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'membering austin clarke
A collection of reflections, anecdotes, essays, and interviews on Austin Clarke's life and writing that gives long overdue attention to the importance of Clarke’s contributions to the development of Canada’s literary canon.
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A journey in translation
This book explores the amazing journey of Anne Hébert’s writing into English by people “in the middle” of the process of editing, publishing, distributing, and preservation.
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Argimou
Valorizing his Mi'kmaq protagonist, Argimou, and using European/aboriginal conflicts of 1755 as a literary catalyst, Huyghue plunges his protagonists into a Maritime captivity tale-journey of natural & human dangers. The novel ends as it began with Huyghue/Argimou mourning the loss of aborigi...
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Attack of the copula spiders
Vitriolic and incisive, Douglas Glover's newest essays defend literature against the assaults of a post-literate age.
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Autobiography as indigenous intellectual tradition
Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the Indigenous practice of life writing. Since the 1970s non-Indigenous ...
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Avant canada
Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and supporting creative works on a representative array of Canadian, literary avant-garde movements from the past 50 years. Featuring 28 of the best writers and critics in the field, it offers an essential overview of the past, present, a...
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Big american writer
Big American Writer recasts Jack Kerouac as an ethnic, bilingual author, demonstrating that his French Canadian upbringing and background were formative to his breakthrough literary achievements.
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Canadian graphic
Critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. Draws on literary theory, visual studies, and cultural history to ask why and how Canadian cartoonists have become so prominent in the international market for comic boo...
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Conversations with trotsky
Conversations with Trotsky provides a unique insight into Canadian Trotskyism during the Radical 1930s through an original collection of Birney’s work.
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In ballast to the white sea
This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss in a fire. In fact, the typescript itself has probably been read by at most a dozen people since Lowry scholars learned that ...
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Malcolm lowry's poetics of space
Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space offers a collection of exciting, new, and often controversial readings which seek to readdress not only Lowry’s master work, Under the Volcano, but also many of his other writings.
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Meet me on the barricades
Meet Me on the Barricades is a hallucinatory, comic novel about leftism, modernism, and the Spanish Civil War. It features a “guileless” protagonist whose weak heart means that, instead of fighting on the battlefields of Spain, he daydreams about life as a soldier.
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Moving archives
The image of the dusty, undisturbed archive has been swept away in response to growing interest across disciplines in the materials they house and the desire to find and make meaning through an engagement with those materials. Archival studies scholars and archivists are developing related theore...
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Space between her lips
This book presents some of the most vibrant, exciting, and intellectually challenging poetry in Canada. Christakos plays language games that bring a probing and disturbing humour to perfectly serious themes that range from childhood and children to women in contemporary techno-capitalist society ...
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Swinging the maelstrom
An annotated scholarly edition including versions of the Malcolm Lowry novella that at different times was titled “The Last Address”, “Swinging the Maelstrom” and “Lunar Caustic.”
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The 1940 under the volcano
Malcolm Lowry 1940 Under the Volcano has been regarded too often as little more than Lowry’s blueprint – though a tentative one at best – for his 1947 masterwork, Under the Volcano. It has never been adequately considered in terms of Lowry’s work that preceded it, or been fully critically edited ...
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The collected poems of miriam waddington
This anthology brings together, for the first time, the complete published works of Jewish Canadian poet Miriam Waddington and features a rare selection of previously unpublished poems.
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The complete review guide to contemporary world fiction
Profiling hundreds of titles and authors from 1945 to today, this reference provides a fascinating portal into the styles, trends, and genres of the world’s literatures. Arranged by region, country, and language, entries illuminate the fiction of individual nations and cultures, while concise bio...
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The contemporary leonard cohen
Essay collection on Leonard Cohen's work organized by the concept of “the contemporary,” which helps to explain Cohen’s staying power and existential depth. The chapters offer related but diverse perspectives—historical, artistic, spiritual—on his songs, poems, novels, and drawings, and examine h...
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Tiff
In this first full biography of award-winning author Timothy Findley, Sherrill Grace uses his diaries and letters, interviews, and archival materials, and examines his award-winning novels, plays, stories, and non-fiction to draw points of departure and development from Findley’s life and work.
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Translocated modernisms
Translocated Modernisms focuses on the other lost generations of expatriates from modernism’s global peripheries—principally but not exclusively from Canada—who travelled to and through Paris in the early to mid-20th century.
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Violence against indigenous women
Violence against Indigenous women in Canada is an ongoing crisis. This book explores how Indigenous women writers and storytellers are addressing the problem. Analyzing the work of poets, playwrights, filmmakers, and fiction-writers, Hargreaves examines how contemporary literature illuminates new...
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