CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal ISSN 1481-4374
CLCWeb Library of Research and Information ... CLCWeb Contents 6.3 (September 2004)
Thematic Issue Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb04-3/michaelondaatje(bibliography04).html> © Purdue University Press

A Selected Bibliography of Critical Work about Michael Ondaatje's Texts
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek, comp.

1. Selected Web Pages on Michael Ondaatje
and His Writing

Chandler, Anthony N. Michael Ondaatje: <http://www.themodernword.com/scriptorium/ondaatje.html>.
Michael Ondaatje. Random House: <http://www.randomhouse.com/features/ondaatje/>.
Michael Ondaatje: The Steven Barclay Agency: <http://www.barclayagency.com/ondaatje.html>.

2. Selected Bibliography


  Adhikari, Madhumalati. "History and Story: Unconventional History in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific." History and Theory 41.4 (2002): 43-55.
  Barbour, Douglas. Michael Ondaatje. New York: Twayne, 1993.
  Bierman, John. The Secret Life of Laszlo Almasy: The Real English Patient. London: Penguin, 2004.
  Bök, Christian. "Destructive Creation: The Politicization of Violence in the Works of Michael Ondaatje." Canadian Literature 132 (1992): 109-24.
  Bush, Catherine. "Michael Ondaatje: An Interview." Essays on Canadian Writing. Toronto: ECW, 1994. 238-49.
  Clarke, George Elliott. "Michael Ondaatje and the Production of Myth." Studies in Canadian Literature 16.1 (1991): 1-21.
  Cook, Victoria. "Exploring Transnational Identities in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005. 6-15.
  Cook, Victoria. "Exploring Transnational Identities in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 6.3 (2004): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb04-3/cook04.html>.
  Cooke, John. The Influence of Painting on Five Canadian Writers: Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje. Lewiston: Edwin Mellen, 1996.
  Curran, Beverley. "Ondaatje's The English Patient and Altered States of Narrative." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005. 16-26.
  Curran, Beverley. "Ondaatje's The English Patient and Altered States of Narrative." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 6.3 (2004): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb04-3/curran04.html>.
  Duffy, Dennis. "A Wrench in Time: A Sub-Sub-Librarian Looks beneath the Skin of a Lion." Essays on Canadian Writing 53 (1994): 125-40.
  Ellis, Susan. "Trade and Power, Money and War: Rethinking Masculinity in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient." Studies in Canadian Literature 21.2 (1996): 22-36.
  Fagan, Cary. "Where the Personal and the Historical Meet: Michael Ondaatje." The Power to Bend Spoons: Interviews with Canadian Novelists. Ed. Beverly Daurio. Toronto: Mercury, 1998. 115-21.
  Fledderus, Bill. "The English Patient Reposed in His Bed Like a (Fisher?) King: Elements of Grail Romance in Ondaatje's The English Patient." Studies in Canadian Literature 22.1 (1997): 19-54.
  Forshey, Gerald E. "The English Patient: From Novel to Screenplay." Creative Screenwriting 4.2 (1997): 91-98.
  Ganapathy Dore, Geetha. "The Novel of the Nowhere Man: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 16.2 (1993): 96-100.
  Ganapathy Dore, Geetha. "Mapping Continents: The Journey Home in Salman Rushdie, Michael Ondaatje and Bharati Mukherjee." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 17.1 (1994): 3-9.
  Garvie, Maureen. "Listening to Michael Ondaatje." Queen's Quarterly 99.4 (1992): 928-34.
  Goldman, Marlene. "Representations of Buddhism in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005. 27-37.
  Goldman, Marlene. "Representations of Buddhism in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 6.3 (2004): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb04-3/goldman04.html>.
  Heble, Ajay. "Michael Ondaatje and the Problem of History." CLIO: Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History 19.2 (1990): 97-110.
  Heble, Ajay. "Rumours of Topography: The Cultural Politics of Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family." Essays on Canadian Writing. Toronto: ECW, 1994. 186-203.
  Hilger, Stephanie M. "Ondaatje's The English Patient and Rewriting History." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005. 38-48.
  Hilger, Stephanie M. "Ondaatje's The English Patient and Rewriting History." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 6.3 (2004): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb04-3/hilger04.html>.
  Hsu, Hsuan. "Post-Nationalism and the Cinematic Apparatus in Minghella's Adaptation of The English Patient." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005. 49-61.
  Hsu, Hsuan. "Post-Nationalism and the Cinematic Apparatus in Minghella's Adaptation of The English Patient." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 6.3 (2004): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb04-3/hsu04.html>.
  Jaireth, Subhash. "Anthony Minghella's The English Patient: Monoscopic Seeing of Novelistic Heteroglossia." UTS Review 4.2 (1998): 57-79.
  Jewinski, Ed. Michael Ondaatje: Express Yourself Beautifully. Toronto: ECW, 1994.
  Kanaganayakam, Chelva. "A Trick with a Glass: Michael Ondaatje's South Asian Connection." Canadian Literature 132 (1992): 33-42.
  Kemp, Mark A.R. "Italy and the Ruins of Western Civilization: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient." Nemla Italian Studies 21 (1997): 131-55.
  Kjellsmoen, Hilde Stuve. "Mapping the Desert as 'A Place of Faith': A Reading of The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje." Postcolonialism and Cultural Resistance. Ed. Jopi Nyman, and John A. Stotesbury. Joensuu: Faculty of Humanities, University of Joensuu, 1999. 110-16.
