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Memoirs Of Montparnasse John Glassco 9781590171844
RRP: $33.13$22.50Apologies 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)... -
Strange Things: The Malevolent North in Canadian Literature Margaret Atwood 9781844080823
RRP: $21.43$14.43Margaret 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 --... -
Wild Child: Intensive Parenting and Posthumanist Ethics by Naomi Morgenstern 9781517903794
RRP: $38.98$34.20Exploring how the figure of the "wild child" in contemporary fiction grapples with contemporary cultural anxieties about reproductive ethics and the future of humanity In the eighteenth century, Western philosophy positioned the figure of "the child" at... -
We Share Our Matters: Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River by Rick Monture 9780887557675
RRP: $62.30$38.08The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices emerging from this community been drawn on in order to... -
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood by Coral Ann Howells 9781108707633
RRP: $44.83$38.14The 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... -
L.M. Montgomery and Gender by E. Holly Pike
RRP: $60.45$53.35The celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Nineteen contributors take a variety of critical and theoretical positions, from historical analyses of the... -
The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly 9781442626539
RRP: $52.63$45.47When it originally appeared, Elizabeth Rollins Epperly's The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass was one of the first challenges to the idea that L.M. Montgomery's books were unworthy of serious study. Examining all of Montgomery's fiction, Epperly argues that... -
Anne of Green Gables: The Original Manuscript by Lucy Maud Montgomery 9781771087216
RRP: $48.03$41.89Apologies 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)... -
Nilling: Prose by Lisa Robertson 9781897388891
RRP: $37.03$19.81"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... -
Attack of the Copula Spiders: Essays on Writing by Douglas Glover
RRP: $25.33$16.83A 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,... -
Native Literature in Canada: From the Oral Tradition to the Present by Penny Petrone 9780195407969
$45.65Canadian 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,... -
A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory: Volume 27 by Norman Ravvin 9780773516656
RRP: $58.48$51.68Arguing that Jewish North American writing is too commonly discussed as part of the mainstream, neglecting the Jewish aspects of the works, Ravvin places the writing of Bellow, Richler, Cohen, West, Mandel, Roth, and Rosenfarb within the Jewish context... -
Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West by Arnold E. Davidson 9780822314691
RRP: $38.98$34.20For 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... -
Career-Limiting Moves by Zachariah Wells 9781927428351
RRP: $29.23$25.45Calling all contrarians! Even if the poets are less-than-well-known in America, the pugnacious spirit of these essays & the quality of their insights, especially re: prosody and form, will be of value to all serious readers of poetry.Book InformationISBN... -
A Report on the Afterlife of Culture by Stephen Henighan 9781897231425
RRP: $29.23$26.46In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smaller. He weaves together daring literary criticism with... -
The Worlds of Carol Shields by David Staines 9780776622064
$57.64"Carol was a very fine writer and a remarkable human being, a wonderful person whose work I closely followed for more than 20 years. I interviewed her frequently over those years, with virtually every work she produced -novel, radio drama, play,... -
West/Border/Road: Nation and Genre in Contemporary Canadian Narrative by Katherine Ann Roberts 9780773553224
RRP: $177.45$153.89The North American entertainment industry is rapidly consolidating, and new modes of technological delivery challenge Canadian content regulations. An understanding of how Canadian culture negotiates its rapport with American genres has never been more... -
Friendship and the Novel by Allan Hepburn 9780228020370
RRP: $66.30$58.29Friends are at the centre of novels by everyone from George Eliot to Elena Ferrante. It is nearly impossible to name a work of fiction that is not enriched by the tensions and magnetisms of friendship.Friendship and the Novel focuses on the affective and... -
Mordecai Richler's Imperfect Search for Moral Values by Shana Rosenblatt Mauer 9780228012016
RRP: $210.60$182.13From his debut as a novelist, Mordecai Richler challenged, provoked, enraged, entertained, and surprised readers. Criticizing him for his portrayals of Canada and accusing him of being anti-Jewish, many found his mix of progressive sympathies and... -
L.M. Montgomery and Gender by E. Holly Pike 9780228008781
RRP: $226.20$196.21The celebrated author of Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon receives much-deserved additional consideration in L.M. Montgomery and Gender. Nineteen contributors take a variety of critical and theoretical positions, from historical analyses of the... -
Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism and Its Influence by Branko Gorjup 9780802099389
RRP: $113.10$98.61In his long and eminent scholarly career, Northrop Frye engaged with subjects ranging from classics to twentieth-century writings. Northrop Frye's Canadian Literary Criticism examines the impact of Frye's criticism on Canadian literary scholarship as... -
First Day of Spring by Raymond Krister 9780802061980
RRP: $72.15$63.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802061980Author Raymond KristerFormat PaperbackPage Count 469Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press -
