Deportment

By Alice Burdick
Edited by Alessandro Porco
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, 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: Fine Arts, Treatments & Subjects, Cultural Studies, 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 ...

Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond

Edited by Susan Gingell & Wendy Roy
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies

Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond is an interdisciplinary collection that gathers the work of scholars and performance practitioners who together explore questions about the oral, written, ...

Crosstalk

Edited by Diana Brydon & Marta Dvorák
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within ...

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 ...

Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts

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

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 ...

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? ...