A collection of quotations from Canada’s greatest literary theorist. "There is no Canadian writer of whom we can say … that their readers can grow up inside their work without ever being aware of...
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Author: Colombo, John Robert, O'Grady, Jean, Frye, NorthropSummary:
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Author: Rampton, DavidSummary:
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...
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Author: Denham, Robert D., Lynch, Gerald, Ganz, Shoshannah, Kealey, JosepheneSummary:
Eminent 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...
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Author: Frye, Northrop, Moore, LisaSummary:
"Any publication by Northrop Frye is an important literary event; this one is of the highest importance to Canadian literature." — Globe and MailOriginally published by Anansi in 1971, The Bush...
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Author: Frye, NorthropSummary:
"Any publication by Northrop Frye is an important literary event; this one is of the highest importance to Canadian literature." - Globe and Mail Originally published by Anansi in 1971, The Bush...
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Author: Manguel, AlbertoSummary:
In 1943, Northrop Frye wrote a paper, left unfinished, on "the state of the world." His ideas of what to expect after the end of the war and the role that literature might play in a time of peace...
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Author: Bissoondath, NeilSummary:
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...
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Author: Frye, NorthropSummary:
"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?" Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous...
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
The fifty essays in Second Words span the period from 1962 to 1980 and reveal Margaret Atwood's views on feminism, Canadian literature, the creative process, nationalism, sexism, as well as...
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Author: Soper, Ella, Bradley, NicholasSummary:
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to...
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Author: Richards, David AdamsSummary:
In this provocative essay, David Adams Richards brings together his ideas about writing -- how great works of literature are created, the writer's essential position as an outsider, and the...
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Author: Gilmour, DavidSummary:
From the 2005 winner of the Governor-General’s Award for Fiction and the former national film critic for CBC television comes a delightful and absorbing book about the agonies and joys of home-...
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Author: Gilmour, DavidSummary:
Like a tourist visiting his own life, David Gilmour’s narrator journeys in time to reexamine those critical moments that created him. He revisits the terrible hurt of a first love, the shock of a...
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Literary Titans Revisited The Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties
Author: Urbancic, AnneSummary:Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s. From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers...
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Author: Gilmour, DavidSummary:
Like a tourist visiting his own life, David Gilmour's narrator journeys in time to reexamine those critical moments that created him. He revisits the terrible hurt of a first love, the shock of a...