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  • Commonsense Guide to Current Affairs

    The Issues We Hear About Every Day From the Standpoint of What the Politicians Have Forgotten—Common Sense

    by Vincent Frank Bedogne, Marcy Jean Everest ...
    From clones, family, abortion, terrorism, and the concept of the collective to economics, nuclear power, cap and trade, renewable energy, and the politics of climate change, Everest and Bedogne do something much needed and remarkably absent in today's media. They strip away the layers of liberal and conservative ideology to look at the most talked about topics of our time from the standpoint of ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Novel Stage

    Narrative Form from the Restoration to Jane Austen

    by Marcie Frank ...
    Series series Transits: Literature, Thought & Culture, 1650-1850
    2020 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleMarcie Frank’s study traces the migration of tragicomedy, the comedy of manners, and melodrama from the stage to the novel, offering a dramatic new approach to the history of the English novel that examines how the collaboration of genres contributed to the novel’s narrative form and to the modern organization of literature. Drawing on media theory and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Journal of the Canadian Historical Association. Vol. 26 No. 2, 2015

    by Jane Freeland, Kenneth C. Dewar, Marcie Frank, Barbara Leckie, Mark Salber Phillips, Carolyn Podruchny, Mary-Ellen Kelm, Ian Mosby, Susan Neylan, James Daschuk, Tamara de Szegheo Lang, William John Pratt, Kirk Niergarth ...
    Series Book 26 - Journal of the Canadian Historical Association
    The winner of the 2014 Ferguson Prize was Mark Phillips’ On Historical Distance, a work that sets itself the task of examining what historians usually take for granted: historical distance, conventionally conceived, in Phillips’ words, as “a position of detached observation made possible by the passage of time.” Phillips reimagines historical distance as enacted in multiple dimensions of ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV

    The Lessons of Gore Vidal

    by Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner, Marcie Frank, PhD ...
    Series series Public planet books
    Novelist, television personality, political candidate, and maverick social commentator, Gore Vidal is one of the most innovative, influential, and enduring American intellectuals of the past fifty years. In How to Be an Intellectual in the Age of TV, Marcie Frank provides a concise introduction to Vidal’s life and work as she argues that the twentieth-century shift from print to electronic media, ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • This Distracted Globe

    Worldmaking in Early Modern Literature

    by Karen Newman, Jonathan Goldberg ...
    Worldmaking takes many forms in early modern literature and thus challenges any single interpretive approach. The essays in this collection investigate the material stuff of the world in Spenser, Cary, and Marlowe; the sociable bonds of authorship, sexuality, and sovereignty in Shakespeare and others; and the universal status of spirit, gender, and empire in the worlds of Vaughan, Donne, and the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • Old Books and New Histories

    An Orientation to Studies in Book and Print Culture

    by Leslie Howsam ...
    Studies in the culture and history of the book are a burgeoning academic specialty. Intriguing, rigorous, and vital, they are nevertheless rooted within three major academic disciplines - history, literary studies, and bibliography - that focus respectively upon the book as a cultural transaction, a literary text, and a material artefact. Old Books and New Histories serves as a guide to this rich ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Translating Montreal

    by Sherry Simon ...
    With the perspective of a walker moving through a fluid landscape of neighbourhoods and eras Sherry Simon experiences Montreal as a voyage across languages. She traces an evocative history of literary passages across familiar sites - the mythical boulevard Saint-Laurent Mile End Mont Royal - as she follows adventurous cultural translators such as Malcolm Reid A.M. Klein and Pierre Anctil and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Gender and the Politics of History

    by Joan Wallach Scott ...
    Series series Gender and Culture Series
    This landmark work from a renowned feminist historian is a foundational demonstration of the uses of gender as a conceptual tool for cultural and historical analysis. Joan Wallach Scott offers a trenchant critique of the compartmentalization of women’s history, arguing that political and social categories are always fundamentally shaped by gender and that questions of gender are essential to ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Public Art in Canada

    Critical Perspectives

    by James S. McLean, Annie Gérin ...
    Arguably, public art is experienced daily by more people than most offerings in galleries, yet our notion of what constitutes public art is surprisingly limited. Public Art in Canada broadens the critical discussion by exploring public art's varied means of engaging with public space and the public sphere. Annie Gérin and James S. McLean have assembled contributions from new and established ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • The Oral History Reader

    Edited by Robert Perks, Alistair Thomson ...
    Series series Routledge Readers in History
    The Oral History Reader, now in its third edition, is a comprehensive, international anthology combining major, ‘classic’ articles with cutting-edge pieces on the theory, method and use of oral history. Twenty-seven new chapters introduce the most significant developments in oral history in the last decade to bring this invaluable text up to date, with new pieces on emotions and the senses, on ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Canadians and Their Pasts

    by Margaret Conrad, Kadriye Ercikan, Gerald Friesen, D.A. Muise, Peter Seixas, Jocelyn Létourneau, David Northrup ...
    What role does history play in contemporary society? Has the frenetic pace of today’s world led people to lose contact with the past? A high-profile team of researchers from across Canada sought to answer these questions by launching an ambitious investigation into how Canadians engage with history in their everyday lives. The results of their survey form the basis of this eye-opening book ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • An Analysis of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex

    by Rachele Dini ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Simone de Beauvoir’s 1949 book The Second Sex is a masterpiece of feminist criticism and philosophy. An incendiary take on the place of women in post-war French society, it helped define major trends in feminist thought for the rest of the 20th century, and its influence is still felt today.The book’s success owes much to Beauvoir’s brilliant writing style and passion, but both are rooted in the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD