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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

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  • Mrs. Dalloway | Timeless Classics

    by Virginia Woolf ...
    'In "Mrs. Dalloway," Virginia Woolf masterfully unfolds a single day in post-World War I London, capturing the inner thoughts and emotions of Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares for a lavish party. Through a stream-of-consciousness narrative, Woolf explores themes of identity, time, and societal expectations. Clarissa's seemingly mundane tasks intertwine with the haunting memories of her past, ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Unsettled Remains

    Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic

    Edited by Cynthia Sugars, Gerry Turcotte ...
    Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. The essays gathered here range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic expression in Canadian literature to attempts to define a Canadian postcolonial gothic mode. Many ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye

    Apocalypse and Alchemy

    by B.W. Powe ...
    Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada’s central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. Poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher B.W. Powe, who studied with both of these formidable and influential intellectuals, presents an exploration of their lives and work in Marshall McLuhan and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • 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

  • Swinging the Maelstrom

    A Critical Edition

    by Malcolm Lowry, Chris Ackerley, Philip Surrey ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry.This long-overdue scholarly edition will allow scholars to engage in a genetic study of the text and reconstruct, step by step, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Playing the Inside Out/Le Jeu des Apparences

    by David Adams Richards ...
    Series Book 2 - The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye Lecture Series
    In this provocative essay, David Adams Richards brings together his ideas about writing -- how great works of literature are created, the writer's essential position as an outsider, and the difficulties writers experience in the pursuit of personal truth. The quest for truth always comes with a price, says Richards, but it also results in freedom for writers and their characters, and sometimes ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Best of Tamblings

    2015-2015

    by Tamara MacNeil ...
    The best essays from the Tamblings newsletter for 2015-2016. ... Read more

    $0.72 USD