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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Making Babies

By Sandra Sabatini
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Although the infant has been a consistent figure in literature (and, for many people, a significant figure in personal life), there’s been little attention focused on infants, or on their place in Canadian ...

Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada

By Laura K. Davis
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada is the first book to examine how Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada.
Focusing ...

The Last Effort of Dreams

Edited by Francesco Loriggio
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

When Pier Giorgio Di Cicco first appeared on the Canadian literary scene in the early 1980s, he was immediately recognized as one of the most compelling voices of his generation. The Last Effort of Dreams ...

The Feminine Gaze

By Anne Innis Dagg
Subjects: Social Science, Women’s Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Many Canadian women fiction writers have become justifiably famous. But what about women who have written non-fiction?
When Anne Innis Dagg set out on a personal quest to make such non-fiction authors ...

Reliving the Trenches

Edited by Alan Filewod
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Life Writing, History, Canadian History, Military History

In Reliving the Trenches, three plays written by returned soldiers who served in the Great War with the Canadian Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium appear in print for the first time. With a critical ...

Tiff

By Sherrill Grace
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Gender Studies, Biography & Autobiography

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada’s foremost writers—an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental ...