Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
Canadian Graphic
Picturing Life Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to show how Canadian cartoonists have...
by Frederick Niven, Alison Calder
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Originally published in 1935, Frederick Niven’s The Flying Years tells the history of Western Canada from the 1850s to the 1920s as witnessed by Angus Munro, a young Scot forced to emigrate to Canada when his family is evicted from their farm. Working in the isolated setting of Rocky Mountain House,...
Read, Listen, Tell
Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
“Don’t say in the years to come that you would have lived your life differently if only you had heard this story. You’ve heard it now.” —Thomas King, in this volume
Read, Listen, Tell brings together an extraordinary range of Indigenous stories from across Turtle Island (North America)....
Earthly Pages
The Poetry of Don Domanski
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
With The Cape Breton Book of the Dead, Don Domanski emerged as a remarkable new voice in Canadian poetry, combining formal conciseness with broad cosmic allusions, constant surprise with brooding atmospherics, and innovative syntax with delicate phrasings. In subsequent collections, Domanski’s poetry...
The Curtain
Witness and Memory in Wartime Holland
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Henry Schogt met his wife, Corrie, in 1954 in Amsterdam. Each knew the other had grown up in the Netherlands during World War II, but for years they barely spoke of their experiences. This was true for many people — the memories were just too painful. Years later, Henry and Corrie began to piece...
Transition to Common Work
Building Community at The Working Centre
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
Part 2: Community Engagement
Chapter 4 The Virtues
Joe Mancini and Stephanie Mancini
The Working Centre has integrated the virtues into its organizational philosophy because the sharing of goods and the building of cooperation is fundamental for relationships and friendship....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
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Wine as Heritage: Exploring the Roots of Wine Heritage in Niagara
Michael Ripmeester and Russell Johnston
Michael Ripmeester and Russell Johnston engage the ways in which Niagarans have assimilated grapes and wines into heritage narratives. They argue that Niagarans view this relationship ambivalently as they see themselves excluded from grape and wine events.
Feeling Canadian
Television, Nationalism, and Affect
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
“My name is Joe, and I AM Canadian!” How did a beer ad featuring an unassuming guy in a plaid shirt become a national anthem? This book about Canadian TV examines how affect and consumption work together, producing national practices framed by the television screen. Drawing on the new field of...
Florence Nightingale: Extending Nursing
Collected Works of Florence Nightingale, Volume 13
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime’s writing on nursing and to nurses is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to “look to the future, not to the past,” and often ignore her or rely on faulty secondary sources.
Volume 12 related the founding...
Rites of Way
The Politics and Poetics of Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
There are many ways to approach the subject of public space: the threats posed to it by surveillance and visual pollution; the joys it offers of stimulation and excitement, of anonymity and transformation; its importance to urban variety or democratic politics. But public space remains an evanescent...
Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase
Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
I: Altered States
The first section of the book includes essays on literature investigating the breakdown of systems and the possibility of envisioning–or creating–new spaces for agency, creativity, and critical engagement.
The False Laws of Narrative
The Poetry of Fred Wah
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the poets entire poetic trajectory to date. A founding editor of Tish magazine, Wah was influenced by leading progressive and innovative poets of the 1960s and was at the forefront of the exploration of racial hybridity, multiculturalism,...
Plans Deranged by Time
The Poetry of George Fetherling
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. Plans Deranged by Time is a representative selection from many of the twelve poetry collections he has...
by Michael Snow, Louise Dompierre
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Writing, for Michael Snow, is as much a form of “art-making” as the broad range of visual art activities for which he is renowned, including the “Walking Woman” series and the film Wavelength. Conversely, many of the texts included in this anthology are as significant visually as they are...