Canadian category: 447 books
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...
Writing the Body in Motion
A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre’s potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers, and scholars. Over the last decade, a proliferation of sport literature courses across the continent...
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...
Sustaining the West
Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
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Deception in High Places: The Making and Unmaking of Mounts Brown and Hooker
Zac Robinson and Stephen Slemon
Few conceptual controversies in Canadian Rockies' history have proven more persistent than that occasioned by the young Scottish botanist David Douglas (1799-1834), who, in 1827, incorrectly...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Writing Our Way Home is an important contribution to literary studies. “Italian-Canadian writers are not just Canadian writers, but world writers,” states literary critic Elena Lamberti in the introduction to Writing Our Way Home. “They write from Canada with an original point of view on multiple...
Women, Reading, Kroetsch
Telling the Difference
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We are Exiles to Completed Field Notes....
Les fables canadiennes de Jules Verne
Discorde et concorde dans une autre Amérique
Language: French
Release Date: June 20, 2018
En trois décennies, du début des années 1870 au tournant du XXe siècle, Jules Verne écrit trois romans couvrant plus d’un demi-siècle d’histoire canadienne.
Si ce triptyque peut être saisi dans le processus global de la création vernienne, il forme en même temps une entité...
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 Lucy Maud Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
FEATURES:
• Includes beautiful artworks and illustrations • A link of a FREE audio book to download at the end of the book • Active Table...
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...
David Adams Richards of the Miramichi
A Biographical Introduction to His Work
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
Widely considered to be one of Canada's most important authors, David Adams Richards has been honoured with a Giller Prize and two Governor General's Literary Awards. Despite this, there has been a dearth of critical appraisal of his life and works. In David Adams Richards of the Miramichi, Tony Tremblay...
by Stuart Ross
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
Best Books of 2005, Ottawa Xpress
Writer's Trust of Canada's "Warm Weather Reads Recommended by Writers" list (recommended by Robert Hough)
Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is equal parts literary memoir, advice for the emerging writer, and reckless tirade. Ross has been...
Marian and the Major
Engel's "Elizabeth and the Golden City"
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Rains, a former soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, immigrated to Canada at the same period as Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. He brought with him his wards, sisters Frances and Elizabeth. The three settled on St Joseph Island in northern Ontario, where their unusual domestic arrangement caught...
Literature and Painting In Quebec
From Imagery to Identity
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2013
This unique study explores how Quebec's landscapes have been represented in both literature and visual art throughout the centuries, from the writing of early explorers such as Cartier and Champlain to work by prominent contemporary authors and artists from the province. William J. Berg traces recurrent...