Cabbagetown Diary

By Juan Butler & Tamas Dobozy
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Robert Fulford called it “a remarkable glimpse of the underbelly of Toronto,” but the reviews that greeted the publication of Cabbagetown Diary in 1970 were decidedly mixed. The novel’s rowdy concoction ...

Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies

Edited by Robert Zacharias & Smaro Kamboureli
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that have shaped the study of Canadian ...

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada

Edited by Christine Kim, Melina Baum Singer, and Sophie McCall
Subjects: Political Science, Globalization, Literary Criticism, Social Science, Multiculturalism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. ...

Plans Deranged by Time

By George Fetherling
Edited by A.F. Moritz
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. Plans ...

Chronicles

By Dionne Brand
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

One of Canada’s most distinguished poets, Dionne Brand explores and chronicles how history shapes human existence, in particular the lives of those ruptured and scattered by New World slaveries and ...

Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground

Afterword by George Elliott Clarke
By F.R. Scott
Edited by Laura Moss
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground contains thirty-five of F.R. Scott’s poems from across the five decades of his career. Scott’s artistic responses to a litany of social problems, as well as ...

Anne of Tim Hortons

By Herb Wyile
Subjects: Political Science, Globalization, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression ...

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

Afterword by Andrew Stubbs
By Eli Mandel
Edited by Peter Webb
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 traditional ...