Writing in Dust

By Jenny Kerber
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature, Philosophy, Ethics
Series: Environmental Humanities

Writing in Dust is the first sustained study of prairie Canadian literature from an ecocritical perspective. Drawing on recent scholarship in environmental theory and criticism, Jenny Kerber considers ...

From Room to Room

By Eli Mandel
Edited by Peter Webb
Afterword by Andrew Stubbs
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

The career of Eli Mandel (1922–1992) was one of the most prolific and distinguished in all of Canadian literature, yet in recent years his work has gone unsung compared with that of such peers as Margaret ...

Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction, 1905-1980

By Terrence Craig
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction is a critical overview of the appearances and consequences of racism in English-Canadian fiction published between 1905 and 1980.
Based on an analysis of ...

Women, Reading, Kroetsch

By Susan Rudy
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary ...

National Plots

Edited by Andrea Cabajsky & Brett Josef Grubisic
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature. Works by writers of historical fiction (from early ...

Through a Glass Darkly

Edited by Holly Faith Nelson, Jens Zimmermann, and Lynn R. Szabo
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Religion

Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These intersecting ...

The Celestial Tradition

By Demetres P. Tryphonopoulos
Subjects: Literary Criticism

Despite the painstaking work of Pound scholars, the mythos of The Cantos has yet to be properly understood — primarily because until now its occult sources have not been examined sufficiently. Drawing ...

Troubling Tricksters

Edited by Deanna Reder & Linda M. Morra
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Troubling Tricksters is a collection of theoretical essays, creative pieces, and critical ruminations that provides a re-visioning of trickster criticism in light of recent backlash against it. The complaints ...

Verse and Worse

By Steve McCaffery
Edited by Darren Wershler
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989–2009 presents texts from the last two decades of work by Steve McCaffery, one of the most influential and innovative of contemporary poets. ...

Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts

Edited by Andrea O’Reilly & Elizabeth Podnieks
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Literary Criticism

Textual Mothers/Maternal Texts focuses on mothers as subjects and as writers who produce auto/biography, fiction, and poetry about maternity. International contributors examine the mother without child, ...