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Primary Sources

Ross, Sinclair. As for me and my house. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1941.
Ross, Sinclair. As for me and my house. Introduction by Roy Daniells. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1957.
Ross, Sinclair. The Well. Toronto: Macmillan, 1958.
Ross, Sinclair. The lamp at noon, and other stories. Introduction by Margaret Laurence. Toronto : McClelland and Stewart, 1968.
Ross, Sinclair. As for me and my house. Introduction by Roy Daniells. Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, 1970.
Ross, Sinclair. Whir of gold. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970.
Ross, Sinclair. Sawbones memorial. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974.
Ross, Sinclair. As for me and my house introd. by David Stouck. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1978.
Ross, Sinclair. introduction by Lorraine McMullen.Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1982.
Ross, Sinclair. The race and other stories edited and with an introduction by Lorraine McMullen. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1982.
Ross, Sinclair. “The Painted Door.” Reader's Digest (Canadian-English edition) 132.792 (1988): 73.
Ross, Sinclair. As for me and my house with an afterword by Robert Kroetsch. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1989.
Ross, Sinclair. "Cornet at night" Queen's Quarterly 100.1 (1993): 44.
Ross, Sinlair. The painted door [videorecording]. Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 1996.

Secondary Sources

Barnard, Ann. "A North American Connection: Women in Prairie Novels." Great Plains Quarterly 14.1 (1994): 21-28.
Bentley, D. M. R. "Psychoanalytical Notes upon an Autobiographical Account of a Case of Paranoia (Dementia Paranoides): Mrs. Bentley in Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House." University of Toronto Quarterly: A Canadian Journal of the Humanities 73:3 (2004): 862-85.
Berger, Maxianne. “The Calendars of As For Me And My House." Canadian Literature (Summer 1993): 124-27.
Bishop, Karen. "The Pegasus Symbol in the Childhood Stories of Sinclair Ross." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 16.3 (1985): 67-87.
Bowen, Gail. "The Fiction of Sinclair Ross." Canadian Literature 80 (1979): 37-48.
Bonheim, Helmut. "F. P. Grove's 'Snow' and Sinclair Ross' 'The Painted Door'-the Rhetoric of the Prairie." Encounters and Explorations: Canadian Writers and European Critics. Eds. Frank K Stanzel, Waldemar, Zacharasiewicz. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 1986: 58-72.
Bogden, Deanne. “Feminist criticism and total form in literary experience (two readings of Sinclair Ross's short story, The Painted Door).” Resources for Feminist Research 16.3 (1987): 20.
Bruce, Todd J. Rev. of Keath Fraser’s “As for me & my body: a memoir of Sinclair Ross.” Prairie Fire 19.2 (1998): 156.
Buss, Helen M. "Who Are You, Mrs. Bentley? Feminist Re-vision and Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House." Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House: Five Decades of Criticism. Ed. David Stouck. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991: 190-209.
Calder, Alison. “Sinclair Ross Reissued.” Canadian Literature (Spring 2004): 177-180.
Calder, Robert. “Taking leave of Sinclair Ross: on June 24, Sinclair Ross Returned to his Native Earth.” The Newest Review 21.6 (1996): 5.
Chapman, Marilyn. "Another Case of Ross's Mysterious Barn." Canadian Literature 103 (1984): 184-186.
Coleman-Hull, Philip R. "The Musical Landscape of Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House." Great Plains Quarterly 20.3 (2000): 211-24.
Comeau, Paul. "Sinclair Ross's Pioneer Fiction." Canadian Literature 103 (1984): 174- 184.
Compton, Anne. "'As if I Really Mattered': The Narrator of Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House." Studies in Canadian Literature/Etudes en Litterature Canadienne. 17.1 (1992): 62-77.
Cramer, Timothy Robert. "Out West: Sexual Borderlands and the Literature of the West" Dissertation Abstracts International 57.4 (1996): 1616A-17A. U of Nebraska, Lincoln.
Cramer, Timothy R. "Questioning Sexuality in Sinclair Ross's 'As For Me and My House.'" ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 30.2 (1999): 49-60.
Cude, Wilfred. "'Turn It Upside Down': The Right Perspective on As for Me and My House." English Studies in Canada 5 (1979) 469-88.
Davey, Frank. "The Conflicting Signs of As for Me and My House." Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House: Five Decades of Criticism. Ed. David Stouck. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991: 178-190.
Denham, Paul. “A halo of his anonymity (Ken Mitchell, "The Ross File," Ambience CBC Radio, Regina.” The Newest Review 12.4 (1986): 14.
Denham, Paul. “Sinclair Ross in the nineties.” The Newest Review 15.6 (1990): 5.
Denham, Paul. "Narrative Technique in Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House." Studies in Canadian Literature 5 (1980): 116-24.
Djwa, Sandra. "'Here I Am': Atwood, Paper Houses, and a Parodic Tradition" Essays on Canadian Writing 71 (2000): 169-85.
