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  • Public Poetics

    Critical Issues in Canadian Poetry and Poetics

    Serier serie TransCanada
    Public Poetics is a collection of essays and poems that address some of the most pressing issues of the discipline in the twenty-first century. The collection brings together fifteen original essays addressing “publics,” “poetry,” and “poetics” from the situated space of Canada while simultaneously troubling the notion of the nation as a stable term. It asks hard questions about who and what count ... Læs mere

    213,74 kr.

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    The Complete Letters to Stephen Harper

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    A compendium of 101 book recommendations from Booker Prize–winning author Yann Martel (Life of Pi) to Prime Minister Stephen Harper—each with an accompanying letter, together probing the question: what sort of mind, nourished by what, do we want our leaders to have?Politely and unfailingly, every two weeks for almost four years, Yann Martel sent Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper a book and ... Læs mere

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  • Attack of the Copula Spiders

    Essays on Writing

    appropriate for both academics and general readersuseful as a teaching tool for creative writing instructors (university or advanced high school groups)written by a professional writer who has taught creative writing for over 20 yearsexamples of bad student writing may amuse teachers of Englishby the author of the bestselling Elle (2003), shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and winner ... Læs mere

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  • At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

    A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan

    Redigeret af John Moss, Linda M. Morra ...
    Serier serie Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    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 standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background ... Læs mere

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  • We Share Our Matters

    Two Centuries of Writing and Resistance at Six Nations of the Grand River

    af Rick Monture ...
    The 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 understand its enduring intellectual traditions.Rick Monture’s We Share Our Matters offers the first comprehensive portrait of how the Haudenosaunee ... Læs mere

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  • Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old

    New Directions from Old

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    Serier serie Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye remains one of Canada's most influential intellectuals. This reappraisal reasserts the relevance of his work to the study of literature and illuminates its fruitful intersection with a variety of other fields, including film, cultural studies, linguistics, and feminism. Many of the contributors draw upon the early ... Læs mere

    133,61 kr.

  • The Dusty Bookcase

    A Journey Through Canada's Forgotten, Neglected and Suppressed Writing

    af Brian Busby ...
    Largely drawn from his columns for Canadian Notes & Queries and entries in his popular blog by the same name, Brian Busby's The Dusty Bookcase explores the fascinating world of Canada's lesser-known literary efforts: works that suffered censorship, critical neglect, or brilliant yet fleeting notoriety. These rare and quirky totems of Canadiana, collected over the last three decades, form a travel ... Læs mere

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  • The False Laws of Narrative

    The Poetry of Fred Wah

    af Fred Wah ...
    Serier serie Laurier Poetry
    The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the poets entire poetic trajectory to date. A founding editor of Tish magazine, Wah was influenced by leading progressive and innovative poets of the 1960s and was at the forefront of the exploration of racial hybridity, multiculturalism, and transnational family roots in poetry. The selection emphasizes his innovative poetic ... Læs mere

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  • Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer

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    Best Books of 2005, Ottawa XpressWriter's Trust of Canada's "Warm Weather Reads Recommended by Writers" list (recommended by Robert Hough)Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer is equal parts literary memoir, advice for the emerging writer, and reckless tirade. Ross has been active in the Canadian literary underground for a quarter of a century: he?s sold thousands of his books in the streets, ... Læs mere

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  • Robertson Davies Reconsidered (From the Vault: UTQ Special Collections)

    This volume is a collection of papers that had their origin in a symposium called ‘Reconsiderations of Robertson Davies,’ which took place at Massey College, University of Toronto. Davies helped found Massey and he served as its first master (1963–81). Prior to this role, Davies had (after an abortive career as an actor) been known to the Canadian public as a journalist, a witty and satiric ... Læs mere

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  • The Age of Confession/L'Âge de la confession

    Stories shape the world, imposing order on chaos, and the stories we tell declare: I exist. Neil Bissoondath presses these assertions about narrative further. Stories are also, he says, forms of confession. Each time we tell a story, we reveal a little about our experiences, dreams, fears, desires, and fantasies. Unlike governments, which try to control and simplify narrative, fiction writers use ... Læs mere

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  • Apostate Englishman

    Grey Owl the Writer and the Myths

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    In the 1930s Grey Owl was considered the foremost conservationist and nature writer in the world. He owed his fame largely to his four internationally bestselling books, which he supported with a series of extremely popular illustrated lectures across North America and Great Britain. His reputation was transformed radically, however, after he died in April 1938, and it was revealed that he was not ... Læs mere

    167,11 kr.