Further Reading
- Adhikari, Madhumalati, “History and Story: Unconventional History in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient and James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific,” History and Theory 41, no. 4 (December 2002): 43-56. (Adhikari discusses how Ondaatje's The English Patient and James A. Michener's Tales of the South Pacific create a unique literary perspective on the legacy of World War II.)
- Barbour, Douglas, Michael Ondaatje. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1993, 247 p. (Book-length study of Ondaatje's poetry and fiction with chapters devoted to early poetry, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, and Secular Love.)
- Bök, Christian, “Destructive Creation: The Politicization of Violence in the Works of Michael Ondaatje,” Canadian Literature No. 132 (Spring 1992): 109-24. (Analyzes the creative and destructive roles violence plays in Ondaatje's poetry and fiction, noting that while “Ondaatje's earlier texts appear to valorize violence enacted for purely idiosyncratic reasons, Ondaatje's later texts begin to reevaluate the ethics of such violence and suggest that it must ultimately serve a socially responsible end.”)
- Clarke, George Elliott, “Michael Ondaatje and the Production of Myth,” Studies in Canadian Literature 16, No. 1 (1991): 1-21. (Details the role of myth in Ondaatje's poetry and fiction. Clarke states that “From Monsters to Love, Ondaatje conveys the ambiguous effects of his constantly thwarted desire with metaphor which, producing myth, is obsessively dramatic.”)
- Grace, Dominick M., “Ondaatje & Charlton Comics' ‘Billy the Kid’,” Canadian Literature No. 133 (Summer 1992): 199-203. (Discusses Ondaatje's manipulation of source materials in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid. Grace concludes “Ondaatje leaves incomplete a story complete in his source to underscore his own thematic concern, the impossibility of finishing Billy.”)
- Heighton, Steven, “Approaching ‘That Perfect Edge’: Kinetic Techniques in the Poetry and Fiction of Michael Ondaatje,” Studies in Canadian Literature 13, No. 2 (1988): 223-43. (Linguistic study of Ondaatje's poetry and fiction, focusing on the kinetic nature of his language.)
- Hornung, Rick, “Exile on Bloor Street: Michael Ondaatje's Northern Exposure,” Voice Literary Supplement (October 1992): 29-31. (Biographical and critical overview of Ondaatje and his works through The English Patient.)
- Jones, Manina, “The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Scripting the Docudrama,” Canadian Literature No. 122-23 (Autumn-Winter 1989): 26-38. (Describes Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid as a docudrama, asserting “Billy the Kid is seen as a body of texts; he becomes documentary material.”)
- Kamboureli, Sam, “Outlawed Narrative: Michael Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid,” Sagetrieb 7, No. 1 (Spring 1988): 115-29. (Refutes earlier critical commentary of The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, arguing that it is not narrative but discourse that choreographs the poem's movement.)
- Kelly, Robert A., “Outlaw and Explorer: Recent Adventurers in the English-Canadian Long Poem,” The Antigonish Review No. 79 (Autumn 1989): 27-34. (Compares Ondaatje's The Collected Works of Billy the Kid with similar works by poets Andy Wainwright and Paulette Jiles.)
- Pesch, Josef, “Post-Apocalyptic War Histories: Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient,” ARIEL 28, no. 2 (April 1997): 117-39. (Pesch identifies characteristics of post-apocalyptic life as represented by The English Patient and other literature of the apocalyptic tradition.)
- Russell, John, “Travel Memoir as Nonfiction Novel: Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family,” ARIEL 22, no. 2 (April 1991): 23-40. (Russell analyzes the narrative structure and rhetorical strategies of Running in the Family in terms of the interplay between the conventions of travelogues and nonfiction novels.)
- Spearey, Susan, “Mapping and Masking: The Migrant Experience in Michael Ondaatje's In the Skin of a Lion,” Journal of Commonwealth Literature 29, no. 2 (1994): 45-60. (Spearey interprets the migrant experience represented within In the Skin of a Lion by explaining the novel's intertextual patterns in relation to thematic concerns and structural devices involving movement and transformation.)
- Tait, Theo, “Hit the Circuit,” London Review of Books 22, no. 14 (20 July 2000): 39-40. (Tait questions the purpose and achievement of Anil's Ghost, comparing its styles and themes to Ondaatje's previous efforts.)
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