Wilfrid Laurier University Press imprint: 403 books
In the Unlikeliest of Places
How Nachman Libeskind Survived the Nazis, Gulags, and Soviet Communism
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Annette Libeskind Berkovits thought her attempt to have her father record his life's story failed. But in 2004, three years after her father's death, she was going through his things and found a box of tapes—several years' worth—with his spectacular life, triumphs, and tragedies told one last...
Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted
Surviving in Nazi Germany and Communist East Germany
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2009
Persecuted as a Jew, both under the Nazis and in postwar East Germany, Johanna Krause (1907–2001) courageously fought her way through life with searing humour and indomitable strength of character. Johanna Krause Twice Persecuted is her story.
Born in Dresden into bitter poverty, Krause received...
Fostering Nation?
Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage explores the missteps and the promise of a century and more of child protection efforts by Canadians and their governments. It is the first volume to offer a comprehensive history of what life has meant for North America’s...
by George Copway, Shelley Hulan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Traditional History and Characteristic Sketches of the Ojibway Nation (1850) was one of the first books of Indigenous history written by an Indigenous author. The book blends nature writing and narrative to describe the language, religious beliefs, stories, land, work, and play of the Ojibway...
Kinds of Winter
Four Solo Journeys by Dogteam in Canada’s Northwest Territories
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Chapter Five West
2005, out to the far shore of Great Slave Lake, near its outlet at the Mackenzie River. The longest of the four journeys by mileage, and included a thought-provoking stopover at another family homestead. Musings about that, and about life passing, and 25 years of travel back and forth on “the big lake.”
Arts of Engagement
Taking Aesthetic Action In and Beyond the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Arts of Engagement focuses on the role that music, film, visual art, and Indigenous cultural practices play in and beyond Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Indian Residential Schools. Contributors here examine the impact of aesthetic and sensory experience in residential school history,...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
What is Europe? Who is European? What do Europe and European identity mean in the twenty-first century? This collection of sixteen essays seeks to answer these questions by focusing on Europe as it is seen through its own eyes and through the eyes of others across a variety of cultural texts, including...
Liberty Is Dead
A Canadian in Germany, 1938
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
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Germans and Germany in 1938
Margaret E. Derry
Chapter 5 gives an overview of Wegenast’s impressions, and does so within the framework of contemporary private views and modern scholarship. While it could be analyzed against scholarly material in considerable detail, this book...
by C.J.G. Turner
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Although Anna Karenina has been described as “the European novel” by Frank Leavis, the geographical setting of the novel and, increasingly, its temporal and cultural setting, render it a foreign novel to most readers. A Karenina Companion offers a wealth of information, including a great deal...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a...
Writing Surfaces
Selected Fiction of John Riddell
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2013
John Riddell is best known for “H” and “Pope Leo, El ELoPE,” a pair of graphic fictions written in collaboration with, or dedicated to, bpNichol, but his work moves well beyond comic strips into a series of radical fictions. In Writing Surfaces, derek beaulieu and Lori Emerson present “Pope...
Dostoyevsky’s Critique of the West
The Quest for the Earthly Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Not much attention has been given to Dostoyevsky's concern with the crisis of the modern West, although allusions to almost every aspect of Western civilization—including the political, economic, and social dimensions—are present in his literary works and abound in his secondary writings.
This...
Narcissistic Narrative
The Metafictional Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Chapter Seven
The Theme of Linguistic Identity: La Maccina Modiale
Linda Hutcheon
Chapter Seven, “The Theme of Linguistic Identity: La macchina mondiale”, uses Paolo Volponi’s 1965 novel to explore precisely the mimesis of process through language.
Speaking in the Past Tense
Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2009
“Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition, contested territory.”
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