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  • Columbus and the Fat Lady

    And Other Stories

    by Matt Cohen ...
    Series series A List
    First published in 1972, Columbus and the Fat Lady introduced readers to Governor General’s Literary Award–winning author Matt Cohen’s skewed and hilarious worldview. By turns funny, surreal, wistful, savagely satirical, and brilliantly inventive, the stories in this collection intrigue and surprise the reader with their unexpected language and plots. He conjures up images that are both absurd and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Silence of the Miskito Prince

    How Cultural Dialogue Was Colonized

    by Matt Cohen ...
    Confronting the rifts created by our common conceptual vocabulary for North American colonial studiesHow can we tell colonial histories in ways that invite intercultural conversation within humanistic fields that are themselves products of colonial domination? Beginning with a famous episode of failed communication from the narrative of the freed slave Olaudah Equiano, The Silence of the Miskito ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The New Walt Whitman Studies

    Edited by Matt Cohen ...
    Series series Twenty-First-Century Critical Revisions
    This book highlights some of the latest currents in Whitman scholarship and demonstrates how Whitman's work can speak to and transform discussions in literary studies during a time of great intellectual ferment. It is organized into three sections, addressing aesthetics and politics, new reading methods, and histories of the critical imagination. This volume contains innovative work on Whitman in ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Typing

    by Matt Cohen ...
    Matt Cohen left us all a gift when he decided, in the last six months of his life, to write a memoir. Typing is an invaluable and touching reckoning of the writing life, funny in many places, brilliant in others. It's also the story of the flourishing of writing in Canada: Cohen was at the centre of our country's cultural life for over three decades. He was one of the founders of the Writers' ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Elizabeth and After

    A Novel

    by Matt Cohen ...
    A touching and resonant story of a man who returns to the small town of West Gull, Ontario, to mend his family's legacy of alcohol and violence, to reconnect with his young daughter, and to reconcile himself with the spirit of his beautiful mother, killed several years earlier in a tragic accident. Elizabeth and After masterfully wraps us up in the lives of Carl and his family, and the other 683 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Futures of Digital Scholarly Editing

    Edited by Matt Cohen, Kenneth M. Price, Caterina Bernardini ...
    Exploring technology, ethics, and culture to unlock digital scholarship’s futureFutures of Digital Scholarly Editing navigates the ever-shifting terrain of digital academia, examining practical and ethical considerations as technology continues to evolve. In this indispensable collection, digital humanities practitioners and scholars work with a wide range of archival materials to confront key ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Killers

    A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia

    by George Lippard ...
    PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband slave trade. Another son, hidden from his father since birth and condemned as a former felon, falls in with a ferocious street gang led by his elder brother and his revenge-hungry comrade from Cuba. His adopted sister, a beautiful actress, is kidnapped, and her ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Brother Men

    The Correspondence of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Herbert T. Weston

    by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Herbert T. Weston ...
    Brother Men is the first published collection of private letters of Edgar Rice Burroughs, the phenomenally successful author of adventure, fantasy, and science fiction tales, including the Tarzan series. The correspondence presented here is Burroughs’s decades-long exchange with Herbert T. Weston, the maternal great-grandfather of this volume’s editor, Matt Cohen. The trove of correspondence Cohen ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Whitman's Drift

    Imagining Literary Distribution

    by Matt Cohen ...
    Series series Iowa Whitman Series
    The American nineteenth century witnessed a media explosion unprecedented in human history. New communications technologies seemed to be everywhere, offering opportunities and threats that seem powerfully familiar to us as we experience today’s digital revolution. Walt Whitman’s poetry reveled in the potentials of his time: “See, the many-cylinder’d steam printing-press,” he wrote, “See, the ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • The Killers

    A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia

    by George Lippard ...
    PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband slave trade. Another son, hidden from his father since birth and condemned as a former felon, falls in with a ferocious street gang led by his elder brother and his revenge-hungry comrade from Cuba. His adopted sister, a beautiful actress, is kidnapped, and her ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Colonial Mediascapes

    Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas

    Edited by Matt Cohen, Jeffrey Glover ...
    In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions on paper, bark, skins, and many other kinds of surfaces. No one method of conveying meaning was ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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  • Settler Common Sense

    Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance

    by Mark Rifkin ...
    In Settler Common Sense, Mark Rifkin explores how canonical American writers take part in the legacy of displacing Native Americans. Although the books he focuses on are not about Indians, they serve as examples of what Rifkin calls “settler common sense,” taking for granted the legal and political structure through which Native peoples continue to be dispossessed.In analyzing Nathaniel Hawthorne ... Read more

    $17.99 USD