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  • Theater Historiography

    Critical Interventions

    by Henry Carl Bial, Scott Magelssen ...
    Theater Historiography: Critical Interventions is a vital exploration of how we write, interpret, and understand the history of theater. Edited by Henry Bial and Scott Magelssen, this collection brings together leading voices in theater and performance studies to interrogate the methodologies, assumptions, and politics that shape the field. Each of the twenty-one essays offers a concise, thought ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Playing God

    The Bible on the Broadway Stage

    by Henry Carl Bial ...
    Biblical texts have inspired more than 100 Broadway plays and musicals, ranging from early spectacles like Ben-Hur (1899) to more familiar works such as Godspell and Jesus Christ Superstar. What happens when a culture’s most sacred text enters its most commercial performance venue? Playing God focuses on eleven successful productions, as well as a few notable flops that highlight the difficulties ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Ben Hutchinson ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Being Cultured

    in defence of discrimination

    by Angus Kennedy ...
    Series Book 19 - Societas
    Today culture is everywhere as maybe never before. We read culture reviews, watch culture shows, live in Cities of Culture, and witness the Cultural Olympiad. Government, museums and arts councils worry that we are not getting enough culture and shape policy around notions of art and culture for all. Access and inclusion are in. Difficulty and exclusivity out. In "Being Cultured: in defence of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Academic Instincts

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • History Beyond the Text

    A Student’s Guide to Approaching Alternative Sources

    Edited by Sarah Barber, Corinna Peniston-Bird ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    Historians are increasingly looking beyond the traditional, and turning to visual, oral, aural, and virtual sources to inform their work. The challenges these sources pose require new skills of interpretation and require historians to consider alternative theoretical and practical approaches.In order to help historians successfully move beyond traditional text, Sarah Barber and Corinna Peniston ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Humble Theory

    Folklore's Grasp on Social Life

    by Dorothy Noyes ...
    A collection of fifteen essays exploring what folklore is, its history, and how it all connects to the world.Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not easily blanched and made ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Canadian Modernists Meet

    Edited by Dean Irvine ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem 'The Canadian Authors Meet' sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada's formative movements in modernist poetry, fiction, and drama. As did Scott's poem, Dean Irvine's collection raises questions - ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature

    Edited by Brian McHale, Len Platt ...
    The Cambridge History of Postmodern Literature offers a comprehensive survey of the field, from its emergence in the mid-twentieth century to the present day. It offers an unparalleled examination of all facets of postmodern writing that helps readers to understand how fiction and poetry, literary criticism, feminist theory, mass media, and the visual and fine arts have characterized the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature

    by Richard J. Lane ...
    Series series Routledge Concise Histories of Literature
    The Routledge Concise History of Canadian Literature introduces the fiction, poetry and drama of Canada in its historical, political and cultural contexts.In this clear and structured volume, Richard Lane outlines:the history of Canadian literature from colonial times to the presentkey texts for Canadian First Peoples and the literature of Quebecthe impact of English translation, and the Canadian ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD

  • Nation and Narration

    Edited by Homi K. Bhabha ...
    Bhabha, in his preface, writes 'Nations, like narratives, lose their origins in the myths of time and only fully encounter their horizons in the mind's eye'.From this seemingly impossibly metaphorical beginning, this volume confronts the realities of the concept of nationhood as it is lived and the profound ambivalence of language as it is written. From Gillian Beer's reading of Virginia Woolf, ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Writing Manuals for the Masses

    The Rise of the Literary Advice Industry from Quill to Keyboard

    Edited by Anneleen Masschelein, Dirk de Geest ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This open access collection of essays examines the literary advice industry since its emergence in Anglo-American literary culture in the mid-nineteenth century within the context of the professionalization of the literary field and the continued debate on creative writing as art and craft. Often dismissed as commercial and stereotypical by authors and specialists alike, literary advice has ... Read more

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