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Author : Robin Skelton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Memoirs of a Literary Blockhead written by Robin Skelton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ruth Panofsky
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802098770
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada written by Ruth Panofsky and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Fifth Business and Alligator Pie. Stephen Leacock, Grey Owl, and Morley Callaghan: these treasured Canadian books and authors were all nurtured by the Macmillan Company of Canada, one of the country's foremost twentieth-century publishing houses. The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada is a unique look at the contribution of publishers and editors to the formation of the Canadian literary canon. Ruth Panofsky's study begins in 1905 with the establishment of Macmillan Canada as a branch plant to the company's London office. While concentrating on the firm's original trade publishing, which had considerable cultural influence, Panofsky underscores the fundamental importance of educational titles to Macmillan's financial profile. The Literary Legacy of the Macmillan Company of Canada also illuminates the key individuals -- including Hugh Eayrs, John Gray, and Hugh Kane -- whose personalities were as fascinating as those of the authors they published, and whose achievements helped to advance modern literature in Canada."--Publisher's website.
Author : A.D. Padgett
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0957291930
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (572 download)
Download or read book War of the Poets written by A.D. Padgett and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herein are some of the most entertaining and key literary wars waged between Britain's Poets in the Georgian, Bloomsbury and Modernist groups between 1919 and 1939. Its sources are fragments of a broken landscape of letters and biographies of T.S. Eliot, Lewis, Sassoon, Auden, Sitwell, Campbell, Day-Lewis, Spender, Owen, Graves, West, Sackville-West, Wolfe, Woolfe, Coward, Moore, Gollancz, Frankau, Hardy, Gawsworth, T.E. Lawrence, Joyce, Cunard, Tennant.
Author : Shannon Hengen
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810866684
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Margaret Atwood written by Shannon Hengen and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2007-05-22 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Authors Shannon Hengen and Ashley Thomson have assembled a reference guide that covers all of the works written by the acclaimed Canadian author Margaret Atwood since 1988, including her novels Cat's Eye, The Robber Bride, Alias Grace, and the 2000 Booker Prize winner, The Blind Assassin. Rather than just including Atwood's books, this guide includes all of Atwood's works, including articles, short stories, letters, and individual poetry. Adaptations of Atwood's works are also included, as are some of her more public quotations. Secondary entries (i.e. interviews, scholarly resources, and reviews) are first sorted by type, and then arranged alphabetically by author, to allow greater ease of navigation. The individual chapters are organized chronologically, with each subdivided into seven categories: Atwood's Works, Adaptations, Quotations, Interviews, Scholarly Resources, Reviews of Atwood's Works, and Reviews of Adaptations of Atwood's Works. The book also includes a chapter entitled 'Atwood on the Web,' as well as extensive author and subject indexes. This new bibliography significantly enhances access to Atwood material, a feature that will be welcomed by university, public, and school librarians. Margaret Atwood: A Reference Guide 1988-2005 will appeal not only to Atwood scholars, but to students and fans of one of Canada's greatest writers.
Author : David Watmough
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459740742
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book David Watmough's 2-Book Bundle written by David Watmough and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2017-04-10 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Watmough, often spoken of as Canada’s senior gay male fiction writer, has committed his memories to paper in Myself Through Others. Watmough is well-known for his fiction featuring gay "everyman" Davey Bryant, and the novel The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon is bundled together in this special 2-book collection. Includes: The Moor is Dark Beneath the Moon Davey Bryant returns to England for the funeral of a mysterious relative and lands in an inheritance squabble that threatens to escalate into something far worse. Myself Through Others: Memoirs Given the autobiographical nature of his fiction, the prolific raconteur has opted for a novel approach to his own life by telling his story through his encounters with the numerous people he has met, befriended, loved, and jousted with over the years. And what a parade of personalities it is! Watmough serves up incisive, trenchant, often witty profiles of writers W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Stephen Spender, Raymond Chandler, Tennessee Williams, Carol Shields, Margaret Laurence, Jane Rule, and Wallace Stegner; artists Bill Reid and Jack Shadbolt; politicians and celebrities Pierre Trudeau, Clement Atlee, and Eleanor Roosevelt; Hollywood actress Jean Arthur; and a host of others.
Author : Sandra Djwa
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 077354061X
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Journey with No Maps written by Sandra Djwa and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2012 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, traveller, artist, and mystic - the story of one extraordinary woman's many lives.
Author : Philip Marchand
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 9780889841963
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Ripostes written by Philip Marchand and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 1998 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ripostes is a collection of essays on some salient features of the Canadian literary landscape, a number of which were first published in the Toronto Star, many of which appear in these pages for the first time. Included are essays on Atwood, Findley, Ondaatje and Margaret Laurence, as well as thematic explorations of Canadian literature such as an account of the demise of the Survival school of Canadian writing, a look at the recent history of the Writers' Union of Canada, an examination of the role of fathers in Canadian fiction, a study of the strange attraction of many of our writers to the occult, and so on. The tone is considered, and critical rather than celebratory, although the essays are respectful of the genuine achievements of Canadian literature in the past few decades. They try to clear the air, as it were, of boosterism, political correctness, and other attitudes which hinder the appreciation and reception of good writing. This is an honest re-appraisal of Canadian literature, undertaken at a time when we need no longer be overcome with relief and euphoria over the fact that some of our authors are now world famous, or at least world famous in Hoboken, New Jersey.
