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  • RE: Reading the Postmodern

    Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism

    Edited by Robert David Stacey ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century—even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory, ways. An interest in postmodernism and postmodernity has been especially strong in Canada, in part thanks to the country’s non-monolithic approach to history and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book

    An Anatomy of a Book Burning

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Series series Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture Series
    Censorship and book burning are still present in our lives. Lawrence Hill shares his experiences of how ignorance and the fear of ideas led a group in the Netherlands to burn the cover of his widely successful novel, The Book of Negroes, in 2011. Why do books continue to ignite such strong reactions in people in the age of the Internet? Is banning, censoring, or controlling book distribution ever ... Read more

    $8.09 USD

  • Mui'n

    by Nancy Branch ...
    Series series FPQ
    In the rugged Nepisiguit River region of northern New Brunswick, two hunters face off. One is local sports lodge employee Danny Knockwood, a Mi’gmaw guide with a withered hand. The other is Mui’n, a one-eared black bear battling his inexorable hunger. When Danny is charged by the lodge owner to hunt down the bear that is frightening guests at the salmon pools, his personal values come into sharp ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • The Imperialist

    by Sara Jeannette Duncan ...
    In Elgin, Ontario, a burgeoning community in young Canada, Lorne Murchison must balance his political aspirations and his support for the imperialist ideal with his romantic aspirations. Meanwhile, his sister, Advena, falls in love with a young minister, who is already engaged to another woman.An examination of Canadian values in the late nineteenth century, The Imperialist serves as a comedy of ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

    A Reappraisal of Marshall McLuhan

    Edited by John Moss, Linda M. Morra ...
    Series series Reappraisals: Canadian Writers
    At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • Aboriginal Canada Revisited

    Edited by Kerstin Knopf ...
    Series series International Canadian Studies Series
    Exploring a variety of topics—including health, politics, education, art, literature, media, and film—Aboriginal Canada Revisited draws a portrait of the current political and cultural position of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. While lauding improvements made in the past decades, the contributors draw attention to the systemic problems that continue to marginalize Aboriginal people within Canadian ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Field Marks

    The Poetry of Don McKay

    by Méira Cook, Don McKay ...
    Series series Laurier Poetry
    This volume features thirty-five of Don McKay’s best poems, which are selected with a contextualizing introduction by Méira Cook that probes wilderness and representation in McKay, and the canny, quirky, thoughtful, and sometimes comic self-consciousness the poems adumbrate. Included is McKay’s afterword written especially for this volume in which McKay reflects on his own writing process—its ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Revisiting Tolerance. Lessons drawn from Egypt's Cosmopolitanism

    by Victor Teboul ...
    About Revisiting Tolerance. Lessons drawn from Egypt's CosmopolitanismHow does a polyglot Jewish family from Alexandria, Egypt, get caught up in the power play of the Suez Crisis? In this fascinating ebook Egyptian-born writer Victor Teboul recounts his cosmopolitan experience and his family’s ordeal following the 1956 Suez Crisis and the expulsion of Egypt’s Jewish community."Strangely enough, in ... Read more

    $3.87 USD

  • Unsettled Remains

    Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic

    Edited by Cynthia Sugars, Gerry Turcotte ...
    Unsettled Remains: Canadian Literature and the Postcolonial Gothic examines how Canadian writers have combined a postcolonial awareness with gothic metaphors of monstrosity and haunting in their response to Canadian history. The essays gathered here range from treatments of early postcolonial gothic expression in Canadian literature to attempts to define a Canadian postcolonial gothic mode. Many ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Selected Poems

    Collected Works of A.M. Klein

    by A.M. Klein ...
    Series series Heritage
    Throughout his career A.M. Klein struggled to define for himself the role of the poet in the contemporary world. Deeply rooted in the traditions of Judaism, and at the same time powerfully attracted by the freedom and scope of international modernism, he sought to reconcile past and present, community and creative individuality. Whether or not he finally achieved his own high aims, it was, in his ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • In Ballast to the White Sea

    by Malcolm Lowry, Chris Ackerley ...
    Series series Canadian Literature Collection
    In Ballast to the White Sea is Malcolm Lowry’s most ambitious work of the mid-1930s. Inspired by his life experience, the novel recounts the story of a Cambridge undergraduate who aspires to be a writer but has come to believe that both his book and, in a sense, his life have already been “written.” After a fire broke out in Lowry’s squatter’s shack, all that remained of In Ballast to the White ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Inheriting a Canoe Paddle

    The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism

    by Misao Dean ...
    Series series Cultural Spaces
    If the canoe is a symbol of Canada, what kind of Canada does it symbolize? Inheriting a Canoe Paddle looks at how the canoe has come to symbolize love of Canada for non-aboriginal Canadians and provides a critique of this identification’s unintended consequences for First Nations. Written with an engaging, personal style, it is both a scholarly examination and a personal reflection, delving into ... Read more

    $39.99 USD