Dubanski, Ryszard. "A Look at Philip's 'Journal' in As for Me and My House." Journal of Canadian Fiction 24 (1979): 89-95.
Ferres, John H. "An Introduction to the Novels of Sinclair Ross." Commonwealth Novel in English 2.2 (1983): 1-21.
Fraser, Keath. “As for me and my Secrets.” Saturday Night 112.2 (1997): 75-81.
Fraser, Keath. “As for me and my secrets: one year after his death, it turns out there was a lot we didn't know about Sinclair Ross [Excerpt from Keath Fraser's As for Me & My Body: a Memoir of Sinclair Ross].” Saturday Night 112.2 (1997): 75.
Gerry, Thomas M F. “Dante, C. D. Burns and Sinclair Ross: Philosophical issues in As For Me and My House.Mosaic : a Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 22.1 (1989): 113.
Giltrow, Janet. "A Linguistic Analysis of Sample Passages from As for Me and My House." Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House: Five Decades of Criticism. Ed. David Stouck. Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1991: 209-24.
Godard, Barbara. "El Greco in Canada: Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 14.2 (1981): 55-75.
Hagiwara, Takao. "The Role of Nature in An'ya koro (A Dark Night's Passing) and As for Me and My House." Selecta: Journal of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages 3 (1982): 1-8.
Hardy, Nat (introd.): Sinclair Ross/Whir of Gold. Edmonton, AB: U of Alberta P, 2001.
Harrison, Dallas. "Where Is (the) Horizon? Placing As for Me and My House." Essays on Canadian Writing 61 (1997): Spring, 142-69.
Hinz, Evelyn J.; Teunissen, John J. "Who's the Father of Mrs. Bentley's Child? As for Me and My House and the Conventions of Dramatic Monologue." Canadian Literature 111 (1986): 101-113.
Hochbruck, Wolfgang. "Natur und Kulturträger: Vom (Über-)Leben der Siedler bei Cather und Ross." Das Natur/Kultur-Paradigma in der englischsprachigen Erzählliteratur des 19. und 20. Eds. Konrad Groß, Kurt Müller, Meinhard Winkgens. Tübingen: Narr, 1994: 367-79.
Holland, Patrick. Critical Agendas -- Narrative Strategies in Canadian Literature: Feminism and Postcolonialism edited by Coral A. Howells and Lynette Hunter / From the Heart of the Heartland: The Fiction of Sinclair Ross edited by John Moss.” Canadian Literature (Summer 1995): 125-28.
Gunnars, Kristjana (introd.): Sinclair Ross/The Well Edmonton, AB: U of Alberta P, 2001.
Kaye, Frances W. "Sinclair Ross's Use of George Sand and Frederic Chopin as Models for the Bentleys." Essays on Canadian Writing 33 (1986): 100-111.
Kelly, Elinor. Rev of As For Me and My House. CM : Canadian Materials for Schools and Libraries 17.3 (1989): 127.
Kirtz, Mary K. "I am become a name": the representation of Ukrainians in Ross, Laurence, Ryga and Atwood.” Canadian Ethnic Studies 24.2 (1992): 34.
Kroetsch, Robert; Djwa, Sandra. "The Fear of Women in Prairie Fiction: An Erotics of Space" Crossing Frontiers: Papers in American and Canadian Western Literature. Eds. Max Westbrook, Dick Harrison, Richard Etulain, Henry Krersel, Rosemary Sullivan. Edmonton: U of Alberta P, 1979. 73-83. (Response by Sandra Djwa, 84-88). (1979)
Kroetsch, Robert. "Contemporary Standards in the Canadian Novel." Essays on Canadian Writing 20 (1980-1981): 7-18.
Latham, David. "Sinclair Ross: An Annotated Bibliography." The Annotated Bibliography of Canada's Major Authors, Volume Three. Eds. Robert Lecker, Jack David. Downsview: ECW, 1981: 365-395.
Lesk, Andrew. "Something Queer Going On Here: Desire in the Short Fiction of Sinclair Ross." Essays on Canadian Writing 61 (1997): 129-41.
Lesk, Andrew Joseph. "The Play of Desire: Sinclair Ross's Gay Fiction." Dissertation Abstracts International, Section A: The Humanities and Social Sciences 62.7 (2002): 2431-32. U de Montréal.
Lesk, Andrew. "On Sinclair Ross's Straight(ened) House." English Studies in Canada 28.1 (2002): 65-90.
Andrew Lesk. “As for Fraser and Ross.” Canadian Literature (Winter 1998): 175-78.
Matheson, TJ. “‘But do your thing’: conformity, self-reliance and Sinclair Ross's As For Me And My House.” Dalhousie Review 66.4 (1986/1987): 497.
Mitchell, Barbara. "Paul: The Answer to the Riddle of As for Me and My House" Studies in Canadian Literature 13.1 (1988): 47-63.