  Kliman, Todd. "Michael Ondaatje: Cat Burglar in the House of Fiction." The Hollins-Critic 31.5 (1994): 1-14.
  Lernout, Geert. "Michael Ondaatje: The Desert of the Soul." Kunapipi: Journal of Postcolonial Writing 14.2 (1992): 124-26.
  Lernout, Geert. "Multicultural Canada: The Case of Michael Ondaatje." 'Union in Partition': Essays in Honour of Jeanne Delbaere. Ed. Gilbert Debusscher and Marc Maufort. Liège: UP of Liège, 1997. 181-90.
  Llarena-Ascanio, Maria Jesus. "Michael Ondaatje's Use of History." The Guises of Canadian Diversity: New European Perspectives. Ed. Serge Jaumain, and Marc Maufort. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 19-26.
  Lowry, Glen. "The Representation of 'Race' in Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005. 62-72.
  Lowry, Glen. "The Representation of 'Race' in Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 6.3 (2004): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb04-3/lowry04.html>.
  Maver, Igor. "Creating the National in the International Context: The Postmodernity of Michael Ondaatje's Fiction." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 17.2 (1995): 58-66.
  Maynard, John. "On Desert Ground: Ondaatje's The English Patient, Durrell, and the Shifting Sands of Critical Typologies." Deus Loci 5 (1997): 66-74.
  Pesch, Josef. "Cultural Clashes? East Meets West in Michael Ondaatje's Novels." Across the Lines: Intertextuality and Transcultural Communication in the New Literatures in English. Ed. Wolfgang Klooss. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. 65-76.
  Pesch, Josef. "Globalized Nationalisms: Michael Ondaatje's Novels and (Post)Colonial Correctness." Zeitschrift für Kanada Studien 17.1 (1997): 96-109.
  Pesch, Josef. "Post-Apocalytical War Histories: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 28.2 (1997): 117-39.
  Pollmann, O.W. "Canadian Patient: Visit with an Ailing Text." Antigonish Review 113 (1998): 149-59.
  Presson, Rebekah. "Fiction as Opposed to Fact. An Interview with Michael Ondaatje." New Letters 62 (1996): 81-90.
  Renger, Nicola. "Cartography, Historiography, and Identity in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient." Beings in Transit: Traveling, Migration, Dislocation. Ed. Liselotte Glage. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. 111-24.
  Rundle, Lisa. "From Novel to Film: The English Patient Distorted." Border/lines 43 (1997): 9-13.
  Sadashige, Jacqui. "Sweeping the Sands: Geographies of Desire in The English Patient." Literature-Film Quarterly 26:4 (1998): 242-54.
  Saklofske, Jon. "The Motif of the Collector and Implications of Historical Appropriation in Ondaatje's Novels." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005. 73-82.
  Saklofske, Jon. "The Motif of the Collector and Implications of Historical Appropriation in Ondaatje's Novels." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 6.3 (2004): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb04-3/saklofske04.html>.
  Sanghera, Sandeep. "Touching the Language of Citizenship in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005. 83-91.
  Sanghera, Sandeep. "Touching the Language of Citizenship in Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 6.3 (2004): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb04-3/sanghera04.html>.
  Sarris, Fotios. "In the Skin of a Lion: Michael Ondaatje's Tenebristic Narrative" Essays on Canadian Writing 44 (1991): 183-201.
  Scobie, Stephen. "The Reading Lesson: Michael Ondaatje and the Patients of Desire." Essays on Canadian Writing 53 (1994): 92-106.
  Sensenig-Dabbous, Eugene. "Will the Real Almásy Please Stand Up! Transporting Central European Orientalism via The English Patient." Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 24.2 (2004): 163-80.
  Siemerling, Winfried. Discoveries of the Other: Alterity in the Work of Leonard Cohen, Hubert Aquin, Michael Ondaatje, and Nicole Brossard. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1994.
  Siemerling, Winfried. "Oral History and the Writing of the Other in Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005. 92-104.
  Siemerling, Winfried. "Oral History and the Writing of the Other in Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 6.3 (2004): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb04-3/siemerling04.html>.
  Smythe, Karen E. "Listen It." Essays on Canadian Writing. Toronto: ECW, 1994. 1-10.
  Stenberg, Douglas-G. "A Firmament in the Midst of the Waters: Dimensions of Love in The English Patient." Literature-Film Quarterly 26.4 (1998) 255-62.
  Sugunasiri, Suwanda H.J. "'Sri Lankan' Canadian Poets: The Bourgeoisie that Fled the Revolution." Canadian Literature 132 (1992): 60-79.
  Summers-Bremner, Eluned. "Reading Ondaatje's Poetry." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005.
  Summers-Bremner, Eluned. "Reading Ondaatje's Poetry." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 6.3 (2004): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb04-3/summers-bremner04.html>.
  Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. "Cultures, Peripheralities, and Comparative Literature." Comparative Literature: Theory, Method, Application. By Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1998. 121-72.
  Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. "Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient, 'History,' and the Other." CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture 1.4 (1999): <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb99-4/Tötösy99-2.html>.
  Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven. "Ondaatje's The English Patient and Questions of History." Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005. 115-31.
 
