Canadian category: 447 books
Lire Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale
Language: French
Release Date: July 19, 2016
Ce recueil bilingue consacré à l'écrivain canadien Margaret Atwood, reconnue comme l'une des figures dominantes de la littérature d'expression anglaise, contient l'intervention qu'elle a prononcée à Rennes en novembre 1998 sur son roman The Handmaid's Tale (La Servante écarlate) et sur le genre...
The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand
The Poetry of M. Travis Lane
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes. An environmentalist, feminist, and peace activist, M. Travis Lane is known for witty and meticulously crafted poems that explore the elusive...
Northrop Frye and Others
Twelve Writers Who Helped Shape His Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
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 Denham draws especially on Frye’s notebooks and other previously unpublished texts, now available in the Collected...
Educating the Imagination
Northrop Frye, Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Northrop Frye's long career made him Canada's most creative public intellectual. A century after his birth, his many books demonstrate a powerful vision of the resources of the human imagination. Frye's critical theory sought the continuities linking human creation in all spheres of life, trusting in...
by Northrop Frye
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
'Frye was a person of uncommon gifts, and very little that came from his pen is without interest.' So writes Robert Denham in his introduction to this unique collection of twenty-two papers written by Northrop Frye during his student years. Made public only after Frye's death in 1991, all but one...
by Natasha Kanapé Fontaine
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2015
Translated from French by Howard Scott Do Not Enter My Soul in Your Shoes is a collection of great tenderness. It is especially a cry from the heart. As if the tenderness and poetry were dumbfounded before the eruption of a volcano. Natasha Kanapé Fontaine reveals herself as a poet and Innu...
Bearing Witness
Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
As the centenary of the Great War approaches, citizens worldwide are reflecting on the history, trauma, and losses of a war-torn twentieth century. It is in remembering past wars that we are at once confronted with the profound horror and suffering of armed conflict and the increasing elusiveness of...
Unsustainable Oil
Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
"Sustainable development is, for government and industry at least, primarily a way of turning trees into lumber, tar into oil, and critique into consent; a way to defend the status quo of growth at any cost." —from the Introduction In Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions,...
by Lorraine York
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status. This timely and thoughtful book considers the particular case of internationally renowned writer Margaret Atwood and the active agents working in concert with her, including...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings...
We Share Our Matters
Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to understand its enduring intellectual traditions....
Stories in a New Skin
Approaches to Inuit Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
In an age where southern power-holders look north and see only vacant polar landscapes, isolated communities, and exploitable resources, it is important to note that the Inuit homeland encompasses extensive philosophical, political, and literary traditions. Stories in a New Skin is a seminal text...
Violence Against Indigenous Women
Literature, Activism, Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis, with roots deep in the nation’s colonial history. Despite numerous policies and programs developed to address the issue, Indigenous women continue to be targeted for violence at disproportionate rates. What insights can literature...
by Marta Dvorak, Manina Jones
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2007
Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary begins with a previously unpublished article by Shields. In the essays that follow, international scholars employ a variety of theories and methodologies in their analyses of her work, including narrative theory, cultural criticism, feminist analysis, psychoanalytic...