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by Roseann O'Reilly Runte, Ooka Makoto, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Kim Yong-Jik ...

Master poets Ooka Makoto, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Kim Yong-Jik were joined by Canadian Roseann O’Reilly Runte in Tokyo on a very warm August day in 1991 to compose a linked-verse poem. It was also the day the Soviet Parliament was stormed, foreshadowing the end of the Cold War. Not knowing the future, the poets chose to celebrate the lasting power of words to survive discord and violence. They believed ... Read more

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Master poets Ooka Makoto, Shuntaro Tanikawa, Kim Yong-Jik were joined by Canadian Roseann O’Reilly Runte in Tokyo on a very warm August day in 1991 to compose a linked-verse poem. It was also the day the Soviet Parliament was stormed, foreshadowing the end of the Cold War. Not knowing the future, the poets chose to celebrate the lasting power of words to survive discord and violence. They believed
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A Tale of Monstrous Extravagance

Imagining Multilingualism

by Tomson Highway ...

Series series CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
“Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only...” From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist of the world, playwright, pianist, polyglot, storyteller, and irreverent disciple of the Trickster, Tomson Highway rides roughshod through the languages and communities that have shaped him. Cree, Dene, ... Read more

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“Speaking one language, I submit, is like living in a house with one window only...” From his legendary birth in a snow bank in northwestern Manitoba, through his metamorphosis to citizen-artist of the world, playwright, pianist, polyglot, storyteller, and irreverent disciple of the Trickster, Tomson Highway rides roughshod through the languages and communities that have shaped him. Cree, Dene,
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Ten Canadian Writers in Context

Edited by Marie Carrière, Curtis Gillespie, Jason Purcell ...

Series series Robert Kroetsch Series
Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from some of Canada’s most exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection is ... Read more

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Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from some of Canada’s most exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection is
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Who Needs Books?

Reading in the Digital Age

by Lynn Coady ...

Series series CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
“We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there’s one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it.” What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges booklovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the ... Read more

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“We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there’s one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it.” What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" from the experience it has traditionally provided? Lynn Coady challenges booklovers addicted to the physical book to confront their darkest fears about the digital world and the future of reading. Is the
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Japanese Shamanism: trance and possession

trance and possession

by Daniele Ricci ...

The present work examines the controversies inherent to the issues on shamanic practices, by comparing the different outlooks of the scholars and their methodological approaches, Then, applying to the case of Japan, it will give a theoretical systematization of trance and possession going through the figures of the ascetic and that of the medium to demonstrate that none of them can be associated ... Read more

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The present work examines the controversies inherent to the issues on shamanic practices, by comparing the different outlooks of the scholars and their methodological approaches, Then, applying to the case of Japan, it will give a theoretical systematization of trance and possession going through the figures of the ascetic and that of the medium to demonstrate that none of them can be associated
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AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets

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by A. Gregory Frankson ...

Series Book 1 - AfriCANthology
Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by A. Gregory Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada''s most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as ... Read more

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Truth spoken plainly and powerfully is difficult to dismiss and impossible to ignore. Edited with purpose by A. Gregory Frankson, AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets brings together some of Canada''s most influential dub, page, and spoken word poetic voices and gives them space to speak freely about their personal journeys in piercing verse and unapologetic prose. Just as
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The Novelist's Lexicon

Writers on the Words That Define Their Work

Edited by Villa Gillet, Le Monde ...

In this anthology from the Villa Gillet literary conference, world-renowned authors from A.S. Byatt to Enrique Vila-Matas discuss their work.At the international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde, organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their musings, collected here and organized alphabetically by keyword, present ... Read more

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In this anthology from the Villa Gillet literary conference, world-renowned authors from A.S. Byatt to Enrique Vila-Matas discuss their work.At the international literary conference hosted by Villa Gillet and Le Monde, organizers asked more than seventy prominent authors to choose a word that opens a door to their work. Their musings, collected here and organized alphabetically by keyword, present
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Can China Think?

Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 11 December 2008

by Anne Cheng ...

Series series Leçons inaugurales
Since the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, much scholarly work has been done on “thinking China”. A result has been the most contradictory representations which attempt to reconcile “philosophical China” with “Oriental despotism”, or an eternal aesthetic and consensual China with a more unpredictable and disturbing vision of the country. To break free of these tenacious clichés, Anne Cheng proposes ... Read more

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Since the Age of Enlightenment in Europe, much scholarly work has been done on “thinking China”. A result has been the most contradictory representations which attempt to reconcile “philosophical China” with “Oriental despotism”, or an eternal aesthetic and consensual China with a more unpredictable and disturbing vision of the country. To break free of these tenacious clichés, Anne Cheng proposes
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Battlefield

by Marie-Hélène Estienne, Peter Brook ...

Series series NHB Modern Plays
'Destruction never approaches weapon in hand. It comes slyly, on tiptoe, making you see bad in good and good in bad.'The devastation of war is tearing the Bharata family apart. The new king must unravel a mystery: how can he live with himself in the face of the devastation and massacres that he has caused.In Battlefield, the internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne and ... Read more

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'Destruction never approaches weapon in hand. It comes slyly, on tiptoe, making you see bad in good and good in bad.'The devastation of war is tearing the Bharata family apart. The new king must unravel a mystery: how can he live with himself in the face of the devastation and massacres that he has caused.In Battlefield, the internationally renowned team of Peter Brook, Marie-Hélène Estienne and
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Oh Canada!

by Edmundo Farolan ...

This collection of poems in English and French was first published in print form in 1994. Being Canada's 150th birthday this year, I thought it might be a good idea to publish it again, this time in digital format. The poems reflect thoughts and emotions since my arrival in Canada in 1967. ... Read more

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This collection of poems in English and French was first published in print form in 1994. Being Canada's 150th birthday this year, I thought it might be a good idea to publish it again, this time in digital format. The poems reflect thoughts and emotions since my arrival in Canada in 1967.
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Poems for a Small Park

by E.D. Blodgett ...

Series series Mingling Voices
This collection by well-known Edmonton poet, E.D. Blodgett, is an ode to the wisdom and divinity of silence. The poet muses on the quiet of the outdoors and the mysterious relationship that exists between spaces of silence within a city's limits. Most of the short lyrics that make up this sublime collection were written first in English and French before being translated into Cree, Michif, Chinese ... Read more

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This collection by well-known Edmonton poet, E.D. Blodgett, is an ode to the wisdom and divinity of silence. The poet muses on the quiet of the outdoors and the mysterious relationship that exists between spaces of silence within a city's limits. Most of the short lyrics that make up this sublime collection were written first in English and French before being translated into Cree, Michif, Chinese
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When the Night Agrees to Speak to Me

by Ananda Devi ...

Translated by Kazim Ali ...

A poetic, autobiographical collection from famed Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, engaging with loneliness, desire, violence, and aging.“I’m sick of biting off and chewing this dust, of scratching with my thin claws, searching for some chunk of literary gold to hell with all the disarrayed images of our homelands reflections of our particular misery.”From eminent Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, a ... Read more

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A poetic, autobiographical collection from famed Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, engaging with loneliness, desire, violence, and aging.“I’m sick of biting off and chewing this dust, of scratching with my thin claws, searching for some chunk of literary gold to hell with all the disarrayed images of our homelands reflections of our particular misery.”From eminent Mauritian writer Ananda Devi, a
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