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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 ...

Unpacking the Personal Library

Edited by J.A. Weingarten & Jason Camlot
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Archival Studies

Unpacking the Personal Library: The Public and Private Life of Books is an edited collection of essays that ponders the cultural meaning and significance of private book collections in relation to public ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ernest Buckler

By Marta Dvorák
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Margaret Atwood called Ernest Buckler “one of the pathbreakers for the modern Canadian novel,” yet he has slipped into relative obscurity. This new book by Marta Dvořák, Ernest Buckler: Rediscovery ...

Multispecies Modernity

By Sundhya Walther
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Environmental Studies
Series: Environmental Humanities

Multispecies Modernity: Disorderly Life in Postcolonial Literature considers relationships between animals and humans in the iconic spaces of postcolonial India: the wild, the body, the home, and the ...

On the Other Side(s) of 150

Edited by Linda M. Morra & Sarah Henzi
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Indigenous Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

On the Other Side(s) of 150 explores the different literary, historical and cultural legacies of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations. It asks vital questions about the ways that histories and stories ...

Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation

By Peter Melville
Subjects: Literary Criticism

What does hospitality have to do with Romanticism? What are the conditions of a Romantic welcome? Romantic Hospitality and the Resistance to Accommodation traces the curious passage of strangers through ...

The New Republic

By Colin Starnes
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Philosophy

Colin Starnes radical interpretation of the long-recognized affinity of Thomas More’s Utopia and Plato’s Republic confirms the intrinsic links between the two works. Through commentary on More’s ...

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen

Edited by Joel Deshaye & Kait Pinder
Subjects: Poetry, Music, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The Contemporary Leonard Cohen is an exciting new study that offers an original explanation of Leonard Cohen’s staying power and his various positions in music, literature, and art.
The death of Leonard ...