Timothy Findley: a selected bibliography

N.B. This bibliography was prepared in 1996 and thus does not reflect any work done on Findley over the last five years. We hope to have an updated version posted by October 2002.

Books and articles about Timothy Findley and his works:

• Aitken, Johan. "'Long Live the Dead': An Interview with Timothy Findley." Journal of Canadian Fiction .33 (1982): 79-93.
• Bailey, Anne Elizabeth. "The Divided Text: Intertextual Ambivalence in Timothy Findley's Novels." Dissertation Abstracts International 54.11 (May 1994): 4097A .
• Benson, Eugene. "Interview with Timothy Findley." World Literature Written in English 26.1 (Mar. 1986): 107-115.
• ---. "'Whispers of Chaos': Famous Last Words." World Literature Written in English 21.3 (14 1982): 599-606.
• Brydon, Diana. "A Devotion to Fragility: Timothy Findley's The Wars." World Literature Written in English 26.1 (Mar. 1986): 75-84.
• ---. "'It Could Not Be Told:' Making Meaning in Timothy Findley's The Wars." The Journal of Commonwealth Literature 21.1 (1986): 62-79.
• ---. "A Post-Holocaust, Post-Colonial Vision/The Edward A. Clark Center for Australian Studies, Univ. of Texas at Austin." International Literature in English: Essays on the Major Writers. ed. Robert L. Ross. New York: Garland, 1991. 583-92.
• Cobley, Evelyn. "Postmodernist War Fiction: Findley's The Wars." Canadian Literature .147 (Dec. 1995): 98-124.
• Cude, Wilfred. "Timothy Findley." Profiles in Canadian Literature. ed. Jeffrey M. Heath. Toronto: Dundurn, 1982. 77-84. 4.
• 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/Les Masques de la diversité canadienne: Nouvelles Perspectives Européennes. Eds. Serge Jaumain, and Marc Maufort. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1995. 47-54.
• D'haen, Theo. "Timothy Findley: Magical Realism and the Canadian Postmodern/Proceedings of the IVth International Symposium of the Brussels Centre for Canadian Studies: 29 November, 1 December 1989." Multiple Voices: Recent Canadian Fiction. ed. Jeanne Delbaere. Sydney: Dangaroo, 1990. 217-33.
• Dopp, Jamie. "Reading Through Subject Positions: A Materialist Investigation of Subject Positions with Readings of Three Exemplary Texts." Dissertation Abstracts International 54.3 (Sept. 1993): 922A.
• ---. "Reading as Collaboration in Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 20.1 (1995): 1-15.
• Drolet, Gilbert. "'Prayers against Despair': A Retrospective Note on Findley's The Wars." Journal of Canadian Fiction .33 (1982): 148-155.
• Duffy, Dennis. "Let Us Compare Histories: Meaning and Mythology in Findley's Famous Last Words." Essays on Canadian Writing .30 (Dec. 1984): 187-205.
• Findley, Timothy. "Alice Drops Her Cigarette on the Floor . . . (William Whitehead Looking Over Timothy Findley's Shoulder)." Canadian Literature .91 (Dec. 1981): 10-21.
• ---. "The Countries of Invention." Canadian Literature .100 (Mar. 1984): 104-108.
• ---. "The Tea Party or How I Was Nailed by Marian Engel, General Booth, and Minn Williams Burge." Room of One's Own 9.2 (June 1984): 35-40.
• 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 (June 1995): 227-50.
• Goetsch, Paul. "Art and Violence: Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words." Historiographic Metafiction in Modern American and Canadian Literature. eds. Bernd Muller , Kurt Engler. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schoningh, 1994. 477-91.
• Goldie, Terry. "Interview." Kunapipi 6.1 (1984): 56-67.
• Howells, Coral Ann. "'History As She Is Never Writ': The Wars and Famous Last Words." Kunapipi 6.1 (1984): 49-56.
• Hulcoop, John F. "'Look' Listen! Mark My Words!' Paying Attention to Timothy Findley's Fictions." Canadian Literature .91 (Dec. 1981): 22-47.
• Hunter, Catherine. "Desire and Disruption: Narrative Structures in the Fiction of Timothy Findley." Dissertation Abstracts International 53.10 (Apr. 1993): 3534A.
• Ingham, David. "Bashing the Fascists: The Moral Dimensions of Findley's Fiction." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 15.2 (1990): 33-54.
• Ingham, David Keith. "Mediation and the Indirect Metafiction of Randolph Stow, M. K. Joseph, and Timothy Findley." Dissertation Abstracts International 47.6 (Dec. 1986): 2154A.
• 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 [on] Canadian Literature in Germany. Ed. Jurgen Martini. Bremen: University of Bremen Press, 1980. 57-62.
• 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 (Dec. 1987): 123-134.
• Klovan, Peter. "'Bright and Good': Findley's The Wars." Canadian Literature .91 (Dec. 1981): 58-69.
