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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1980
This collection of essays reveals the dynamic role of the late Qing novel in the process of modernization of Chinese fiction. Substantial changes in various aspects of the Chinese novel at the turn of the century, demonstrated by structural analyses of several representative novels, suggest that the...
Transforming Indigeneity
Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon. Sarah Shulist concentrates on how debates, discussions, and practices aimed at providing support for...
Shingwauk's Vision
A History of Native Residential Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 1996
With the growing strength of minority voices in recent decades has come much impassioned discussion of residential schools, the institutions where attendance by Native children was compulsory as recently as the 1960s. Former students have come forward in increasing numbers to describe the psychological...
by Eliza Haywood
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
The most important female English novelist of the 1720s, Eliza Haywood is famous for writing scandalous fiction about London society. Fast-moving, controversial, and sometimes disturbing, Haywood’s short novels The Masqueraders and The Surprize are valuable sources for the study of eighteenth-century...
by Mark Andryczyk
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
The 1990s were a period of tremendous artistic vigour, experimentation, and liberation for Ukrainian culture. The artists who emerged at this time unleashed a tidal wave of creativity that deliberately and aggressively reshaped inherited models. In this first English monograph on contemporary Ukrainian...
Bad Time Stories
Government-Union Conflicts and the Rhetoric of Legitimation Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
The 1990s and 2000s were especially difficult decades for government–public sector union relations in Canada. Rising costs and growing debts meant that governments were on the lookout for savings, and public sector unions and employees were easy targets for government actions. Bitter conflicts between...
The Stories We Are
An Essay on Self-Creation, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
From time to time we all tend to wonder what sort of “story” our life might comprise: what it means, where it is going, and whether it hangs together as a whole. In The Stories We Are, William Lowell Randall explores the links between literature and life and speculates on the range of storytelling...
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...
Notebooks
Selections from the A.M. Klein Papers (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1995
Much of A.M. Klein's finest prose is to be found in the mass of uncompleted work that he abandoned at the time of his breakdown, and that became accessible only when his papers were deposited in the National Archives. Notebooks offers a generous selection of this work, revealing previously unsuspected...
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...
by Michel Sanouillet, Harold Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
The twenty-five crisp and amusing short stories in this collection prove that elementary readings in French can also be entertaining. Some are original anecdotes and others adaptations of traditional French of French-Canadian stories, some are from anonymous sources, and some by acknowledged masters...
The L.M. Montgomery Reader
Volume Three: A Legacy in Review
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The final volume of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of Montgomery’s critical reception: reviews of her books. Although Montgomery downplayed the impact that reviews had on her writing career, claiming to be amused and tolerant of reviewers’ contradictory...
French Individualist Poetry 1686-1760
An Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1971
This anthology has a double aim: to present a body of poetry, none of it easily available, some of it never before reproduced, and to point up a particular trend, until now nearly lost sight of in the maze of generalizations about eighteenth-century French poetry. This trend, called individualist,...
Mannerist Fiction
Pathologies of Space from Rabelais to Pynchon
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
In Mannerist Fiction, William Donoghue re-conceptualizes the history of formalism in western literature. Rather than presuming that literary experimentation with form – distorting space and time – began in the twentieth century with Modernism, Donoghue identifies the age of Copernicus as the crucible...