The Burgess Shale

By (author) Margaret Atwood
Categories: Literature: history and criticism
Series: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series

Margaret Atwood compares the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that contains the fossils of many strange prehistoric life forms. The Burgess Shale is ...

Confluences 1

Edited by Nurjehan Aziz
Categories: Literature: history and criticism

These essays begin an examination of some of the most exciting new writing to emerge in Canada in the last four decades, following the postcolonial wave of immigration of the 1960s and ’70s. Employing ...

Where the Truth Lies

By (author) Rudy Wiebe
Categories: Literature: history and criticism

Rudy Wiebe was born in 1934 near Fairholme, SK. He has published 25 books, including the Governor General’s Award-winning The Temptations of Big Bear and A Discovery of Strangers. His latest novel is ...

Dictionary of Cape Breton English

By (author) William John Davey & Richard P. MacKinnon
Categories: Encyclopaedias and reference works

“A most welcome addition to the study of regional lexis in Canada. This book enriches the historical perspective in Canadian English and offers readers, at long last, a point of departure into the vocabulary ...

Learn, Teach, Challenge

Edited by Deanna Reder & Linda M. Morra
Categories: Higher education, tertiary education
Series: Indigenous Studies

This is a collection of classic and newly commissioned essays about the study of Indigenous literatures in North America. The contributing scholars include some of the most venerable Indigenous theorists, ...

Plotting the Reading Experience

Edited by Kjell Ivar Skjerdingstad, Knut Oterholm, Lynne (E.F.) McKechnie & Paulette M. Rothbauer
Categories: Language readers

This book is about the experience of reading–what reading feels like, how it makes people feel, how people read and under what conditions, what drives people to read, and, conversely, what halts the ...

Canadian Graphic

Edited by Candida Rifkind & Linda Warley
Categories: Literature: history and criticism
Series: Life Writing

Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw ...

Archetypes from Underground

By (author) Lonny Harrison
Categories: Literary Criticism

Uncovers archetypal imagery in Dostoevsky’s works ad argues that archetypes bring a new dimension to our understanding and appreciation of his works.

In this interdisciplinary study, Harrison analyzes ...

Nino Ricci

Edited by Marino Tuzi
Categories: Literature: history and criticism
Series: Essential Writers Series

This book of essays examines the fictional work of Nino Ricci from a variety of critical perspectives. These perspectives include ideas about literature, culture, identity, politics, and society in terms ...

Clark Blaise

Edited by J.R. (Tim) Struthers
Categories: Literature: history and criticism
Series: Essential Writers Series

This volume represents the first full-scale appreciation of Clark Blaise’s writing in more than 25 years—and the first comprehensive study of his now more than 20 books. Included are previously published ...