Speaking in the Past Tense

By Herb Wyile
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, History, Canadian History

“Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls ...

The False Laws of Narrative

By Fred Wah
Edited by Louis Cabri
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the poets entire poetic trajectory to date. A founding editor of Tish magazine, Wah was influenced by leading progressive and ...

Counterrealism and Indo-Anglian Fiction

By Chelva Kanaganayakam
Subjects: Literary Criticism

What do R.K. Narayan, G.V. Desani, Anita Desai, Zulfikar Ghose, Suniti Namjoshi, and Salman Rushdie have in common?
They represent Indian writing in English over five decades. Vilified by many cultural ...

Wider Boundaries of Daring

Edited by Barbara Godard & Di Brandt
Subjects: Poetry, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution ...

Unsettled Remains

Edited by Cynthia Sugars & Gerry Turcotte
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response ...

Transnational Canadas

By Kit Dobson
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Political Science, Globalization, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Multiculturalism
Series: TransCanada

Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from ...

Scandalous Bodies

By Smaro Kamboureli
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Multiculturalism
Series: TransCanada

Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s ...

Mobility of Light

By Nicole Brossard
Edited by Louise H. Forsyth
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

“On strands of light I am hanging poetry like garlands.”
These first words of poetry from Nicole Brossard anticipate the vast body of work she has published in the last four decades. The poems in ...

Open Wide a Wilderness

By Don McKay
Edited by Nancy Holmes
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Environmental Humanities

The first anthology to focus on the rich tradition of Canadian nature poetry in English, Open Wide a Wilderness is a survey of Canada’s regions, poetries, histories, and peoples as these relate to the ...

Veneration and Revolt

By Barry Stephenson
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Religion
Series: Editions SR

One of the most widely read German authors in the world, Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. After his death, his novels enjoyed a revival of popularity, becoming a staple ...