Canadian category: 447 books
Backwoodsmen as Ecocritical Motif in French Canadian Literature
Connecting Worlds in the Wilds
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In New France and early Canada, young men who ventured into the forest to hunt and trade with Amerindians (coureurs de bois, “runners of the woods”), later traveling in big teams of canoes (voyageurs), were known for their independence. Often described as half-wild themselves, they linked the...
Literary Impostors
Canadian Autofiction of the Early Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
In the first half of the twentieth century, a number of Canadian authors were revealed to have faked the identities that made them famous. What is extraordinary about these writers is that they actually "became," in everyday life, characters they had themselves invented. Many of their works...
Antonio D'Alfonso
Essays On His Works
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This collection of essays is devoted to the work of Antonio D'Alfonso, a pivotal figure in the bilingual history of Canadian literature. This much anticipated volume gives Antonio D'Alfonso recognition for the enormous contribution he has made to Canadian writing, over nearly fifty years. He has worked...
by David Stouck
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2005
Sinclair Ross (1908-1996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941), and for such familiar short stories as "The Lamp at Noon" and "The Painted Door," is an elusive figure in Canadian literature. A master at portraying the hardships and harsh beauty of the...
Les Belles Étrangères
Canadians in Paris
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2008
While translation history in Canada is well documented, the history of the translation of Canadian fiction outside the nation remains obscure. Les Belles Étrangères examines the translation of Canadian English-language fiction in France. This book considers the history of this practice, the reasons...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2006
Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian...
All These Roads
The Poetry of Louis Dudek
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2009
A passionate believer in the power of art—and especially poetry—to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing and teaching. All These Roads:...
Sasquatch at Home (The)
Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2012
In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. Robinson shared an intimate look into the intricacies of family, culture, and place through her talk, "The Sasquatch at Home." Robinson's disarming...
Alice Munro
'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage', 'Runaway', 'Dear Life'
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focussing on three of her most popular and important published collections:...
A.M. Klein The Letters
Collected Works of A.M. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
In the final volume of the Collected Works of A.M. Klein, Elizabeth Popham completes the process of restoring the public voice of one of Canada's most respected authors. A.M. Klein: The Letters is the first compilation of a significant body of Klein's correspondence. Using his communications to construct...
Edible Histories, Cultural Politics
Towards a Canadian Food History
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2012
Just as the Canada's rich past resists any singular narrative, there is no such thing as a singular Canadian food tradition. This new book explores Canada's diverse food cultures and the varied relationships that Canadians have had historically with food practices in the context of community, region,...
Keepers of the Code
English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Keepers of the Code explores the complex network of associations and negotiations that influenced the development of literary anthologies in English Canada from 1837 to the present. Lecker shows that these anthologies are deeply conflicted narratives that embody the tensions and anxieties felt by...
Rewriting the Break Event
Mennonites and Migration in Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2013
Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, Mennonite Canadian literature has been marked by a compulsive retelling of the mass migration of some 20,000 Russian Mennonites to Canada following the collapse of the “Mennonite Commonwealth” in the 1920s....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
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The Cunning of Reconciliation: Reinventing White Civility in the “Age of Apology”
Pauline Wakeham
Pauline Wakeham’s “The Cunning of Reconciliation: Reinventing White Civility in the ‘Age of Apology’” considers the rhetoric and function of state apologies in Canada....