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Why do we stand in front of art and look at it?Why do we go to galleries and museums? What does it feel like? What do you expect to have happen there? How do you feel before you enter, after you leave? What do you do with all your moods, your attentions, your...
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Gordon Hill Press
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2023-04-15
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Modern Fables is a darkly funny, feminist collection of essays about love and place.
In this darkly funny book about love in the digital age, Mikka Jacobsen challenges the notion that a single woman in her thirties writing about love is simply desperate. Instead, in an...
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Freehand Books
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2022-09-01
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This is Woolf's first and most popular volume of essays.This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as "Modern Fiction" and "The Modern Essay."
Virginia Woolf is well known as one of the most prominent fiction writers of...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-09
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A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of Virginia Woolf's work, mainly on literary, personal, biographical, theatrical, and social subjects. "Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form...
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Rare Treasure Editions
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2021-11-09
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A collection of essays on women and aging from Canadian legend Sharon Butala
"What I didn't have a clue about was that I was soon to be old, or what being old would mean to my dreams and desires. While dreading old age with every fibre, I was at the same time in full...
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Freehand Books
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2021-09-13
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A book about memory, loss, and a love of books from one of Canada's finest essayistsEver since childhood, Susan Olding has been a big reader, never without a book on the go. Not surprising, then, that she turns to the library to read her own life. From the dissolution...
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Freehand Books
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2021-05-01
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Stars Need Counting meditates on questions of suicide in the mode of A. Alvarez, when he says, in A Savage God, that there are no answers to these questions, because suicide is a “closed world” – so closed that it's not our place to judge or cast shame. These essays...
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Gordon Hill Press
Parution :
2021-03-31
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Against Death: 35 Essays On Living articulates the personal experiences of each author’s “near-deathness,” utilizing fresh and inventive language to represent what “magical thinking” proposes. These pieces are incisive and articulate, avoiding the usual platitudes,...
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Anvil Press
Parution :
2020-02-28
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An anthology of poetry, essays and artwork by sex workers.Sex work was once thought to be anathema to women’s liberation. Now, to some, we represent the tenacity of women’s struggles under patriarchy and capitalism—that is, at least, the white, straight, cis,...
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Thornapple Press
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2019-10-18
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An insightful guidebook on bisexual identity interwoven with fearless testimony of bisexual activities striving for self-realization in a society built on the reductive axis of “gay/straight.”Even as the broader LGBT community enjoys political and societal advances in...
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Thornapple Press
Parution :
2018-10-05
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In a series of reflections focused on his hard-working Mennonite family and touching on childhood exploits from shoplifting and go-kart racing to the fear of dying (which arises during the rehearsal for a school Christmas concert), Lloyd Ratzlaff takes readers on a...
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Thistledown Press
Parution :
2015-03-15
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At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers brings together a series of essays by Ruth Panofsky that probe the articulation of Jewishness and femaleness through the lens of literature. Showing how female Jewish identity is constructed in Canadian prose...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
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2012-11-01
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At Odds in the World: Essays on Jewish Canadian Women Writers brings together a series of essays by Ruth Panofsky that probe the articulation of Jewishness and femaleness through the lens of literature. Showing how female Jewish identity is constructed in Canadian prose...
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Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution :
2012-11-01
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Winner, City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
Finalist, Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction
Nominated for the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction
Afflictions & Departures is a collection of first-person experiential essays. However, this is not the realm...
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Anvil Press
Parution :
2012-09-01
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Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting concepts are used to mediate the gap between the spoken and...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-06-09
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The Gay Grey Moose is a collection of essays that presents a comprehensive view of English poetry in Canada from the early colonial period to the Post-Modern era. It offers fresh contexts to better understand and discuss three centuries of English Canadian poetry. Both...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
1992-01-01
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How encounters with others shape the way we encounter ourselves; and the power behind it.
Wholeheartedly's first 20 editions, lovingly curated and sampled in this volume, accompanied by photographs.
Stories captured in reflective, essayistic form and on camera.
Editeur :
BoD - Books on Demand
Parution :
2025-12-05
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La tregua – Primo Levi : Il ritorno alla vita dopo l’orrore: un viaggio tra speranza, memoria e identità Un’opera intensa e umanissima, in cui Primo Levi racconta l’odissea del ritorno da Auschwitz, attraversando un’Europa in macerie ma ancora capace di solidarietà e...
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Lecturae.it
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2025-07-11
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Il partigiano Johnny – Beppe Fenoglio : La Resistenza vissuta da dentro: un eroe solitario in cerca di verità, giustizia e identità Un romanzo epico, realistico e profondamente umano, che racconta la guerra partigiana nelle Langhe con sguardo lucido, linguaggio unico e...
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Lecturae.it
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2025-07-11
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Cristo si è fermato a Eboli – Carlo Levi : Un viaggio nell’Italia dimenticata: tra denuncia civile, memoria storica e poesia del reale Un’opera fondamentale della letteratura italiana del Novecento che racconta con umanità, lucidità e profondo rispetto la realtà arcaica...
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Lecturae.it
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2025-07-05
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