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Over the past forty years, Canadian literature has found its way to the silver screen with increasing regularity. Beginning with the adaptation of Margaret Laurence’s A Jest of God to the Hollywood film Rachel, Rachel in 1966, Canadian writing would appear to have found...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2013-05-25
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This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2013-03-30
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This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2013-03-30
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Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our understanding of the Canadian...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2013-01-15
Collection :
TransCanada
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Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society. Naturally Woman: The Search for Self inBlack Canadian Women’s Literature examines the ways in whichBlack immigrant women must adapt...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2012-11-01
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Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society. Naturally Woman: The Search for Self inBlack Canadian Women’s Literature examines the ways in whichBlack immigrant women must adapt...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2012-11-01
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This collection of essays studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. It takes as its starting point the nationalist movement of the 1960s and 70s, when the supposed absence or weakness of a...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2012-08-06
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Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond is an interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, and visual. The book includes the voices of oral performance...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2012-08-01
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Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in the world and the character in the text) and call into question what we believe, what we doubt, and how we receive...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-04-20
Collection :
Life Writing
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In this long-awaited book from one of the most recognized and respected scholars in Native Studies today, Emma LaRocque presents a powerful interdisciplinary study of the Native literary response to racist writing in the Canadian historical and literary record from 1850...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2011-03-10
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It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century—even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory, ways. An interest in...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2011-01-14
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Although Anna Karenina has been described as “the European novel” by Frank Leavis, the geographical setting of the novel and, increasingly, its temporal and cultural setting, render it a foreign novel to most readers. A Karenina Companion offers a wealth of...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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Despite the painstaking work of Pound scholars, the mythos of The Cantos has yet to be properly understood — primarily because until now its occult sources have not been examined sufficiently. Drawing upon archival as well as recently published material, this study...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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The author traces and evaluates the possible influences of Celtic tradition on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He discusses theories of the origins of the poem, draws parallels between elements in Beowulf and in Celtic literary tradition, and suggests that the...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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As the principal narrative poem of nineteenth-century England, Tennyson's Idylls of the King is an ambitious and widely influential reworking of the Arthurian legends of the Middle Ages, which have provided a great body of myth and symbol to writers, painters, and...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye remains one of Canada's most influential intellectuals. This reappraisal reasserts the relevance of his work to the study of literature and illuminates its fruitful intersection with a...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2010-10-27
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Winner of the 2010 Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Prize. In Engendering Genre, renowned Margaret Atwood scholar Reingard M. Nischik analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Atwood’s works. She approaches Atwood’s oeuvre by genre – poetry, short fiction,...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2010-10-27
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Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints of some Indigenous writers, the critique from Indigenous...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-02-10
Collection :
Indigenous Studies
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The essays in Home Words explore the complexity of the idea of home through various theoretical lenses and groupings of texts. One focus of this collection is the relation between the discourses of nation, which often represent the nation as home, and the discourses of...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-01
Collection :
Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
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From the earliest settler policies to deal with the “Indian problem,” to contemporary government-run programs ostensibly designed to help Indigenous people, public policy has played a major role in creating the historical trauma that so greatly impacts the lives of...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2009-05-01
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