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Engendering Genre

The Works of Margaret Atwood

by Reingard M. Nischik
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010

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, novels, criticism,...
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The Stubborn Structure

Essays on Criticism and Society

by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013

First published in 1970, this collection is made up of a selection of essays composed between 1962 and 1968, written by distinguished humanist and literary critic Northrop Frye. The book is divided into two parts: one deals largely with the contexts of literary criticism; the other offers more specific...
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At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan

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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004

At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s...
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Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old

New Directions from Old

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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010

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 variety of other fields, including...
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by Léon Pamphile LeMay
Language: French
Release Date: November 6, 2015

On était à la fin de septembre 1850, et les récoltes, commencées depuis longtemps, puis interrompues par les pluies, venaient d’être reprises partout, grâce au retour d’un radieux soleil. Dans quelques endroits bas le grain avait germé, mais, en général, le dommage n’était pas grand....
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Children of the Outer Dark

The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney

by Christopher Dewdney
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009

A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in southwestern Ontario and moving...
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Little Eurekas

A Decade's Thoughts on Poetry

by Robyn Sarah
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2007

A reader-friendly miscellany of essays, appreciations, reviews, and conversations, published in newspapers and literary magazines over the past ten years, these are pieces that will resonate equally with the lay poetry lover and the specialist. This collection explores all aspects of a life in poetry: reading it, writing it, teaching it, editing it, publishing it, reviewing it.
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by Laurent-Olivier David
Language: French
Release Date: January 11, 2016

En mil sept cent soixante, la population canadienne-française de Montréal n’était pas nombreuse, mais elle était pleine d’énergie et de patriotisme, car elle portait, tout chaud dans les veines, le sang héroïque des premiers colons. On y comptait quelques centaines de bonnes et fortes familles...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016

Chapter 1 Literary and Editorial Theory and Editing Marian Engel Christl Verduyn A hybrid editorial practice that combines literary, feminist, and life writing theories with editorial theory drawn from both Anglo-American and continental European traditions best suits the practical and...
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À la carte

Le roman québécois (20102015)

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Language: French
Release Date: December 21, 2016

Le troisième volume de notre série « À la carte » propose de nouveau une radiographie du roman qui s'écrit actuellement en français au Québéc afin de capter le pouls de sa littérature au sein de l'espace francophone canadien, américain, voire européen. Quels sont les sujets, les rêves,...
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By Great Waters

A Newfoundland and Labrador Anthology

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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1974

p>This anthology offers readers a selection of Newfoundland writing which will illuminate the unfolding of the province’s history and culture and at the same time command respect as literature. It is comprised of 65 selections from literary and historical sources, which range in time from an...
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by Eugène L’Écuyer
Language: French
Release Date: July 8, 2017

La fille du brigand est un roman de l'auteur canadien Eugène L’Écuyer (1822 – 1898). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition intégrale et comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il est parfaitement mise en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Résumé :...
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by Honoré Beaugrand
Language: French
Release Date: December 1, 2015

Les pages qui suivent sont une reproduction textuelle des Lettres de voyage que j’ai adressées au journal La Patrie, depuis le mois d’octobre 1888 jusqu’au mois d’avril 1889. Elles forment un itinéraire plus ou moins régulier, d’un voyage de six mois que j’ai fait en France, en Italie,...
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by Jules-Paul Tardivel
Language: French
Release Date: February 14, 2016

On ne saurait contester l’influence immense qu’exerce le roman sur la société moderne. Jules Vallès, témoin peu suspect, a dit : « Combien j’en ai vu de ces jeunes gens, dont un passage, lu un matin, a dominé, défait ou refait, perdu ou sauvé l’existence. Balzac, par exemple, comme...
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