A.M. Klein: The Letters by A. M. Klein 9781442641075
RRP: $150.15$123.34In the final volume of the Collected Works of A.M. Klein, Elizabeth Popham completes the process of restoring the public voice of one of Canada's most respected authors. A.M. Klein: The Letters is the first compilation of a significant body of Klein's... -
Women's Writing in Canada by Patricia Demers 9780802095015
RRP: $54.58$47.07Spanning the period from the Massey Commission to the present and reflecting on the media of print, film, and song, this study attends to the burgeoning energy of women writers across genres. It explores how their work interprets our national story. The... -
Northrop Frye and Others: Twelve Writers Who Helped Shape His Thinking by Robert D. Denham 9780776623078
$42.92Eminent Northrop Frye scholar Robert D. Denham explores the connection between Frye and twelve writers who influenced his thinking but about whom he didn't write anything expansive. Denham draws especially on Frye's notebooks and other previously... -
Home Ground and Foreign Territory: Essays on Early Canadian Literature by Janice Fiamengo 9780776621395
$57.64Home Ground and Foreign Territory is an original collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English. Aiming to be both provocative and scholarly, it encompasses a variety of (sometimes opposing) perspectives, subjects, and methods, with the aim... -
Literary Celebrity in Canada by Lorraine York 9781487521394
RRP: $44.83$39.02In recent years, Canadian authors have enjoyed tremendous international success, writing novels that become Oscar-nominated films or achieve coveted success as selections for the Oprah Winfrey bookclub. Literary Celebrity in Canada is the first extended... -
Imagining Care: Responsibility, Dependency, and Canadian Literature by Amelia Defalco 9781487553814
RRP: $44.83$39.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487553814Author Amelia DefalcoFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press -
Revolutions: Essays on Contemporary Canadian Fiction by Alex Good 9781771961196
RRP: $23.38$22.29As the former editor of Canadian Notes & Queries, the world's preeminent magazine of Canadian literary and cultural criticism, Alex Good has established himself as an expert on the Canadian novel. In this book, which weaves together two decades of... -
Canadian Hockey Literature by Jason Blake 9780802097132
$79.40Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake takes readers on a thematic journey through Canadian... -
Blowing up the Skirt of History: Recovered and Reanimated Plays by Early Canadian Women Dramatists, 1876-1920 by Kym Bird 9780228003311
RRP: $241.80$209.51From history and politics to fantasy and farce, the first flourish of women's theatre in Canada questioned the discourses that formed and informed ideas of gender, sex, and sexuality. While still seduced by an abiding belief in the truth of separate... -
White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada by Daniel Coleman 9780802096425
RRP: $62.40$55.01In White Civility Daniel Coleman breaks the long silence in Canadian literary and cultural studies around Canadian whiteness and examines its roots as a literary project of early colonials and nation-builders. He argues that a specific form of whiteness... -
Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations by Gregory Betts 9781442643772
RRP: $107.25$93.68In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by... -
A Name for Herself: Selected Writings, 1891-1917 by L.M. Montgomery
$77.79Years before she published her internationally celebrated first novel, Anne of Green Gables, L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) started contributing short works to periodicals across North America. While these works consisted primarily of poems and short... -
Meanwhile: The Critical Writings of bpNichol by bp Nichol
RRP: $42.88$39.86Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889224476Author bp NicholFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint TalonbooksPublisher TalonbooksWeight(grams) 779gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 28mm -
Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson by Graeme Gibson
RRP: $21.43$19.19Originally published in 1970, Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson is a collection of candid and wide-ranging interviews with Canadian writers, including Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, and more.With the intuition of... -
Northrop Frye and American Fiction by Claude Le Fustec
RRP: $87.75$76.40Northrop Frye and American Fiction challenges recent interpretations of American fiction as a secular pursuit that long ago abandoned religious faith and the idea of transcendent experiences. Inspired by recent philosophical thinking on post-secularism... -
The White Savannahs: The First Study of Canadian Poetry from a Modern Viewpoint by W E Collin
RRP: $66.30$58.29Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802062413Author W E CollinFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 445g -
Morley Callaghan: Essays, Reviews, Meditations and Talks by Callaghan
RRP: $68.15$44.75Capturing the 20th-century literary world, this collection of nonfiction work includes essays, reviews, and articles concerning the personalities and events between 1928 and 1990. Starting in the 1920s with Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, the reflections... -
Saul: A Drama, in Three Parts (Second Edition) by Charles Heavysege
RRP: $56.53$48.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591564Author Charles HeavysegeFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 485g