Canadian category: 447 books
Beyond "Understanding Canada"
Transnational Perspectives on Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars...
Syllables of Recorded Time
The Story of the Canadian Authors Association 1921-1981
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1981
Syllables of Recorded Time is a lively look at the development over the last six decades of a national authors’ association, with all its problems and foibles.
Personalities such as Bliss Carman, Nellie McClung, Stephen Leacock, B.K. Sandwell, W.A. Deacon, Mazo de la Roche, John Murray Gibbon,...
Literary Titans Revisited
The Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2017
Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s.
From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers and poets who went on to become pillars of Canadian literature. These emerging icons of Canadian...
by Graeme Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Originally published in 1970, Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson is a collection of candid and wide-ranging interviews with Canadian writers, including Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, and more.
With the intuition of an insider, Gibson asks the important...
Blackening Canada
Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Focusing on the work of black, diasporic writers in Canada, particularly Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, and Tessa McWatt, Blackening Canada investigates the manner in which literature can transform conceptions of nation and diaspora. Through a consideration of literary representation, public discourse,...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2004
This book offers a comprehensive and lively introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature. Addressing traditional assumptions and current issues, contributors pay attention to the social, political and economic developments that have informed literary events. Broad surveys...
Home Ground and Foreign Territory
Essays on Early Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Home Ground and Foreign Territory is an original collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English. Aiming to be both provocative and scholarly, it encompasses a variety of (sometimes opposing) perspectives, subjects, and methods, with the aim of reassessing the field, unearthing neglected...
Eight Men Speak
A Play by Oscar Ryan et al.
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2013
This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian Post Office. The play can be...
RE: Reading the Postmodern
Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century—even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory, ways. An interest in postmodernism and postmodernity has been...
Home-Work
Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2004
Canadian literature, and specifically the teaching of Canadian literature, has emerged from a colonial duty to a nationalist enterprise and into the current territory of postcolonialism. From practical discussions related to specific texts, to more theoretical discussions about pedagogical practice...
by Lynn Coady, Ying Chen, Michael Crummey
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2016
Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
This special collection, edited by Germaine Warkentin and Linda Hutcheon, celebrates the centennial of the birth of Northrop Frye. Projecting forward instead of back, the articles in this volume look to the future of Frye’s ideas in the critical climate of the twenty-first century. The publication...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2017
This fully revised second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics. For this edition several chapters have been completely rewritten to reflect major developments in Canadian literature since 2004. Surveys of...
Literature and the Glocal City
Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
The modern city is a space that can simultaneously represent the principles of its homeland alongside its own unique blend of the cultures that intermingle within its city limits.
This book makes an intervention in Canadian literary criticism by foregrounding both ‘globalism,’ which is...