Mitchell, Ken. Sinclair Ross, a reader's guide. Regina : Thunder Creek Pub. Co-op, 1981.
Mitchell, Ken (introd.). Sinclair Ross: Sawbones Memorial. Edmonton, AB: U of Alberta P, 2001.
Moss, John. “From the heart of the heartland: the fiction of Sinclair Ross.” Canadian Literature (Summer 1995): 125.
Neuhaus, Mareike. "A Queer Reading of Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House." Ahornblätter: Marburger Beiträge zur Kanada-Forschung Ed. Andrea Wolff-Wolk. Marburg, Germany: Universitätsbibliothek Marburg, 2003. 61-76.
New, William H. "Sinclair Ross's Ambivalent World" Canadian Literature 40 (1969): 26- 32.
Orser, Sandra Marion Parsons. "In Search of a Vision: Concepts of the Christian Faith in Four Canadian Novels." Dissertation Abstracts International 53.12 (1993): 4328A-29A. Dalhousie U.
Osachoff, Margaret G. Rev. of Keath Fraser’s “As for me & my body: a memoir of Sinclair Ross.” The Newest Review 22.6 (1997): 27.
Querengesser, Neil. “As for Me and My Body: A Memoir of Sinclair Ross” Ariel 28.4 (1997): 206-09.
Raoul, Valerie. "Straight or Bent: Textual/Sexual T(ri)angles in As for Me and My House." Canadian Literature 156 (1998): 13-28.
Ross, Morton L. "The Canonization of As for Me and My House: A Case Study." Figures in a Ground: Canadian Essays on Modern Literature Collected in Honor of Sheila Watson. Eds. Diane Bessai, David, Jackel, Henry Kreisel. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie, 1978: 189-205.
Ross, Morton L. "Sinclair Ross." ECW's Biographical Guide to Canadian Novelists. Eds. Robert Lecker, Jack David, Ellen Quigley. Toronto: ECW, 1993. 136-39.
Saunders, Doris; Hoople, Robin; Morton, W.L.; Gordon, Charles; Spettigue, Douglas; Duncan, Chester; Kirkconnell, Watson; Lindal, W.J.; Hiebert, Paul; Roy, Gabrielle; Lawrence, Margaret; Livesay, Dorothy; Ross, Sinclair; Reaney, James; Wiseman, Adele; Ludwig, Jack; Beardy, Jackson. "Manitoba in Literature: An Issue on Literary Environment." Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature 3.3 (1970): 1-225.
Shirwadkar, Meena. "Conscience and Conflict in Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My House." Indian Readings in Commonwealth Literature. Eds. G.S. Amur, V.R.N. Prasad, N.H. Nihalani. New York; New Delhi: Apt; Sterling, 1985: 151-56.
Spracklin, Floyd. Rev. of The Lamp At Noon And Other Stories CM : Canadian Materials for Schools and Libraries 17.1 (1989): 20.
Staines, David. “Ross pioneered prairie fiction (Obituary).” Quill & Quire 62.4 (1996): 9.
Stephens, Donald. "Wind, Sun, and Dust." Canadian Literature 23 (1965): 17-24 (As for Me and My House).
Stouck, David. “James Sinclair Ross (1908-1996).” Canadian Literature (Autumn 1996): 204.
Stouck, David. As for Sinclair Ross. Toronto, ON: U of Toronto P, 2005.
Stouck, David. "Continuing to Read Sinclair Ross." American Review of Canadian Studies 32.4 (2002): 695-702.
Stouck, David, Lesk, Andrew. “Getting Ross not so Straight [As for Sinclair Ross].” Books in Canada 34.6 (2005): 21.
Thacker, Robert. "'Twisting toward insanity': Landscape and Female Entrapment in Plains Fiction." North Dakota Quarterly 52.3 (1984): 181-194.
Thieme, John. "Robert Kroetsch and the Erotics of Prairie Fiction" Kunapipi 8.1 (1986) 90-102. A comparative essay including As For Me and My House.
Toppings, Earle. Interview with Sinclair Ross and Mordecai Richler [sound recording]. Toronto : Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, 1971.
Wee, Morris Owen. "Specks on the Horizon: Individuals and the Land in Canadian Prairie Fiction." South Dakota Review 19.4 (1982): 18-31.
Whitman, F. H.. "The Case of Ross's Mysterious Barn." Canadian Literature 94 (1982): 168-169.
Williams, David. "The 'Scarlet' Rompers: Toward a New Perspective in As For Me and My House." Canadian Literature 103 (1984): 156-166.
York, Lorraine M. "'Its Better Nature Lost': The Importance of the Word in Sinclair Ross's As For Me and My House." Canadian Literature 103 (1984): 166-174.
Ziaja-Buchholtz, Miroslawa. "Strategies for Survival: Daily Trot and Sudden Insights in Sinclair Ross's 'Cornet at Night.'" Journal of the Short Story in English 38 (2002): 15-21 (French summary).

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