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Writing between the Lines

Edited by Agnes Whitfield
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The essays in Writing between the Lines explore the lives of twelve of Canada’s most eminent anglophone literary translators, and delve into how these individuals have contributed to the valuable process ...

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 ...

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. ...

Unsettling Narratives

By Clare Bradford
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Children’s Literature

Children’s books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position ...

Writing in Our Time

By Pauline Butling & Susan Rudy
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject ...

All These Roads

Afterword by Frank Davey
By Louis Dudek
Edited by Karis Shearer
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

A passionate believer in the power of art—and especially poetry—to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through ...

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 ...

Anthologizing Canadian Literature

Edited by Robert Lecker
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The first collection of critical essays devoted to the study of English-Canadian literary anthologies brings together the work of thirteen prominent critics to investigate anthology formation in Canada ...

By Word of Mouth

By Dennis Cooley
Edited by Nicole Markotic
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other ...