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The Literary History of Alberta Volume One

Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888642967
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Literary History of Alberta Volume One written by George Melnyk and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1998-04 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alberta's contradictory landscape has fired the imaginative energies of writers for centuries. The sweep of the plains, the thrust of the Rockies, and the long roll of the woodlands have left vivid impressions on all of Alberta's writers--both those who passed through Alberta in search of other horizons and those who made it their home. The Literary History of Alberta surveys writing in and about Alberta from prehistory to the middle of the twentieth century. It includes profiles of dozens of writers (from the earnestly intended to the truly gifted) and their texts (from the commercial to the arcane). It reminds us of long-forgotten names and faces, figures who quietly--or not so quietly--wrote the books that underpin Alberta's thriving literary culture today. Melnyk also discusses the institutions that have shaped Alberta's literary culture. The Literary History of Alberta is an essential text for any reader interested in the cultural history of western Canada, and a landmark achievement in Alberta's continuing literary history.

Charcoal's World

Author : Hugh Aylmer Dempsey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803265523
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Charcoal's World written by Hugh Aylmer Dempsey and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charcoal's World was bounded by the mountains, hills, and plains of southwestern Alberta. That was the homeland of his people, the Blood Indians, but Charcoal was not free to enjoy it as his ancestors had. For millennia, they had lived each day in the company of spirits, and even with the coming of the white man that much didønot change. Major Samuel Benfield Steele of the North West Mounted Police did not know about the Indian spirit world and would not have cared to learn. In 1896 when Charcoal killed a man and made attempts on others, Steele saw him as a common murderer and vowed to chase him down. The tale of Charcoal is well known among the Indians of southern Alberta. Their stories of his exploits agree in many ways with the official reports of the North West Mounted Police, but the two sources conflict in the reasons for the success of Charcoal and his eventual downfall. Hugh A. Dempsey has spent twenty-five years researching the material on Charcoal; he has studied the government records and spoken with the elders and historians of the Blood Reserve. The result is Charcoal's World, giving us the Indian side of this remarkable story of Indian-white confrontation.

Made-in-Canada Humour

Author : Beverly J. Rasporich
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9027268177
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book Made-in-Canada Humour written by Beverly J. Rasporich and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Made-in-Canada-Humour is an interdisciplinary survey and analysis of Canadian humour and humorists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book focuses on a variety of genres. It includes celebrated Canadian writers and poets with ironic and satiric perspectives; oral storytellers of tall tales in the country and the city; newspaper print humorists; representative national and regional cartoonists; and comedians of stage, radio and television. The humour gives voice to Canadian values and experiences, and consequently, techniques and styles of humour particular to the country. While a persistent comic theme has been joking at the expense of the United States, both countries have influenced one another’s humour. Canada’s unique humorous tradition also reflects its emergence from a colonial country to a postcolonial and postmodern nation with contemporary humour that addresses gender and racial issues.

Healy's West

Author : Gordon E. Tolton
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 192752766X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Healy's West written by Gordon E. Tolton and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through his incredibly varied fifty-year career, John J. Healy left an indelible mark on the Canadian and American west. At different points in his storied life, Healy was a soldier, a trapper, a prospector, a free trader, an explorer, a horse dealer, a scout, a lawman, a newspaper editor, a speculator, a merchant, a capitalist, a historian, and a politician. He defied classification while defining the lifestyle of a frontier adventurer and buccaneer capitalist in the late nineteenth century. In Healy’s West, Gordon E. Tolton cuts through the mythology and controversy of this larger-than-life character, giving us the most complete and truly balanced account of Healy’s life ever published. From Irish famine to army saddle; from scouting on the Oregon Trail to digging for mountain gold in Idaho; from taking on powerful monopolies to trading with the Blackfoot; from political manoeuvring to hunting down rustlers behind a sheriff’s badge, Healy challenged life, nature, enemies and, governments head on—in print, in business, and in physical combat. An entertaining and critical portrayal of the west’s most charismatic figure, Healy’s West is a must-read for any history buff.

