times: Uses of Anachronism in Medieval Drama and the Postmodern Novel" Studia Neophilologica: A Journal of Germanic and Romance Languages and Literature 65.2 (1993): 157-68.

Arsand, Daniel. " Timothy Findley, peintre des ténèbres" Magazine Littéraire Dec. 2003: 62.

Atwood, Margaret. Rev. of The Wars. Second Words: Selected Critical Prose. Toronto: Anansi, 1982. 290-95.

____. "Tiff and the Animals" Brick 70 (Winter 2002): 157-59.

Bailey, Anne Geddes. "Finding Lily: Maternal Presence in The Piano Man’s Daughter" Essays on Canadian Writing 64 (1998): 56-81.

____. "Tiff and the Animals" Brick 70 (Winter 2002): 157-59.

Bailey, Anne Geddes. "Finding Lily: Maternal Presence in The Piano Man’s Daughter" Essays on Canadian Writing 64 (1998): 56-81.

____. "Misrepresentations of Vanessa Van Horne: Intertextual Clues in Timothy Findley’s The Telling of Lies" Essays on Canadian Writing 55 (1995): 191-213.

____. Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism: Intertextual Collaboration and Resistance. New Canadian Criticism Series. Vancouver: Talonbooks, 1998.

____, and Karen Grandy. Paying Attention: Critical Essays on Timothy Findley. Toronto: ECW, 1998. [Rpt. of Essays on Canadian Writing 64.]

Benson, Eugene. "L‘Whispers of Chaos’: Famous Last Words" World Literature Written in English 21.3 (1982): 599-606.

Billingham, Susan E. "Fraternizing with the Enemy: Constructions of Masculinity in the Short Fiction of Timothy Findley" Yearbook of English Studies 31 (2001): 205-17.

Buchholz, Garth. Rev. of stage adaptation of Not Wanted on the Voyage. Maclean’s 13 Jan. 1992: 49.

Brydon, Diana. "A Devotion to Fragility: Timothy Findley’s The Wars" World Literature Written in English 26 (1986): 75-84.

____. "Intertextuality in Timothy Findley’s Headhunter" Journal of Canadian Studies 33.4 (1998-1999): 53-62

____. "‘It Could Not Be Told:’ Making Meaning in Timothy Findley’s The Wars" Journal of Commonwealth Literature 21 (1986): 62-79.

____. "A Post-Holocaust, Post-Colonial Vision" International Literature in English: Essays on the Major Writers. Ed. Robert L. Ross. New York: Garland, 1991. 583-92.

____. Writing on Trial: Timothy Findley’s Famous Last Words. Toronto: ECW, 1995.

Cameron, Elspeth. "The Inner Wars of Timothy Findley" Saturday Night Jan. 1985: 24-33.

Cobley, Evelyn. "Postmodernist War Fiction: Findley’s The Wars" Canadian Literature 147 (1995): 98-124

Cooke, John. The Influence of Painting on Five Canadian Writers: Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1996.

Cude, Wilfred. "Timothy Findley" Profiles in Canadian Literature. Vol. 4. Ed. Jeffrey M. Heathe. Toronto: Dundurn, 1982. 77-84.

____. "Truth Slips In: Timothy Findley’s Doors of Fiction" Antigonish Review 105 (1996): 75-90.

Dellamora, Richard. "Becoming-Homosexual/ Becoming-Canadian: Ironic Voice and the Politics of Location in Timothy Findley’s Famous Last Words" Double Talking: Essays on Verbal and Visual Ironies in Contemporary Canadian Art and Literature. Ed. Linda Hutcheon. Toronto: ECW, 1992. 172-200.

Demousselle, Carinne. "Antifascism and Characterization in Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage" The Guises of Canadian Diversity: New European Perspectives. Ed. Serge Jaumain and Marc Maufort. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 47-54.

D’haen, Theo. "Timothy Findley: Magical Realism and the Canadian Postmodern" Multiple Voices: Recent Canadian Fiction. Ed. Jeanne Delbaere. Sydney: Dangaroo, 1990. 217-33.

____. "Timothy Findley’s Headhunter: Empire, and Canadian Modernity" (Un)Writing Empire. Ed. Theo D’haen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. 309-21.

Dickinson, Peter. "‘Running Wilde’: National Ambivalence and Sexual Dissidence in Not Wanted on the Voyage" Essays on Canadian Writing 64 (1998): 125-46.

Dopp, Jamie. "Reading as Collaboration in Timothy Findley’s Famous Last Words" Studies in Canadian Literature 20.1 (1995): 1-15.

Drolet, Gilbert. "‘Prayers against Despair’: A Retrospective Note on Findley’s The Wars" Journal of Canadian Fiction 33 (1981-1982): 148-155.

