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  • Reviewing Mario Pratesi

    The Critical Press and Its Influence

    by Anne Urbancic ...
    Series series Toronto Italian Studies
    A prolific member of the Tuscan verismo school of literary realism, Mario Pratesi (1842–1921) was much respected during his career but sadly neglected after his death. Using Pratesi’s personal archive, now preserved at Victoria College in the University of Toronto, Reviewing Mario Pratesi takes Pratesi’s life and papers as the basis of a unique study of the literary culture of post-Unification ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Literary Titans Revisited

    The Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties

    Edited by Dr. Anne Urbancic ...
    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 literature, including Margaret Laurence, Sinclair Ross, and Al Purdy, captured in Toppings’s interviews and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Annie Chartres Vivanti

    Transnational Politics, Identity, and Culture

    by Sabrina Cavallucci, Sara Ceroni, Chiara Chini, Ombretta Frau, Cristina Gragnani, Filippo Fonio, Ursula Fanning, Marianna Deganutti, Julie Dashwood, Noemi Crain-Merz, Stephen Gundle, Mariarosa Mettifogo, Enrico Minardi, Giulia Pezzuolo, Lisa Sarti, Simona Storchi, Anne Urbancic ...
    This book explores the work of a writer, Annie Chartres Vivanti (1866–1942), whobrought a transnational dimension to the marked provincialism of the Italian novel byaddressing issues of gender, ethnicity, and sexuality on personal and internationallevels, and by creating work that distanced itself from much of the female-penned literature ofthe day, scorning both decorum and social respectability. ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000

    Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression

    by Patrizia Sambuco, Simone Brioni, Ann Hallamore Caesar, Eleanor David, Donatella De Ferra, Margherita Ganeri, Cristina Gragnani, Rhianedd Jewell, Giuliana Morandini, Catherine Ramsey-Portolano0, Anne Urbancic1, Rita Wilson2, Lisa Sarti3 ...
    Italian Women Writers, 1800–2000: Boundaries, Borders, and Transgression investigates narrative, autobiography, and poetry by Italian women writers from the nineteenth century to today, focusing on topics of spatial and cultural boundaries, border identities, and expressions of excluded identities. This book discusses works by known and less-known writers as well as by some new writers: Sibilla ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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    #1 New York Times bestselling author Neal Stephenson is, quite simply, one of the best and most respected writers alive. He’s taken sf to places it’s never been (Snow Crash, Anathem). He’s reinvented the historical novel (The Baroque Cycle), the international thriller (Reamde), and both at the same time (Cryptonomicon).Now he treats his legion of fans to Some Remarks, an enthralling collection of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Haunted — Incredible True Stories of Ghostly Encounters 2-Book Bundle

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    It was an irrational decision. Despite having just moved into a beautiful new house, the Williams family gave in to an odd, overwhelming desire to purchase and move into a Victorian home they had come upon by chance. They were curious, of course, as to why the house had in the past had such a high vacancy rate. But that curiosity didn’t last long, because shortly after moving in, strange things ... Read more

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  • The Imperialist

    by Sara Jeannette Duncan, Janette Turner Hospital ...
    Series series New Canadian Library
    Sara Jeannette Duncan’s classic portrait of a turn-of-the-century Ontario town, The Imperialist captures the spirit of an emergent nation through the example of two young dreamers. Impassioned by “the Imperialist idea,” Lorne Murchison rests his bid for office on his vision of a rejuvenated British Empire. His sister Advena betrays a kindred attraction to the high-flown ideals in her love for an ... Read more

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  • Ten Canadian Writers in Context

    Edited by Marie Carrière, Curtis Gillespie, Jason Purcell ...
    Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
    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 some of Canada’s most exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection is ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Siena

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    by Jane Tylus ...
    Jane Tylus's Siena is a compelling and intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Cultural history, intellectual memoir, travelogue, and guidebook, it takes the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-traveled roads and alleys of a town both medieval and modern.As Tylus leads us through the city, she shares her passion for ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Notebooks

    Selections from the A.M. Klein Papers (Collected Works of A.M. Klein)

    by A.M. Klein ...
    Series series Heritage
    Much of A.M. Klein's finest prose is to be found in the mass of uncompleted work that he abandoned at the time of his breakdown, and that became accessible only when his papers were deposited in the National Archives. Notebooks offers a generous selection of this work, revealing previously unsuspected facets of Klein's character and artistry.The fiction, criticism, and memoirs collected here focus ... Read more

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  • The L.M. Montgomery Reader

    Volume One: A Life in Print

    by Benjamin Lefebvre ...
    Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada’s most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death.The first volume, A Life in Print, focuses specifically on Montgomery’s role as a public celebrity and author of the resoundingly successful Anne of Green Gables (1908). The ... Read more

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  • National Plots: Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada

    Historical Fiction and Changing Ideas of Canada

    by Andrea Cabajsky, Brett Josef Grubisic ...
    Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature. Works by writers of historical fiction (from early practitioners such as John Richardson to contemporary figures such as Alice Munro and George Elliott Clarke) propose new views and understandings of Canadian history and individual relationships to ... Read more

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