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"I have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt's idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous and knotted agency to be found there. Just beneath the...

This fully revised second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics. For this edition several chapters have been completely rewritten to reflect major developments in...

This is a memoir in the vein of Plath's "Bell Jar". A few months after selling his first book to a major publisher, Jan Lars Jensen woke in a psychiatric ward, only to find that the ideas that had inspired his fiction now roamed through his waking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528714730Author Kahlil GibranFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 3mm

In these three lectures, Cavell situates Emerson at an intersection of three crossroads: a place where both philosophy and literature pass; where the two traditions of English and German philosophy shun one another; where the cultures of America and...

The field of Margaret Atwood studies, like her own work, is in constant evolution. This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood provides substantial reconceptualization of Atwood's writing in multiple genres that has spanned six...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590171844Author John GlasscoFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, IncWeight(grams)...

Margaret Atwood's witty and informative book focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. She discusses the 'Grey Owl Syndrome' of white writers going native; the folklore arising from the mysterious-- and disastrous --...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771087216Author Lucy Maud MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams)...

A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2012 "Glover is a master of narrative structure." --Wall Street Journal In the tradition of E.M. Forster, John Gardner, and James Wood, Douglas Glover has produced a book on writing at once erudite, anecdotal,...

Authors Shannon Hengen and Ashley Thomson have assembled a reference guide that covers all of the works written by the acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood since 1988, including her novels Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and the 2000...

It is for his poetry that A.M. Klein is best known and most warmly remembered. This collection includes all Klein's poetry, both original works and translations from Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, and Latin. Many of them, coming from all periods of his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774712757Author Lucy MontgomeryFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Nimbus Publishing LimitedPublisher Nimbus Publishing LimitedWeight(grams)...

This title includes in-depth discussions of Margaret Atwood's ""The Handmaid's Tale"". ""The Handmaid's Tale"" won international acclaim when it was first published in 1985; with it, Margaret Atwood won Canada's Governor General's Award as well as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880900084Author Robert FrostFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Start ClassicsPublisher Start ClassicsWeight(grams) 100gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798880900077Author Robert FrostFormat HardbackPage Count 58Imprint Start ClassicsPublisher Start ClassicsWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 6mm

As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Albertawriters, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifyingAlberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects ofstudy in their own right. By critically situating and...

Long a topic of intricate political and social debate, Canadianidentity has come to be understood as fragmented, amorphous, andunstable, a multifaceted and contested space only tenuously linked totraditional concepts of the nation. As Canadians, we are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771839617Author Elana WolffFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,Canada

Experimental literature accelerated dramatically in Vancouver in the 1960s as the influence of New American poetics merged with the ideas of Marshall McLuhan. Vancouver poets and artists began thinking about their creative works with new clarity and set...

Robertson Davies (1913-1995), one of Canada's most distinguished authors of the twentieth century, was known for his work as a novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor. This descriptive bibliography is dedicated to his writing career,...

ReVisions examines speculative fiction, film, and television created by artists in Canada and reflecting their distinct experiences. Bringing together critical and creative works by eighteen different authors, the book re-envisions Canadian politics,...

The Weather and the Words: The Selected Letters of John Newlove, 1963-2003, gathers hundreds of never-before-seen letters from the poet John Newlove's archives and sheds light on an author who was, to many Canadian writers, a literary master. Despite his...

Teach a rich oeuvre exploring contemporary issues and classic textsAgainst the backdrop of climate change, the COVID- 9 pandemic, and attacks on democracy and women's rights, the works of Margaret Atwood help readers make sense of the world around them...

Teach a rich oeuvre exploring contemporary issues and classic textsAgainst the backdrop of climate change, the COVID- 9 pandemic, and attacks on democracy and women's rights, the works of Margaret Atwood help readers make sense of the world around them...

Poet and provocateur William Chapman (1850-1917) wrote patriotic verse recounting the history of New France, envisioning a glorious future for its descendants. Despite his many literary achievements - he was a two-time laureate of the Academie francaise...

Bodies of Art, Bodies of Labour by Kate Beaton, award-winning author of Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands and Hark! A Vagrant, explores connections between class, literature, and art from Cape Breton Island. In this thought-provoking book, Beaton...

Alternative temporalities have often emerged as a reaction to the normativizing force of time, demonstrating that time can be used as an instrument of power and oppression, but also as a means to resist this very oppression. Alternative Temporalities...

Canadian native literature is increasingly commanding scholarly and critical attention. Beginning with an examination of the old tradition from which it grew, Canadian Indian Literature provides a critical analysis of sermons, letters, autobiographies,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765107737Author Dr. Eva-Maria MullerFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551113739Author Terry GoldieFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Digital Memory Agents in Canada explores memory performances and representations with different cultural and spatial relationships to Canada. It moves from discourses on place to focus on the digital or virtual space and on how certain cultures,...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers, labor leaders, politicians, and others called for an assault on poverty, slums, disreputable boarding houses, alcoholism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772840094Author Sabrina ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint University of Manitoba PressPublisher University of Manitoba PressWeight(grams)...

For most North Americans-Canadians as well as Americans-the term "Western" evokes images of the frontier, brave sheriffs and ruthless outlaws, good cowboys and bad Indians. As Arnold E. Davidson shows in this groundbreaking study, a number of Canada's...

Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre's potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers, and scholars. Over the last decade, a proliferation of...

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a host of journalists, ministers, medical doctors, businessmen, lawyers, labor leaders, politicians, and others called for an assault on poverty, slums, disreputable boarding houses, alcoholism,...

A new era in Canadian poetry began in 1880 with the publication of Charles G.D. Roberts' Orion and Other Poems. He was just twenty years old. Roberts was soon acknowledged as leader of the so-called Confederation Poets-Bliss Carman, Duncan Campbell...

For every famous author there is a score of individuals working behind the scenes to promote and maintain her celebrity status. This timely and thoughtful book considers the particular case of internationally renowned writer Margaret Atwood and the...

During the Second World War, a number of young Canadian poets converged on Montreal and, in a few years of little-magazine and small-press publication, rewrote the story of modern English-Canadian poetry. The Montreal Forties establishes a new reading of...