The University Of Alberta Press imprint: 88 books
Rising Abruptly
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Gisèle Villeneuve’s short stories test the elastic pull between passion and terror. For inspiration, Villeneuve turned to her personal history to examine what lures urban dwellers outdoors, to test themselves against peaks and valleys. Using the overarching metaphor of mountain climbing, she plays...
Prairie Bohemian
Frank Gay’s Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Gay never recorded an album, never won a Juno. His music existed in the moment, appreciated by the few who were lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. For the rest of us, those late-night jam sessions in a shack in an alley on the bad side of Edmonton never happened. We never got...
The Creation of iGiselle
Classical Ballet Meets Contemporary Video Games
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2019
The unusual marriage of Romantic ballet and artificial intelligence is an intriguing idea that led a team of interdisciplinary researchers to design iGiselle, a video game prototype. Scholars in the fields of literature, physical education, music, design, and computer science collaborated to revise...
Personal Modernisms
Anarchist Networks and the Later Avant-Gardes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Gifford's invigorating work of metacriticism and literary history recovers the significance of the "lost generation" of writers of the 1930s and 1940s. He examines how the Personalism of anarcho-anti-authoritarian contemporaries such as Alex Comfort, Robert Duncan, Lawrence Durrell, J.F....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland—one of Canada’s most beloved writers and one of Canada’s most significant publishers—enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals...
Countering Displacements
The Creativity and Resilience of Indigenous and Refugee-ed Peoples
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
The essays in this collection explore the activities of two populations of displaced peoples that are seldom discussed together: Indigenous peoples and refugees or diasporic peoples around the world. Rather than focusing on victimhood, the authors focus on the creativity and agency of displaced peoples,...
by Myrl Coulter
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
Secrets aren’t good for families. — from “Big Luck Island” In The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories—a collection of new, delightful, distinctive short stories—everyone is missing something or someone; every family is riven by secrets and absences. From “The Remedy,” a tale...
You Haven’t Changed a Bit
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2013
Through mesmerizing forays into characterization, voicing, and narrative technique, and with a clean economy of style rare even in short fiction, Astrid Blodgett conjures the moral and existential freight of her fully fledged characters in the throes of realistic moments. From the fascinatingly unhinged...
A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance
Imagining Multilingualism
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
“Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only...” From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist of the world, playwright, pianist, polyglot, storyteller, and irreverent disciple of the Trickster,...
Narratives of Citizenship
Indigenous and Diasporic Peoples Unsettle the Nation-State
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Examining various cultural products-music, cartoons, travel guides, ideographic treaties, film, and especially the literary arts-the contributors of these thirteen essays invite readers to conceptualize citizenship as a narrative construct, both in Canada and beyond. Focusing on indigenous and diasporic...
The Woman Priest
A Translation of Sylvain Maréchal's Novella, La femme abbé
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016
“My God! Pardon me if I have dared to make sacred things serve a profane love; but it is you who have put passion into our hearts; they are not crimes—I feel this in the purity of my intentions.” —Agatha, writing to Zoé In pre-revolutionary Paris, a young woman falls for a handsome young...
Cross-Media Ownership and Democratic Practice in Canada
Content-Sharing and the Impact of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This is the first in-depth analysis of major French- and English-Canadian news companies to show the impact of cross-media ownership on the diversity of new content. Surprisingly, the study lays to rest fears over content convergence of newspaper and television network ownership by Canadian media...
by Juliane Okot Bitek
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
100 days... 100 days that should not have been... 100 days the world could have stopped. But did not.
For 100 days, Juliane Okot Bitek recorded the lingering nightmare of the Rwandan genocide in a poem—each poem recalling the senseless loss of life and of innocence. Okot Bitek draws on her...
by Alice Major
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Like the ever-widening universe, Standard candles expands on Alice Major’s earlier themes of family, mythology, and cosmology, teasing out subtle wonders in form and subject. Her voice resonates through experiments with old and new poetic forms as she imbues observed and imagined phenomena—from...