Tötösy de Zepetnek, Steven, ed. Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. West Lafayette: Purdue UP, 2005.
  Turcotte, Gerry. "Response: Venturing into Undiscoverable Countries: Reading Ondaatje, Malouf, Atwood and Jia in an Asia-Pacific Context." Australian Canadian Studies 15-16 (1997-98): 65-72.
  Ty, Eleanor. "The Other Questioned: Exoticism and Displacement in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient." The International Fiction Review 27.1-2 (2000): 10-19.
  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.
  Verhoeven, W.M. "Playing Hide and Seek in Language: Michael Ondaatje's Historiography of the Self." American Review of Canadian Studies 24.1 (1994): 21-38.
  Wachtel, Eleanor. "An Interview with Michael Ondaatje." Canadian Literature 53 (1994): 250-61.
  Waldman, Nell. "Michael Ondaatje (1943-)." ECW's Biographical Guide to Canadian Poets. Ed. Robert Lecker, Jack David, and Ellen Quigley. Toronto: ECW, 1993. 271-77.
  Waldman, Nell. "Michael Ondaatje and His Works." Canadian Writers and Their Works. Ed. Robert Lecker, Jack David, and Ellen Quigley. Toronto: ECW, 1992. 359-412.
  Williams David. "The Politics of Cyborg Communications: Harold Innis, Marshall McLuhan, and The English Patient." Canadian Literature 156 (1998): 30-55.
  Younis, Raymond Aaron. "Nationhood and Decolonization in The English Patient." Literature-Film Quarterly 26.1 (1998): 2-9

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CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture: A WWWeb Journal ISSN 1481-4374
CLCWeb Library of Research and Information ... CLCWeb Contents 6.3 (September 2004)
Thematic Issue Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
<http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/clcweb04-3/michaelondaatje(bibliography04).html> © Purdue University Press