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The Metaphor of Celebrity: Canadian Poetry and the Public, 1955-1980 by Joel Deshaye
RRP: $54.18$47.28The Metaphor of Celebrity is an exploration of the significance of literary celebrity in Canadian poetry. It focuses on the lives and writing of four widely recognized authors who wrote about stardom - Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, Irving Layton, and... -
The Next Instalment: Serials, Sequels, and Adaptations of Nellie L. McClung, L.M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche by Wendy Roy
$107.50What happens next? That was the question asked of early-twentieth-century authors Nellie L. McClung, L. M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche, whose stories and novels appeared serially and kept readers and publishers in a state of anticipation. Each... -
Rions Ensemble by Harold Llewelyn Humphreys
RRP: $28.37$24.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487591878Author Harold Llewelyn HumphreysFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto... -
Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature by Wayde Compton
RRP: $25.74$17.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551521183Author Wayde ComptonFormat PaperbackPage Count 315Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press -
Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie
RRP: $41.28$36.39In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers, a development that some critics have called the Native Renaissance. In Before the Country, Stephanie McKenzie explores the extent... -
Alice Munro: 'Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage', 'Runaway', 'Dear Life' by Robert Thacker
RRP: $122.55$122.29The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focussing on three of her... -
The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: A Legacy in Review by Benjamin Lefebvre
RRP: $58.05$51.06The final volume of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, A Legacy in Review examines a long overlooked portion of Montgomery's critical reception: reviews of her books. Although Montgomery downplayed the impact that reviews had on her writing career, claiming to... -
Modern Realism in English-Canadian Fiction by Colin Hill
RRP: $60.63$49.97Much of the scholarship on twentieth-century Canadian literature has argued that English-Canadian fiction was plagued by backwardness and an inability to engage fully with the movement of modernism that was so prevalent in British and American fiction... -
The Secular Scripture and Other Writings on Critical Theory, 1976?1991 by Northrop Frye
RRP: $132.87$116.28Northrop Frye's The Secular Scripture was first published in 1976 and was soon recognized as one of his most influential works, reflecting an extensive development of Frye's thoughts about romance as a literary form. This new edition in the Collected... -
Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader by Sourayan Mookerjea
RRP: $36.11$31.66Canada is situated geographically, historically, and culturally between old empires (Great Britain and France) and a more recent one (the United States), as well as on the terrain of First Nations communities. Poised between historical and metaphorical... -
Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process by Nella Cotrupi
RRP: $30.95$26.88Nella Cotrupi's "Northrop Frye and the Poetics of Process" sheds a new conceptual light on Frye, successfully bringing him back into the central ring of contemporary critical thought. Challenging the often dismissive view of Frye's work as... -
Shakespeare in Quebec: Nation, Gender, and Adaptation by Jennifer Drouin
RRP: $68.37$59.78In Shakespeare in Quebec, Jennifer Drouin analyses representations of nation and gender in Shakespearean adaptations written in Quebec since the Quiet Revolution. Using postcolonial and gender theory, Drouin traces the evolution of discourses of nation... -
Twice upon a Time: Selected Stories, 1898-1939 by Benjamin Lefebvre 9781487544126
RRP: $25.79$22.63Although L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is best remembered for the twenty-two book-length works of fiction that she published in her lifetime, from Anne of Green Gables (1908) to Anne of Ingleside (1939), she also contributed some five hundred short stories... -
The Cambridge Introduction to Margaret Atwood by Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson 9780521694636
RRP: $25.79$22.10Margaret Atwood offers an immensely influential voice in contemporary literature. Her novels have been translated into over 22 languages and are widely studied, taught and enjoyed. Her style is defined by her comic wit and willingness to experiment. Her... -
A World of Songs: Selected Poems, 1894-1921 by L.M. Montgomery 9781487523695
RRP: $25.79$22.63Celebrated as a novelist and made famous by her novel Anne of Green Gables and its sequels, L.M. Montgomery (1874-1942) is far less known for also writing and publishing hundreds of poems over a period of half a century.Although this output included a... -
Nervous System: The Story of a Novelist Who Lost His Mind by Jan Lars Jensen 9781840467932
RRP: $16.76$11.04This 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... -
Alice Munro Everlasting: Essays on Her Works II by J R Tim Struthers
RRP: $34.77$25.32This rich volume begins with a major new essay by renowned short story critic and theorist Charles E. May, "Returning to the Source: Alice Munro, Flannery O'Connor, and Eudora Welty," followed by a major new essay by one of Munro's most long-standing and... -
Alice Munro Country: Essays on Her Works I by J R Tim Struthers
RRP: $34.77$24.97This rich volume begins with a very good-humoured memoir, "Alice Munro: Not Bad Short Story Writer"; by Munro's renowned Canadian publisher, Douglas Gibson, followed by powerful autobiographical pieces by fiction writer Jack Hodgins, playwright Judith... -
The Cambridge Companion to Alice Munro by David Staines 9781107472020
