Wilfrid Laurier University Press: 402 books
Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature
Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011
Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining their treatment of work, culture,...
Burdens of Proof
Faith, Doubt, and Identity in Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2011
Autobiographical impostures, once they come to light, appear to us as outrageous, scandalous. They confuse lived and textual identity (the person in the world and the character in the text) and call into question what we believe, what we doubt, and how we receive information. In the process, they...
Ecologies of the Moving Image
Cinema, Affect, Nature
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Afterword
Digital Life in a Biosemiotic World
Adrian J. Ivakhiv
This brief chapter examines arguments about whether or not we are reaching the "end of cinema," and summarizes the book's main arguments in light of the digital revolution.
Simone Weil: An Introduction to Her Thought
An Introduction to Her Thought
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
“The generation of 1930 in French intellectual life was unique in the gravity of the challenges they faced.” Simone Weil — the brilliant social and political theorist, activist, and spiritual writer — was one of an eminent company in the France of the 1930s who responded to these challenges....
by Gregor Malantschuk
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
A widespread misapprehension of Søren Kierkegaard is that his concern for the individual and the individual's relation to the divine excluded any significant attention to social and political problems. In this volume Gregor Malantschuk, before his death one of the world's foremost Kierkegaard scholars,...
The Order in Which We Do Things
The Poetry of Tom Wayman
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Tom Wayman’s poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada’s most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, hopeful, tender, and hilarious. His voice and persona are his alone but simultaneously ours too....
Franz Werfel: The Faith of an Exile
From Prague to Beverly Hills
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Franz Werfel was born in Prague in 1890 and died in Beverly Hills in 1945, a popular and artistic success in Europe and America. Despite his Jewish birth and upbringing, he was attracted to Christianity at any early age, and although he never formally converted, he celebrated his own vision of it...
“I Want to Join Your Club”
Letters from Rural Children, 1900-1920
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
“I am a girl, 13 years old, and a proper broncho buster. I can cook and do housework, but I just love to ride.”
In letters written to the children’s pages of newspapers, we hear the clear and authentic voices of real children who lived in rural Canada and Newfoundland between 1900 and...
Ecologies of Affect
Placing Nostalgia, Desire, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2011
Ecologies of Affect offers a synthetic introduction to the felt dynamics of cities and the character of places. The contributors capture the significance of affects including desire, nostalgia, memory, and hope in forming the identity and tone of places. The critical intervention this collection of...
Evangelical Balance Sheet
Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
Using the journals of W. Norman Rudolf (1835-1886), a Victorian merchant, Evangelical Balance Sheet: Character, Family, and Business in Mid-Victorian Nova Scotia explores the important role of character ideals and evangelicalism in mid-Victorian culture. Rudolf’s diary, with its daily weather observations,...
Children of the Outer Dark
The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in southwestern Ontario and moving...
Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace
Explorations in Canadian Women’s Archives
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
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Locking Up Letters
Julia Creet
Julia Creet’s poignant rumination “Locking Up Letters” considers the ethical implications of depositing her mother’s Holocaust letters in the archives. The place to which these papers are consigned, she notes, is important in order to honour and respect her mother’s complicated national histories.
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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016
Celebrity Cultures in Canada is an interdisciplinary collection that explores celebrity phenomena and the ways they have operated and developed in Canada over the last two centuries. The chapters address a variety of cultural venues—politics, sports, film, and literature—and examine the political,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Chapter 1 Literary and Editorial Theory and Editing Marian Engel
Christl Verduyn
A hybrid editorial practice that combines literary, feminist, and life writing theories with editorial theory drawn from both Anglo-American and continental European traditions best suits the practical and...