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The Art of Desire, The Fiction of Douglas Glover, Edited by Bruce Stone, Ottawa: Oberon Press, 2004. (Essays by Bruce Stone, Louis K. MacKendrick, Claire Wilkshire, Lawrence Mathews, Phil Tabakow, Don Sparling, Philip Marchand, & Stephen Henighan.)

 

Film, Video & Television

Reading and Q & A, Canadian Writers in Person, York University, October 21, 2008

The Writing Life: Douglas Glover, A film by Michael Glassbourg, TickleScratch Productions (2004)

Featured in several episodes of Writers' Confessions, A series by Michael Glassbourg, TickleScratch Productions (2005)

 

Memoir

"The Familiar Dead" Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Vol. 23, Gale Research (1996)

 

General Essays

"The Fiction of Douglas Glover: An Essay in Three Parts" by Michael Bryson, The Danforth Review

"Douglas Glover" by Bruce Stone, The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 2004

 

On The Enamoured Knight

"The Enamoured Critic: Douglas Glover Reads Don Quixote" by Martin Ryker, The Denver Quarterly

"Tilting at Fiction's Windmills" by Darryl Whetter, Globe and Mail

"The Life Quixotic" by Charles Foran, The Walrus 

 

On Elle

"Douglas Glover's Elle: A Menippean Satire" by Haijo Westra and Adam Westra, Numero Cinq

"I am a Landscape of Desire: Gender, Genre and the Deconstruction of the Textuality of Empire in Douglas Glover's Elle" by Pedro Carmona Rodríguez, Proceedings of the 29th AEDEAN Conference: Universidad de Jaén 15 al 20 diciembre 2005. CD-ROM. Ed. Alejandro Alcaraz Sintes et al. Jaén: AEDEAN / Servicio de Publicaciones U de Jaén, 2006. 539-45.

"'...[D]estined always to be on the edge of things': Prolegomenon to a Dialogue of Transdisciplinary and Curriculum Theory" by Patrick Howard, Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, Vol. 20. Iss. 4 p.45, Winter 2004

"Canadian Crusoes from Sea to Sea: The Oceanic Communities of Douglas Glover's Elle and Yann Martel's Life of Pi" by John Clement Bell, Moveable Margins, The Shifting Spaces of Canadian Literature, Chelva Kanaganayakam, ed., TSAR Publications, Toronto, 2005

"Surviving the Metaphorical Condition in Elle : Douglas Glover's Impersonation of the First French Female in Canada" by María Jesús Hernáez Lerena, Canon Disorders: Gendered Perspectives on Literature and Film in Canada and the United States, Darias Beautell, Eva, and María Jesús Hernáez Lerena, eds., Ed. Logroño: Universidad de La Rioja/Universidad de La Laguna, 2007

"Visited Graves in Colonial Cemeteries: The Resurrection of Marguerite de Roberval" by María Jesús Hernáez Lerena, Canada Exposed/Le Canada a decouvert, Peter Lang Publishing, Berlin, New York, Brussels, Oxford, 2009

"A Canadian Bear, A Woman’s Heart: Douglas Glover’s Elle and Marian Engel’s Bear," Christl Verduyn, TransCanadiana: Polish Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 1 (2008): 74-85.

"Self as Garbled Translation: Douglas Glover’s Elle/Elle," in Traduire depuis les marges/Translating from the Margins, Christl Verduyn, Denise Merkle, Jane Koustas, Glen Nichols and Sherry Simon, eds. Montreal: Edition Nota Bene, 2008. 59-74.

"Bears, Bodies and Boundaries in Douglas Glover’s Elle: A Novel," Ruta Šlapkauskaite, Transnational Literature, Volume 4, Issue 1, November 2011.

 

On Bad News of the Heart

"Rotten Love" by Katherine Preusser, The Stranger 

"Pursuing a Vision of Complexity" by James Sallis, Boston Globe Books

 

On The Life and Times of Captain N.

"On Becoming Masks: The Life and Times of Captain N. at n-1 Dimensions" by Cheryl Cowdy Crawford, Henry Street, 1999

"Historical Fiction and Douglas Glover's The Life and Times of Captain N." by Don Sparling, Brno Studies In English 23, 1997

"Why Everybody Loves Indians" by Philip Marchand, Ripostes, Reflections on Canadian Literature, The Porcupine's Quill, Erin, Ontario, 1998

 

On "Red"

"The Voices Voice Comprises: Incorporation, First-Person Narration and Gender Performance in Douglas Glover's 'Red'" by Claire Wilkshire, Canadian Literature, Issue 158, Autumn, 1998

 

 On "Why I Decide To Kill Myself And Other Jokes"

"Structural Unity in Fiction" by Sandra Novack, Descant Magazine, Summer, 2006

 

On "State of the Nation"

"Writing from the Sidelines: Peripheral Critique in Douglas Glover's "State of the Nation'" by Adam Beardsworth, Short Story, New Series, Volume 13, No. 1, Spring, 2005

 

On "My Romance" and "Iglaf and Swan"

"Romancing the 'Mysterious Bonds of Syntax': Allegory and the Ethics of Desire in Douglas Glover's 'My Romance' and 'Iglaf and Swan'" by Adam Beardsworth, Studies in Canadian Literature, Volume 30.2, 2005

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