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  Hugh Hood - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hugh Hood (April 30, 1928 - August 1, 2000) was a novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor.
Hood wrote 32 books: seventeen novels including the twelve-volume New Age novel sequence (influenced by Marcel Proust and Anthony Powell), several volumes of short fiction, and five of nonfiction.
Hugh Hood by Keith Garebian, Boston, Twayne, 1983
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hugh_Hood   (757 words)

  
 Studies in Canadian Literature
Hood uses checkable facts, like the records for the hockey player Gary Paxton which the narrator finds in the first story; but the facts are exalted to their place in a religious allegory and sometimes they are adjusted to serve this greater fictional truth.
Hood's Christian allegory, however, is still evident in the name of the main character, Angela-Marie or Marie-Ange, which suggests that she is an angel or messenger from God, and which links her with the figure of Mary in the opening story and in Le Grand Déménagement.
Hugh Hood, "Sober Colouring: The Onotology of Super-Realism," Canadian Literature 49 (1971), 30; rpt., with pref., as "The Onotology of Super-Realism" in his The Governor's Bridge is Closed (Ottawa: Oberon, 1973) 130.
www.lib.unb.ca /Texts/SCL/bin/get.cgi?directory=vol10_1_2/&filename=Struthers.htm   (8244 words)

  
 The Ultimate Hallucination   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hugh Hood masterfully dissects the human experience in its multitude of variations through his short stories posthumously collected in a fifth volume of short fiction.
Hood brings to the forefront of our consciousness something as simple as the unyielding attachment to an ordinary object such as a coffee mug: "Every woman has the right to her own coffee mug.
Because in each of Hood's works of fiction there is a kernel of truth the reader knows is probably stranger than the fiction it is wrapped in.
www.ultimatehallucination.com /704b1.html   (740 words)

  
 The Antigonish Review 126: WJ Keith - Hugh Hood - The New Age - A Canadian Masterpiece
Hugh Hood died on 1 August 2000; Near Water, the twelfth and final volume in his novel-series The New Age / Le nouvelle siècle, upon which he had been working for more than a quarter of a century, was published a few weeks later.
Here we are presented with events in the early life of May-Beth Sleaford, later Codrington: her religious upbringing; her suffering when her musician-fiancé, with whom she discusses the mysteries of art, dies suddenly in a freak accident; an extended period of shock and grief followed by attempts to rebuild her life.
Hugh Hood and John Mills, "Hugh Hood and John Mills in Epistolary Conversation," The Fiddlehead 116 (Winter 1978), 140.
www.antigonishreview.com /bi-126/126-wjkeith.html   (3590 words)

  
 Pilgrim's Progress: A Study of the Short Stories of Hugh Hood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This book is an interesting and informative analysis of the thematic structures of Hugh Hood's six short-story collections; the flaw is that it still reads like the master's thesis that it was (McGill 1985).
She convincingly demonstrates how Hood structures each of his collections into a thematic unity to illustrate his vision of the interpenetration of the sacred and the secular -- the universal in the particular.
This is the first book-length analysis of Hood's stories, and the readings are clear and informative, the allegorical interpretations justified by Hood's well-known use of symbolic names and numbers and emblematic images.
www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/591/591_review_pell.html   (448 words)

  
 McClelland and Stewart Ltd: Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
In Hugh Hood’s electrifying and elusive stories, apparently placid surfaces conceal violent emotions and human failures.
Hood’s achievement is to moralize without judging, to balance his insight into human failings with his expansive sympathy for people and their plight.
Hugh Hood was born in Toronto in 1928.
www.mcclelland.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0771034741   (175 words)

  
 Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Keith is right that Hood (despite the critics’ scepticism concerning The New Age series) has always been acknowledged and anthologised as “one of the most skilful and probing Canadian practitioners of the short story.” But these final stories are not up to his usual standards.
The exception might be “Life in Venice”: a charming tale of two frugal vacationers on a quest for a carrot-scraper who get “lost” in contemplation of the three churches that surround a Venetian hardware store and discover both “a miracle of the principles of engineering.
Hugh Hood was one of the greatest short-story writers Canada has ever known.
www.canlit.ca /reviews/unassigned/6473_pell.html   (302 words)

  
 Last Writes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
That Hugh: he knew just what he was up to, and he knew we'd figure it out too.
Hugh was always fun, always there on the page with you, winking, celebrating the almost-completion of several years' work.
Hugh has given us so much in his lovingly detailed portrayal of characters we can all recognize from our own lives, and has chronicled an age better than any historian during the past 30 years could ever have done.
webhome.idirect.com /~cgarbutt/Editorial/lastwrites4.html   (445 words)

  
 Hugh Hood Fonds - Accession No.:547/94.2
Autobiographical sketch 1992 1.4 Hugh Hood, 1928 Typescript photocopy of edited 1992 1.5 text of autobiographical sketch prepared for Gale Research's Contemporary Authors Autobiographical series, Nov, Dec, 1992.
Hugh 1989 5.5 Hood 23-09-89 Application for ACFAS grant.
Hugh Hood, 1985 10.6 George Bowering, Peter Gzowski baseball interview Cassette tape.
www.ucalgary.ca /UofC/departments/INFO/library/SpecColl/hood547.htm   (873 words)

