Canadian category: 447 books
by John Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
No other person has done more to celebrate and encourage the short story in Canada than John Metcalf. For more than five decades he has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher to help shape our understanding of the form and what it can do. The long-time editor of the...
by D.M.R. Bentley
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
As one of the formative periods in Canadian history, the late nineteenth century witnessed the birth of a nation, a people, and a literature. In this study of Canada's first 'school' of poets, D.M.R. Bentley combines archival work, including extensive research in periodicals and newspapers, with close...
Canadian Whisky, Second Edition
The New Portable Expert
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Savour the bold notes and rich varieties of Canadian whisky with this fully revised, updated, and indispensable guide.
This fully updated and revised edition of the award-winning Canadian Whisky invites you on a journey across Canada and back through time to discover the story of this unique...
The Undiscovered Country
Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In this sequence of essays, Ian Angus engages with themes of identity, power, and the nation as they emerge in contemporary English Canadian philosophical thought, seeking to prepare the groundwork for a critical theory of neoliberal globalization. The essays are organized into three parts. The opening...
by Terrence Craig
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction is a critical overview of the appearances and consequences of racism in English-Canadian fiction published between 1905 and 1980.
Based on an analysis of traditional expressions in literature of group solidarity and resentment, the study screens...
Sir Charles God Damn
The Life of Sir Charles G.D. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1986
A new era in Canadian poetry began in 1880 with the publication of Charles G.D. Roberts’ Orion and Other Poems. He was just twenty years old. Roberts was soon acknowledged as leader of the so-called Confederation Poets—Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell Scott, and Archibald Lampman. During his long...
Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2012
As a part of the launch of the new A-List series, a curated selection of titles from Anansi's backlist featuring handsome new covers and introductions by well-known Canadian writers, comes Margaret Atwood's Survival, with an introduction by the author.01 When first published in 1972, Survival was...
by Jason Blake
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2010
Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake takes readers on a thematic journey through Canadian hockey literature, examining five common themes -...
Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors...
Transnational Canadas
Anglo-Canadian Literature and Globalization
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from the centennial period to the present, it shows how current work in transnational studies can provide...
Boys and Girls in No Man's Land
English-Canadian Children and the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2011
Boys and Girls in No Man's Land examines how the First World War entered the lives and imaginations of Canadian children. Drawing on educational materials, textbooks, adventure tales, plays, and Sunday-school papers, this study explores the role of children in the nation's war effort.
Susan...
Unbound
Ukrainian Canadians Writing Home
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2016
What does it mean to be Ukrainian in contemporary Canada? The Ukrainian Canadian writers in Unbound challenge the conventions of genre – memoir, fiction, poetry, biography, essay – and the boundaries that separate ethnic and authorial identities and fictional and non-fictional narratives. These...
Selves and Subjectivities
Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Long a topic of intricate political and social debate, Canadian identity has come to be understood as fragmented, amorphous, and unstable, a multifaceted and contested space only tenuously linked to traditional concepts of the nation. As Canadians, we are endlessly defining ourselves, seeking to locate...
Literary Research and Canadian Literature
Strategies and Sources
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Canada's rich literary heritage, dominated by a multicultural and multilingual presence, reflects the country's unique history and experience. In addition, an emerging body of new writers is redefining both the geographic and metaphorical boundaries of Canadian literature. Coupled with the propagation...