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Memoirs Of Montparnasse by John Glassco
RRP: $21.92$14.89Apologies 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 by Margaret Atwood
RRP: $14.18$9.55Margaret 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: $28.37$24.24Exploring 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... -
Nilling: Prose by Lisa Robertson 9781897388891
RRP: $20.58$14.46"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... -
The Fragrance of Sweet-Grass: L.M. Montgomery's Heroines and the Pursuit of Romance by Elizabeth Rollins Epperly 9781442626539
RRP: $36.11$32.19When 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... -
L.M. Montgomery and Gender by E. Holly Pike
RRP: $34.82$26.92The 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... -
Blank: Essays & Interviews by M Nourbese 9781771663069
RRP: $23.16$17.08Bla_K is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important writers and thinkers.Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the... -
Attack of the Copula Spiders: Essays on Writing by Douglas Glover
RRP: $16.76$11.13A 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,... -
A House of Words: Jewish Writing, Identity, and Memory: Volume 27 by Norman Ravvin 9780773516656
RRP: $33.53$25.97Arguing 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... -
Writing the Body in Motion: A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature by Angie Abdou 9781771992282
$49.90Sport 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... -
Antonio D'Alfonso: Essays On His Works by Licia Canton 9781771833615
RRP: $23.16$17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771833615Author Licia CantonFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 260g -
RE: Reading the Postmodern: Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism by Robert David Stacey 9780776607399
RRP: $30.95$25.68It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century - even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory, ways. An... -
Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination by Janice Fiamengo 9780776606453
RRP: $34.83$28.19"Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination" begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in "The Animals in That Country" (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian... -
Home-Work: Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature by Cynthia Sugars 9780776605777
RRP: $30.95$26.46Canadian literature, and specifically the teaching of Canadian literature, has emerged from a colonial duty to a nationalist enterprise and into the current territory of postcolonialism. From practical discussions related to specific texts, to more... -
Dominant Impressions: Essays on the Canadian Short Story by Gerald Lynch 9780776605050
RRP: $19.34$16.19Canadian critics and scholars, along with a growing number from around the world, have long recognized the achievements of Canadian short story writers. However, these critics have tended to view the Canadian short story as a historically recent... -
The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy by Gerald Lynch 9780776606651
RRP: $29.66$24.17If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918-2000). Numerous eminent scholars and writers have attested to this pre-eminent status. George Bowering described him as 'the world's most Canadian poet' (1970), while Sam... -
The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada: Essential Commentary on Poetry in English, Third edition by Louis Dudek 9780773549593
RRP: $36.11$27.88The Making of Modern Poetry in Canada gathers together primary literary documents including manifestos, reviews, critical essays, and recollections to illustrate the most significant developments in the rise of modernist English Canadian poetry. Rather... -
Disunified Aesthetics: Situated Textuality, Performativity, Collaboration by Lynette Hunter 9780773541863
$47.86Aesthetics 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... -
Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture: Volume 29 by Renee Hulan 9780773522282
$39.63An in-depth examination of the ethnographic content and impact of literary representations of "Canada as North."Book InformationISBN 9780773522282Author Renee HulanFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher... -
Friendship and the Novel by Allan Hepburn 9780228020370
$51.02Friends 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: $122.55$95.16From 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: $127.71$99.61The 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
$81.59In 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: $50.31$45.42Apologies 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
$101.92In 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... -
They Have Bodies, by Barney Allen: A Critical Edition by Barney Allen 9780776631240
RRP: $22.58$18.71Publie en 1929 et presque instantanement censure par les services de police de la ville de Toronto, cet ouvrage, intitule They Have Bodies, a ete completement neglige par des generations d'ecrivains et de chercheurs, par ailleurs habituellement sensibles... -
Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old by David Rampton 9780776606958
RRP: $29.66$24.69More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye remains one of Canada' s most influential intellectuals. This volume provides an in-depth examination of Frye's work on a range of literary questions, periods and genres,... -
Bolder Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem by Frank M. Tierney 9780776604831
RRP: $19.34$16.19A growing number of literary historians and critics now recognize the contemporary long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This collection of essays leads the reader to a deeper understanding of Canadian literary cultures in terms of their local... -
Curative Illnesses: Medico-National Allegory in Quebecois Fiction by Julie Robert 9780773547056
$130.03During a time of uncertainty over collective identity and social transformation, Quebec novels started getting sick - after 1940, the number of narratives about illness, disease, and sick characters intensified. For the last seventy years, generations of... -
From Cohen to Carson: The Poet's Novel in Canada by Ian Rae 9780773532762
$140.07How Canadian poets re-invented the novel.Book InformationISBN 9780773532762Author Ian RaeFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's University PressWeight(grams) 740g -
Battle Lines: Canadian Poetry in English and the First World War by Joel Baetz 9781771123198
RRP: $99.33$81.12For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions about the legacy of the period's poetry, and booksellers were told it was their duty to stock shelves with... -
Literary Celebrity in Canada by Lorraine York 9781487521394
RRP: $30.95$27.83In 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: $30.95$27.83Apologies 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 -
Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture by Paul Huebener 9780773545991
$52.41From punch clocks to prison sentences, from immigration waiting periods to controversial time-zone boundaries, from Indigenous grave markers that count time in centuries rather than years, to the fact that free time is shrinking faster for women than for... -
Refereeing Identity: The Cultural Work of Canadian Hockey Novels by Michael Buma 9780773539884
$36.93Hockey novels in Canada have emerged and thrived as a popular fiction genre, building on the mythology of Canadian hockey as a rough, testosterone-fuelled bastion of masculinity. However, recent decades have also been a period of uncertainty and change... -
Blowing up the Skirt of History: Recovered and Reanimated Plays by Early Canadian Women Dramatists, 1876-1920 by Kym Bird 9780228003311
RRP: $116.10$90.76From 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... -
Bronwen Wallace: Essays on Her Worksvolume 55 by Wanda Campbell 9781771837422
RRP: $20.58$15.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771837422Author Wanda CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Guernica EditionsPublisher Guernica EditionsWeight(grams) 127g -
Bearers of Risk: Writing Masculinity in Contemporary English-Canadian Short Story Cycles by Neta Gordon 9780228010739
RRP: $109.65$85.32The short story and the short story cycle have long been considered a marginal genre, free to make room for fresh or risk-taking voices. But in thematizing masculinity in crisis, the premise of the marginal is used to elevate recuperative masculinity... -
White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada by Daniel Coleman 9780802096425
RRP: $42.57$38.69In 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
$76.48In 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...