Hugh Hood - Definition and Overview

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. He taught English literature at the Université de Montréal.

Bibliography

Novels

• White Figure, White Ground (1964)
• The Camera Always Lies (1967)
• A Game of Touch (1970)
• You Cant Get There From Here (1972)
• The Swing in the Garden (1975)
• A New Athens (1977)
• Reservoir Ravine (1979)
• Black and White Keys (1982)
• The Scenic Art (1984)
• The Motor Boys in Ottawa (1986)
• Five New Facts about Giorgione (1987)
• Tony's Book (1988)
• Property & Value (1990)
• Be Sure to Close Your Eyes (1993)
• Dead Men's Watches (1995)
• Great Realizations (1997)
• Near Water (2000)

Short Story

• Flying a Red Kite (1962)
• Around the Mountain: Scenes from Montreal Life (1967)
• The Fruit Man, The Meat Man & The Manager (1971)
• Dark Glasses (1976)
• Selected Stories (1978)
• None Genuine Without This Signature (1980)

Non-Fiction

• Strength Down the Centre: The Jean Beliveau Story (1970)
• The Governor's Bridge is Closed (1973)
• Scoring: The Art of Hockey [Illus. Seymour Segal] (1979)

Lecker, Robert; David, Jack: The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors: Volume Five (by J.R. (Tim) Struthers), pp 231.

External links

• The Isolation Booth (http://isolationbooth.johnwmacdonald.com)
• Special Collections HUGH HOOD (http://www.ucalgary.ca/library/SpecColl/hood.htm)

Additional reading

• Keith, W.J.: Canadian Odyssey A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age / Le nouveau siècle (2002, McGill-Queen's University Press)

Bibliographies

• "A Bibliography of Works by and on Hugh Hood," in Before the Flood: Our Examination round His Factification for Incamination of Hugh Hood's Work in Progress, edited by J.R. (Tim) Struthers, Downsview, Ontario, ECW Press, 1979 , and "Hugh Hood: An Annotated Bibliography" also by Struthers, in The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors: Volume Five, edited by Robert Lecker and Jack David, Downsview, Ontario, ECW Press, 1984
• "Hood, Hugh (1928--)" by Allan Weiss, in his A Comprehensive Bibliography of English-Canadian Short Stories, 1950-1983, Toronto, ECW Press, 1988 .

Manuscript Collections

The University of Calgary Libraries, Alberta.

Critical Studies

• "Grace: The Novels of Hugh Hood" by Dennis Duffy, in Canadian Literature 47, 1971
• "An Interview with Hugh Hood," in World Literature Written in English, (11)1, 1972 , and "An Interview with Hugh Hood," in Le Chien d'or/The Golden Dog, 3, 1974 , both by Victoria G. Hale
• "An Interview with Hugh Hood," in Journal of Canadian Fiction (2)1, 1973 , and "Space, Time and the Creative Imagination" in Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3(1), 1974 , both by Pierre Cloutier
• "Hugh Hood and His Expanding Universe," in Journal of Canadian Fiction, 3(1), 1974 , and "Formal Coherence in the Art of Hugh Hood" in Studies in Canadian Literature, 2, 1977 , both by Kent Thompson
• "An Interview with Hugh Hood" by Robert Fulford, in The Tamarack Review, 66, 1975
• "Near Proust and Yonge: That's Where Hugh Hood Grew Up and Why He's Making a 12-Novel Bid for Immortality" by Linda Sandler, in Books in Canada, December 1975
• The Comedians: Hugh Hood and Rudy Wiebe by Patricia A. Morley, Toronto, Clarke Irwin, 1977
• "Hugh Hood and John Mills in Epistolary Conversation" by Hugh Hood and John Mills, in The Fiddlehead, 116, 1978
• "Hugh Hood" in Profiles in Canadian Literature, edited by Jeffrey M. Heath, vol. 2, Toronto, Dundurn Press, 1980 , and "A Secular Liturgy: Hugh Hood's Aesthetics and Around the Mountain," in Studies in Canadian Literature, 10, 1985 , both by Struthers
• "The Case for Hugh Hood," in An Independent Stance: Essays on English-Canadian Criticism and Fiction, Erin, Ontario, Porcupine's Quill, 1991 , and "The Atmosphere of Deception: Hugh Hood's 'Going Out as a Ghost'," in Writers in Aspic, edited by John Metcalf, Montreal, Véhicule Press, 1988 , and "Hugh Hood," in A Sense of Style: Studies in the Art of Fiction in English-Speaking Canada, Toronto, ECW Press, 1989 , all by W.J. Keith
• "Hugh Hood's Celebration of the Millennium's End" by Geoff Hancock, in Quill and Quire, November 1980
• "Field of Vision: Hugh Hood and the Tradition of Wordsworth" by Anthony John Harding, in Canadian Literature, 94, 1982
• "`Incarnational Art': Typology and Analogy in Hugh Hood's Fiction" by Barry Cameron, in The Fiddlehead, 133, 1982
• On the Line: Readings in the Short Fiction of Clark Blaise, John Metcalf and Hugh Hood by Robert Lecker, Downsview, Ontario, ECW Press, 1982
• "Tradition and Post-Colonialism: Hugh Hood and Martin Boyd" by Diana Brydon, in Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 15(3), 1982
• "Faith and Fiction: The Novels of Callaghan and Hood" by Barbara Helen Pell, in Journal of Canadian Studies, 18(2), 1983
• Hugh Hood by Keith Garebian, Boston, Twayne, 1983
• "Hugh Hood's Edenic Garden: Psychoanalysis Among the Flowerbeds" by Patrick J. Mahony with a reply by Hugh Hood, in Canadian Literature, 96, 1983
• Hugh Hood and His Works, Toronto, ECW Press, 1985 , and "Onward to the New Age," in Books in Canada October 1990 , both by Keith Garebian
• Pilgrim's Progress: A Study of the Short Stories of Hugh Hood by Susan Copoloff-Mechanic, Toronto, ECW Press, 1988
• "On the Trail of Hugh Hood: History and the Holocaust in Black and White Keys" by Dave Little, in Essays on Canadian Writing, 44, 1991
• "Changing Metropolis and Urbs Eterna: Hugh Hood's 'The Village Inside'" by Simone Vauthier, in her Reverberations: Explorations in the Canadian Short Story, Concord, Ontario, House of Anansi Press, 1993
• Canadian Classics: An Anthology of Short Stories, Toronto, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1993 , and How Stories Mean, Erin, Ontario, Porcupine's Quill, 1993 , both edited by John Metcalf and J.R. (Tim) Struthers
• "A Scriptible Text" by John Mills, in Essays on Canadian Writing 50, 1993
• "The History of Art and the Art of History: Hugh Hood's Five New Facts About Giorgione" by Alex Knoenagel, in Mosaic: 27(1), 1994.
• The Influence of Painting on Five Canadian Writers: Alice Munro, Hugh Hood, Timothy Findley, Margaret Atwood, and Michael Ondaatje by John Cooke, Lewiston, New York, Edwin Mellen Press, 1996.