RRP: $29.66$25.23This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's... -
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye: Apocalypse and Alchemy by B.W. Powe
RRP: $38.69$34.19Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada's central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious harmony even as their intellectual engagement was antagonistic. Poet, novelist, essayist and philosopher B.W. Powe,... -
Anne of Green Gables: A Norton Critical Edition L. M. Montgomery 9780393926958
RRP: $18.05$15.80This Norton Critical Edition offers an unrivaled selection of contextual and critical material, edited by two leading Montgomery scholars. "Backgrounds" brings together fourteen relevant excerpts from Montgomery's journals, letters, and juvenilia along... -
E. Pauline Johnson, Tekahionwake: Collected Poems and Selected Prose by E. Pauline Johnson 9780802084972
RRP: $42.57$37.99E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) was a Native advocate of part-Mohawk ancestry, an independent woman during the period of first-wave feminism, a Canadian nationalist who also advocated strengthening the link to imperial England, a popular and versatile... -
Mimic Fires: Accounts of Early Long Poems on Canada by Bentley 9780773512009 [USED COPY]
RRP: $132.87$20.90Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Canadian Cultural Studies: A Reader by Sourayan Mookerjea 9780822343981 [USED COPY]
RRP: $156.09$17.47Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
French-Canadian and Quebecois Novels by Ben-Z. Shek 9780195407235
$21.90French-Canadian novels began as a marginal offshoot of French metropolitan writing and are now read and studied not only in English Canada but around the world. This study covers the genre and its main authors from the beginnings in 1837 to the rapid... -
Canadian Writers at Work by Geoff Hancock 9780195406382
$20.52Canadian Writers at Work features ten interviews from "Canadian Fiction Magazine", a unique Canadian literary quarterly devoted solely to fiction. Margaret Atwood, Clarke Blaise, Mavis Gallant, Jack Hodgins, Robert Kroetsh, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice... -
DAUGHTERS and MOTHERS in Alice Munro's Later Stories by DEBORAH HELLER 9780982007334
$10.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982007334Author DEBORAH HELLERFormat PaperbackPage Count 50Imprint Workwomans PressPublisher Workwomans PressWeight(grams) 88g -
The Cambridge Introduction to Margaret Atwood by Heidi Slettedahl MacPherson 9780521872980
RRP: $96.75$73.13Margaret Atwood offers an immensely influential voice in contemporary literature. Her novels have been translated into over 22 languages and are widely studied, taught and enjoyed. Her style is defined by her comic wit and willingness to experiment. Her... -
Watching Quebec: Selected Essays: Volume 201 by Ramsay Cook 9780773529199
RRP: $36.11$23.34Classic essays analysing the roots and growth of nationalism in Quebec.Book InformationISBN 9780773529199Author Ramsay CookFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams) 380g -
Coyote Country: Fictions of the Canadian West by Arnold E. Davidson 9780822314530 [USED COPY]
RRP: $107.07$1.61For 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... -
Rewriting Apocalypse in Canadian Fiction by Marlene Goldman 9780773529045 [USED COPY]
RRP: $132.87$1.61Subversion of the apocalyptic genre in the fiction of Timothy Findlay, Michael Ondaatje, Margaret Atwood, Thomas King, and Joy Kogawa.Book InformationISBN 9780773529045Author Marlene GoldmanFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint McGill-Queen's University... -
Between the Temple and the Cave: The Religious Dimensions of the Poetry of E.J. Pratt by Angela T. McAuliffe 9780773520578 [USED COPY]
RRP: $110.94$1.61Drawing on a wide variety of newly available source material, Angela McAuliffe examines the roots of Pratt's religious attitudes, including his strict Methodist upbringing in Newfoundland and his plans to enter the ministry. She explores Pratt's early... -
A Texas Matchmaker by Andy Adams 9789357976077
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That Lass O' Lowrie's 1877 by Frances Hodgson Burnett 9789357943536
RRP: $23.67$18.37Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Shepherd of the North by Richard Aumerle Maher 9789357946568
RRP: $23.61$18.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357946568Author Richard Aumerle MaherFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint V & S PublishersPublisher V & S PublishersWeight(grams) 281g -
The Texan A Story of the Cattle Country by James B Hendryx 9789357976152
RRP: $23.61$18.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357976152Author James B HendryxFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 281g -
Seventeen;A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William by Booth Tarkington 9789357973496
RRP: $23.61$18.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357973496Author Booth TarkingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 281g -
The Sherrods by George Barr McCutcheon 9789357944335
RRP: $23.43$18.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357944335Author George Barr McCutcheonFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint V & S PublishersPublisher V & S PublishersWeight(grams) 272g -
Shifting Sands by Sara Ware Bassett 9789357949378
RRP: $23.49$18.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357949378Author Sara Ware BassettFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint V & S PublishersPublisher V & S PublishersWeight(grams) 277g -
Shandygaff; A number of most agreeable Inquirendoes upon Life & Letters, interspersed with Short Stories & Skits, the whole most Diverting to the Reader by Christopher Morley 9789357972338
RRP: $23.56$18.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357972338Author Christopher MorleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Alpha EditionPublisher Alpha EditionWeight(grams) 277g