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Barking & Biting

By Sina Queyras
Edited by Erin Wunker
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

This collection brings together representative work from Sina Queyras’s poetic oeuvre. Queyras is at the forefront of contemporary discussions of genre, gender, and criticism of poetry. Her influential ...

Crosstalk

Edited by Diana Brydon & Marta Dvorák
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and political approaches to Canadian cultural production within ...

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 ...

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 ...

Critical Collaborations

Edited by Christl Verduyn & Smaro Kamboureli
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies is the third volume of essays produced as part of the TransCanada conferences project. The essays gathered in Critical ...

Catching the Torch

By Neta Gordon
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack Hodgins's ...

DisPlace

Afterword by Chris Dunton
By Nduka Otiono
Edited by Peter Midgley
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Laurier Poetry

DisPlace: The Poetry of Nduka Otiono engages actively with a diasporic world: Otiono is equally at home critiquing petroculture in Nigeria and in Canada. His work straddles multiple poetic traditions ...

Detecting Canada

Edited by Jeannette Sloniowski & Marilyn Rose
Subjects: Film & Media, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Film and Media Studies

The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret ...

Deportment

By Alice Burdick
Edited by Alessandro Porco
Subjects: Poetry, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Laurier Poetry

Deportment is a selection of poems – surreal, cerebral, and defiant – by Alice Burdick. Burdick examines the dangers of dogma, women’s rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving ...

Driving Home

By Barbara Belyea & Estelle Dansereau
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

This lively and diverse bilingual collection of essays by writers and critics examines contemporary Canadian literary arts. The perspectives range from highly personal and introspective to scholarly and ...