Canadian category: 447 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Sheila Watson published the iconic novel, The Double Hook, in 1959 and influenced the writing styles of many Canadian authors who followed her, including: Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt and others. This is the first collection of essays devoted to all of Watson's...
Literary Essays and Reviews
Collected Works of A.M. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
The passionately held views of A.M. Klein are focused in these essays on literature and the arts. Ranging from the formally theoretical to the intensely personal, they reflect the enthusiasm and the conviction characteristic of all Klein's writing.
Among the subjects that come under the critic's...
New Brunswick at the Crossroads
Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity? New Brunswick at the Crossroads: Literary Ferment and Social Change in the East considers these...
Slanting I, Imagining We
Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
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The Cameras of the World: Race, Subjectivity and the Multitude in Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For
Larissa Lai
Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For present characters who are both deeply abject...
M.G. Vassanji
Essays On His Works
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
This collection was born of a conviction that Vassanji's contributions to the global literary scene merit more in-depth scholarly notice. The articles herein, most of which are comparative in focus, provide various interpretations of Vassanji's writings through a diversity of theoretical frameworks....
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Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2016
This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation...
Public Poetics
Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2015
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“We jimmied the radio”: Gillian Jerome, Brad Cran and the Lyric in Public
Kevin McNeilly
Kevin McNeilly posits Gillian Jerome and Brad Cran, in their collaborative work and in their individual poetry, in dialogue with a lyric tradition. The lyric in Jerome’s and Cran’s...
by A.J.M. Smith
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2006
Arthur James Marshall Smith — prize-winning poet, essayist, influential anthologist, and critic — died in 1980. His last book, The Classic Shade: Selected Poems, on which Selected Writings is based, stands as his final intention in the world of literature.To this long out of print book the editor...
The Newfoundland Diaspora
Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
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E.J. Pratt and the Gateway to Canada
Jennifer Delisle
As the first literary figure of the Newfoundland diaspora, E.J. Pratt’s “authenticity” as a Newfoundlander has been the subject of much debate. Delisle analyzes receptions of Pratt’s work through the mid-twentieth...
From the Iron House
Imprisonment in First Nations Writing
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
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 contemporary Aboriginal literature....
by Brenda Beckman-Long
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
Throughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935–2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzles that confront the reader with the ambiguity of meaning and narrative, yet their position within Shields’ critical feminist project has, until now,...
Halifax Tastes
Recipes from the Region's Best Restaurants
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2013
Halifax Tastes is the newest installment in the popular Tastes series. Halifax is famous for its flavourful seafood but as the largest city in the Maritimes, it should be no surprise that Halifax also boasts plenty of variety when it comes restaurants. From zesty Italian to spicy Thai, from tangy...
Personal Modernisms
Anarchist Networks and the Later Avant-Gardes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Gifford's invigorating work of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the "lost generation" of writers of the 1930s and 1940s. He examines how the Personalism of anarcho-anti-authoritarian contemporaries such as Alex Comfort, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Durrell, J.F....
by Eleanor Ty
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2004
Examining nine Asian Canadian and Asian American narratives, Eleanor Ty explores how authors empower themselves, represent differences, and re-script their identities as 'visible minorities' within the ideological, imaginative, and discursive space given to them by dominant culture. In various ways,...