Louise Till, mother of two, has inherited her father's hardware store after her parents' unexpected deaths. She begins to cut copies of her customers' keys for herself, each one a talisman against grief and the terrible guilt she feels at not having realized that her parents were desperately unhappy.Louise could use the keys, but she doesn't. Not until her life is overturned, again, when her marriage falls apart. Lou gives in to temptation, letting herself into Euphemia Rosenbaum's...

The driving impulse of Amy LeBlanc's new collection of poetry, I used to live here, is an examination of chronic illness, disability, and autoimmunity. The collection also aims to find moments of magic and ritual within the experience of illness and to find new metaphors for illness and autoimmunity that do not rely on militarization, self-cannibalism, or suicide. LeBlanc thinks deeply about autoimmunity and the poetic representations of the body that self-destructs and that canno...

Winner of the 2020 Lieutenant Governor of Alberta's Emerging Artist Award, and shortlisted for the 2021 Alberta Literary Awards Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry, Amy LeBlanc’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know, resides in the intersection of folklore and femininity. With fairy-tale lucidity and fluid voice, the poems in this collection weave through the seams between story and fact. This debut collection is alluring and noxious like hemlock, foxglove,...

Amy LeBlanc’s debut poetry collection, I know something you don’t know, resides in the intersection of folklore and femininity. With fairy-tale lucidity and fluid voice, the poems in this collection weave through the seams between story and fact. This debut collection is alluring and noxious like hemlock, foxglove, and blooming wildflowers.

"Homebodies will leave readers entertained and enlightened—and maybe a little terrified." — Literary Review of Canada"LeBlanc surprises and disturbs, to the reader's intense anguish - in this collection's case, a good thing." — Winnipeg Free Press"Original, inherently fascinating, and with a narrative storytelling style that is ideal for Gothic fiction and the short story format… a highly recommended pick." — Midwest Book ReviewHomebodies is an uncanny...

This book is a collection of 13 essays centering on supernatural serials such as television programs, video games, anime, and manga, featuring teen protagonists and marketed to teen audiences. These essays provide discussions of characters in teen supernatural serials who disrupt white, cisgender social narratives, and addresses possible ways that the on-screen depictions of these characters, who may be POC or LGBTQIA+, can lead to additional discussions of more accurate representations of...

As the podcast studies field continues to gain momentum both within academia and in practice, scholars have been mapping and exploring the podcasting landscape from a variety of perspectives. This edited volume highlights the diverse spaces that podcasts embody and create, amplifying the unique and understudied perspectives and voices of podcasting. Through a multitude of interdisciplinary approaches, contributors explore the various cultural, racial, and identity-based markers undergirdin...

This edited collection explores the malleability and influence of body image, focusing particularly on how media representation and popular culture’s focus on the body exacerbates the crucial social influence these representations can have on audiences’ perceptions of themselves and others. Contributors investigate the cultural context and lived experiences of individuals’ relationships with their bodies, going beyond examination of the thin, ideal body type to explore the emerging represe...

1864 - 2014 150 and de Maurice LeblancChers lecteurs, nous allons vous présenter dans cette collection des inédits d'Arsène Lupin,des textes (nouvelles, pièces de théâtre, émissions radiophoniques) de Maurice Leblanc, qui sans être de réels inédits, n'ont pas été republiés, ou parfois ont été égarés, pour chaque texte nous vous donnerons les raisons de nos choix.Deux nouvelles de Maurice Leblanc parues dans le journal « L'auto » sous la série des contes du soleil et...

Lorsqu'un comte dans la grande tradition de la noblesse et une charmante comtesse, viennent rendre service à un vieux duc, il peut y avoir anguille sous roche...De même que la nouvelle Un Gentleman, publiée par notre site, ce très court texte apparaît comme un autre préfiguration de celui qui deviendra le gentleman cambrioleur, Arsène Lupin.

Le diagnostic prénatal s'entend des pratiques médicales, y compris l'échographie obstétricale et fœtale, ayant pour but de détecter in utero chez l'embryon ou le fœtus une affection d'une particulière gravité. La réactualisation des lois de bioéthique a bien montré l'intérêt du législateur et l'importance que la société attache à l'exercice d'une médecine fœtale de qualité. Les potentielles retombées médico-légales de cet exercice à haut risque, la formidable évolution du diagnostic prénat...