Speaking in the Past Tense

Author : Herb Wyile
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554588251
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)

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Download or read book Speaking in the Past Tense written by Herb Wyile and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition, contested territory.” — Herb Wyile, from the Introduction The extermination of the Beothuk ... the exploration of the Arctic ... the experiences of soldiers in the trenches during World War I ... the foibles of Canada’s longest-serving prime minister ... the Ojibway sniper who is credited with 378 wartime kills—these are just some of the people and events discussed in these candid and wide-ranging interviews with eleven authors whose novels are based on events in Canadian history. These sometimes startling conversations take the reader behind the scenes of the novels and into the minds of their authors. Through them we explore the writers’ motives for writing, the challenges they faced in gathering information and presenting it in fictional form, the sometimes hostile reaction they faced after publication, and, perhaps most interestingly, the stories that didn’t make it into their novels. Speaking in the Past Tense provides fascinating insights into the construction of national historical narratives and myths, both those familiar to us and those that are still being written.

Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada

Author : Jeffrey David Brison
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773528680
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Canada written by Jeffrey David Brison and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the twentieth century, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation helped to create and maintain a cultural and intellectual infrastructure in Canada that benefited key institutions such as University of Toronto, McGill University, the National Gallery, the Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canadian Social Science Research Council. Jeffrey Brison documents how American philanthropy facilitated the transformation from a private, localized system of cultural, intellectual, and academic patronage to a complex, nation-based system of incorporated patronage - a system in which the major patron was the federal state. His study calls into question our essentialistic notions of contrasting national identities and the now-mythologized juxtaposition of an American culture fuelled by the free market with a Canadian one sustained by state support.

The Rider with Good Hands

Author : Sid Marty
Publisher : Frontenac House
ISBN 13 : 1897181450
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (971 download)

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Download or read book The Rider with Good Hands written by Sid Marty and published by Frontenac House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies

Author : Alison Calder
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887553249
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies written by Alison Calder and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian Prairie has long been represented as a timeless and unchanging location, defined by settlement and landscape. Now, a new generation of writers and historians challenge that perception and argue, instead, that it is a region with an evolving culture and history. This collection of ten essays explores a more contemporary prairie identity, and reconfigures "the prairie" as a construct that is non-linear and diverse, responding to the impact of geographical, historical, and political currents. These writers explore the connections between document and imagination, between history and culture, and between geography and time.The subjects of the essays range widely: the non-linear structure of Carol Shield's The Stone Diaries; the impact of Aberhart's Social Credit, Marshall McLuhan, and Mesopotamian myth on Robert Kroetsch's prairie postmodernism; the role of document in long prairie poems; the connection between cultural tourism and heritage; the theme of regeneration in Margaret Laurence's Manawaka writing; the influence of imagination on geography in Thomas Wharton's Icefields; and the effects on an alpine climber of pre-WWII ideological concepts of time and individualism.

Wisconsin Library Bulletin

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Wisconsin Library Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Explorations

Author : James B. Bell
Publisher : Wiley & Sons Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780471797371
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Explorations written by James B. Bell and published by Wiley & Sons Canada. This book was released on 1985 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in elementary schools.

Eye Opener Bob

Author : Grant MacEwan
Publisher : Brindle and Glass
ISBN 13 : 1926972562
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (269 download)

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Download or read book Eye Opener Bob written by Grant MacEwan and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty-six years later those words still ring true: there has since been no book that has brought to life early Calgary the way that Eye Opener Bob does. Perhaps more importantly, it's the closest we'll ever get to Robert Chambers Edwards—Eye Opener Bob —the irrepressible editor of Calgary's most singular newspaper, and the city's most singular denizen. Bob Edwards was a true Canadian original, the prototypical hard-drinking, pull-no-punches editor of the Calgary Eye Opener—at the time the largest paper between Vancouver and Toronto, with a circulation of over 30,000 copies. A paper with the power to elect or dethrone governments, to bring the mighty CPR to reform its ways, and to skewer the pretensions of society like few before or since. Eye Opener Bob brings this fascinating character to life in all his glorious self-contradictions. MacEwan arrived in the city at just the right time to write Eye Opener Bob—the old Sandstone City hadn't yet been whitewashed over by the new money from the Leduc gusher, and there were still living people who had known Edwards. MacEwan ferreted out their stories as only he could do, combined the interviews with hard research, and the result is Grant MacEwan's best book by a country mile. Eye Opener Bob can be enjoyed on its own or as a companion piece to the new compilation of Edwards's writing, Irresponsible Freaks, Highball Guzzlers, and Unabashed Grafters: A Bob Edwards Chrestomathy.

