Greenwor L Ds

Author : Diana M. A. Relke
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781552380178

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Greenwor(l)ds by Diana M. A. Relke Pdf

Relke (women's and gender studies, U. of Saskatchewan) divides her book into what she calls three chronological "moments in feminist ecocritical consciousness": poetic, ecological, and ecocritical. Essays included under poetic consciousness are preoccupied with woman's search for subjectivity in a literary universe that can't accommodate women poets of nature, examining, for example, Atwood's Journals of Susanna Moodie. To ecological consciousness, Relke assigns essays examining how Dorothy Livesay, Isabella Valancy Crawford and Daphne Marlatt understand the metaphor, woman = nature, and how they use it to address green concerns. Lastly, essays under ecocritical consciousness focus on the critical act itself and on the masculine construction of Canadian literary history. The book's constant theme, writes Relke, "concerns the struggle by women poets to make the best of a bad idea--namely, patriarchy." Canadian card order number: C99-910815-8. Distribute by Raincoast Distribution Services. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.

Author : K. Macdonald
Publisher : Springer
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230316577

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The Masculine Middlebrow, 1880-1950 by K. Macdonald Pdf

Who was the early twentieth-century masculine middlebrow reader? How did his reading choices respond to his environment? This book looks at British middlebrow writing and reading from the late Victorian period to the 1950s and examines the masculine reader and author, and how they challenged feminine middlebrow and literary modernism.

Author : David R. Jarraway
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780776619897

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Double-Takes by David R. Jarraway Pdf

Over the past forty years, Canadian literature has found its way to the silver screen with increasing regularity. Beginning with the adaptation of Margaret Laurence’s A Jest of God to the Hollywood film Rachel, Rachel in 1966, Canadian writing would appear to have found a doubly successful life for itself at the movies: from the critically acclaimed Kamouraska and The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz in the 1970s through to the award-winning Love and Human Remains and The English Patient in the 1990s. With the more recent notoriety surrounding the Oscar-nominated Away from Her, and the screen appearances of The Stone Angel and Fugitive Pieces, this seems like an appropriate time for a collection of essays to reflect on the intersection between literary publication in Canada, and its various screen transformations. This volume discusses and debates several double-edged issues: the extent to which the literary artefact extends its artfulness to the film artefact, the degree to which literary communities stand to gain (or lose) in contact with film communities, and perhaps most of all, the measure by which a viable relation between fiction and film can be said to exist in Canada, and where that double-life precisely manifests itself, if at all. - This book is published in English.

Author : Rita Bode,Jean Mitchell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773553996

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L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) by Rita Bode,Jean Mitchell Pdf

L.M. Montgomery’s writings are replete with enchanting yet subtle and fluid depictions of nature that convey her intense appreciation for the natural world. At a time of ecological crises, intensifying environmental anxiety, and burgeoning eco-critical perspectives, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) repositions the Canadian author’s relationship to nature in terms of current environmental criticism across several disciplines, introducing a fresh approach to her life and work. Drawing on a wide range of Montgomery’s novels as well as her journals, this collection suggests that socio-ecological relationships encompass ideas of reciprocity, affiliation, autonomy, and the capacity for transformation in both the human and more-than-human worlds, and that these ideas are integral to Montgomery’s vision and her literary legacy. Framed by the twin themes of materiality and interrelationships, essays by scholars of literature, law, animal studies, anthropology, and ecology examine place, embodiment, and difference in Montgomery’s works and embrace the multiplicities embedded in the concept of nature. Through innovative critical approaches, L.M. Montgomery and the Matter of Nature(s) opens up conversations about humans’ interactions with nature and the material environment.

Author : Di Brandt
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554580323

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Wider Boundaries of Daring by Di Brandt Pdf

This text announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution of women poets, critics, cultural activists, and experimental prose writers.

Author : M. Travis Lane
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-26
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781554581078

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The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand by M. Travis Lane Pdf

The Crisp Day Closing on My Hand: The Poetry of M. Travis Lane is a collection of thirty-five of her best poems, selected with an introduction by Jeanette Lynes. An environmentalist, feminist, and peace activist, M. Travis Lane is known for witty and meticulously crafted poems that explore the elusive nature of “home” in both historical and present contexts and reflect on the identity of the woman poet and what it means to be a writer. Lane’s poems exhibit impressive range and variety—long poems, short lyrics, serial poems, poems inspired by visual art—and are richly attentive to the landscapes, both urban and wild, of her New Brunswick home. They voice a sense of urgency with respect to ecological crises and war; her poetic attention fixes unwaveringly on the smallest pebble on the coast of Fundy but is equally attuned to global patterns of destructive domination. In her introduction “As Opportunity for Grace, This Life May Serve”, editor Jeanette Lynes discusses how Lane’s poetry integrates an ecopoetic vision with explorations of the artist’s task of mapping her world. Lane’s afterword reinforces her sense of the poet’s project as a form of mystical play, a search for patterns in the “unified disunities” of all things.