Author : David Watmough
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770703233
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Myself Through Others written by David Watmough and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-08-04 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in London, England, of Cornish stock, David Watmough arrived on Canada’s West Coast in 1961 and quickly became a fixture on the Canadian cultural scene. Now in his eighth decade, Watmough, often spoken of as this country’s senior gay male fiction writer, has decided to commit his memories to paper. Given the autobiographical nature of his fiction, the prolific raconteur has opted for a novel approach to his own life by telling his story through his encounters with the numerous people he has met, befriended, loved, and jousted with over the years. And what a parade of personalities it is! Watmough serves up incisive, trenchant, often witty profiles of writers W.H. Auden, T.S. Eliot, Stephen Spender, Raymond Chandler, Tennessee Williams, Carol Shields, Margaret Laurence, Jane Rule, and Wallace Stegner; artists Bill Reid and Jack Shadbolt; politicians and celebrities Pierre Trudeau, Clement Atlee, and Eleanor Roosevelt; Hollywood actress Jean Arthur; and a host of others.
Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459725026
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Extraordinary Experiences written by John Robert Colombo and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2004-10-25 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When did you last have a psychic experience? Are you in the habit of seeing – or sensing – the presence of spirits and ghost? Have you ever spotted a lake monster or sighted a UFO? When did you last consult a fortune-teller, approach a medium work an Ouija board, or read an astrology column? Have you ever had a premonition that some odd event would occur, and then witnessed it actually occurring? Did you ever experience a sense of déjà vu or a moment of pure bliss? Extraordinary Experiences: Personal Accounts of the Paranormal in Canada is a collection of over seventy short yet curiously gripping accounts of experiences and events that may be regarded as abnormal or paranormal. Colombo has collected highly readable accounts of unusual experiences from the past and the present. The supernatural practices of the Indians of the 18th and 19th centuries are described by Samuel Hearne and Paul Kane. From the turn of the century come accounts of "crisis apparitions," poltergeists, and haunted houses, as reported by spiritualists and other observers. But the majority of the personal narratives derive from letters sent to the editor in response to his requests featured in daily newspapers across the country, for first-hand accounts of the supernatural and the paranormal. Over one hundred readers responded; here are some of there responses... Extraordinary Experiences is an extraordinary reading experience. No book quite like it has ever before appeared in Canada.
Author : Robin Skelton
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815624790
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Celtic Contraries written by Robin Skelton and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1990-02-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a number of years Robin Skelton has been a major interpreter and definer of what we now mean by Anglo-Irish literature. This collection represents his own selection of fourteen of his best essays. All have been revised, several enlarged, and two are published here for the first time. Two major themes emerge from this collection: verse craftsmanship, with the language and structure of poetry; and a concern with the way that a writer can contrive to bring contraries (personal, national, aesthetic, etc.) together, fusing all the writer's themes and techniques into unity, so as to present a coherent, all-embracing "philosophy" or attitude. Most of the essays move from quite specific discussions of texts to broader generalizations about style and content in Irish writing. As always, Skelton is an extraordinarily alert and careful reader, and some of these essays contain valuable close readings of specific poems. In addition, he has the ability to draw the significant particulars into meaningful accounts of the totality of an artist's achievement. Time after time, Skelton simply makes one see new things, even in the most familiar texts, and his essays offer valuable insights both for the scholar and for the general reader of Irish literature.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Essays on Canadian Writing written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Robert Colombo
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 145972061X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Terrors of the Night written by John Robert Colombo and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-10-29 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrors of the Night is a collection of more than 100 accounts of eerie events and weird experiences that have been recorded by Canadians over the last 400 years. These incredible accounts come from all parts of the country and concern witchcraft, peculiar weather conditions, wild beasts, hardly human creatures, omens, prophecies, powers beyond ours, miraculous cures, and bizarre behaviour generally. The narratives, often in the words of witnesses themselves, are taken from the columns of old newspapers, journals, and correspondence. It is an engrossing and unsettling experience to read these stories because the reader keeps asking the question, "Could such things happen?"
Author : Larry L. King
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
ISBN 13 : 9780140099188
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (991 download)
Download or read book None But a Blockhead written by Larry L. King and published by Penguin (Non-Classics). This book was released on 1987 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riotously funny, King's book is a warning and object lesson in how life as a writer works. on being a writer.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book CM written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Melchior Freiherr von Grimm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Historical and Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes, Selected from the Correspondence of Baron de Grimm and Diderot, with the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, Between ... 1770 and 1790. Translated from the French written by Friedrich Melchior Freiherr von Grimm and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Melchior Freiherr von Grimm
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Historical & Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes, Selected from the Correspondence of Baron de Grimm and Diderot with the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, and Many Other Distinguished Persons, Between the Years of 1753 and 1790 written by Friedrich Melchior Freiherr von Grimm and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Friedrich Melchior Freiherr von Grimm
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Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.V/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Historical & Literary Memoirs and Anecdotes, Selected from the Correspondence of Baron de Grimm and Diderot with the Duke of Saxe-Gotha, and Many Other Distinguished Persons, Between the Year 1753 and 1790. Translated from the French written by Friedrich Melchior Freiherr von Grimm and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