The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two

Author : George Melnyk
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888643247
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book The Literary History of Alberta Volume Two written by George Melnyk and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 1998 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, the companion to the landmark volume The Literary History of Alberta, Volume One: From Writing-on-Stone to World War Two, George Melnyk examines Alberta literature in the second half of the twentieth century. At last, Melnyk argues, Alberta writers have found their voice--and their accomplishments have been remarkable. The contradictory landscape, the stereotypes of the Indian, the Mountie, and the Cowboy, and the language of the Other, speaking from the margins--these elements all left their impressions on the consciousness of early Alberta. But writers in the last few decades have turned this inheritance to their advantage, to create compelling stories about this place and its people. Today, Melnyk discovers, Alberta writers can appreciate not only this achievement, but also its essential source: the symbolic communication of Writing-on-Stone. The Literary History of Alberta, Volume Two extends the study of Alberta's cultural history to the present day. It is a vital text for anyone interested in Alberta's vibrant literary culture.

Famous Wisconsin Authors

Author : James P. Roberts
Publisher : Badger Books Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781878569851
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (698 download)

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Download or read book Famous Wisconsin Authors written by James P. Roberts and published by Badger Books Inc.. This book was released on 2002-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Aldo Leopold to Zona Gale, here are the profiles of 35 Famous Wisconsin Authors. Meet Native American authors as well as poets, novelists, and contemporary authors.

The Words of My Roaring

Author : Robert Kroetsch
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888643490
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book The Words of My Roaring written by Robert Kroetsch and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2000 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I was electioneering. By God, people were listening. People were looking my way. And some joker with his arse begining to ache from sitting too long on a nail had to clear his throat and chip in, "Backstrom, what have you got to offer?" I looked at the speaker and saw he was a farmer and I said, "Mister, how would you like some rain?" A new edition of another classic from one of Canada's most enduring novelists. Introduction by Thomas Wharton.

Many voices

Author : Carole Henderson Carpenter
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 1772823333
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)

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Download or read book Many voices written by Carole Henderson Carpenter and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a historical overview of the development and role of Anglo-Canadian folklore studies in Canada and their relationship to similar research conducted with respect to French Canadians, minority groups within Canada, within the wider Canadian context, and at the international level.

The Journal of American Folklore

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journal of American Folklore written by and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Group of Seven in Western Canada

Author : Catharine M. Mastin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Group of Seven in Western Canada written by Catharine M. Mastin and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 80 years, The Group of Seven has been Canada`s best-known art collective. Founded in 1920, the Group--Franklin Carmichael, Lawren S. Harris, A.Y. Jackson, Frank H. Johnston, Arthur Lismer, J.E.H. MacDonald, Frederick H. Varley, A.J. Casson, Edwin Holgate, and Lionel LeMoine Fitzgerald-was recognized for their strikingly bold, modernist and colourful images of the Canadian landscape. In creating their art, the Group also contributed greatly to Canada`s emerging sense of identity. In their inaugural exhibition catalogue, the Group poignantly wrote: `An art must grow and flower in the land before the country will be a real home for its people.` In The Group of Seven in Western Canada, Catharine Mastin, curator of the Glenbow exhibition, along with five other Canadian scholars and curators explore the inspiration and influence of the west on both the Group`s artwork and their sense of national identity. The book focuses on the significant themes and works produced by the Group from artistic, political, geographical, social and cultural perspectives in order to create the first, and most comprehensive, study of the Group`s western muse. With 130 images and photographs to accompany the fascinating and insightful text, The Group of Seven in Western Canada is a unique and outstanding contribution to the history and legacy of Canadian art. The Glenbow Museum is a world-class multi-disciplinary institution that includes a permanent art collection, western Canada`s largest museum, Canada`s largest non-government archives, and an unparalleled western Canada reference library. Located in Calgary, it is world-renowned for its innovative programming and exhibitions.