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Thematic Issue Comparative Cultural Studies and Michael Ondaatje's Writing. Ed. Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
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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
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Siemerling, Winfried. "Oral History and the Writing of
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Smythe, Karen E. "Listen It." Essays on Canadian
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Stenberg, Douglas-G. "A Firmament in the Midst of the Waters: Dimensions
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Sugunasiri, Suwanda H.J. "'Sri Lankan' Canadian Poets: The Bourgeoisie
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Summers-Bremner, Eluned. "Reading Ondaatje's Poetry." Comparative
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Turcotte, Gerry. "Response: Venturing into Undiscoverable
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