The Next Instalment

By Wendy Roy
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Publishing, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

What happens next?

That was the question asked of early-twentieth-century authors Nellie L. McClung, L. M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche, whose stories and novels appeared serially and kept readers ...

This Is Not a Hoax

By Heather Jessup
Subjects: Ethnography, Indigenous Studies, Art, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art ...

Post-glacial

By Robert Kroetsch
Edited by David Eso
Afterword by Aritha van Herk
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch’s iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered ...

Social Poesis

By Rachel Zolf
Edited by Heather Milne
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Poetry, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada’s most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ...

Avant Canada

Edited by Gregory Betts & Christian Bök
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen ...

Children's Literature and Imaginative Geography

Edited by Aïda Hudson
Subjects: Geography, Literary Criticism, Children’s Literature, Social Science, Child Studies

Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of places, from those of Indigenous myth to the fantasy worlds ...

Deportment

By Alice Burdick
Edited by Alessandro Porco
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

Deportment is a selection of poems – surreal, cerebral, and defiant – by Alice Burdick. Burdick examines the dangers of dogma, women’s rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving ...

Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare

By Nil Santiáñez
Subjects: Art, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Ethics, Cultural Studies

This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and the experience of war. It puts forth an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s ...

The Daughter’s Way

By Tanis MacDonald
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The Daughter’s Way investigates negotiations of female subjectivity in twentieth-century Canadian women’s elegies with a special emphasis on the father’s death as a literary and political watershed. ...

The Homing Place

By Rachel Bryant
Subjects: Literary Criticism, History, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state ...