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David Staines

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Born: August 07 1946

David Staines is a Canadian literary critic, university professor, writer, and editor. Staines studied at the University of Toronto, where he obtained a BA in 1967, and at Harvard University, where he obtained an MA in 1968 and a PhD in 1973.

He currently serves as a Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He has written or edited more than 15 books on medieval culture and literature, and on Canadian culture and literature. He is now engaged in the arduous task of reading and writing on “The History and Development of Canadian Fiction.” Staines is a member of the Board of Trustees of the RBC Taylor Prize.

In 2011, he was awarded the Order of Ontario for helping to establish the Giller Prize, Canada's highest award for fiction, and the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. In 2011, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada "for his contributions as a champion of Canadian literature and mentor to young writers."

David Staines

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Born: August 07 1946

David Staines is a Canadian literary critic, university professor, writer, and editor. Staines studied at the University of Toronto, where he obtained a BA in 1967, and at Harvard University, where he obtained an MA in 1968 and a PhD in 1973.

He currently serves as a Professor of English at the University of Ottawa. He has written or edited more than 15 books on medieval culture and literature, and on Canadian culture and literature. He is now engaged in the arduous task of reading and writing on “The History and Development of Canadian Fiction.” Staines is a member of the Board of Trustees of the RBC Taylor Prize.

In 2011, he was awarded the Order of Ontario for helping to establish the Giller Prize, Canada's highest award for fiction, and the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. In 2011, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada "for his contributions as a champion of Canadian literature and mentor to young writers."

Books from David Staines

Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews

4.2/5 ( ratings)

My Financial Career and Other Follies (The New Canadian Library)

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Beyond The Provinces: Literary Canada At Century's End

2.5/5 ( ratings)

Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections

The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro

4.6/5 ( ratings)

Tennyson� (Tm)S Camelot: The Idylls of the King and Its Medieval Sources

Northrop Frye on Canada (Collected Works of Northrop Frye)

Stephen Leacock, A Reappraisal

3.5/5 ( ratings)

The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes

Elements of Literature (Canadian Edition)

The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes

Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet

The Letters of Stephen Leacock

Kent Railways: The Age of Steam

The Watchman of Kerioth

A History of Canadian Fiction

Understanding Me: Lectures and Interviews

Tennyson’s Camelot: The Idylls of the King and its Medieval Sources

Nineteenth-Century Lives

Digging Up the Mountains