Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
by Marlene Kadar, Susanna Egan
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
The essays in Tracing the Autobiographical work with the literatures of several nations to reveal the intersections of broad agendas (for example, national ones) with the personal, the private, and the individual. Attending to ethics, exile, tyranny, and hope, the contributors listen for echoes and...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The papers published in this volume were originally read and discussed at a three day seminar sponsored by the Canadian Society for the Study of Religion/Societie Canadienne des Sciences Religieuses at Laval University, Quebec City, Quebec, May 28th to 30th, 1976. This seminar served the important...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2009
All of us, as Canadians, are touched throughout our lives by some aspect of social welfare, either as recipients, donors, or taxpayers. But despite the importance of the social network in our country, there has been no single source of information about this critical component of our society. Even...
Reclaiming Canadian Bodies
Visual Media and Representation
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
“On Devrait Tout Détruire”: Photography, Habitus and Symbolic Violence in Clichy-sous-Bois and Regent Park
Chris Richardson, Information and Media Studies, University of Western
Chris Richardson compares how individual artists in France and Canada use large scale, public, visual...
Feminist Praxis Revisited
Critical Reflections on University-Community Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
In Feminist Praxis Revisited, Women’s and Gender Studies (WGS) practitioners reflect on how the field has sought to integrate its commitment to activism and social change with community-based learning in post-secondary institutions.
Teaching about and for social change has been a core value...
Please, No More Poetry
The Poetry of derek beaulieu
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Since the beginning of his poetic career in the 1990s, derek beaulieu has created works that have challenged readers to understand in new ways the possibilities of poetry. With nine books currently to his credit, and many works appearing in chapbooks, broadsides, and magazines, beaulieu continues...
by Carole Gerson
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
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Periodicals and Journalism
Carole Gerson
Chapter 6 shows how the rise of women’s journalism offered specific opportunities that coalesced in the founding of the Canadian Women’s Press Club in 1904.
The Independence of South Sudan
The Role of Mass Media in the Responsibility to Prevent
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2014
The Responsibility to Protect, the report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (ICISS), focused on three international responsibilities in the area of human security: the responsibility to prevent, the responsibility to react, and the responsibility to rebuild. The...
Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 14
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Florence Nightingale is famous as the “lady with the lamp” in the Crimean War, 1854—56. There is a massive amount of literature on this work, but, as editor Lynn McDonald shows, it is often erroneous, and films and press reporting on it have been even less accurate. The Crimean War reports on...
Writing in Our Time
Canada’s Radical Poetries in English (1957-2003)
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject positions, repetition, fragmentation, and disjunction.
To trace the aesthetically and politically...
Certain Details
The Poetry of Nelson Ball
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Nelson Ball has had a significant impact on contemporary Canadian poetry not only as a poet but as an editor, with his Weed/Flower Press in the 1960s and 70s. Certain Details provides a major overview of the breadth and many paths of Ball’s poetry over six decades. This selection of his work includes...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2016
Animal Subjects: An Ethical Reader in a Posthuman World (WLU Press, 2008) challenged cultural studies to include nonhuman animals within its purview. While the “question of the animal” ricochets across the academy and reverberates within the public sphere, Animal Subjects 2.0 builds on the previous...
163256: A Memoir of Resistance
A Memoir of Resistance
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
163256: A Memoir of Resistance is Michael Englishman’s astonishing story of courage, resourcefulness, and moral fibre as a Dutch Jew during World War II and its aftermath, from the Nazi occupation of Holland in 1940, through his incarceration in numerous death and labour camps, to his eventual liberation...
Verse and Worse
Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989-2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989–2009 presents texts from the last two decades of work by Steve McCaffery, one of the most influential and innovative of contemporary poets. The volume focuses on selections from McCaffery’s major texts, including The Black Debt, Theory...