CRITICISM

Engel, Marian, and Graeme Gibson. “Interview with Marian Engel.” In Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson, pp. 89-114. Toronto: Anansi, 1973.

Engel discusses her work in particular and her thoughts on writers and the writing process in general.

Gadpaille, Michelle. “A Note on Bear.” Canadian Literature, no. 92 (spring 1982): 151-54.

Examines allusions to Victorian Canada in Bear.

Symons, Scott. “The Canadian Bestiary: Ongoing Literary Depravity.” West Coast Review 11, no. 3 (January 1977): 3-16.

Scathing critical essay on the state of contemporary Canadian fiction by women, focusing in particular on Engel's Bear.

Turcotte, Gerry. “Sexual Gothic: Marian Engel's Bear and Elizabeth Jolley's The Well.” Ariel: A Review of International English Literature 26, no. 2 (April 1995): 65-91.

Explores contemporary female writers' use of the gothic mode to describe the female experience.

Additional coverage of Engel's life and carreer is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vols. 25-28; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vol. 12; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 36; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 53; Feminist Writers; and Literature Resource Center.