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Author : Andreas Schroeder
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781926836225
Set in the Dirty Thirties, this prairie classic novel concerns Tom Sukanen's wild scheme to build an ship in the middle of a Ssaskatchewan wheatfield.
Author : Elaine M. Will
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1988903335
Dustship Glory tells the story of Damanus 'Tom' Sukanen, a Finnish immigrant farmer who responded to the economic slump and drought conditions that laid waste to the Canadian prairies in the 1930s by building a full-sized ship in his farmyard, hundreds of miles from the sea.
Author : Andreas Schroeder
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554515875
As long as there have been people willing to believe the unbelievable, people have been duped. In the best storytelling tradition, readers can follow the tales of: • How the Nazis planned to destroy the British economy during World War II by flooding the world with millions of fake British banknotes • How an infamous radio broadcast had American citizens convinced that Martians were invading the country • How one of the 20th century’s most elaborate scams — conducting tours to the lost Tasaday tribe in the Philippines — fooled the world’s media and top scientists for nearly a decade. The author’s fascination with the boldness and inventiveness of the swindlers, as well as their motives, makes for a compelling read. The stories instill a sense of disbelief, amusement and even grudging admiration for these ingenious scam artists who often (but not always) meet a bad end. Accompanied by graphic-style artwork, each tale offers a great escape for readers drawn to true stories presented in a lively fashion.
Author : Mark Allard-Will
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 198890353X
Deep in rural Suffolk, England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, terror strikes at the hearts of pious Christians on a hot August night, when they are attacked by a beast known only as Black Shuck. In this reimagining of one of rural England's most famous folkloric tales, readers will be taken through the terrifying and mysterious story of Black Shuck, a mythic beast that would act as inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle's classic story, The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Author : Andreas Schroeder
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781554514717
Willie Sutton was casing a bank when he noticed that the manager looked a lot like Sutton himself, so he walked into the vault, loaded up with banknotes, and calmly walked out. D.B. Cooper hijacked a plane, demanded $200,000 in payment, and parachuted from the aircraft. He was never captured. Other criminals in this book were no less brazen: - Arthur Barry, the greatest jewel thief in American criminal history - Vincente Perugia, who boldly stole one of the world’s greatest art treasures - Amil Dinsio, one of the most accomplished bank vault robbers in the U.S. - Victor Desmarais and Leo Martial, a hapless duo who bungled their getaway - James Landis, who stole two bricks of freshly printed banknotes from his employer—the U.S. Treasury - Adam Worth, the Napoleon of Crime - the Great Train Robbers, who planned one of the largest heists of all time - the five heisters of the Great Purolator Caper, whose ineptitude ensured capture Be prepared for some high-stakes action in THIEVES! While many ended their careers broke and disillusioned, these impresarios of crime make for great reading.
Author : Andreas Schroeder
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fraud
ISBN : 155037852X
Ten stories that explore some of the most outrageous swindlers and tricksters of all time. Scams! reveals 10 true tales of trickery that will mesmerize young readers. They will discover how the Germans planned to destroy the British economy during World War II by flooding the world with millions of fake British bank-notes. Scams! also includes: • The Tasady: Stone Age cavemen of the Philippines • The Shakespearean forgery of William Ireland • P.T. Barnum and his greatest show on earth • The creation of the Bibliotheca Phillipica • Le Grand Theresa • John Keely’s engine • Karl May’s extraordinary fiction Readers of any age will be enthralled by these stories of trickery exposed, where the strange twists and turns truly test the limits of credulity.
Author : Robert Zacharias
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271093031
Mennonite literature has long been viewed as an expression of community identity. However, scholars in Mennonite literary studies have urged a reconsideration of the field’s past and a reconceptualization of its future. This is exactly what Reading Mennonite Writing does. Drawing on the transnational turn in literary studies, Robert Zacharias positions Mennonite literature in North America as “a mode of circulation and reading” rather than an expression of a distinct community. He tests this reframing with a series of methodological experiments that open new avenues of critical engagement with the field’s unique configuration of faith-based intercultural difference. These include cross-sectional readings in nonnarrative literary history; archival readings of transatlantic life writing; Canadian rewritings of Mexican film’s deployment of Mennonite theology as fantasy; an examination of the fetishistic structure of ethnicity as a “thing” that has enabled Mennonite identity to function in a post-identity age; and, finally, a tentative reinvestment in ideals of Mennonite community via the surprising routes of queerness and speculative fiction. In so doing, Zacharias reads Mennonite writing in North America as a useful case study in the shifting position of minor literatures in the wake of the transnational turn. Theoretically sophisticated, this study of minor transnationalism will appeal to specialists in Mennonite literature and to scholars working in the broader field of transnational literary studies.
Author : Leonard B. Kuffert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015076169153
"We lose and find all the time. We can forget, apprehend or comprehend our surroundings several times each day. Both losing and finding, forgetting and rediscovering the natural and human traces on the prairies might seem like an impossibility. Have we not recorded our impressions and images of prairie life faithfully? Are we not standing on the shoulders of (prairie) giants? One kind of prairie, grain elevators, have been disappearing from the North American prairies for about a generation, and yet they have become (I would argue even more vividly than in the days before they started to disappear) an iconic symbol of a place which is less and less like its imagined past. Our memories (both individual and collective) adjust to such absences by canonizing vanishing saints before it really is too late. We lose the thing and find – we like to think – its essence. We remember artistic renderings of prairie people, landscapes and stories, reading Margaret Laurence’s novels or W. L. Morton’s history, but we cannot reproduce the pictures and words at will. We know the countours of their labours just the same. We forget, or at least under-advertise, the fast that the Prairie (however it might be divided by provincial or international borders) is also an urban place. We think less often of the fact that we have a transantional prairies, in which an awareness of divergent national pasts and presents is necessary. To acknowledge these complexities is to know, to reclaim and indeed to find the prairies."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Alternative Comics
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-21
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781934460313
Jeremy Knowles is a seventeen-year-old outcast who dreams of being a great artist. But when he suffers a severe mental breakdown brought on by bullying and other pressures at school, his future is called into question—as is his very existence! Can he survive the experience through the healing power of art? And just what does it mean to be “crazy,” anyway? Features bonus ‘fan art’ from Jeff Lemire, Dylan Horrocks and others.
