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by Nella Cotrupi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2000
Nella Cotrupi's *Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process *sheds a new conceptual light on Frye, successfully bringing him back into the central ring of contemporary critical thought. Challenging the often dismissive view of Frye's work as closed and outdated, Dr. Cotrupi explores the implications...
Literary History of Canada
Canadian Literature in English, Volume IV (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and...
Literary Essays and Reviews
Collected Works of A.M. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1987
The passionately held views of A.M. Klein are focused in these essays on literature and the arts. Ranging from the formally theoretical to the intensely personal, they reflect the enthusiasm and the conviction characteristic of all Klein's writing.
Among the subjects that come under the critic's...
On the Edge of Empire
Gender, Race, and the Making of British Columbia, 1849-1871
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2001
"On the Edge of Empire" is a well-written, carefully researched, and persuasively argued book that delineates the centrality of race and gender in the making of colonial and national identities, and in the re-writing of Canadian history as colonial history. Utilising feminist and post-colonial...
by Robert McLaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Between 1912 and 1925, Ireland convulsed with political and revolutionary upheaval in pursuit of self-government. Canadians of Irish descent, both Catholic and Protestant, diligently followed these conflicts, and many became actively involved in the dramatic events overseas.
Irish Canadian...
Bedside Matters
The Transformation of Canadian Nursing, 1900-1990
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2003
Nursing embodies the seemingly timeless characteristics of feminine healing, caring, and nurturing, yet this archetypally female vocation also boasts a distinctive and complex history. Bedside Matters traces four generations of Canadian nurses to explore changes in who became nurses, what work they...
Warming Up to the Cold War
Canada and the United States' Coalition of the Willing, from Hiroshima to Korea
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2009
When U.S. President Harry Truman asked his allies for military support in the Korean War, Canada's government, led by Prime Minister Louis St-Laurent, was reluctant. St-Laurent's government was forced to change its position however, when the Canadian populace, conditioned to significant degrees by...
Performing Autobiography
Contemporary Canadian Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
In Performing Autobiography, Jenn Stephenson presents an innovative new approach to autobiography studies that links the growing field of research to drama. Stephenson’s analysis engages with performance histories to demonstrate the extent to which the dramatic form, which recasts autobiography...
Sisters or Strangers?
Immigrant, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History - Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Spanning more than two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. Among the themes examined in this new edition are the intersection of race, crime, and justice, the...
Middleton & Rowley
Forms of Collaboration in the Jacobean Playhouse
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2012
Can the inadvertent clashes between collaborators produce more powerful effects than their concordances? For Thomas Middleton and William Rowley, the playwriting team best known for their tragedy The Changeling, disagreements and friction proved quite beneficial for their work.
This first full-length...
Canada's Rural Majority
Households, Environments, and Economies, 1870-1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
Before the Second World War, Canada was a rural country. Unlike most industrializing countries, Canada’s rural population grew throughout the century after 1871 – even if it declined as a proportion of the total population. Rural Canadians also differed in their lives from rural populations elsewhere....
A Gentlewoman in Upper Canada
The Journals, Letters and Art of Anne Langton
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2008
Anne Langton (1804-1893) arrived in Upper Canada in 1837 to join her brother John on his settler farm near Fenelon Falls, Ontario. An accomplished miniaturist, landscape artist, and writer, Langton documented ten years of family and community hardship and growth in her journals, letters, and art,...
A Happy Holiday
English Canadians and Transatlantic Tourism, 1870-1930
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2008
One of the most revealing things about national character is the way that citizens react to and report on their travels abroad. Oftentimes a tourist's experience with a foreign place says as much about their country of origin as it does about their destination. A Happy Holiday examines the travels...
Passing Judgment
The Politics and Poetics of Sovereignty in French Tragedy from Hardy to Racine
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
The royal judge was an archetypal character in French tragedy during the 17th century. This figure impersonated the king by asserting his judicial authority and bringing order to an otherwise chaotic world.
In Passing Judgment, Hélène Bilis examines how an overlooked character-type—the...