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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gregory betts”
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  • Some Lines of Poetry

    From the Notebooks of bpNichol

    by bp Nichol ...
    CBC BOOKS "CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2024"For bpNichol’s 80th birthday, a selection of 80 pieces from his 1980s notebooks, an astounding trove of never-before-seen work.One of Canada’s most beloved poets, bpNichol (1944–1988), left a huge legacy of poetry, prose, scripts, comics, and playful interrogation of language after his untimely passing in 1988. In celebration of what ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Avant-Garde Canadian Literature

    The Early Manifestations

    by Gregory Betts ...
    In Avant-Garde Canadian Literature, Gregory Betts draws attention to the fact that the avant-garde has had a presence in Canada long before the country's literary histories have recognized, and that the radicalism of avant-garde art has been sabotaged by pedestrian terms of engagement by the Canadian media, the public, and the literary critics. This book presents a rich body of evidence to ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Future Horizons

    Canadian Digital Humanities

    by Dean Irvine, Kiera Obbard, Sandra Djwa, Roopika Risam, Andrea Zeffiro, Deanna Fong, M Ryan Fitzpatrick, Gregory Betts, M Eric Schmaltz, Dani Spinosa, Klara du Plessis, M David Gaertner, M Mark V. Campbell, M Jon Saklofske, Julia Polyck-O’Neill, Kim Martin, Rashmeet Kaur, Pascale Dangoisse, Constance Crompton, Michelle Schwartz, Katherine McLeod, Graham H. Jensen, M Allan Cho, Sarah Zhang, Kendra Cowley, Susan Brown, Asen Ivanov ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    Au fil des vingt et quelques chapitres que compte cet ouvrage, les auteurs explorent le passé, le présent et l’avenir de la recherche, de l’enseignement et de l’expérimentation en sciences humaines numériques au Canada. Ce recueil, qui rassemble les travaux de chercheuses et de chercheurs établis et émergents, présente des initiatives contemporaines dans le domaine des sciences humaines numériques ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Finding Nothing

    The VanGardes, 1959-1975

    by Gregory Betts ...
    Experimental literature accelerated dramatically in Vancouver in the 1960s as the influence of New American poetics merged with the ideas of Marshall McLuhan. Vancouver poets and artists began thinking about their creative works with new clarity and set about testing and redefining the boundaries of literature. As new gardes in Vancouver explored the limits of text and language, some writers began ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • They Have Bodies, by Barney Allen

    A Critical Edition

    by Barney Allen ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    Published in 1929, and almost instantly censored by the Toronto City Police, They Have Bodies has been completely overlooked by generations of scholars and writers interested in the Canadian avant-garde.It is not just the novel’s extreme formal innovation that is immediately startling about They Have Bodies. There is also its close attention to the depraved, licentious behaviour of Toronto’s elite ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Avant Canada

    Poets, Prophets, Revolutionaries

    Edited by Gregory Betts, Christian Bök, Fellow, Royal Society of Canada ...
    Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan Abel and Liz Howard, Avant Canada features twenty-eight of the best writers and critics in the field.The book proposes four dominant modes of avant-garde ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Counterblasting Canada

    Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson

    Edited by Gregory Betts, Paul Hjartarson, Kristine Smitka ...
    In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—the founders of vorticism—undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of vorticism on Marshall McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. Building on the initial accomplishment of the magazine Blast, McLuhan’s subsequent Counterblast, and the ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Space Between Her Lips

    The Poetry of Margaret Christakos

    by Margaret Christakos ...
    Series Book 27 - Laurier Poetry
    Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos writes vibrant, exciting, and intellectually challenging poetry. She plays language games that bring a probing and disturbing humour to serious themes that range from childhood and children to women in contemporary techno-capitalist society to feminist ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Psychic Geographies And Other Topics

    by Gregory Betts ...
    Psychic Geographies is a tour de force, an ambitious exploration of the age, its physical and emotional permutations, its tragic contradictions, its joyful transformations. Gregory Betts takes a construct from the Situationists of the last Century as a means of exploring the language and rhetoric of the contemporary global moment as symptomatic of stasis and psychosis. How he does this is what ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Wrong World

    Selected Stories and Essays of Bertram Brooker

    by Bertram Brooker ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avantgardist, successfully experimenting in literature, visual arts, film, and theatre. Brooker brought all of his experimental ambitions to his short ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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    by Meredith Costain ...
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    Series Book 2 - Ella Diaries Super Special
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    Summer Games

    by Mike Petrik ...
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