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Conversations with Trotsky: Earle Birney and the Radical 1930s by Bruce Nesbitt 9780776624631
RRP: $30.95$25.17This collection presents all of Earle Birney's known published and unpublished writings on Trotsky and Trotskyism for the very first time. It includes their correspondence as well as a selection of Birney's letters and literary writings. Before he became... -
Translocated Modernisms: Paris and Other Lost Generations by Emily Ballantyne 9780776623801
RRP: $30.95$25.17Translocated Modernisms is a collection of ten chapters partitioned into sections and framed by an introduction by the editors and a coda by Kit Dobson, which is interested in those who thronged to the vibrant streets, cafes, and salons of Montparnasse,... -
Meet Me on the Barricades by Charles Yale Harrison 9780776623689
RRP: $23.21$19.18Meet Me on the Barricades is Harrison's most experimental work. The novel includes a series of fantasy sequences that culminate in a scene heavily indebted to the Nighttown episode in James Joyce's Ulysses (the novel was published a year before James... -
The Worlds of Carol Shields by David Staines 9780776622064
RRP: $30.95$25.17"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,... -
The Fiddlehead Moment: Pioneering an Alternative Canadian Modernism in New Brunswick by Tony Tremblay 9780773559080
RRP: $36.11$27.88For many Canadians, the small province of New Brunswick on Canada's scenic east coast is "a nice place to visit but no place to live," plagued for generations by outmigration and economic stagnation. In The Fiddlehead Moment Tony Tremblay... -
CanLit Across Media: Unarchiving the Literary Event by Jason Camlot 9780773558663
RRP: $42.57$33.57The materials we turn to for the construction of our literary pasts - the texts, performances, and discussions selected for storage and cataloguing in archives - shape what we know and teach about literature today. The ways in which archival materials... -
Literary Impostors: Canadian Autofiction of the Early Twentieth Century by Rosmarin Heidenreich 9780773554542
RRP: $39.99$30.74In the first half of the twentieth century, a number of Canadian authors were revealed to have faked the identities that made them famous. What is extraordinary about these writers is that they actually "became," in everyday life, characters... -
West/Border/Road: Nation and Genre in Contemporary Canadian Narrative by Katherine Ann Roberts 9780773553224
RRP: $101.91$78.46The 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... -
Translating Canada by Luise Von Flotow 9780776606613
RRP: $30.95$25.17In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of culture at home was an effort to make the resulting works... -
The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past by Winfried Siemerling 9780773545083
RRP: $36.11$28.39Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from letters, editorials, sermons, and slave narratives to contemporary novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, black Canadian writing represents a rich... -
Disunified Aesthetics: Situated Textuality, Performativity, Collaboration by Lynette Hunter 9780773541856
RRP: $127.71$99.10Aesthetics is a field still rooted in an understanding of a unified process where small numbers of people produce, commodify, and consume objects called "art." Disunified Aesthetics deconstructs the literary object by invoking the critic's... -
Alice Munro by Coral Ann Howells 9780719045592
RRP: $19.34$17.20This is the first full-length study of Alice Munro's work to be published in Britain. Highlights Munro's distinctive storytelling methods where everything becomes both 'touchable and mysterious'.About the AuthorCoral Ann Howells is Professor of English... -
Harriet's Legacies: Race, Historical Memory, and Futures in Canada by Ronald Cummings 9780228010654
RRP: $33.53$26.48Historic freedom fighter and conductor of the Underground Railroad Harriet Tubman risked her life to ferry enslaved people from America to freedom in Canada. Her legacy instigates and orients this exploration of the history of Black lives and the future... -
Challenging Territory: The Writing of Margaret Laurence by Christian Riegel 9780888642899
RRP: $28.37$22.70Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Shaping a World Already Made: Landscape and Poetry of the Canadian Prairies by Carl J. Tracie 9780889773936
RRP: $25.80$24.30How does reading poetry influence the way we see the Prairies? Cultural geographer Carl J. Tracie explores this question in Shaping a World Already Made, his labour of love to Canadian poetry and to his home.Book InformationISBN 9780889773936Author Carl... -
Leaving Shadows: Literature in English by Canada's Ukrainians by Lisa Grekul 9780888644527
RRP: $38.69$30.50"On our way home, we stopped in Vegreville for one last look at the Pysanka-and, posing in front of it while my dad pulled out his camera, I wanted to cry. Are we doomed? Click. Is this all we are? Click. How do we drag ourselves out from under the... -
The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two: From the End of the War to the End of the Century by George Melnyk 9780888643254
RRP: $43.85$35.87In this, the companion to the landmark volume The Literary History of Alberta, Volume One: From Writing-on-Stone to WorldWar Two, George Melnyk examines Alberta literature in the second half of the twentieth century. At last, Melnyk argues, Alberta... -
The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two: From the End of the War to the End of the Century by George Melnyk 9780888643247
RRP: $30.95$24.65In this, the companion to the landmark volume The Literary History of Alberta, Volume One: From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two, George Melnyk examines Alberta literature in the second half of the twentieth century. At last, Melnyk argues, Alberta... -
Divided Highways: Road Narrative and Nationhood in Canada by Heather Macfarlane 9780776627731