  
 The Isolation Booth
As Hood writes in the introduction to The Isolation Booth, `Surely the society that invents a space called "the isolation booth" isn't far removed from the subliminal motivations of the torturers in prisons and camps of one kind or another.
Hugh Hood was born in Toronto in 1928 and studied at the University of Toronto where he completed his Ph.D. in 1955.
Hugh Hood was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1988.
www.sentex.net /~pql/isolboo.html   (592 words)

  
 House of Anansi Press : titles
Near Water is the final volume in Hugh Hood’s spectacular New Age series, an epic saga that is already treasured and revered as a meticulous chronicle of late 20th- and early 21st-century Canada.
Son of a Nobel laureate, father of a space voyager, friend of a movie star, estranged husband of a painter, and semi-famous because of it all, Matthew Goderich is driving up to the lake for a possible reunion with Edie, from whom he has been separated for 30 years.
With Hood we're in the presence of a veritable lifeguard.
www.anansi.ca /titles.cfm?pub_id=168&reviews=ON   (316 words)

  
 Fredericton Firefighters Museum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hugh returned to Fredericton in 1919, was married to Gertrude Barry in 1920 and returned to the Fredericton Fire Department Call Force again with No. 2 Hose Company.
Hugh O'Neill was always very pleased to remember, seeing as a boy, the first fire horses used in the City of Fredericton and to be the driver of the last team in the City in the winter of 1938.
From 1938 until the mid 1940's he was driver of the motorized ladder truck, but it is quite safe to record that driving the truck did not hold the same thrill as being up on the wagon holding the reins behind Bill and Doll the last fire horses.
www.frederictonfirefighters.ca /museum/oneill.htm   (549 words)

  
 Pilgrims's Progress: A Study of the Short Stories of Hugh Hood (Preview)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hugh Hood has been called Canada's foremost writer of short stories, and in this book, the first complete critical work on Hood's short stories, Copoloff-Mechanic shows why he is the master craftsman of this genre.
Hood has always insisted that his short-story collections should be treated as a unity -- as if each story were a chapter of a novel.
In this book, the author accepts Hood's challenge, and shows how his six collections to date are carefully arranged in relation to a guiding theme.
www.ecwpress.com /books/pilgrim.htm   (134 words)

  
 Amazon.de: English Books: Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's the New Age/Le Nouveau Siecle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Published between 1975 and 2000 and completed shortly before his death, Hugh Hood's twelve-volume novel-series The New Age/Le nouveau siecle represents a major achievement in Canadian fiction.
Hood takes us on a remarkable, though challenging, journey in time and space while chronicling the life of his intellectually inquisitive protagonist, Matt Goderich.
Moving from history and politics to literature and the arts, from popular song to the vagaries of fashion, from urban stress to the relaxations of cottage-country, these novels explore the texture of Canadian life with a depth and comprehensiveness that, when fully grasped, are dazzling.
www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0773523898/eingutesbuch-21   (370 words)

  
 Mosaic (Winnipeg): The history of art and the art of history: Hugh Hood's 'Five New Facts about Giorgione.'@ HighBeam ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
This means that works of art are accepted depending on a shared repertoire of conventions, institutions and practices.
Canadian author Hugh Hood's novel, 'Five New Facts About Giorgione,' raises the moral dilemma which is faced by historiographers when they uncover evidence which contradicts established views.
The novel is also an occasion for Hood to play upon the readers' lack of detailed knowledge on the setting of his novel.
www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:15427857&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf   (198 words)

  
 Portraits of Hugh Hood on johnwmacdonald.com
At long last, here are the collected photos of Hugh Hood from his Dust Jackets.
These photos of Hugh Hood were taken from the various books of his and also some that were in John Metcalf's recent book An Aesthetic Underground: A Literary Memoir.
It is interesting (at least to me) that as we see Hood through the years, he dramatically sports a different hair style.
isolationbooth.johnwmacdonald.com /hugh_hood   (435 words)

  
 You'll Catch Your Death
As the narrator in Hood's opening story observes, `what I saw was birds and birds and again birds'.
Mosaic renderings of peacocks and cranes, a cage of cruelly imprisoned pigeons, a lorikeet named Ronnie Reagan, a couple of stolen cockatoos and a bestselling book entitled `Caring Parenting While Birding' each play a role in these stories, along with a cast of eccentric bird lovers.
`Hugh Hood, whose thirty-year career includes such books as 1962's Flying a Red Kite and the New Age series, continues his success with You'll Catch Your Death.
www.sentex.net /~pql/catch.html   (637 words)

  
 Author : works by Hugh Hood
Hugh Hosch - Felipe Marlo, Bullfight Shamus - 1418422371
Hugh Ianso Fausset - Flame and the Light Meanings in Vedanta and - 0837109965
Hugh Hood - born in Toronto, Ontario, April 30, 1928, died in Montreal, Quebec, August 1, 2000 - was a novelist, short story writer, essayist and university professor.Hood wrote 32 books:seventeen novels, several volumes of short fiction, and five of nonfiction.
www.bookreviewdatabase.com /385235_hugh-hood_0889842582afterall!onlinecollegebooksstore.html   (929 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Before the flood : Hugh Hood's work in progress
Before the flood : Hugh Hood's work in progress
Hood, Hugh, -- 1928- -- Critique et interprétation.
WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/0f38e53ba927d1d7.html   (59 words)

