Deportment

By Alice Burdick
Edited by Alessandro Porco
Subjects: Poetry, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
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: Cultural Studies, Art, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Ethics

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: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, History, Canadian Literature
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 ...

Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts

Edited by Eva Darias-Beautell
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Cultural Studies

This collection of essays studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. It takes as its starting point the nationalist movement of ...

Battle Lines

By Joel Baetz
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry, Military History

For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions about the legacy of the period’s poetry, and booksellers ...

Catching the Torch

By Neta Gordon
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack Hodgins's ...

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

By Daniel Heath Justice
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the ...

New Brunswick at the Crossroads

Edited by Tony Tremblay
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity? ...

Argimou

By S. Douglass S. Huyghue
Afterword by Gwendolyn Davies
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Fiction
Series: Early Canadian Literature

Both an adventure-laced captivity tale and an impassioned denunciation of the marginalization of Indigenous culture in the face of European colonial expansion, Douglass Smith Huyghue’s Argimou (1847) ...