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An iPad version of Food That Really Schmecks is now available. New material in the app includes photos and videos of Edna Staebler and the Waterloo Region countryside. Recipes are easily searchable, and users can upload photos and recipe comments and suggestions that will be shared to all users, just...

Charles Heavysege's chief and best-known work, the long-verse drama and tragedy Saul, was published in Montreal in 1857. Coventry Patmore, reviewing Saul in the North British Review, ranked it as the greatest English poem published outside Great Britain. Hawthorne, Emerson, and Longfellow were all...

This volume represents the first full-scale appreciation of Clark Blaise's writing in more than 25 years -- and the first comprehensive study of his now more than 20 books. Included are previously published essays by, among others, Robert Lecker, Alexander MacLeod, Catherine Sheldrick Ross, and the...

During a time of uncertainty over collective identity and social transformation, Quebec novels started getting sick – after 1940, the number of narratives about illness, disease, and sick characters intensified. For the last seventy years, generations of authors have turned to medically oriented stories...

Literature not only represents Canada as “our home and native land” but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented as roaming “savages” without land title and without literature. Literary Land Claims: From...

Poetry. Beautiful words,  long used to speak  what we keep hidden at heart and let's be frank, woo the opposite sex,.  Poetry comes in every genre, from vicious and bloody to heart wrenchingly eloquent and anything in between.   Darker, The Dream Queen is a collection of runes and prose inspired by everyday life  

Le Canada ! Sujet sur lequel on a bien souvent et bien longuement écrit. Il faudrait une bonne demi-heure pour énumérer seulement les titres des ouvrages publiés sur ce pays. Comme toujours, dans tout ce qui est humain, à côté d’excellentes choses on a accumulé, à propos du Canada, les...

Vous perdez votre temps à écrire ce livre, m’a dit un assez bon juge en littérature, il renferme certainement quelques beautés et vous n’êtes pas sans aucun mérite d’oser, le premier en Canada, faire entendre les sons d’une espèce de lyre bucolique ; mais comment pensez vous que notre...

Years before she published her internationally celebrated first novel, Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (1874–1942) started contributing short works to periodicals across North America. While these works consisted primarily of poems and short stories, she also experimented with a wider range...

Northrop Frye and American Fiction challenges recent interpretations of American fiction as a secular pursuit that long ago abandoned religious faith and the idea of transcendent experiences. Inspired by recent philosophical thinking on post-secularism and by Northrop Frye’s theorizing on the connections...

In examining a number of francophone Montréal novels from 1960 to 2005, this interdisciplinary study considers the ways in which these connect with material landscapes to produce a city of neighbourhoods. In so doing, it reflects on how Montréal has been seen as both home and not home for francophone...

Le Laurentic, paquebot d’allure altière, remontait gracieusement le Saint-Laurent. Il creusait, dans le calme de l’eau, une entaille qui s’ouvrait de toute la largeur de son flanc. L’écume ruisselait, et une vague énorme, courant sur la surface troublée dans un lourd sommeil, allait porter...

On va voir ici une aventure analogue à celle de Jocelyn ; c’est un thème qui ne vieillit pas. En effet, parmi les êtres de choix qui sentent le besoin de se consacrer à Dieu, on peut distinguer deux classes dignes de se partager notre admiration ; les uns sont, par avance, détachés du monde...

Les deux détectives frappèrent à la porte. Il était environ onze heures du soir. Comme personne ne répondait, ils frappèrent une seconde fois, mais plus fort, et attendirent quelques instants. Un homme en manches de chemises, son journal à la main, sortit de l’appartement...