Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
by Edna Staebler
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2009
An iPad version of Food That Really Schmecks is now available. New material in the app includes photos and videos of Edna Staebler and the Waterloo Region countryside. Recipes are easily searchable, and users can upload photos and recipe comments and suggestions that will be shared to all users, just...
by Laura K. Davis
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
Part One: Writing About Africa
Chapter One: Conflicts of Culture in The Prophet’s Camel Bell and This Side Jordan
Laura K. Davis
Examines how Laurence’s ambivalent position as a Canadian woman in Africa manifests in her memoir about Africa, The Prophet’s Camel Bell, and...
Avant Canada
Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the...
by S. Frances Harrison, Cynthia Sugars
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2015
In The Forest of Bourg-Marie, originally published in 1898, Toronto author and musician S. Frances Harrison draws together a highly mythologized image of Quebec society and the forms of Gothic literature that were already familiar to her English-speaking audience. It tells the story of a fourteen-year-old...
Is Canada Postcolonial?
Unsettling Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
How can postcolonialism be applied to Canadian literature?
In all that has been written about postcolonialism, surprisingly little has specifically addressed the position of Canada, Canadian literature, or Canadian culture.
Postcolonialism is a theory that has gained credence throughout...
by Kenneth Morris Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
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Humanity and Its Faith: The Apprehension of Total Reality
Kenneth Hamilton
In this chapter, Hamilton identifies the manner in which religious faith for Niebuhr answers a specific question that arises out of Niebuhr’s overall concern with the nature of humanity. Humans, to...
by Nancy-Lou Patterson
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
A young girl falls asleep in the Joseph Schneider Haus and wakes up in the 1850s. At the same time, a tramp boy seeks sanctuary from a cruel master. Caught in the past, the young girl, Elizabeth Salisbury, is thrust into the drama of the tramp boy’s struggle to remain free.
Literary Land Claims
The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2015
Literature not only represents Canada as “our home and native land” but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented as roaming “savages” without land title and without literature. Literary Land Claims: From...
The Rise and Fall of an African Utopia
A Wealthy Theocracy in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
In 1947 a group of Yoruba-speaking fishermen who had been persecuted because of their religious beliefs founded their own community in order to worship in peace. Although located in an impoverished part of Nigeria, within a few years the village enjoyed remarkable economic success. This was partly...
Readings in Russian Philosophical Thought
Philosophy of History
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
A collection of readings in Russian philosophical thought.
Luther and Late Medieval Thomism
A Study in Theological Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A careful analysis of Luther’s thought in the context of his age, this volume examines Luther’s links with later medieval Thomism. The study is organized on the theme of theological anthropology—the state of humans within a theological system. In the course of the discussion, Janz studies parallels...
Unravelling Encounters
Ethics, Knowledge, and Resistance under Neoliberalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
This multidisciplinary book brings together a series of critical engagements regarding the notion of ethical practice. As a whole, the book explores the question of how the current neo-liberal, socio-political moment and its relationship to the historical legacies of colonialism, white settlement,...
From Logos to Christos
Essays on Christology in Honour of Joanne McWilliam
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
From Logos to Christos is a collection of essays in Christology written by friends and colleagues in memory of Joanne McWilliam. McWilliam was a pioneer woman in the academic study of theology, specializing in Patristic studies and internationally recognized for her work on Augustine. For countless...
The Homing Place
Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2017
Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder the transfer of information across epistemological...