Canadian category: 447 books
Naturally Woman
The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women's Literature
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society. Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women’s Literature examines the ways in which Black immigrant women must adapt to survive in a multicultural...
The Ivory Thought
Essays on Al Purdy
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918–2000). Numerous eminent scholars and writers have attested to this pre-eminent status. George Bowering described him as “the world’s most Canadian poet” (1970), while Sam Solecki titled his book-length study of Purdy...
Literary History of Canada
Canadian Literature in English (Second Edition) Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes. This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of English-language Canadian literature...
Private and Fictional Words (Routledge Revivals)
Canadian Women Novelists of the 1970s and 1980s
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
First published in 1987, this is an introductory study of the most widely read Canadian women novelists of the 1970s and 1980s. At its centre lies the question of how the search for a distinctive cultural identity relates to the need for a national cultural identity in the post-colonial era. Coral...
This Is My Country, What's Yours?
A Literary Atlas of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fiction
A Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006)
National Post Best Books (2006)
A bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and storytellers.
Stories are the surest...
Graeme Gibson Interviews Alice Munro
From Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
In honour of Alice Munro's Nobel Prize for Literature, Anansi Digital is re-releasing a candid interview with Munro by Canadian novelist Graeme Gibson.
Taken from Eleven Canadian Novelists, which was originally published in 1973 by House of Anansi Press, the interview is a revealing and wide-ranging...
Double-Takes
Intersections between Canadian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
Over the past forty years, Canadian literature has found its way to the silver screen with increasing regularity. Beginning with the adaptation of Margaret Laurence’s A Jest of God to the Hollywood film Rachel, Rachel in 1966, Canadian writing would appear to have found a doubly successful life...
by E.J. Pratt Library
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
This edition of E.J. Pratt’s letters is the final volume in the Collected Works series. Because of Pratt’s role in the making of Canadian culture between and after the World Wars, his correspondence highlights key moments in our cultural history and provides a view of the enterprise from its very...
by
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
This volume is a collection of papers that had their origin in a symposium called ‘Reconsiderations of Robertson Davies,’ which took place at Massey College, University of Toronto. Davies helped found Massey and he served as its first master (1963–81). Prior to this role, Davies had (after an abortive...
Before the Country
Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2007
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers, a development that some critics have called the Native Renaissance. In Before the Country, Stephanie McKenzie explores the extent to which this growing body of literature influenced...
Comrades and Critics
Women, Literature, and the Left in 1930s Canada
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2009
While Canadian historians have studied socialism in the 1930s, and although there have been many studies of American and British literary leftists from this period, Comrades and Critics is the first full-length study of Canada's 1930s literary left. Challenging dominant perceptions that this decade...
Prizing Literature
The Celebration and Circulation of National Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2011
When Canadian authors win prestigious literary prizes, from the Governor General's Literary Award to the Man Booker Prize, they are celebrated not only for their achievements, but also for contributing to this country's cultural capital. Discussions about culture, national identity, and citizenship...
The First Day of Spring
Stories and Other Prose
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Raymond Knister had a strong sense of commitment both to his own career and to literature, particularly Canadian literature. In his ten working years he proved himself a prolific writer with wide-ranging interests.
Although his work has appeared in many anthologies of Canadian literature, there...
National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada
Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2010
Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature. Works by writers of historical fiction (from early practitioners such as John Richardson to contemporary figures such as Alice Munro and George Elliott...