Indigenous Poetics in Canada

Edited by Neal McLeod
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume ...

Critical Collaborations

Edited by Christl Verduyn & Smaro Kamboureli
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies is the third volume of essays produced as part of the TransCanada conferences project. The essays gathered in Critical ...

Rivering

By Daphne Marlatt
Edited by Susan Knutson
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

Opening doors, dreaming awake, tracing networks of music and meaning, Marlatt’s poetry stands out as an essential engagement with what matters to anyone writing with a social-environmental conscience. ...

The Foreigner

Afterword by Daniel Coleman
By Ralph Connor
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Early Canadian Literature

The Foreigner (1909) tells the story of Kalman Kalmar, a young Ukrainian immigrant working in rural Saskatchewan. It addresses the themes of male maturation, cultural assimilation, and a form of “muscular ...

The Order in Which We Do Things

By Tom Wayman
Edited by Owen Percy
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Tom Wayman’s poetry has been published around the world to great acclaim. Wayman is one of Canada’s most prolific and public poets, and his writing since the 1960s has been by turns angry, engaged, ...

Detecting Canada

Edited by Jeannette Sloniowski & Marilyn Rose
Subjects: Film & Media, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Film and Media Studies

The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret ...

The Memory Effect

Edited by Eleanor Ty & Russell J.A. Kilbourn
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography

The Memory Effect is a collection of essays on the status of memory—individual and collective, cultural and transcultural—in contemporary literature, film, and other visual media. Contributors look ...

Producing Canadian Literature

By Kit Dobson & Smaro Kamboureli
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Cultural Studies
Series: TransCanada

Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace brings to light the relationship between writers in Canada and the marketplace within which their work circulates. Through a series ...

Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory

Edited by Eva C. Karpinski, Ian Sowton, Jennifer Henderson, and Ray Ellenwood
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and ...

Narcissistic Narrative

By Linda Hutcheon
Subjects: Literary Criticism

Linda Hutcheon, in this original study, examines the modes, forms and techniques of narcissistic fiction, that is, fiction which includes within itself some sort of commentary on its own narrative and/or ...