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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 esp……続きを見る

Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) and Anne of Green Gables will always be associated with Prince Edward Island, Montgomery's childhood home and the setting of her most famous novels. Yet, after marry……続きを見る

Best Books of 2005, Ottawa Xpress Writer'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 lite……続きを見る

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 difficul……続きを見る

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 con……続きを見る

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 se……続きを見る

Memory Serves gathers together the oratories award-winning author Lee Maracle has delivered and performed over a twenty-year period. Revised for publication, the lectures hold the features and style……続きを見る

Free Audiobook Links In all, this volume is comprised of the following works: 1 ANNE OF GREEN GABLES 2 ANNE OF AVONLEA 3 ANNE OF THE ISLAND 4 Anne's House of Dreams 5 RAINBOW VALLEY 6 Rilla of Ingle……続きを見る

Not Needing all the Words looks at Ondaatje's work in relation to the post-Cartesian idea of the modern subject as split and alienated. Highlighting the distinction between aesthesis and logic, Hill……続きを見る

Rains, a former soldier in the Napoleonic Wars, immigrated to Canada at the same period as Susanna Moodie and Catharine Parr Traill. He brought with him his wards, sisters Frances and Elizabeth. The……続きを見る

What makes Anne of Green Gables an international, time-honoured classic? International audiences have described reading L.M. Montgomery's most celebrated novel as an experience in enchantment. Balan……続きを見る

Vous perdez votre temps à écrire ce livre, m’a dit un assez bon juge en littérature, il renferme certainement quelques beautés et vous n’êtes pas sans aucun mérite d’oser, le premier en Canada, fair……続きを見る

Literature not only represents Canada as “our home and native land” but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented……続きを見る

Explores how traditional notions of citizenship are contested and altered through literature. Literature has always played a central role in creating and disseminating culturally specific notions of……続きを見る

For decades, the field of Mennonite literature has been dominated by the question of Mennonite identity. After Identity interrogates this prolonged preoccupation and explores the potential to move b……続きを見る

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The essays in this volume, writ……続きを見る

Northrop Frye's long career made him Canada's most creative public intellectual. A century after his birth, his many books demonstrate a powerful vision of the resources of the human imagination. Fr……続きを見る

From punch clocks to prison sentences, from immigration waiting periods to controversial time-zone boundaries, from Indigenous grave markers that count time in centuries rather than years, to the fa……続きを見る

C’est une pratique qui ne manque pas de sagesse que de vouloir mettre ordre à ses affaires dès l’approche de la vieillesse : le soir de la vie doit être employé à liquider ses comptes. C’est pourquo……続きを見る

Poet, philosopher, translator, typographer, and cultural historian Robert Bringhurst is a modern-day Renaissance man. He has forged a career from diverse but interwoven vocations, finding ways to ma……続きを見る

Throughout her literary and critical career, Canadian writer Carol Shields (1935–2003) resisted simple categorization. Her novels are elegant puzzles that confront the reader with the ambiguity of m……続きを見る

During a time of uncertainty over collective identity and social transformation, Quebec novels started getting sick – after 1940, the number of narratives about illness, disease, and sick characters……続きを見る

Il ne faut pas juger : ce n’est pas l’envie qui manque ni le motif, vous l’avouerez quand j’aurai conté l’histoire d’Armandine. L’ai-je bien connue ? J’en fus sans doute empêché, cette femme pittore……続きを見る

DANS le va-et-vient silencieux des garçons au pas rapide et feutré, le murmure discret des verres et des assiettes, les arrivées et les départs de clients, le maëstro, de son archet sentimental, fai……続きを見る

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 understand……続きを見る

This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put toge……続きを見る

Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer takes up where Stuart Ross’s Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer left off in 2005. Memoir, tirade, unsolicited advice ー this new volume is drawn la……続きを見る

"Sustainable development is, for government and industry at least, primarily a way of turning trees into lumber, tar into oil, and critique into consent; a way to defend the status quo of growth at ……続きを見る

La vallée de la Matapédia est un ouvrage historique et descriptif du journaliste, homme de lettres et fonctionnaire québécois Arthur Buies (1840 – 1901). Extrait : La vallée de la Matapédia est une ……続きを見る

Imagining Care brings literature and philosophy into dialogue by examining caregiving in literature by contemporary Canadian writers alongside ethics of care philosophy. Through close readings of fi……続きを見る