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Environmental Humanities eBook Series

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  • Ornithologies of Desire

    Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay

    by Travis V. Mason ...
    Series Book 6 - Environmental Humanities
    Ornithologies of Desire develops ecocritical reading strategies that engage scientific texts, field guides, and observation. Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending to specific details about the physical world when reading environmentally conscious poetry invites a critical humility in the face of environmental crises and evolutionary history.The poetry and ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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  • What Is Stephen Harper Reading?

    Yann Martel's Recommended Reading for a Prime Minister and Book Lovers of All Stripes

    by Yann Martel ...
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  • Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book

    An Anatomy of a Book Burning

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Series series Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
    Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever ... Read more

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  • Moving Targets: Writing with Intent 1982 - 2004

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    Series series A List
    The most precious treasure of this collection is that it gives us the rich back-story and diverse range of influences on Margaret Atwood's work. From the aunts who encouraged her nascent writing career to the influence of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four on The Handmaid's Tale, we trace the movement of Atwood's fertile and curious mind in action over the years. Atwood's controversial political ... Read more

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  • Attack of the Copula Spiders

    Essays on Writing

    by Douglas Glover ...
    appropriate for both academics and general readersuseful as a teaching tool for creative writing instructors (university or advanced high school groups)written by a professional writer who has taught creative writing for over 20 yearsexamples of bad student writing may amuse teachers of Englishby the author of the bestselling Elle (2003), shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and winner ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature

    Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature

    by Herb Wyile ...
    Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression of Atlantic Canada as a quaint and backward place. By examining their treatment of work, culture, and history, author Herb Wyile highlights how these writers resist the image of Atlantic Canadians ... Read more

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  • Children of the Outer Dark

    The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney

    by Christopher Dewdney ...
    Series series Laurier Poetry
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  • Where the Truth Lies

    Selected Essays

    by Rudy Wiebe ...
    Series Book 14 - Writer as Critic
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    Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s

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    Series Book 9 - TransCanada
    The 1980s and 1990s are a historically crucial period in the development of Asian Canadian literature. Slanting I, Imagining We: Asian Canadian Literary Production in the 1980s and 1990s contextualizes and reanimates the urgency of that period, illustrates its historical specificities, and shows how the concerns of that moment—from cultural appropriation to race essentialism to shifting models of ... Read more

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  • Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature

    by Smaro Kamboureli, Roy Miki ...
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    The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost their immediacy. The contributors to Trans.Can.Lit address cultural policy, citizenship, white civility, and the celebrated status ... Read more

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