Canadian category: 447 books
Caesars
The Essential Guide to Your Favourite Cocktail
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2014
The Caesar is the iconic Canadian cocktail, shared on backyard patios and cocktail menus from coast to coast. Caesars is the ultimate guide to this Canadian classic, containing more than 50 unique recipes for Caesar variations, and 20 delicious food recipes to pair with them.
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Literary History of Canada
Canadian Literature in English, Volume IV (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1990
This new volume of the Literary History of Canada covers the continuing development of English-Canadian writing from 1972 to 1984. As with the three earlier volumes, this book is an invaluable guide to recent developments in English-Canadian literature and a resource for both the general reader and...
Fiction Treasures by Maritime Writers
Best-selling novelists of Canadas Maritime provinces 1860-1950
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2015
Though little known today, from 1860 to 1940 Canadian novelists from the Maritime provinces were writing highly successful books which were widely read in Canada, the US, and Britain. Although today only Lucy Maud Montgomery is remembered and read, there were several dozen writers who enjoyed the...
by Albert Braz, Jennifer Delisle, Lise Gaboury-Diallo
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It features seven chapters in English and five in French, with a bilingual introduction. The contributors invite...
Where the Truth Lies
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
“The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully.”
Where the Truth Lies collects forty years of essays and speeches that award-winning author Rudy Wiebe has crafted throughout his career. In this illuminating and wide-ranging selection, Wiebe...
Scandalous Bodies
Diasporic Literature in English Canada
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship...
New Provinces
Poems of Several Authors
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
When New Provinces first appeared in 1936, it represented four years of planning, argument, and compromise, and an additional two and a half years of correspondence and editorial preparation. This prolonged effort was brought to a successful end with the publication of a slim collection of verse,...
by Nurjehan Aziz
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
These essays by accomplished literary critics begin an examination of some of the most exciting new writing to emerge in Canada in the last four decades, following the postcolonial wave of immigration of the 1960s and 70s. Employing a variety of approaches and bringing together multiple concerns—ranging...
by Cara Fabre
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2016
In the richly interdisciplinary study, Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms, Cara Fabre argues that popular culture in its many forms contributes to common assumptions about the causes, and personal and social implications, of addiction. Recent fictional depictions of addiction...
by Lorraine York
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey bookclub. Literary Celebrity in Canada is the first extended study of the dynamics of celebrity in the field...
Literary History of Canada
Canadian Literature in English, Volume III (Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1976
Hailed as a landmark in Canadian literary scholarship when it was originally published in 1965, the Literary History of Canada is now being reissued, revised and enlarged, in three volumes. This major effort of a large group of scholars working in the field of English-language Canadian literature...
A Culture of Rights
Law, Literature, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
With the passage into law of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, rights took on new legal, political, and social significance in Canada. In the decades following, Canadian jurisprudence has emphasised the importance of rights, determining their shape and asserting their centrality...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
Margaret Laurence and Jack McClelland—one of Canada’s most beloved writers and one of Canada’s most significant publishers—enjoyed an unusual rapport. In this collection of annotated letters, readers gain rare insight into the private side of these literary icons. Their correspondence reveals...
The Borders of Nightmare
The Fiction of John Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1992
John Richardson was Canada's first native-born poet-novelist and 'The Father of Canadian Literature.' Michael Hurley offers the first detailed account of Richardson's fiction rather than of his life or sociological importance.
Hurley makes a convincing case for Richardson as an important early...