CK - Canadian 1

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Canada witnessed an explosion in the production of literary works by Aboriginal writers, a development that some critics have called the Native Renaissance. In Bef……続きを見る

Black Canadian women must constantly incorporate changes to their identities to face the challenges of living in a multicultural society. Naturally Woman: The Search for Self in Black Canadian Women……続きを見る

This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay’s best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Méira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, qu……続きを見る

Les pirates du golfe St-Laurent est un roman canadien d'aventures du romancier, conteur et dramaturge Wenceslas-Eugène Dick (1848 – 1919). Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dynamiqu……続きを見る

Des esprits chagrins m’ont dit : « Pourquoi exprimer sous une forme fantaisiste des idées que vous croyez justes et intéressantes ? La critique souffre de ces frivolités et ce ton léger diminue la v……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

The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”ーan international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012ーposed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writer……続きを見る

A comedy set in Winnipeg during the 1919 General Strike, Striker Schneiderman was first presented in 1970 at the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto. Its protagonist, Moische Schneiderman, i……続きを見る

This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts. It featur……続きを見る

The study of Montreal as a specific location in French and English writings has long been subordinated to the demands of linguistically divided and politically contentious narratives about national ……続きを見る

Intégrer les archives d’un écrivain – ses carnets, son journal personnel, sa correspondance, les avant-textes de ses œuvres publiées, voire ses notes de lecture – dans l’analyse de son œuvre canoniq……続きを見る

The study of Montreal as a specific location in French and English writings has long been subordinated to the demands of linguistically divided and politically contentious narratives about national ……続きを見る

Dans L’art d’être juste (1995), Martha Nussbaum invitait à ce qu’on confronte l’imagination littéraire à l’économie. Cette invitation semble avoir été entendue. Dans Le capital au XXIe siècle (2013)……続きを見る

In Ballast to the White Sea is Malcolm Lowry’s most ambitious work of the mid-1930s. Inspired by his life experience, the novel recounts the story of a Cambridge undergraduate who aspires to be a wr……続きを見る

Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the d……続きを見る

Arcing across thirty years and seven volumes, Jan Zwicky’s poetry has always been acutely musical (and sensitive to the silence out of which music comes). In the compositions in Chamber Music, the f……続きを見る

The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the United States and Canada. But seldom have the voices em……続きを見る

Sinclair Ross (1908-1996), best known for his canonical novel As for Me and My House (1941), and for such familiar short stories as "The Lamp at Noon" and "The Painted Door," is an elusive figure in……続きを見る

Keepers of the Code explores the complex network of associations and negotiations that influenced the development of literary anthologies in English Canada from 1837 to the present. Lecker shows tha……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

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

The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range……続きを見る

Biff and whiff, baker’s fog and lu’sknikn, pie social and milling frolic – these are just a few examples of the distinctive language of Cape Breton Island, where a puck is a forceful blow and a Cape……続きを見る

In Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law, Cheryl Suzack explores Indigenous women’s writing in the post-civil rights period through close-reading analysis of major texts by Leslie……続きを見る

Au moment où nous le mettons en scène, Georges Labrosse a vingt ans. Il vient de terminer, au Séminaire de Québec, des études qui n’ont été ni brillantes, ni mauvaises : ー ce qu’on est convenu d’ap……続きを見る

“The most important book to be written in more than 40 years about the rise of Canadian literature… Arrival: The Story of CanLit brims and crackles, in equal measure, with information and energy.” ……続きを見る

As the centenary of the Great War approaches, citizens worldwide are reflecting on the history, trauma, and losses of a war-torn twentieth century. It is in remembering past wars that we are at once……続きを見る

Is there a Canadian sense of humour? How can we write with more humour? And what can humour writing teach us about ourselves? These are questions explored in What’s So Funny? Lessons from Canada’s L……続きを見る

The 1940 Under the Volcanoーhidden for too long in the shadows of Lowry’s 1947 masterpieceーdiffers from the latter in significant ways. It is a bridge between Lowry’s 1930s fiction (especially In B……続きを見る

The legacy of the residential school system ripples throughout Native Canada, its fingerprints on the domestic violence, poverty, alcoholism, drug abuse, and suicide rates that continue to cripple m……続きを見る