Plotting the Reading Experience

Edited by Paulette M. Rothbauer, Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie and Knut Oterholm
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Language Arts & Disciplines

This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the ...

Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada

Edited by Dean Irvine and Smaro Kamboureli
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

This collection of essays focuses on the varied and complex roles that editors have played in the production of literary and scholarly texts in Canada. With contributions from a wide range of participants ...

In Due Season

By Christine van der Mark
Afterword by Carole Gerson and Janice Dowson
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Early Canadian Literature

First published in 1947, In Due Season broke new ground with its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dustbowl 1930s, this tersely narrated prize-winning novel follows ...

Canadian Graphic

Edited by Candida Rifkind and Linda Warley
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw ...

Archetypes from Underground

By Lonny Harrison
Subjects: Literary Criticism

Archetypes from Underground: Notes on the Dostoevskian Self uncovers archetypal imagery in Dostoevsky’s stories and novels and argues that archetypes bring a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation ...

Barking & Biting

By Sina Queyras
Edited by Erin Wunker
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

This collection brings together representative work from Sina Queyras’s poetic oeuvre. Queyras is at the forefront of contemporary discussions of genre, gender, and criticism of poetry. Her influential ...

Writing between the Lines

Edited by Agnes Whitfield
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The essays in Writing between the Lines explore the lives of twelve of Canada’s most eminent anglophone literary translators, and delve into how these individuals have contributed to the valuable process ...

Sonosyntactics

By Paul Dutton
Edited by Gary Barwin
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Sonosyntactics introduces the reader to over forty-five years of Paul Dutton’s diverse and inventive poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Perhaps ...

Anthologizing Canadian Literature

Edited by Robert Lecker
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The first collection of critical essays devoted to the study of English-Canadian literary anthologies brings together the work of thirteen prominent critics to investigate anthology formation in Canada ...

Literary Land Claims

By Margery Fee
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Indigenous Studies

Literature not only represents Canada as “our home and native land” but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented ...