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The first collection of critical essays devoted to the study of English-Canadian literary anthologies brings together the work of thirteen prominent critics to investigate anthology formation in Canada and answer these key questions: Why are there so many literary...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2015-11-02
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The 1940 Under the Volcano—hidden for too long in the shadows of Lowry’s 1947 masterpiece—differs from the latter in significant ways. It is a bridge between Lowry’s 1930s fiction (especially In Ballast to the White Sea) and the 1947 Under the Volcano itself. Joining...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2015-10-22
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In the 1930s Grey Owl was considered the foremost conservationist and nature writer in the world. He owed his fame largely to his four internationally bestselling books, which he supported with a series of extremely popular illustrated lectures across North America and...
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University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2015-09-18
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Eminent Northrop Frye scholar Robert D. Denham explores the connection between Frye and twelve writers who influenced his thinking but about whom he didn’t write anything expansive. Denham draws especially on Frye’s notebooks and other previously unpublished texts, now...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2015-08-20
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Contemporary Indigenous theatre in Canada is only thirty-three years old, if one begins counting from the premiere of Maria Campbell’s Jessica in Saskatoon and the establishment of Native Earth Performing Arts in Toronto. Since those contemporaneous events in 1982, the...
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Playwrights Canada Press
Parution :
2015-05-29
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The Worlds of Carol Shields is the first book to examine Shields’ extraordinary career and life through the lens both of close friends and of literary critics. “Carol was a very fine writer and a remarkable human being, a wonderful person whose work I closely followed...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
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2014-12-02
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The Worlds of Carol Shields is the first book to examine Shields’ extraordinary career and life through the lens both of close friends and of literary critics. “Carol was a very fine writer and a remarkable human being, a wonderful person whose work I closely followed...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2014-12-02
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This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss in a fire. In fact, the typescript itself has probably been read by at most a dozen people since...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2014-10-16
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The 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-07-31
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TransCanada
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What do literary dystopias reflect about the times? In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, contributors address this amorphous but pervasive genre, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is conveyed or portrayed in a perceived age of crisis,...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-06-16
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Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies is the third volume of essays produced as part of the TransCanada conferences project. The essays gathered inCritical Collaborations constitute a call for collaboration and kinship...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-05-28
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TransCanada
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The first multi-disciplinary collection of essays to focus exclusively on early Canadian literature with the aim of reassessing the field and proposing new approaches. Home Ground and Foreign Territory is an original collection of essays on early Canadian literature in...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2014-04-03
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The essays collected in offer close analysis of an array of cultural representations of the Canada–US border, in both site-specificity and in the ways in which they reveal and conceal cultural similarities and differences. Contributors focus on a range of regional...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-03-24
Collection :
Cultural Studies
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Flora Lyndsay, a prequel to Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Clearings, presents a fictionalized record of her family’s experiences in planning their emigration and crossing the Atlantic.Flora Lyndsay is Susanna Moodie’s prequel to Roughing it in...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2014-02-13
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In From the Iron House: Imprisonment in First Nations Writing, Deena Rymhs identifies continuities between the residential school and the prison, offering ways of reading “the carceral”—that is, the different ways that incarceration is constituted and articulated in...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2014-01-07
Collection :
Indigenous Studies
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Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2013-11-28
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Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2013-11-28
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Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors,...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-10-30
Collection :
TransCanada
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Since the early 1990s, tens of thousands of memoirs by celebrities and unknown people have been published, sold, and read by millions of American readers. The memoir boom, as the explosion of memoirs on the market has come to be called, has been welcomed, vilified, and...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-06-15
Collection :
Life Writing
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Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace brings to light the relationship between writers in Canada and the marketplace within which their work circulates. Through a series of conversations with both established and younger writers from...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-06-15
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TransCanada
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