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  • What's a Black Critic To Do?by Donna Bailey Nurse

    Insomniac Press 2003; US$ 16.95

    This groundbreaking collection of profiles, interviews, essays and reviews on such well-known black writers and artists as Nalo Hopkinson, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Lawrence Hill and Edwidge Danticat constitutes a frank conversation on the significance of race in contemporary Black Canadian and American literature. What's a Black Critic to Do? is for anyone looking for a way to talk about the sometimes-taboo topic of race, as it appears in novels, movies and plays. Of interest to Black readers as well as teachers, librarians and book club members, this book is a vital snapshot of contemporary North American culture. more...

  • Canadian Literatureby Faye Hammill

    Edinburgh University Press 2007; US$ 119.40

    An important critical study of Canadian literature, placing internationally successful anglophone Canadian authors in the context of their national literary history. While the focus of the book is on twentieth-century and contemporary writing, it also charts the historical development of Canadian literature and discusses important eighteenth- and nineteenth-century authors. The chapters focus on four central topics in Canadian culture: Ethnicity, Race, Colonisation; Wildernesses, Cities, Regions; Desire; and Histories and Stories. Each chapter combines case studies of five key texts with a broad discussion of concepts and approaches, including postcolonial and postmodern reading strategies and theories of space, place and desire. Authors chosen... more...

  • Companion to the New Literatures in Englishby Christa Jansohn

    Erich Schmidt Verlag 2009; US$ 37.31

    Hauptbeschreibung Das als Einführung konzipierte eBook widmet sich in einzelnen Kapiteln dem in den letzten Jahren stark expandierenden Bereich der sogenannten 'New Literatures in English', die einen beträchtlichen Teil der literarischen Produktion in der englischsprachigen Welt ausmachen. Die einzelnen Kapitel führen am Beispiel ausgewählter Interpretationen in die jeweilige Literatur des Landes oder einer bestimmten Region ein, so etwa zur "South African Literature", "Indian Literature", "Australian Literature" oder "New Zealand Literature". Kommentierte Leselisten, ausführliche Literaturhinweise sowie Internet-Adressen runden den Band ab. 'New Literatures in English' presents seven original essays by leading scholars on one of the most... more...

  • Syllables of Recorded Timeby Lyn Harrington

    Dundurn Press 1981; US$ 14.95

    Syllables of Recorded Time is a lively look at the development over the last six decades of a national authors' association, with all its problems and foibles. Personalities such as Bliss Carman, Nellie McClung, Stephen Leacock, B.K. Sandwell, W.A. Deacon, Mazo de la Roche, John Murray Gibbon, Helen Chreighton, Watson Kirkconnell, Charles G.D. Roberts and Duncan Campbell Scott figure prominently in the amusing anecdotes of the early days, and Hugh MacLennan, Pierre Berton, Dorothy Livesay and Arthur Hailey in the later years. Syllables of Recorded Time highlights the discussions and legalities regarding issues of copyright, contracts, women's role, cultural domination by Britain and the U.S.A., government funding and markets for writers.... more...

  • Profiles in Canadian Literatureby Jeffrey M. Heath

    Dundurn Press 1991; US$ 19.99

    A series of essays on Canadian authors profiling the writer?s work, providing insight into themes, and giving a chronology of the author?s life. more...

  • Profiles in Canadian Literatureby Jeffrey M. Heath

    Dundurn Press 1991; US$ 19.99

    A series of essays on Canadian authors profiling the writer?s work, providing insight into themes, and giving a chronology of the author?s life. more...

  • A Few Acres of Snowby Paul Simpson-Housley; Glen Norcliffe

    Dundurn Press 1992; US$ 24.99

    These 22 essays explore how poets, artists, and writers have addressed the physical essence of Canada. more...

  • The Familiar Letter in Early Modern Englishby Susan M. Fitzmaurice

    John Benjamins Publishing Company 2002; US$ 165.00

    This research monograph examines familiar letters in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English to provide a pragmatic reading of the meanings that writers make and readers infer. The first part of the book presents a method of analyzing historical texts. The second part seeks to validate this method through case studies that illuminate how modern pragmatic theory may be applied to distant speech communities in both history and culture in order to reveal how speakers understand one another and how they exploit intended and unintended meanings for their own communicative ends. The analysis demonstrates the application of pragmatic theory (including speech act theory, deixis, politeness, implicature, and relevance theory) to the study of historical,... more...

  • Context North Americaby Camille La Bossière

    University of Ottawa Press 1994; US$ 9.99

    Context North America is a comparative study of Canadian and American literary relations that emphasizes the cultural and institutional contexts in which Canadian literature is taught and read. This volume exemplifies the question of how the literatures of Canada might aptly be studied and contextualized in the days of heightened discontinuity and increasingly ambiguous borderlines both between and within the many narratives that make up North America. more...

  • Echoing Silenceby John Moss

    University of Ottawa Press 1997; US$ 12.99

    The North has always had, and still has, an irresistible attraction. This fascination is made up of a mixture of perspectives, among these, the various explorations of the Arctic itself and the Inuk cultural heritage found in the elders' and contemporary stories. This book discusses the different generations of explorers and writers and illustrates how the sounds of a landscape are inseparable from the stories of its inhabitants. more...