Duffy, Dennis. "Let Us Compare Histories: Meaning and Mythology in Findley’s Famous Last Words" Essays on Canadian Writing 30 (1984-1985): 187-205.

Erskine-Hill, Howard. "The Nuisance Grounds: The Theme of Relegation in Two Canadian Novels" Imagined Commonwealths: Cambridge Essays on Commonwealth and International Literature in English. Ed T.J. Cribb. Basingstoke, England; New York, NY: Macmillan; St. Martin's, 1999. 246-68.

Foley, Michael. "Noah’s Wife’s Rebellion: Timothy Findley’s Use of the Mystery Plays of Noah in Not Wanted on the Voyage" Essays on Canadian Writing 44 (1991): 175-82.

Gabriel, Barbara. "Performing the Bent Text: Fascism and the Regulation of Sexualities in Timothy Findley’s The Butterfly Plague" English Studies in Canada 21.2 (1995): 227-50.

"Sex, Lies and Photography: Reading Detective Fiction as Psychoanalysis in Timothy Findley’s The Telling of Lies." in Gender and Narrativity, ed. Barry Rutland, Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1997, 87-113.

____. "‘The Repose of an Icon’ in Timothy Findley’s Theatre of Fascism: From ‘Alligator Shoes’ to Famous Last Words" Essays on Canadian Writing 64 (1998): 149-80.

____. "Staging Monstrosity: Genre, Life-Writing, and Timothy Findley’s The Last of the Crazy People" Essays on Canadian Writing 54 (1994): 168-97.

Gibson, Graeme. "Timothy Findley" Eleven Canadian Novelists. Toronto: Anansi, 1973. 119-49.

Goetsch, Paul. "Art and Violence: Timothy Findley’s Famous Last Words" Historiographic Metafiction in Modern American and Canadian Literature. Ed. Bernd Engler and Kurt Müller. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh, 1994. 477-91.

Goldman, Marlene. "The End(s) of Myth: Apocalyptic and Prophetic Fictions in Headhunter" Essays on Canadian Writing 64 (1998): 32-55.

Grandy, Karen. "Performed and Performing Selves in Findley’s Drama" Essays on Canadian Writing 64 (1998): 181-200.

Groen, Rick. "T.V. Drama Has Everything But Impact." Rev. of Other People’s Children. Globe and Mail 28 Mar. 1980: 17.

Hastings, Tom. "‘Their Fathers Did It to Them’: Findley’s Appeal to the Great War Myth of a Generational Conflict in The Wars" Essays on Canadian Writing 64 (1998): 85-103.

Howells, Coral Ann. "‘History as She Is Never Writ’: The Wars and Famous Last Words" Kunapipi 6.1 (1984): 49-56.

____. "‘’Tis Sixty Years Since’: Timothy Findley’s The Wars and Roger McDonald’s 1915" World Literature Written in English 23 (1984): 129-136.

Hulcoop, John F. "‘Look! Listen! Mark My Words!’ Paying Attention to Timothy Findley’s Fictions" Canadian Literature 91 (1981): 22-47.

____. "Timothy Findley" Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 53: Canadian Writers Since 1960, First Series. Ed. W. H. New. New York: Gale Research, 1986. 181-191.

____. "The Will to Be" Canadian Literature 94 (1982): 117-22.

Hunter, Catherine. "’I Don’t Know How to Begin’: Findley’s Work in the Sixties" Essays on Canadian Writing 64 (1998): 13-31.

Ingham, David. "Bashing the Fascists: The Moral Dimensions of Findley’s Fiction" Studies in Canadian Literature 15.2 (1990): 33-54

Isernhagen, Hartwig. "Timothy Findley’s The Wars as a Belated Novel of World War I: Between Documentary and Historical Fiction" Leaflets of a Surfacing Response: 1st Symposium Canadian Literature in Germany. Ed. Jürgen Martini. Bremen: U Bremen P, 1980. 57-62.

Jefferess, David. "A Pacific (Re) Reading of Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage" Essays on Canadian Writing 72 (2000): 138-57.

Keith, W. J. "Apocalyptic Imaginations: Notes on Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale and Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage" Essays on Canadian Writing 35 (1987): 123-134.

Klovan, Peter. "‘Bright and Good’: Findley’s The Wars" Canadian Literature 91 (1981): 58-69.

Kroetsch, Robert, and Reingard M. Nischik, eds. Gaining Ground: European Critics on Canadian Literature. Edmonton, AB: NeWest, 1985.

Kröller, Eva-Marie. "The Exploding Frame: Uses of Photography in Timothy Findley’s The Wars" Journal of Canadian Studies 16.3-4 (1981): 68-74.