Author : Magdalene Redekop
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780887558580
Making Believe responds to a remarkable flowering of art by Mennonites in Canada. After the publication of his first novel in 1962, Rudy Wiebe was the only identifiable Mennonite literary writer in the country. Beginning in the 1970s, the numbers grew rapidly and now include writers Patrick Friesen, Sandra Birdsell, Di Brandt, Sarah Klassen, Armin Wiebe, David Bergen, Miriam Toews, Carrie Snyder, Casey Plett, and many more. A similar renaissance is evident in the visual arts (including artists Gathie Falk, Wanda Koop, and Aganetha Dyck) and in music (including composers Randolph Peters, Carol Ann Weaver, and Stephanie Martin). Confronted with an embarrassment of riches that resist survey, Magdalene Redekop opts for the use of case studies to raise questions about Mennonites and art. Part criticism, part memoir, Making Believe argues that there is no such thing as Mennonite art. At the same time, her close engagement with individual works of art paradoxically leads Redekop to identify a Mennonite sensibility at play in the space where artists from many cultures interact. Constant questioning and commitment to community are part of the Mennonite dissenting tradition. Although these values come up against the legacy of radical Anabaptist hostility to art, Redekop argues that the Early Modern roots of a contemporary crisis of representation are shared by all artists. Making Believe posits a Spielraum or play space in which all artists are dissembling tricksters, but differences in how we play are inflected by where we come from. The close readings in this book insist on respect for difference at the same time as they invite readers to find common ground while making believe across cultures.
Author : Charles Noble
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781926836249
With wit and cunning, Noble's poems insinuate themselves into the mediations of "we use language" / "language uses us," into the objectification of "mind," into the struggles and cracking of systems. Cuing on Hegel's epochal revitalization of the syllogism, they begin with sentences-cum-arguments that issue from Everyman's intentions and insights, playing into and baiting the "sociality of reason." In the cut-up sentences then come the restless, accelerated themes - themes that exist only in their variations, ghosting into one another like the dusk and the dawn in a winging, distended now.
Author : Guido Cavalcanti
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781926836843
Text in Italian with English translation on opposite pages.
Author : Marie de France
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781927356357
The twelve "lays" of the mysterious medieval poet Marie de France are here presented in sprightly English verse by poet and translator David R. Slavitt. Traditional Breton folktales were the raw material for Marie de France's series of lively but profound considerations of love, life, death, fidelity and betrayal, and luck and fate. They offer acute observations about the choices that women make, startling in the late twelfth century and challenging even today. Combining a keen wit with an impressive technical bravura, the lays are a minor treasure of European culture. ... It was with some shame that he explained how, in the wood, he lived on whatever prey he could capture and kill. She digested this and then inquired of him what his costume was in these bizarre forays. "Lady, werewolves are completely naked," was his reply. She laughed at this (I can't guess why) and asked him where he hid his clothes-- to make conversation, I suppose.
Author : Ewa Lipska
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781927356029
Poetic, witty, and ever so faintly surreal, Seferdelicately explores the legacy of the Holocaust for the postwargeneration, a generation for whom a devastating history has growndistant, both temporally and emotionally. The novel'sprotagonist, Jan Sefer, is a psychotherapist living inVienna--someone whose professional life puts him in daily contactwith the traumas of others but who has found it difficult to addresshis own family background, especially his memories of his father.During a two-week trip to his father's birthplace, Kraków--avisit he has long postponed--he begins to sort out some of hisfeelings and to connect with a past the memory of which is swiftlydisintegrating. Much like memory itself, Sefer speaks to usobliquely, through the juxtaposition of images and vignettes ratherthan through the construction of a linear narrative. With itsfragmentary structure and its preference for hints rather thanexplanations, the novel belongs to the realm of the postmodern, whileit also incorporates subtle elements of magical realism. One of Poland's best-known poets, Ewa Lipska is today a majorfigure in European literature. In their translation of Sefer,Lipska's first novel, translators Barbara Bogoczek and TonyHoward deftly capture the poet's unmistakable voice--cooland precise, gently ironic, and deeply humane. Born in 1945 in Kraków, Ewa Lipska was for many yearsthe poetry editor of the literary magazine Pismo, which she co-founded,and was active in Poland's Nowa Fala, or New Wave. Her manyprizes include the Koscielski Fund Award, the Robert Graves Pen ClubAward, and Pen Club Award for Lifetime Literary Achievement. Her poetryhas been widely translated, into Hebrew as well as into Europeanlanguages. Barbara Bogoczek is a freelance translatorand interpreter based in London. Tony Howard isprofessor of English at Warwick University. Together they havetranslated works by numerous Polish authors--Ewa Lipska, TadeuszRózewicz, Maria Pawlikowska-Jasnorzewska, Hanna Krall, and manyothers--into English.
Author : Naomi McIlwraith
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926836690
Kiyam contemplates language loss and recovery in the twenty-first century, by relating one woman's journey in learning an Indigenous language.
