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 ...

Why Indigenous Literatures Matter

By Daniel Heath Justice
Subjects: Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism
Series: Indigenous Studies

Part survey of the field of Indigenous literary studies, part cultural history, and part literary polemic, Why Indigenous Literatures Matter asserts the vital significance of literary expression to the ...

Watermelon Syrup

By Annie Jacobsen, Jane Finlay-Young, and Di Brandt
Subjects: Fiction, Waterloo Region
Series: Life Writing

Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor’s family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Great Depression.

Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer ...

With Children and Youth

Edited by Kiaras Gharabaghi, Hans A. Skott-Myhre, and Mark Krueger
Subjects: Law, Child Advocacy, Political Science, Social Services, Social Science, Child Studies, Social Policy
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

With Children and Youth provides a snapshot of emerging theories and perspectives in the field of child and youth care across North America. Well-known scholars and researchers present new and innovative ...

Wider Boundaries of Daring

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

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 ...

Wait Time

By Kenneth Sherman
Subjects: Medical, Public Health, Biography & Autobiography, Life Writing
Series: Life Writing

When poet and essayist Kenneth Sherman was diagnosed with cancer, he began keeping a notebook of observations that blossomed into this powerful memoir. With incisive and evocative language, Sherman presents ...

When Technocultures Collide

By Gary Genosko
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Technology & Engineering
Series: Cultural Studies

Examines computer hackers, phone phreaks, urban explorers, calculator and computer collectors, “CrackBerry” users, whistle-blowers, Yippies, zinsters, roulette cheats, and chess geeks. The dangers ...

Working Memory

Edited by Marlene Kadar & Jeanne Perreault
Subjects: History, Military History, Canadian History, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Archival Studies
Series: Life Writing

Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II speaks to the work women did during the war: the labour of survival, resistance, and collaboration, and the labour of recording, representing, and memorializing ...

Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare

By Nil Santiáñez
Subjects: Fine Arts, Treatments & Subjects, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Philosophy, Ethics

This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and the experience of war. It puts forth an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s ...

Weinzweig

Edited by John Beckwith
By Brian Cherney
Subjects: Music, Biography & Autobiography, History, Canadian History

First comprehensive study of John Weinzweig (1913–2006), the pre-eminent Canadian composer of his generation, with essays by composers, theorists, and musicologists. Includes a CD of extracts.

Influenced ...