«C’est l’air de fin d’été qui me donne les blues. La plupart des jeunes venus travailler en Huronie pour la saison estivale sont repartis et la région prend un coup de vieux. Je prends un coup de vieux. Moi, je reste, car c’est fini le...
Canadian literature
- Author:Roy, JoëlleSummary:
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Sport 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...
- Author:Cawthorne, Jane, Morin, E. D.Summary:
The Writing Menopause literary anthology is a diverse and robust collection about menopause: a highly charged and often undervalued transformation. It includes over fifty works of fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry,...
- Author:Leith, LindaSummary:
Montreal was the literary centre of Canada in the 1940s, a hotbed of literary activity in both English and French crowned by the international success of Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes and Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute. With...
- Author:Melnyk, George, Coates, DonnaSummary:
Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta...
- Author:Ghaffar, AsherSummary:
“In the age of increasing surveillance of borders, the border is where every thing significant occurs; map the border and you begin to understand the pulse of a nation,” Asher Ghaffar writes in the introduction to wasps in a golden...
- Author:Collette, Jean YvesSummary:
Les cent soixante et onze récits de ce recueil de faits curieux et de mise en relief de la quotidienneté éclairent le dessous des choses. Jean Yves Collette surprend par la diversité de ses registres : de l’intime à l’universel, du...
- Author:Garner, Hugh, Stuewe, Paul, Reaney, James, Filewod, Alan, Skelton, Robin, Warkentin, Germaine, Symons, Scott, Elson, ChristopherSummary:
Voyageur Classics is a series of special versions of Canadian classics, with added material and new introductions. In this bundle we find five classic works of twentieth century fiction, drama and poetry, a period when Canada’s literary...
- Author:Smith, A. J. M., Gnarowski, Michael, Roberts, Charles G. D., Polk, JamesSummary:
Voyageur Classics is a series of new versions of Canadian classics, with added material and special introductions. In this bundle we find two classic works of the art of the Canadian essay. Charles G. D. Roberts was a distinguished...
- Author:Brockwell, StephenSummary:
From the moment we learn to speak we are always using other people’s words. the real made up improvises on this simple idea of imitation; mimicry becomes a kind of cadence for an interweaving of transcribed speech, ironic song...
- Author:Knox, MichaelSummary:
With The North End Poems, his always vivid new collection, Michael Knox has further honed his lucid, accessible style. In the tradition of The Collected Works of Billy the Kid, Michael Ondaatje’s classic book-length...
- Author:Carpenter, DavidSummary:
Saskatchewan's literary history is both colourful and complex. It is also mature enough to deserve a critical investigation of its roots and origins, its salient features and its prominent players. This collection of scholarly essays,...
- Author:Carpenter, DavidSummary:
Progressions presents another batch of erudite and entertaining essays on a variety of topics covering Saskatchewan's literary development, as well as tributes to some of the major contributors to that history, and a pictorial...
- Author:Carpenter, David, Riess, Kelly-AnneSummary:
Volume 3 shifts its focus to Regina's literary culture and to the coming generation of younger writers, but it continues to examine the best work from Saskatchewan. The impact, the relevance, the illuminations of our best writers...
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- Author:Twigg, AlanSummary:
From Franz Boas to Alice Munro: welcome to an unprecedented panorama of the most significant authors and books of British Columbia culled from Alan Twigg's unrivalled knowledge of more than two centuries of B.C. literary history. The...
- Author:Neuhaus, MareikeSummary:
In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to...
- Author:Neuhaus, MareikeSummary:
By uncovering residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English, Mareike Neuhaus shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as literatures in their own right.
- Author:Guy, RaySummary:
That Far Greater Bay is the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal winning collection (1977) of Ray Guy’s best and most vitriolic articles that have appeared in newspapers and magazines countrywide. Aunt Cissy Roach, Sylvester Codpiece...