  
 Around the Mountain by Hugh Hood, ISBN 0889841411 And Evidentially Guilty
The republication of a book which is among the finest that Hugh Hood, one of Canada's most sophisticated and accomplished authors, has ever written.
These twelve short narratives form a cyclical, encyclopaedic account of a dozen quarters of the city that literally circle around the peak of the low hill that Montrialers call the mountain'.
Dean isn't guilty of murder, but can he avoid being punished for it?
Jerome Dean is delighted to be invited to a shoot at Ister but when the gun next to him fires low, a man rises out of a patch of brambles and collapses, later to die in hospital.
www.seniorls.com /mountain.html   (219 words)

  
 Hood, Hugh Textbooks - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Hugh Hood - House Of Anansi - 0887841724
The Motor Boys in Ottawa: A Novel (Hood, Hugh.
Hugh Hood - New Canadian Library - 0771092997
www.directtextbook.com /textbooks/1044208   (137 words)

  
 Noreen Mallory at the Saidye Bronfman Center on johnwmacdonald.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
She accompanied me on a tour of her solo exhibit at the Saidye Bronfman Center where she also teaches art.
Pictured to the right is the artwork which appears on Hugh Hood's final novel in the New Age 12 volume Series,
The two photos, below, are of her with alternatives of artwork comissioned for the dust jacket of one of Hugh Hood's book of short stories,
www.johnwmacdonald.com /noreenmallory.html   (119 words)

  
 writing in canada: authors: hugh hood
Dennis Duffy, "Grace: The Novels of Hugh Hood," Canadian Literature 47 (1971): 10-25
Anthony John Harding, "Field of Vision: Hugh Hood and the Tradition of Wordsworth," Canadian Literature 94 (1982): 85-94
J.R. (Tim) Struthers, "Hugh Hood: An Annotated Bibliography," The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, ed.
www.track0.com /ogwc/authors/hood_h.html   (136 words)

  
 ROBERT C. HOOD SR.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
ROBERT C. Robert ``Bob'' Clifton Hood Sr., 54, of the 3400 block of Wisecamp Court, died Monday in a Chesapeake hospital.
Hood was born in Hemphill, W.Va., and was the son of the late Robert Vincent and Minnie Lee Forester Hood.
of Chesapeake; his sister, Hester Creola Cantrell of Portsmouth; his brothers, Raleigh Hugh Hood and Lacy Ray Hood, both of Portsmouth; and his grandsons, Mitchell, Matthew and Scottie Davis, all of Boston.
scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/940615/06150415.htm   (226 words)

  
 Hugh Hood's The New Age/Le Nouveau Siecle: A Contemporary Divine Comedy -- Pell 17 (2): 127 -- Literature and Theology
Hugh Hood's The New Age/Le Nouveau Siecle: A Contemporary Divine Comedy -- Pell 17 (2): 127 -- Literature and Theology
Hugh Hood's The New Age/Le Nouveau Siècle: A Contemporary Divine Comedy
Hugh Hood's twelve-volume epic, The New Age/Le nouveau siècle
litthe.oupjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/17/2/127   (114 words)

  
 Gender Studies by Anne Cranny-Francis, ISBN 0333776127 And Around the Mountain by Hugh Hood, ISBN 0889841411   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Gender Studies by Anne Cranny-Francis, ISBN 0333776127 And Around the Mountain by Hugh Hood, ISBN 0889841411
This book provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to current debates on gender, exploring the major theorists whose work has produced and inspired feminist analysis in women's/gender studies, cultural studies, and sociology.
Accessible introductions to the work of major theorists help to give difficult concepts a context and the theory is related back to practice and to related fields such as class and race analysis throughout.
laughingangels.com /gendern.htm   (253 words)

  
 Bears, Bears, and More Bears And The Isolation Booth by Hugh Hood, ISBN 0889841195
Bears, Bears, and More Bears And The Isolation Booth by Hugh Hood, ISBN 0889841195
The Isolation Booth by Hugh Hood, ISBN 0889841195
The stories in this collection are varied in form and content, from The Isolation Booth', which Hood describes in his introduction as...
rivercitycentral.com /bears.htm   (84 words)

  
 Sell Before the flood: Hugh Hood's work in progress - 0920802001 : PDXBooks
Sell Before the flood: Hugh Hood's work in progress - 0920802001 : PDXBooks
Enter the sales price and the condition of your textbook.
Before the flood: Hugh Hood's work in progress
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 Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors: Morley Callaghan, Mavis Gallant, Hugh Hood, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors: Morley Callaghan, Mavis Gallant, Hugh Hood, Alice Munro, Ethel Wilson v.
The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors: Morley Callaghan, Mavis Gallant, Hugh Hood, Alice Munro, Ethel Wilson v.
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