RRP: $23.22$19.20The road trip genre, well established in the literatures of Canada, is a natural outcome of the nation's obsession with geography. Divided Highways examines road narratives by Anglo-Canadian, Quebecois and Indigenous authors and the sense of place and... -
Northrop Frye and Others: Twelve Writers Who Helped Shape His Thinking by Robert D. Denham 9780776623078
RRP: $23.21$19.18Eminent 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
RRP: $30.95$25.17Home 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... -
Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood by Reingard M. Nischik 9780776607245
RRP: $27.08$22.18Winner of the 2010 Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Prize. In Engendering Genre, renowned Margaret Atwood scholar Reingard M. Nischik analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Atwood's works. She approaches Atwood's oeuvre by genre - poetry,... -
The Canadian Modernists Meet by Dean Irvine 9780776605999
RRP: $27.08$22.18"The Canadian Modernists Meet" is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem "The Canadian Authors Meet" sets the theme for the... -
At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination: A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan by John Moss 9780776605722
RRP: $19.34$16.19"At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination" collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon... -
Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties by Camille La Bossiere 9780776605319
$18.78This collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies addresses the basic problems in reading his work by looking at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in 'gaps' or spaces 'in between'. The essays present new insights... -
Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections by David Staines 9780776604466
RRP: $15.47$12.51This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers today.Book... -
Equivocal City: French and English Novels of Postwar Montreal by Patrick Coleman 9780773554856
RRP: $36.11$27.88The study of Montreal as a specific location in French and English writings has long been subordinated to the demands of linguistically divided and politically contentious narratives about national development. In this cross-linguistic study, Patrick... -
Educating the Imagination: Northrop Frye, Past, Present, and Future by Alan Bewell 9780773545731
RRP: $36.11$27.88Northrop Frye's long career made him Canada's most creative public intellectual. A century after his birth, his many books demonstrate a powerful vision of the resources of the human imagination. Frye's critical theory sought the continuities linking... -
Tropes and Territories: Short Fiction, Postcolonial Readings, Canadian Writings in Context by Marta Dvorak 9780773532892
RRP: $117.39$59.17Breakthrough essays on the postcolonial short stories of writers such as Rohinton Mistry, David Malouf, and Witi Ihimaera.Book InformationISBN 9780773532892Author Marta DvorakFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher... -
Canadian Odyssey: A Reading of Hugh Hood's The New Age/Le nouveau siecle by Keith 9780773523890
RRP: $33.53$17.21Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Where the Truth Lies: Selected Essays by Rudy Wiebe 9781926455754
RRP: $25.79$15.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926455754Author Rudy WiebeFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 474g -
Wild Words: Essays on Alberta Literature by Donna Coates 9781897425305
RRP: $43.86$37.84As 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... -
Pacific Rim Letters by Roy Kiyooka 9781896300702
RRP: $34.82$20.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300702Author Roy KiyookaFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 588g -
Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions by Jon Gordon 9781772120363
RRP: $50.30$40.35"Sustainable development is, for government and industry at least, primarily a way of turning trees into lumber, tar into oil, and critique into consent; a way to defend the status quo of growth at any cost." -from the Introduction In... -
The Homing Place: Indigenous and Settler Literary Legacies of the Atlantic by Rachel Bryant 9781771122870
RRP: $36.06$29.13Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state borders, and narrow definitions continuing to hinder... -
Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason 9781771123488
RRP: $46.38$38.15Ornithologies of Desire develops ecocritical reading strategies that engage scientific texts, field guides, and observation. Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending to specific details about the physical world... -
Canuke Literature: Critical Essays on Ukrainian Writing by Sonia Mycak 9781560729198
RRP: $68.36$54.36Canada was settled in three waves of immigration, the first being from the Western provinces. These people set up homesteads and opened up prairies, which provided an indelible mark on their country. The next phase arrived of educated and professionals,... -
Fate and Freedom in the Novels of David Adams Richards by Sara MacDonald 9781498528702
RRP: $116.10$107.22This book explores the understanding of freedom developed in the later novels of celebrated Canadian author, David Adams Richards. Many reviewers highlight two interconnected features in Richards novels: a seemingly rigid determinism of setting and... -
The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Three: A Legacy in Review by Benjamin Lefebvre 9781487526047
RRP: $41.28$36.21Now available in paperback, The L.M. Montgomery Reader assembles rediscovered primary material on one of Canada's most enduringly popular authors, spanning the entirety of her high-profile career and the years since her death. Volume Three: A Legacy in... -
The L.M. Montgomery Reader: Volume Two: A Critical Heritage by Benjamin Lefebvre 9781487526030
RRP: $41.28$36.21Following on the heels of the first volume of The L.M. Montgomery Reader, this second volume narrates the development of L.M. Montgomery's (1874-1942) critical reputation in the seventy years since her death. Edited by leading Montgomery scholar Benjamin...