____. "The Eye in the Text: Timothy Findley’s The Last of the Crazy People and Alice Munro’s Lives of Girls and Women" World Literature Written in English 23 (1984): 366-74.

____. "‘Sur les rivages d’un autre âge’: Timothy Findley et Evelyn Waugh" Etudes Littéraires 27.1 (1994): 29-41.

Kruk, Laurie. "Hands and Mirrors: Gender Reflections in the Short Stories of Alistair MacLeod and Timothy Findley" Dominant Impressions: Essays on the Canadian Short Story. Ed. Gerald Lynch and Angela Arnold Robbeson. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 1999. 137-50.

Kuester, Martin. " Central Europe from Three Postmodern Canadian Perspectives" Images of Central Europe in Travelogues and Fiction by North American Writers. Ed. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. Tübingen: Stauffenburg, 1995. 347-52.

Lamont-Stewart, Linda. "Androgyny as Resistance to Authoritarianism in Two Postmodern Canadian Novels" Mosaic 30.3 (1997): 115-30.

Lane, Harry. "‘Not His Own Person’: Questions of Betrayal in The Stillborn Lover" Queen’s Quarterly 100.2 (1993): 441-56.

MacLaine, Brent. "Sleuths in the Darkroom: Photographer-Detectives and Postmodern Narrative" Journal of Popular Culture 33.3 (1999): 79-94.

Manguel, Alberto. "On the Art of Detection: an Interview with Timothy Findley." Descant 33.4 (Winter 2002): 22-32.

Marshall, Brenda. " Meta (Hi)Story: Timothy Findley’s Famous Last Words" International Fiction Review 16.1 (1989): 17-22.

Martell, Cecilia. "Unpacking the Baggage: ‘Camp’ Humour in Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage" Canadian Literature 148 (1996): 96-111.

McKenzie, M. L. "Memories of the Great War: Graves, Sassoon, and Findley" University of Toronto Quarterly 55 (1986): 395-411.

Miller, Mary Jane. "An Analysis of The Paper People" Canadian Drama 9 (1983): 49-59.

Murray, Don. "Seeing and Surviving in Timothy Findley’s Short Stories" Studies in Canadian Literature 13 (1988): 200-222.

Nicholson, Mervyn. "God, Noah, Lord Byron-and Timothy Findley" ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature Apr. 1992: 87-107.

Nielsen, Dorothy. "Timothy Findley’s Not Wanted on the Voyage: An Exemplary Ecofeminist Text" Canadian Poetry 42 (1998): 100-22.

Pennee, Donna Palmateer. Moral Metafiction: Counterdiscourse in the Novels of Timothy Findley. Downsview, Ont.: ECW, 1991.

Petrukhina, Maya. "Timothy Findley’s Look into History and War" Missions of Interdependence: A Literary Directory. Ed. Gerhard Stilz. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2002. 35-40.

Pirie, Bruce. "The Dragon in the Fog: 'Displaced Mythology' in The Wars" Canadian Literature 91 (1981): 70-79.

Ravvin, Norman. "The Apocalyptic Predicament: Timothy Findley’s Predetermined Novel" Fins de siècle/New Beginnings. Ed. Ib Johansen and Dominic Rainsford. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus UP, 2000. 163-76.

Rhodes, Shane. "Buggering with History: Sexual Warfare and Historical Reconstruction in Timothy Findley’s The Wars" Canadian Literature 159 (1998): 38-53.

Roberts, Carol. "The Perfection of Gesture: Timothy Findley and Canadian Theatre. " Theatre History in Canada 12 (1991): 22-36.

____. Timothy Findley: Stories from a Life. Toronto: ECW, 1994.

____, and Lynne Macdonald. Timothy Findley: An Annotated Bibliography. Toronto: ECW, 1990.

Salem-Wiseman, Lisa. "Insanity Begins at Home: Madness in the Family in Timothy Findley’s The Last of the Crazy People" University of Toronto Quarterly 71.4 (2002): 843-63.

____. "‘We Are Not Alone Here, Charlie’: Madness, Nature, and Wonder in Timothy Findley’s The Piano Man’s Daughter." English Studies in Canada 24 (1998): 1001-16.

Sanderson, Heather. "(Im)Perfect Dreams: Allegories of Fascism in The Butterfly Plague" Essays on Canadian Writing 64 (Summer 1998): 104-24.

____. "Robert and Taffler: Homosexuality and the Discourse of Gender in Timothy Findley’s The Wars" Textual Studies in Canada/Etudes Textuelles au Canada 8 (1996): 82-95.

Savioli, Maria Cristina. "Issues of Identity in Timothy Findley’s Elizabeth Rex" British Journal of Canadian Studies 15 (2002): 190-203.

