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Before the First Word
Lorna Crozier’s radical imagination, and the finely tuned emotional intelligence that is revealed in the clarity of her poetry, have made her one of Canada’s most popular poets. Before the First Word: ...
Beowulf and the Celtic Tradition
The author traces and evaluates the possible influences of Celtic tradition on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He discusses theories of the origins of the poem, draws parallels between elements in ...
A Karenina Companion
Although Anna Karenina has been described as “the European novel” by Frank Leavis, the geographical setting of the novel and, increasingly, its temporal and cultural setting, render it a foreign novel ...
Is Canada Postcolonial?
How can postcolonialism be applied to Canadian literature?
In all that has been written about postcolonialism, surprisingly little has specifically addressed the position of Canada, Canadian literature, ...
Reading In
What can we learn about authorship through a reading of a writer’s archive?
Collections of authors’ manuscripts and correspondence have traditionally been used in ways that further illuminate the ...
Seeing in the Dark
Poet Phyllis Webb initiated new ways of seeing into the cultural “dark” of Western thought. By blurring the axis between “light” and “dark,” she redefined in positive terms women’s subjectivity ...
The Horned Owl
Giovan Maria Cecchi (1517–1587) was the most prolific and popular of sixteenth-century Florentine daramatists. His best-known play, L’Assiuolo (The Horned Owl), brings to the stage the amorous adventure ...
The Scruffy Scoundrels
The Scruffy Scoundrels by Annibal Caro offers the student, scholar, and general reader a sixteenth-century masterpiece in modern English translation.
From one vantage point, The Scruffy Scoundrels would ...
Writing in Dust
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 ...
William Wilfred Campbell
This is a representative collection of the writings of a neglected Canadian author, William Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918).
Among the 112 poems in William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays are ...