Author : Travis V. Mason
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554583713

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Ornithologies of Desire by Travis V. Mason Pdf

Ornithologies of Desire develops ecocritical reading strategies that engage scientific texts, field guides, and observation. Focusing on poetry about birds and birdwatching, this book argues that attending to specific details about the physical world when reading environmentally conscious poetry invites a critical humility in the face of environmental crises and evolutionary history. The poetry and poetics of Don McKay provide Ornithologies of Desire with its primary subject matter, which is predicated on attention to ornithological knowledge and avian metaphors. This focus on birds enables a consideration of more broadly ecological relations and concerns, since an awareness of birds in their habitats insists on awareness of plants, insects, mammals, rocks, and all else that constitutes place. The book’s chapters are organized according to: apparatus (that is, science as ecocritical tool), flight, and song. Reading McKay’s work alongside ecology and ornithology, through flight and birdsong, both challenges assumptions regarding humans’ place in the earth system and celebrates the sheer virtuosity of lyric poetry rich with associative as well as scientific details. The resulting chapters, interchapter, and concordance of birds that appear in McKay’s poetry encourage amateurs and specialists, birdwatchers and poetry readers, to reconsider birds in English literature on the page and in the field.

Author : Albert Braz
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780887555022

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Apostate Englishman by Albert Braz Pdf

In the 1930s Grey Owl was considered the foremost conservationist and nature writer in the world. He owed his fame largely to his four internationally bestselling books, which he supported with a series of extremely popular illustrated lectures across North America and Great Britain. His reputation was transformed radically, however, after he died in April 1938, and it was revealed that he was not of mixed Scottish-Apache ancestry, as he had often claimed, but in fact an Englishman named Archie Belaney. Born into a privileged family in the dominant culture of his time, what compelled him to flee to a far less powerful one? Albert Braz’s Apostate Englishman: Grey Owl the Writer and the Myths is the first comprehensive study of Grey Owl’s cultural and political image in light of his own writings. While the denunciations of Grey Owl after his death are often interpreted as a rejection of his appropriation of another culture, Braz argues that what troubled many people was not only that Grey Owl deceived them about his identity, but also that he had forsaken European culture for the North American Indigenous way of life. That is, he committed cultural apostasy.

Author : Renée Hulan
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780773522275

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Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture by Renée Hulan Pdf

She considers each of these diverse genres in terms of the way it explains the cultural identity of a nation formed from the settlement of immigrant peoples on the lands of dispossessed indigenous peoples.

Author : Melody Hessing,Rebecca Raglon,Catriona Sandilands
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0774811072

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This Elusive Land by Melody Hessing,Rebecca Raglon,Catriona Sandilands Pdf

"This Elusive Land provides an introduction to the literature about women and the environment in Canada. It looks at the ways in which women integrate the social and biophysical settings of their lives, and features a range of contexts in which gender mediates, inspires, and informs a sense of belonging to and in this land. Drawing from geographical, historical, and cultural perspectives, the volume reveals the significance of women's experiences in various landscapes."--Jacket.

Author : Michael Groden,Martin Kreiswirth,Imre Szeman
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781421406398

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Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory by Michael Groden,Martin Kreiswirth,Imre Szeman Pdf

Contemporary Literary and Cultural Theory: The Johns Hopkins Guide is a clear, accessible, and detailed overview of the most important thinkers and topics in the field. Written by specialists from across disciplines, its entries cover contemporary theory from Adorno to ?i?ek, providing an informative and reliable introduction to a vast, challenging area of inquiry. Materials include newly commissioned articles along with essays drawn from The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism, known as the definitive resource for students and scholars of literary theory and for philosophical reflection on literature and culture.

Author : P. K. Page
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780889843479

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Brazilian Journal by P. K. Page Pdf

`How could I have imagined so surrealist and seductive a world? One does not like the heat, yet its constancy, its all-surroundingness, is as fascinating as the smell of musk. Every moment is slow, as if under warm greenish water....' In 1957, Page moved to Brazil with her husband, the Canadian ambassador. The hot, lush landscape was utterly immersive -- and for the next three years Page recorded her life in an intimate, vibrant, startlingly funny journal. Between her at times theatric responsibilities as the wife of an ambassador, and her futile attempts to organize the ambassador's palatial home and staff, Page found the time to write in exquisite prose of her responses to the wildlife, the people and the colours of Brazil, in the end illuminating more of her own emotional and artistic journey than of the country itself. Accompanied by several of the illustrations Page created while on her travels, this is a fascinating, beautiful account of life in a magically unfamiliar place. Brazilian Journal is the second addition to a series of volumes to be published over the next ten years as a complement to an online hypermedia edition of the Collected Works of P.K. Page. The online edition is intended for scholarly research, while this new edition offers a beautiful text to be enjoyed by those who love and wonder at the talent of one of Canada's greatest poets.

Author : Máire Áine Ní Mhainnín,Elizabeth Tilley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443810555

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Canada by Máire Áine Ní Mhainnín,Elizabeth Tilley Pdf

The essays in this volume are expanded versions of papers that were first presented at the 13th Biennial Conference/XIIIème Congrès biennal of the Association for Canadian Studies in Ireland, held at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2006. The theme of the Conference was Canada at Home and Abroad: Text and Territory/Le Canada et ses relations d’ici, de là, et de là bas. The papers debate issues surrounding literature, language and language acquisition, immigration/emigration, and culture, in Canada, Ireland, and in Europe as a whole. From an examination of the place of hockey in the Canadian literary consciousness, to mapping minority language visibility in officially bilingual cities, the focus here is on ways of exploring culture, understood in its widest sense.

Author : University of Toronto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Arts
ISBN : UCD:31175027889172

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University of Toronto Quarterly by University of Toronto Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Women's studies
ISBN : UOM:39015057939350

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Atlantis by Anonim Pdf