Canadian category: 447 books
The Daughter’s Way
Canadian Women’s Paternal Elegies
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Introduction
Introduction: Who Could Not Sing: Elegy and its (Female) Discontents
Tanis MacDonald
A daughter’s duty to care for her dying father and properly mourn his death is a commonly assumed cultural and familial obligation. If, as W. David Shaw suggests, we “want elegies...
by Michel Sanouillet, Harold Humphreys
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1955
The twenty-five crisp and amusing short stories in this collection prove that elementary readings in French can also be entertaining. Some are original anecdotes and others adaptations of traditional French of French-Canadian stories, some are from anonymous sources, and some by acknowledged masters...
The Golden Road
(By Anne of Green Gables's author)
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
The Golden Road is a 1913 novel by Canadian author L. M. Montgomery. The plot is based around the character Beverley who remembers his childhood days with his brother Felix and friends and cousins Felicity, Cecily, Dan, Sara Stanley (the "Story Girl"), hired-boy Peter and neighbor Sara...
by Joseph Howe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1973
This volume, containing a selection of the poetry and prose of Joseph Howe, presents various aspects of a fascinating man who few Canadian know as other than the 'tribune of Nova Scotia' and a political giant of colonial times. Yet Howe was also a writer, and a good one. His intuitive grasp and pragmatic...
Critical Collaborations
Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2014
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Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal
Winfried Siemerling
Through a combination of cultural geography, Jazz Age history, and literary analysis, Siemerling argues for a renewed focus on Montreal’s black diasporas and their cultures as part of the city’s social and cultural architecture.
Seven Spoons
My Favorite Recipes for Any and Every Day: A Cookbook
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The much-anticipated debut from the author behind the popular food blog Seven Spoons, featuring distinctive, crowd-pleasing recipes; engaging, writerly essays; and the same stunning photography that has earned her website a devoted following.
Tara O'Brady was one of the earliest food bloggers...
Inheriting a Canoe Paddle
The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
If the canoe is a symbol of Canada, what kind of Canada does it symbolize? Inheriting a Canoe Paddle looks at how the canoe has come to symbolize love of Canada for non-aboriginal Canadians and provides a critique of this identification’s unintended consequences for First Nations. Written with...
by Victor Teboul
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
About Revisiting Tolerance. Lessons drawn from Egypt's Cosmopolitanism
How does a polyglot Jewish family from Alexandria, Egypt, get caught up in the power play of the Suez Crisis? In this fascinating ebook Egyptian-born writer Victor Teboul recounts his cosmopolitan experience and his family’s...
Dramatic Licence
Translating Theatre from One Official Language to the Other in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Translation is tricky business. The translator has to transform the foreign to the familiar while moving and pleasing his or her audience. Louise Ladouceur knows theatre from a multi-dimensional perspective that gives her research a particular authority as she moves between two of the dominant cultures...
The Postwar Novel in Canada
Narrative Patterns and Reader Response
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2006
As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it has developed in this country since the Second World War. Focusing on narratological rather than thematic elements, the book represents a systematic application...
bpNichol
What History Teaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Scobie illuminates bpNichol’s relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory and the writing of Gertrude Stein, and argues strongly for Nichol’s importance as a writer of fiction.
Other titles in The New Canadian Criticism Series:
ABC of Reading the TRG
Timothy...
The Wisdomkeeper Collection
Gifts from the Grandmothers, #1
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2019
Traditional recipes gathered from the Grandmothers of all cultures as I traveled the Canadian Prairies and listened to the stories and shared the food of elders.
Most of these recipes have been passed down by word of mouth, like the talking stories of First Nations culture. A grandmother, Lillian...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
These essays span the period of Kroetsch's writing. Included are previously published and new essays that cover (some of) his novels, (some of) his poetry, and even (some of) his critical writing. The contributors include writers who knew Kroetsch well and those who only met him on the page; critics...
by Cheryl Suzack
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law, Cheryl Suzack explores Indigenous women’s writing in the post-civil rights period through close-reading analysis of major texts by Leslie Marmon Silko, Beatrice Culleton Mosionier, Louise Erdrich, and Winona LaDuke.
Working within...