Literature: history and criticism

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Activating the Heart

Activating the Heart explores how storytelling engages and builds new interconnections between people and their histories, environments, and cultural geographies. It focuses on the significance of storytelling ...

L'espace-temps dans les littératures périphériques du Canada

Dans les littératures francophones du Canada, l’espace — que ce soit la ville, la campagne, la banlieue, la forêt, le Nord — a été depuis longtemps étudié et le temps a lui aussi été traité. ...

Le centenaire d'Anne Hébert

On a beaucoup lu Anne Hébert, et sans doute beaucoup écrit sur elle. Pourtant, les nouvelles contributions réunies ici montrent qu’on est encore loin d’avoir épuisé toute la richesse et les subtilités ...

De l'amour et de l'audace

Si l’entre-deux-guerres constitue le point de bascule de la littérature canadienne-française dans la modernité, cela s’explique en partie par la présence de plus en plus marquée des femmes dans ...

Le sacrifice et le don

Il s’agit du cinquième titre de la collection Archipel de l’Association des professeurs des littératures acadienne et québécoise de l’Atlantique. Précédées de deux textes inédits des écrivaines ...

Mixing Memory & Desire

The last soldier who saw trench action in the Great War died in 2009. With his passing, all direct memory of the horror of that war ceased—memory became history. But Brian Kennedy argues that our collective ...

Desire Lines

Desire Lines features an eclectic collection of Toronto writer/poet Ewan Whyte’s astute essays and reviews on art, poetry, and culture, both high and low. Among the subjects included: the Roman poet ...

J. J. Steinfeld

A critical look at Prince Edward Island writer J. J. Steinfeld’s extensive and prolific writings in poetry, fiction, and theatre, ranging from his early work on Holocaust themes to his later examinations ...

Margaret Laurence Writes Africa and Canada

Examines how Margaret Laurence addresses decolonization and nation building in 1950s Somalia and Ghana, and 1960s and 1970s English Canada. Focusing on Laurence’s published works as well as her unpublished ...

Robert Kroetsch

Nicole Markotić is a novelist, critic, and poet. Her books include: Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot, Bent at the Spine, and Whelmed. She is professor of English Literature, Creative Writing, and Canadian ...