The Postwar Novel in Canada

By Rosmarin Heidenreich
Foreword by Linda Hutcheon
Subjects: Literary Criticism

As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it has developed in this country since the Second World War. ...

Calderon and the Baroque Tradition

Edited by Gethin Hughes, Jesús Ara, and Kurt Levy
Subjects: Literary Criticism, History

Calderón and the Baroque Tradition is the outcome of a tricentennial commemoration of the seventeenth century
Spanish poet and dramatist, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, and a tribute to a distinguished ...

Before the First Word

By Lorna Crozier
Edited by Catherine Hunter
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Lorna Crozier’s radical imagination, and the finely tuned emotional intelligence that is revealed in the clarity of her poetry, have made her one of Canada’s most popular poets. Before the First Word: ...

Auto/biography in Canada

Edited by Julie Rak
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, ...

Tracing the Autobiographical

By Marlene Kadar, Susanna Egan
Edited by Jeanne Perreault, and Linda Warley
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Life Writing, Biography & Autobiography
Series: Life Writing

The essays in Tracing the Autobiographical work with the literatures of several nations to reveal the intersections of broad agendas (for example, national ones) with the personal, the private, and the ...

Dante & the Unorthodox

Edited by James Miller
Subjects: Religion, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism

During his lifetime, Dante was condemned as corrupt and banned from Florence on pain of death. But in 1329, eight years after his death, he was again viciously condemned—this time as a heretic and false ...

Writing in Our Time

By Pauline Butling & Susan Rudy
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject ...

Every Grain of Sand

Edited by J.A. Wainwright
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Environmental Studies

Universal in scope, yet focusing on recognizable Canadian places, this collection of essays connects individuals’ love of nature to larger social issues, to cultural activities, and to sustainable technology. ...

Thanks for Listening

By Ernest Buckler
Edited by Marta Dvorák
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Fiction

A treasure chest of exceptional stories by one of Canadas classic authorsall now available in one volume.
Ernest Buckler, best known as the author of the Canadian classic, The Mountain and the Valley ...

A.S. Byatt and the Heliotropic Imagination

By Jane Campbell
Subjects: Literary Criticism

A.S. Byatt’s novel Possession: A Romance attracted international acclaim in 1990, winning both the Booker Prize and the Irish Times/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize. In her long and eminent career, ...