While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of...
Literary Criticism
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Author:Mancini, DonatoSummary: -
Author:Smith, PattiSummary:From the National Book Award-winning author of Just Kids and M Train, a profound, beautifully realized memoir in which dreams and reality are vividly woven into a tapestry of one transformative year. Following a run of New Year's...
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Author:Coady, Lynn, Kennedy, PaulSummary:“We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there’s one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it.” What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally...
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Author:Hargreaves, AllisonSummary:Indigenous communities have been organizing against violence since newcomers first arrived, but the cases of missing and murdered women have only recently garnered broad public attention. Violence Against Indigenous Women joins the...
- Author:Blais, CatherineSummary:
Au début du XXe siècle, la bicyclette, l'automobile et l'avion s'imposent dans le paysage des grandes métropoles occidentales. S'ils sont, pour tous, des symboles de vitesse, de liberté et d'indépendance, ces...
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Author:Steiner, GeorgeSummary:Acclaimed literary critic George Steiner on two of the literary canon's greatest and most influential writers "Literary criticism," writes Steiner, "should arise out of a debt of love." Abiding by his own rule,...
- Author:Mackay, PeterSummary:
This Strange Lonelinessis the first comprehensive account of the poetic relationship between Seamus Heaney and William Wordsworth. Peter Mackay explores how Heaney repeatedly turns to the Romantic poet's work for inspiration,...
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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:Dolzani, MichaelSummary:
Myth criticism flourished in the mid-twentieth century under the powerful influence of Canadian thinker Northrop Frye. It asserted the need to identify common, unifying patterns in literature, arts, and religion. Although it was...
- Author:Gabaldon, DianaSummary:
More than a decade ago, #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon delighted her legions of fans with The Outlandish Companion, an indispensable guide to all the Outlander books at the time. But that edition was just a taste of...
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#1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon has captivated millions of readers with her critically acclaimed Outlander novels, the inspiration for the Starz original series. From the moment Claire Randall stepped through a...
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Author:OvidSummary:Through Mandelbaum's poetic artistry, this gloriously entertaining achievement of literature-classical myths filtered through the worldly and far from reverent sensibility of the Roman poet Ovid-is revealed anew. "[An]...
- Author:Zaleski, Philip, Zaleski, CarolSummary:
A stirring group biography of the Inklings, the Oxford writing club featuring J.R.R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis C.S. Lewis is the twentieth century's most widely read Christian writer and J.R.R. Tolkien its most beloved mythmaker. For...
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Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:“The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It’s always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you’re in your teens, a decade...
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Author:Levi, PrimoSummary:The Black Hole of Auschwitz brings together Levi's writings on the Holocaust and his experiences of the concentration camp, as well as those on his own accidental status as a writer and his chosen profession of chemist. In this...
- Author:Brun, Catherine, Le Corre, Élisabeth, Doré, Antoine, Hamidi-Kim, Bérénice, Ruset, Séverine, Guay, Hervé, Lafrance, Maude B., Guyez, Marion, Barut, BenoîtSummary:
Depuis l'annonce de la « mort de l'auteur » par Roland Barthes en 1968, employer le terme d'« auteur » et, avec lui, celui d'« autorité » sur l'oeuvre, est devenu sujet à polémiques. L'idée d'un auteur...
- Author:Queyras, SinaSummary:
From LAMBDA Literary Award winner Sina Queyras, Rooms offers a peek into the defining spaces a young queer writer moved through as they found their way from a life of chaos to a life of the mind Thirty years ago, a professor threw a...
- Author:Lee, PhilipSummary:
Entre le Québec et le Nouveau-Brunswick s'étend une rivière majestueuse aux eaux d'une rare transparence, aux imposantes berges boisées, où foisonne une population de saumon qui en a fait un lieu prisé des animaux et des hommes...
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Author:Good, AlexSummary:As the former editor of Canadian Notes & Queries, the world's preeminent magazine of Canadian literary and cultural criticism, Alex Good has established himself as an expert on the Canadian novel. In this book, which weaves...
- Author:GREY, Stephen (Editor)Summary:
A spellbinding and varied line-up of recollections of the star turn of the 20th-century South African literary scene, Remembering Bosman: Herman Charles Bosman Recollected includes detailed memoirs of four of Bosman’s keepers...
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