Scobie, Stephen. "Eye-Deep in Hell: Ezra Pound, Timothy Findley, and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley" Essays on Canadian Writing 30 (1984-1985): 206-227.

Seddon, Elizabeth. "The Reader as Actor in the Novels of Timothy Findley" Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature. Ed. John Moss. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 1987. 213-220.

Shields, E. F. "Mauberley’s Lies: Fact and Fiction in Timothy Findley’s Famous Last Words. " Journal of Canadian Studies 22.4 (1987-1988): 44-59.

____. "‘The Perfect Voice’: Mauberley as Narrator in Timothy Findley’s Famous Last Words" Canadian Literature 119 (1988): 84-98.

Söderlind, Sylvia. "Huckleberry Findley" Context North America: Canadian/U.S. Literary Relations. Ed. Camille R. La Bossière. Ottawa: U of Ottawa P, 1994. 75-87.

Thompson, Eric. "Canadian Fiction of the Great War" Canadian Literature 91 (1981): 81-96.

Tumanov, Vladimir. "De-Automatization in Timothy Findley’s ‘The Wars.’" Canadian Literature 130 (1991): 107-15.

"Timothy Findley" Contemporary Authors Online. Literature Resource Center. Gale Group Databases. U of Alberta Lib., Edmonton. 15 Aug. 2004.

"Timothy Findley 1930-2002." Descant 33.4 (Winter 2002): 11-12.

Vauthier, Simone. "The Dubious Battle of Story-Telling: Narrative Strategies in Timothy Findley’s The Wars" Gaining Ground: European Critics on Canadian Literature. Ed. Robert Kroetsch and Reingard M. Nischik. Edmonton, AB: NeWest, 1985. 11-39.

Verhoeven, W. M. "Naming the Present/Naming the Past: Historiographic Metafiction in Findley and Ondaatje" Shades of Empire in Colonial and Post-Colonial Literatures. Ed. C.C. Barfoot and Theo D’haen. Amsterdam: Rodopi; 1993. 283-99.

Walton, Priscilla. "‘This Isn’t a Fairy Tale...It’s Mythology’: The Colonial Perspective in Famous Last Words" Commonwealth Essays and Studies 14.1 (1991): 9-15.

Weiss, Allan. "Private and Public in Timothy Findley’s The Wars" Canadian Literature 138-139 (1993): 91-102.

Williams, David. "A Force of Interruption: the Photography of History in Timothy Findley’s ‘The Wars’." Canadian Literature 194: (Autumn 2007): 54-74.

Willmott, Glenn. "Findley, Timothy" Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Ed. W.H. New. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2002. 366-68.

Winston, Iris. "Piano Man’s Daughter: Veronica Tennant in Adaptation of Findley Works" Performing Arts in Canada June 1997: 36.

Woodcock, George. "Timothy Findley’s Gnostic Parable" Canadian Literature 111 (1986): 232-237.

Wyile, Herb, and David Pare. "Whose Story Is It, Anyway? An Interdisciplinary Approach to Postmodernism, Narrative, and Therapy" Mosaic Mar. 2001: 153-72.

York, Lorraine M. "Civilian Conflict: Systems of Warfare in Timothy Findley’s Early Fiction" English Studies in Canada 15 (1989): 336-347.

____. "Findley, Timothy" Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. 2nd ed. Ed. Eugene Benson and William Toye. Toronto: Oxford UP, 1997. 403-05.

____. Front Lines: The Fiction of Timothy Findley. Toronto: ECW, 1991.

____. The Other Side of Dailiness: Photography in the Works of Alice Munro, Timothy Findley, Michael Ondaatje, and Margaret Laurence. Toronto: ECW, 1988.

____. "‘A Shout of Recognition’: ‘Likeness’ and the Art of the Simile in Timothy Findley’s The Wars" English Studies in Canada 11 (1985): 223-230.

____. "‘The Things That Are Seen in the Flashes’: Timothy Findley’s Inside Memory as Photographic Life Writing" Modern Fiction Studies 40.3 (1994): 643-56.

____. "Timothy Findley (1930- )" Canadian Writers and Their Works. Ed. Robert Lecker, Jack David, and Ellen Quigley. Toronto: ECW, 1995. 71-120.

____. Timothy Findley’s The Wars: A Study Guide. Downsview, Ont: ECW, 1990.

____. "‘White Hand Hovering over the Page’: Timothy Findley and the Racialized/Ethnicized Other" Essays on Canadian Writing 64 (Summer 1998): 201-20.

Zabalbeascoa, J. A. "Timothy Findley’s War Novels" Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 7 (Nov. 1994): 193-98.

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