Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
Will Gorlitz
nowhere if not here
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2011
Will Gorlitz: nowhere if not here examines the art, background, and theoretical concerns of contemporary Canadian artist Will Gorlitz. Appreciated especially for his painting and drawing, Gorlitz produces imaginative and highly visual artwork that is further distinguished by its fundamentally restructured...
Image and Identity
Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
What do images of the body, which recent poets and filmmakers have given us, tell us about ourselves, about the way we think and about the culture in which we live?
In his new book A Body of Vision, R. Bruce Elder situates contemporary poetic and cinematic body images in their cultural context.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2010
I Have a Story to Tell You is about Eastern European Jewish immigrants living in Montreal, Toronto, and Winnipeg in the early twentieth century. The stories encompass their travels and travails on leaving home and their struggles in the sweatshops and factories of the garment industry in Canada. Basing...
From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City
A Historical Geography of Greater Sudbury
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
From Meteorite Impact to Constellation City is a historical geography of the City of Greater Sudbury. The story that began billions of years ago encompasses dramatic physical and human events. Among them are volcanic eruptions, two meteorite impacts, the ebb and flow of continental glaciers, Aboriginal...
Unheard Of
Memoirs of a Canadian Composer
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
For Voice(s)
John Beckwith
Beckwith’s earliest compositional successes were solo songs, and works featuring the solo voice or voices have continued to interest him well into the twenty-first century.
Mapping Canada's Music
Selected Writings of Helmut Kallmann
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
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The Making of a One-Country Encyclopedia
Helmut Kallmann
This chapter is about the making of a One-Country Encyclopedia, which was written after Helmut Kallmann had completed his work on the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Music in Canada. He outlines the processes and working methods that led to the creation of the two editions of this path-breaking reference work.
Weinzweig
Essays on His Life and Music
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
1
A Self-Made Composer
John Beckwith and Brian Cherney
An outline of his life story is followed by an assessment of his achievement and a brief personality sketch. Original research, some of it based on the extensive collection of Weinzweig’s papers in Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, provides a rounded portrait of the composer.
This Awareness of Beauty
The Orchestral and Wind Band Music of Healey Willan
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2014
“Tender, Lyrical, Forceful, Arresting”: The Orchestral Works
Keith Kinder
Includes historical, analytical and critical evaluations of every work for orchestra attributed to Willan, including unfinished compositions and sketches. The circumstances surrounding the creation of each...
Eagle Minds
Selected Correspondence of Istvan Anhalt and George Rochberg (1961-2005)
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2009
Eagle Minds—a selection from the correspondence between the Canadian composer and scholar Istvan Anhalt and his American counterpart George Rochberg—is a splendid chronicle and a penetrating analysis of the swerving socio-cultural movements of a volatile half-century as observed by two highly...
Two Bicycles
The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
6
Conclusion
Tries to sum up the work, in no small part by explaining the romanticism/modernism duality that lies at the heart of Godard and Miéville’s shared oeuvre.
The Arms of the Infinite
Elizabeth Smart and George Barker
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
The Arms of the Infinite takes the reader inside the minds of author Christopher Barker’s parents, writer Elizabeth Smart (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept) and poet George Barker. From their first fateful meeting and subsequent elopement, Barker candidly reveals their obsessive, passionate,...
by Magie Dominic
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime?
Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a Newfoundlander turned New Yorker,...
Canadian Television
Text and Context
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
Canadian Television: Text and Context explores the creation and circulation of entertainment television in Canada from the interdisciplinary perspective of television studies. Each chapter connects arguments about particular texts of Canadian television to critical analysis of the wider cultural,...
It Can't Last Forever
The 19th Battalion and the Canadian Corps in the First World War
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2017
The 19th Battalion was an infantry unit that fought in many of the deadliest battles of the First World War. Hailing from Hamilton, Toronto, and other communities in southern Ontario and beyond, its members were ordinary men facing extraordinary challenges at the Somme, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele,...