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  • Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend

    Australian women's war fictions

    by Donna Coates ...
    Series series Sydney Studies in Australian Literature
    War is traditionally considered a male experience. By extension, the genre of war literature is a male-dominated field, and the tale of the battlefield remains the privileged (and only canonised) war story.In Australia, although women have written extensively about their wartime experiences, their voices have been distinctively silenced. Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend calls for a re ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Sharon Pollock

    First Woman of Canadian Theatre

    by Donna Coates, Kathy K. Y. Chung, Carmen Derksen, Sherrill Grace, Martin Morrow, Jeton Neziraj ...
    Series Book 8 - The West
    As playwright, actor, director, teacher, mentor, theatre administrator, and critic, Sharon Pollock has played an integral role in the shaping of Canada's national theatre tradition, and she continues to produce new works and to contribute to Canadian theatre as passionately as she has done over the past fifty years. Pollock is nationally and internationally respected for her work and support of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Writing Alberta

    Building on a Literary Identity

    Edited by George Melnyk, Donna Coates ...
    Series Book 10 - The West
    Alberta writing has a long tradition. Beginning with the pictographs of Writing-on-Stone, followed by Euro-Canadian exploration texts, the post-treaty writing of the agrarian colonization period, and into the present era, Alberta writing has come to be seen as a distinct literature. In this volume Melnyk and Coates continue the project of scholarly analysis of Alberta literature that they began ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Wild Words

    Essays on Alberta Literature

    Edited by Donna Coates, George Melnyk ...
    As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right. By critically situating and assessing specific Alberta authors according to genre, this volume continues the work begun with Melnyk's Literary History of Alberta. ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • The Theatre of the Absurd

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  • Graeme Gibson Interviews Alice Munro

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    by Graeme Gibson, Alice Munro ...
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  • Selected Poems

    Collected Works of A.M. Klein

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