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  • Inhabiting Memory in Canadian Literature / Habiter la mémoire dans la littérature canadienne

    Edited by Benjamin Authers, Maïté Snauwaert, Daniel Laforest ...
    This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It features seven chapters in English and five in French, with a bilingual introduction. The contributors invite us to recognize local intersections that are so easily overlooked, yet are so important. They ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • A Culture of Rights

    Law, Literature, and Canada

    by Benjamin James Authers ...
    With the passage into law of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms in 1982, rights took on new legal, political, and social significance in Canada. In the decades following, Canadian jurisprudence has emphasised the importance of rights, determining their shape and asserting their centrality to legal ideas about what Canada represents. At the same time, an increasing number of Canadian ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Mrs. Dalloway

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    Mrs. Dalloway is Virginia Woolf’s best known novel. This landmark novel is a masterpiece. While the book seems to take place in a single day in the life of the eponymous Mrs. Dalloway, it is much more. Mrs. Dalloway is preparing for a dinner party to be held that evening. As she goes about her day, her mind wanders to the people who will be attending her party and her relationship with them. Her ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • Survival

    by Michael Bryson ...
    Series series FPQ
    Toronto in the twenty-first century: At night, a beacon on a lonely ancient lake, a drainage pond from the last ice age. In the daytime, a bulwark of glass, glinting in the radiant sun. Joe, Mary, and her cat, Sam, sit in a lakeside condo, trapped by a crazed, mysterious sniper. What has become of their lives? What has become of their city? What has become of their century? As the situation begins ... Read more

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  • Speaking in the Past Tense

    Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction

    by Herb Wyile ...
    “Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition, contested territory.”— Herb Wyile, from the IntroductionThe extermination of the Beothuk ... the exploration of the Arctic ... the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Sasquatch at Home

    Traditional Protocols & Modern Storytelling

    by Eden Robinson ...
    Series series The Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
    The award-winning Indigenous author of Monkey Beach shares tales from her family, her life, and her culture.In March 2010 the Canadian Literature Centre hosted award-winning novelist and storyteller Eden Robinson at the 4th annual Henry Kreisel Lecture. Robinson shared an intimate look into the intricacies of family, culture, and place through her talk, "The Sasquatch at Home." Robinson's ... Read more

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  • Aboriginal Canada Revisited

    Edited by Kerstin Knopf ...
    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film—Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and cultural position of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. While lauding improvements made in the past decades, the contributors draw attention to the systemic problems that continue to marginalize Aboriginal people within Canadian ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • 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

  • The Dusty Bookcase

    A Journey Through Canada's Forgotten, Neglected and Suppressed Writing

    by Brian Busby ...
    Largely drawn from his columns for Canadian Notes & Queries and entries in his popular blog by the same name, Brian Busby's The Dusty Bookcase explores the fascinating world of Canada's lesser-known literary efforts: works that suffered censorship, critical neglect, or brilliant yet fleeting notoriety. These rare and quirky totems of Canadiana, collected over the last three decades, form a travel ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Robertson Davies Reconsidered (From the Vault: UTQ Special Collections)

    Edited by Russell Morton Brown, Donna Bennett ...
    This volume is a collection of papers that had their origin in a symposium called ‘Reconsiderations of Robertson Davies,’ which took place at Massey College, University of Toronto. Davies helped found Massey and he served as its first master (1963–81). Prior to this role, Davies had (after an abortive career as an actor) been known to the Canadian public as a journalist, a witty and satiric ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Where the Truth Lies

    Selected Essays

    by Rudy Wiebe ...
    Series Book 14 - Writer as Critic
    “The problem with writer longevity can be a complicating, even contradictory oeuvre. Hopefully.”Where the Truth Lies collects forty years of essays and speeches that award-winning author Rudy Wiebe has crafted throughout his career. In this illuminating and wide-ranging selection, Wiebe provides a look behind the curtain, revealing his thought processes as he worked on many of his great books. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD