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Author : George Bowering
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Kerrisdale Elegies written by George Bowering and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bowering responds to Rilke's Duino Elegies to create post-modern literature that discovers the other during the process of writing.
Author : Priscila Uppal
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773534563
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book We Are What We Mourn written by Priscila Uppal and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book on the Canadian poetic elegy challenges all previous ideas about the purpose of mourning.
Author : Jeffrey M. Heath
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 177070065X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Profiles in Canadian Literature 7 written by Jeffrey M. Heath and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1991-09-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles in Canadian Literature is a wide-ranging series of essays on Canadian authors. Each profile acquaints the reader with the writer’s work, providing insight into themes, techniques, and special characteristics, as well as a chronology of the author’s life. Finally, there is a bibliography of primary works and criticism that suggests avenues for further study. "I know of no better introduction to these writers, and the studies in question are full of basic information not readily obtainable elsewhere." -U of T Quarterly
Author : Ian Rae
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773574921
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book From Cohen to Carson written by Ian Rae and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2008 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From Cohen to Carson provides the first book-length analysis of one of Canada's most distinctive fields of literary production. Ian Rogers argues that Canadian poets have turned to the novel because of the limitations of the lyric, but have used lyric methods - puns, symbolism, repetition, juxtaposition - to create a mode of narrative that contrasts sharply with the descriptive conventions of realist and plot-driven novels." "Detailed case studies of novels by Leonard Cohen, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, and Anne Carson, as well as sections on A. M. Klein and Anne Michaels, reveal how these authors framed their early novels according to formal precedents established in their poetry. In tracking the authors' shift from lyric to long poem to novel, Rae also investigates their experiments with non-literary art forms - photography, painting, and film. He argues convincingly that the authors discussed have combined disparate genres and media to alter notions of narrative coherence in the novel and engage the diverse but fragmented cultural histories of Canadian society." --Résumé de l'éditeur.
Author : W.H. New
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773571361
Total Pages : 487 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book A History of Canadian Literature written by W.H. New and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2003-08-06 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New offers an unconventionally structured overview of Canadian literature, from Native American mythologies to contemporary texts. Publishers Weekly A History of Canadian Literature looks at the work of writers and the social and cultural contexts that helped shape their preoccupations and direct their choice of literary form. W.H. New explains how - from early records of oral tales to the writing strategies of the early twenty-first century - writer, reader, literature, and society are interrelated. New discusses both Aboriginal and European mythologies, looking at pre-Contact narratives and also at the way Contact experience altered hierarchies of literary value. He then considers representations of the "real," whether in documentary, fantasy, or satire; historical romance and the social construction of Nature and State; and ironic subversions of power, the politics of cultural form, and the relevance of the media to a representation of community standard and individual voice. New suggests some ways in which writers of the later twentieth century codified such issues as history, gender, ethnicity, and literary technique itself. In this second edition, he adds a lengthy chapter that considers how writers at the turn of the twenty-first century have reimagined their society and their roles within it, and an expanded chronology and bibliography. Some of these writers have spoken from and about various social margins (dealing with issues of race, status, ethnicity, and sexuality), some have sought emotional understanding through strategies of history and memory, some have addressed environmental concerns, and some have reconstructed the world by writing across genres and across different media. All genres are represented, with examples chosen primarily, but not exclusively, from anglophone and francophone texts. A chronology, plates, and a series of tables supplement the commentary.
Author : W. J. Keith
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889842854
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Canadian Literature in English written by W. J. Keith and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. J. Keith has chosen to ignore utterly both the `popular' at the one extreme (Robert Service, Lucy Maud Montgomery) as well as the `avant-garde' at the other (bpnichol, Anne Carson) in favour of those authors whose style lends itself to the simple pleasure of reading, and to that end Keith dedicates his history to `all those -- including those of the general reading public whose endangered status is much lamented -- who recognize and celebrate the dance of words.'
Author : Frank Davey
Publisher : ECW Press
ISBN 13 : 1554909449
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (549 download)
Download or read book When Tish Happens written by Frank Davey and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ?In the early 1960s, a group of students at UBC started a magazine called Tish. The name was purposefully an anagram of shit, in order to demonstrate their youthful and iconoclastic attitude. In many ways, Tish, and its editors, became the clear break from older Canadian poets and styles. At the heart of the magazine, and the movement, was Frank Davey. And it is Davey who has written this definitive history. Davey has organized the material as a memoir, starting from his own early days in Abbotsford, B.C., and gradually introducing the other poets, including George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, and Fred Wah, despite the fact that Davey doesn't meet them until they all arrive at UBC. Much of the theory of the Tish poets derives from the Black Mountain poets, an American movement that incorporated the writings of Charles Olson, Robert Creeley, and Robert Duncan who suggested the name itself. The Black Mountain poets believed that writing should be locally based and should grow out of t
Author : Pauline Butling
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888644312
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (443 download)
Download or read book Poets Talk written by Pauline Butling and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book that takes on the “hard questions” about the role of poets in society together with the challenges of reading “difficult” poetry. Using the relaxed format of the personal interview, Butling and Rudy open doors to some of the most challenging and important poetry of the 1990s. Robert Kroetsch talks about his dread of systems and his subversive use of sub-literary forms. Erin Mouré and Daphne Marlatt discuss the feminist trajectories in their work—how to jump circuits and activate alternative networks. Dionne Brand links her poetics to Marxist politics and Pan-African liberation movements. Annharte explains her use of humour to de-program Native people. Jeff Derksen wants to disarticulate and rearticulate linguistic and social systems, while Fred Wah emphasizes the role of poetry in changing how we see the world.
Author : Paul Martin
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 0888645457
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (886 download)
Download or read book Sanctioned Ignorance written by Paul Martin and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bilingual literary scholar builds bridges spanning institutional silos to found an inclusive "literatures of Canada."
Author : D.M.R. Bentley
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776617141
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Gay[Grey Moose written by D.M.R. Bentley and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gay]Grey Moose is a collection of essays presenting a comprehensive view of English poetry in Canada from the early colonial period to the Post-Modern era. From a wide range of poets, this book provides fresh contexts for viewing and discussing three centuries of English Canadian poetry. Both national and regional in its orientation, it seeks to discover the relationship between poetry and landscape in a poetic continuity that stretches from the late 17th century to the present.
Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571133595
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (335 download)
Download or read book History of Literature in Canada written by Reingard M. Nischik and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development of literature in Canada with an eye to its multicultural, multiethnic, multilingual nature. From modest colonial beginnings, literature in Canada has arrived at the center stage of world literature. Works by English-Canadian writers -- both established writers such as Margaret Atwood and new talents such as Yann Martel -- make regular appearances on international bestseller lists. French-Canadian literature has also found its own voice in the North American and francophone worlds. "CanLit" has likewise developed into a staple of academic interest, pursued in Canadian Studies programs in Canada and around the world. This volume draws on the expertise of scholars from Canada, Germany, Austria, and France, tracing Canadian literature from the indigenous oral tradition to thedevelopment of English-Canadian and French-Canadian literature since colonial times. Conceiving of Canada as a single but multifaceted culture, it accounts for specific characteristics of English- and French-Canadian literatures, such as the vital role of the short story in English Canada or that of the chanson in French Canada. Yet special attention is also paid to Aboriginal literature and to the pronounced transcultural, ethnically diverse character ofmuch contemporary Canadian literature, thus moving clearly beyond the traditions of the two founding nations. Contributors: Reingard M. Nischik, Eva Gruber, Iain M. Higgins, Guy Laflèche, Dorothee Scholl, Gwendolyn Davies, Tracy Ware, Fritz Peter Kirsch, Julia Breitbach, Lorraine York, Marta Dvorak, Jerry Wasserman, Ursula Mathis-Moser, Doris G. Eibl, Rolf Lohse, Sherrill Grace, Caroline Rosenthal, Martin Kuester, Nicholas Bradley, Anne Nothof, Georgiana Banita, Gilles Dupuis, and Andrea Oberhuber. Reingard M. Nischik is Professor of American Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.
Author : Europa Publications
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135355193
Total Pages : 1787 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)
Download or read book International Who's Who in Poetry 2005 written by Europa Publications and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-08-02 with total page 1787 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 13th edition of the International Who's Who in Poetry is a unique and comprehensive guide to the leading lights and freshest talent in poetry today. Containing biographies of more than 4,000 contemporary poets world-wide, this essential reference work provides truly international coverage. In addition to the well known poets, talented up-and-coming writers are also profiled. Contents: * Each entry provides full career history and publication details * An international appendices section lists prizes and past prize-winners, organizations, magazines and publishers * A summary of poetic forms and rhyme schemes * The career profile section is supplemented by lists of Poets Laureate, Oxford University professors of poetry, poet winners of the Nobel Prize for Literature, winners of the Pulitzer Prize for American Poetry and of the King's/Queen's Gold medal and other poetry prizes.
Author : John Moss
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776610589
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Future Indicative written by John Moss and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The format of this book is arbitrary and exact, the way paint is in a landscape by Alex Colville. It follows the program of the symposium that took place at the University of Ottawa, from April 25 to 27, 1986. As Bakhtin leaps from the sidelines to centre stage, as Derrida clambers out of orchestra pit into the prompter's box, and Lancan swings from the flies, as Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, Barthes, and a throng of others rhubarb their way through the text, one recognizes just how connected all the disparate elements of this critical extravaganza really are.
Author : Hannah McGregor
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771125586
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)
Download or read book A Sentimental Education written by Hannah McGregor and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you tell the story of a feminist education, when the work of feminism can never be perfected or completed? In A Sentimental Education, Hannah McGregor, the podcaster behind Witch, Please and Secret Feminist Agenda, explores what podcasting has taught her about doing feminist scholarship not as a methodology but as a way of life. Moving between memoir and theory, these essays consider the collective practices of feminist meaning-making in activities as varied as reading, critique, podcasting, and even mourning. In part this book is a memoir of one person’s education as a reader and a thinker, and in part it is an analysis of some of the genres and aesthetic modes that have been sites of feminist meaning-making: the sentimental, the personal, the banal, and the relatable. Above all, it is a meditation on what it means to care deeply and to know that caring is both necessary and utterly insufficient. In the tradition of feminist autotheory, this collection works outward from the specificity of McGregor’s embodied experience – as a white settler, a fat femme, and a motherless daughter. In so doing, it invites readers to reconsider the culture, media, political structures, and lived experiences that inform how we move through the world separately and together.
Author : E.D. Blodgett
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 0889205248
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (892 download)
Download or read book Silence, the Word and the Sacred written by E.D. Blodgett and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2010-10-30 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of the sacred, this book endeavours to determine how the sacred emerges in sacred script as well as in poetic discourse. It ranges through scholarship in areas as apparently disparate as postmodernism and Buddhism. The perspectives developed are various and without closure, locating the sacred in modes as diverse as patristic traditions, feminist retranslations of biblical texts, and oral and written versions of documents from the world’s religions. The essays cohere in their preoccupation with the crucial role language plays in the creation of the sacred, particularly in the relation that language bears to silence. In their interplay, language does not silence silence by, rather, calls the other as sacred into articulate existence.
Author : Robert David Stacey
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776619233
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (766 download)
Download or read book RE: Reading the Postmodern written by Robert David Stacey and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 its multicultural understanding of nationalism, which seems to align with the decentralized, plural, and open-ended pursuit of truth as a multiple possibility as outlined by Jean-François Lyotard. In fact, long before Lyotard published his influential work The Postmodern Condition in 1979, Canadian writers and critics were employing the term to describe a new kind of writing. RE: Reading the Postmodern marks a first cautious step toward a history of Canadian postmodernism, exploring the development of the idea of the postmodern and debates about its meaning and its applicability to various genres of Canadian writing, and charting its decline in recent years as a favoured critical trope.
Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0199640254
Total Pages : 727 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English written by Jeremy Noel-Tod and published by . This book was released on 2013-05-23 with total page 727 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
