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  • Revolutions

    Essays on Contemporary Canadian Fiction

    by Alex Good ...
    Revolutions is the first book-length critical survey of twenty-first-century Canadian fiction, with in-depth essays examining subjects such as the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the effects of the digital revolution, and the dark legacy of what has come to be know as the Canadian literary establishment. Throughout, close reading is given to many contemporary authors, with particular attention paid to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Bright Lights on Broadway

    by Dave Margoshes ...
    Series series FPQ
    Having lived a long, eventful life, Charlie Weinheimer’s only regret is that he has no one to carry on after him. After a near-death experience, he resolves to find out whether a secret buried in his past is proof he has a legacy after all.“Margoshes gives us the life of Charlie Weinheimer: quadruple bypass patient, widower whose children all die tragically young, but not a whiner. In his hospital ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Indigenous Poetics in Canada

    Edited by Neal McLeod ...
    Series Book 13 - Indigenous Studies
    Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings of place.Featuring work by academics and poets, the book examines four elements of Indigenous ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • A Report on the Afterlife of Culture

    by Stephen Henighan ...
    In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smaller. He weaves together daring literary criticism with front-line reporting on events such as the end of the Cold War in Poland and African reactions to the G8 Summit. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Other Selves

    Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination

    Edited by Janice Fiamengo ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian imagination. Unlike the longer-settled countries of Europe or the more densely-populated United States, in Canada animals have always been the loved and feared co ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase

    Contemporary North American Dystopian Literature

    Edited by Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter, Tara Lee ...
    In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, twenty-five contributors investigate how dystopian fiction reflects twenty-first century reality, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America is portrayed in a perceived age of crisis, accelerated uncertainty, and political volatility.Drawing from contemporary novels such as Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, Neil Gaiman’s American Gods, and the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies

    Edited by Smaro Kamboureli, Robert Zacharias ...
    Series Book 5 - TransCanada
    Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and the role it plays in our understanding of the Canadian nation-state. The essays are tied together as instances of critical practices that reveal the relations and exchanges that take ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Directions Home

    Approaches to African-Canadian Literature

    by George Elliott Clarke ...
    The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of literature.Directions Home explores the trajectories and ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction

    by Colin Hill ...
    Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction and poetry. Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction re-evaluates Canadian literary culture to posit that it has been misunderstood because it is ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Canadian Graphic

    Picturing Life Narratives

    Edited by Candida Rifkind, Linda Warley ...
    Series Book 57 - Life Writing
    Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to show how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic books based on real-life experiences. The ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Reading Alice Munro with Jacques Lacan

    by Jennifer Murray ...
    It is unlikely that Jacques Lacan and Alice Munro were ever aware of each other's work. Yet, because of Munro's intuitive grasp of the complexities of human subjectivity and her ability to articulate subtleties and ambiguities, her fiction shares many of the insights of Lacan's theoretical advancements of the same period. They are both concerned with bringing the obscure undercurrents of the ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • William Wilfred Campbell

    Selected Poetry and Essays

    Edited by Laurel Boone ...
    This is a representative collection of the writings of a neglected Canadian author, William Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918).Among the 112 poems in William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays are the familiar “Indian Summer” and “How One Winter Came in the Lake Region,” along with many less well-known love poems, patriotic songs, and occasional poems. Some twenty manuscript pieces are ... Read more

    $14.99 USD