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“robert lecker”

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  • Do You Want to Be Happy and Write?

    Critical Essays on Michael Ondaatje

    Edited by Robert Lecker ...
    Michael Ondaatje has achieved international prominence and recognition in a way that few other writers have, let alone Canadian writers. This popularity is most pronounced for works of historical fiction such as The English Patient, winner of the Golden Man Booker Prize, and In the Skin of a Lion, set in 1930s Toronto, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award and winner of the Canada Reads ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Keepers of the Code

    English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of the Nation

    by Robert Lecker ...
    Keepers of the Code explores the complex network of associations and negotiations that influenced the development of literary anthologies in English Canada from 1837 to the present. Lecker shows that these anthologies are deeply conflicted narratives that embody the tensions and anxieties felt by their editors when faced with the challenge of constructing or rejecting national ideals. He argues ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Who Was Doris Hedges?

    The Search for Canada's First Literary Agent

    by Robert Lecker ...
    Despite her trailblazing efforts to represent the work of Canadian writers to publishers in North America and abroad, Doris Hedges (1896-1972), the Montreal author who started Canada's first literary agency in 1946, is routinely excluded from Canadian literary histories.In Who Was Doris Hedges? Robert Lecker provides a detailed account of her remarkable career. Hedges published several novels, ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Anthologizing Canadian Literature

    Theoretical and Cultural Perspectives

    Edited by Robert Lecker ...
    The first collection of critical essays devoted to the study of English-Canadian literary anthologies brings together the work of thirteen prominent critics to investigate anthology formation in Canada and answer these key questions: Why are there so many literary anthologies in Canada, and how can we trace their history? What role have anthologies played in the formation of Canadian literary ... Read more

    $28.09 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

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  • 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

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  • Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

    A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

    by Margaret Atwood ...
    Series series A List
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  • Before the First Word

    The Poetry of Lorna Crozier

    by Catherine Hunter, Lorna Crozier ...
    Series series Laurier Poetry
    Lorna Crozier’s radical imagination, and the finely tuned emotional intelligence that is revealed in the clarity of her poetry, have made her one of Canada’s most popular poets. Before the First Word: The Poetry of Lorna Crozier is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected and introduced by Catherine Hunter, and includes an afterword by Crozier herself. Representing her work from ... Read more

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    Approaches to Inuit Literature

    by Keavy Martin ...
    Series Book 3 - Contemporary Studies on the North
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  • This Is My Country, What's Yours?

    A Literary Atlas of Canada

    by Noah Richler ...
    Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fictionA Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006)National Post Best Books (2006)A bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and storytellers.Stories are the surest way to know a place, and at a time when the fabric of the country seems daily more uncertain, Noah Richler looks to ... Read more

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  • Indigenous Poetics in Canada

    Edited by Neal McLeod ...
    Series Book 13 - Indigenous Studies
    Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings of place.Featuring work by academics and poets, the book examines four elements of Indigenous ... Read more

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