• Kroller, Eva Marie. "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 23.2 (Mar. 1984): 366-374.
• ---. "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 23.2 (Mar. 1984): 366-374.
• Lane, Harry. "'Not His Own Person': Questions of Betrayal in The Stillborn Lover." Queen's Quarterly 100.2 (June 1993): 441-56.
• Marshall, Brenda. "Meta(Hi)Story: Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words." International Fiction Review 16.1 (Dec. 1989): 17-22.
• McKenzie, M. L. "Memories of the Great War: Graves, Sassoon, and Findley." University of Toronto Quarterly 55.4 (June 1986): 395-411.
• Mellor, W. M. "Timothy Findley's True Fictions: A Conversation at Stone Orchard." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 19.2 (1994): 77-101.
• Meyer, Bruce, and Brian O'Riordan. "The Marvel of Reality: An Interview with Timothy Findley." Waves: Fine Canadian Writing 10.4 (Mar. 1982): 5-11.
• Mildon, Denis A. "Narrative Inquiry in Education in the Light of Contemporary Canadian Fiction." Dissertation Abstracts International 54.5 (Nov. 1993): 1659A.
• Murray, Don. "Seeing and Surviving in Timothy Findley's Short Stories." Studies in Canadian Literature/Études en Littérature Canadienne 13.2 (1988): 200-222.
• Nicholson, Mervyn. "God, Noah, Lord Byron and Timothy Findley." ARIEL 23.2 (Apr. 1992): 87-107.
• Penee, Donna. Praying for Rain: Timothy Findley's Not Wanted on the Voyage. Toronto: ECW, 1993.
• ---. Moral Metafiction: Counter Discourse in the Novels of Timothy Findley. Toronto: ECW Press, 1991.
• Pirie, Bruce. "The Dragon in the Fog: 'Displaced Mythology' in The Wars." Canadian Literature .91 (Dec. 1981): 70-79.
• Roberts, Carol. "The Perfection of Gesture: Timothy Findley and Canadian Theatre." Theatre History in Canada/Histoire du Théatre au Canada 12.1 (Mar. 1991): 22-36.
• ---. Timothy Findley : Stories from a Life. Toronto: ECW Press, 1994.
• Roberts, Carol, and Lynne Macdonald. Timothy Findley : An Annotated Bibliography. Toronto: ECW Press, 1990.
• Scobie, Stephen. "Eye Deep in Hell: Ezra Pound, Timothy Findley, and Hugh Selwyn Mauberley." Essays on Canadian Writing .30 (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: University of Ottawa Press, 1987. 213-220.
• Shields, E. F. "Mauberley's Lies: Fact and Fiction in Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words." Journal of Canadian Studies/Revue d'Études Canadiennes 22.4 (Dec. 1987): 44-59.
• ---. "'The Perfect Voice': Mauberley as Narrator in Timothy Findley's Famous Last Words." Canadian Literature .119 (Dec. 1988): 84-98.
• Summers, Alison. "An Interview with Timothy Findley." The Malahat Review .58 (Apr. 1981): 105-110.
• ---. "Interview with Timothy Findley." Canadian Literature .91 (Dec. 1981): 49-55.
• Timothy Findley : Anatomy of a Writer [videocassette]. National Film Board/Office national du film. Terence Macartney Filgate. 1992. 57 min., 25 sec.
• Tumanov, Vladimir. "De-Automatization in Timothy Findley's The Wars." Canadian Literature .130 (14 1991): 107-15.
• Vauthier, Simone. "The Dubious Battle of Story Telling: Narrative Strategies in Timothy Findley's The Wars." Gaining Ground: European Critics on Canadian Literature. Eds. Robert Kroetsch and Reingard M. Nischik. Edmonton: NeWest, 1985. 11-39.
• Walton, Priscilla. "'This Isn't a Fairy Tale . . . It's Mythology': The Colonial Perspective in Famous Last Words." Commonwealth Essays and Studies 14.1 (14 1991): 9-15.
• Weiss, Allan. "Private and Public in Timothy Findley's The Wars." Canadian Literature .138-139 (Sept. 1993): 91-102.
• Woodcock, George. "Timothy Findley's Gnostic Parable." Canadian Literature .111 (Dec. 1986): 232-237.
• York, Lorraine M. "'A Shout of Recognition': 'Likeness' and the Art of the Simile in Timothy Findley's The Wars." English Studies in Canada 11.2 (June 1985): 223-230.
• ---. "Civilian Conflict: Systems of Warfare in Timothy Findley's Early Fiction." English Studies in Canada 15.3 (Sept. 1989): 336-347.
• ---. Front Lines : The Fiction of Timothy Findley. Toronto: ECW Press, 1991.
• ---. The Other Side of Daliness. Toronto: ECW Press, 1988.
• ---. "'The Things That Are Seen in the Flashes': Timothy Findley's Inside Memory as Photographic Life Writing." Modern Fiction Studies 40.3 (Sept. 1994): 643-56.
• ---. "Timothy Findley (1930- )." Canadian Writers and Their Works. Eds. Robert Lecker, Jack David, and Ellen Quigley. Toronto: ECW, 1995. 71-120.
• ---. "'Violent Stillness': Photography and Postmodernism in Canadian Fiction." Mosaic 21.2-3 (Mar. 1988): 193-201.