University Of Alberta Press: 115 books
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...
Intersecting Sets
A Poet Looks at Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Poet Alice Major was given a book on relativity at the impressionable age of ten, so she never quite understood why science came to be dismissed as reductive or opposite to art. She surveys the sciences of the past half-century -- from physical to cognitive to evolutionary -- to shed light on why...
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,...
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...
In Bed with the Word
Reading, Spirituality, and Cultural Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2009
In Bed with the Word addresses questions such as: When people want to pray, to worship, to marry or bury, why do they reach for a book? What is it about reading that feels like a spiritual posture? What kinds of reading go beyond being private entertainment to produce personal and social change? A...
Prodigal Daughter
A Journey to Byzantium
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2010
A deep-seated questioning of her inherited religion resurfaces when Myrna Kostash chances upon the icon of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica. A historical, cultural and spiritual odyssey that begins in Edmonton, ranges around the Balkans, and plunges into a renewed vision of Byzantium in search of the...
Under the Holy Lake
A Memoir of Eastern Bhutan
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Inaccessible for most of its history, the tiny Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has long fascinated the West. Today, wealthy travelers are admitted in small groups, but in 1987, when Ken Haigh arrived as a volunteer to teach in a small high school, foreign travelers were as hard to find in the kingdom...
Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book
An Anatomy of a Book Burning
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions...
by Stephen Scobie
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Paris remains one of the most fascinating cities in the world. It provides a measure of excellence in many areas of culture, and it is itself constantly being measured, both by its lovers and by its critics. This book presents a series of studies on the images of Paris presented by writers (mostly...
At the limit of breath
Poems on the films of Jean-Luc Godard
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
"I wanted this to be a narrative. So finally Jean-Luc went all the way: every line in the script a quotation from somewhere else. Every blessed line. Love doesn't die. It's people who die. Love just goes away." -from "NOUVELLE VAGUE / New Wave (1990)" Stephen Scobie celebrates...
Croatia
Travels in Undiscovered Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
There is, in old Croatia, an undiscovered country that is passing away, a world of peasants, shepherds and fishermen irrevocably surrendering before the reality of a modern European state. When Tony Fabijancic travelled to Croatia he was returning to his own undiscovered country. With the tongue of...
Searching for Mary Schäffer
Women Wilderness Photography
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Mary Schäffer was a photographer, writer, botanical painter, and mapmaker from Philadelphia, well known for her travels in the Canadian Rockies and Jasper at the turn of the twentieth century. In Searching for Mary Schäffer, Colleen Skidmore takes up Schäffer’s own resonant themes—women and...
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...