Ten Canadian Writers In Context

Author : Marie Carrière,Curtis Gillespie,Jason Purcell
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11-04
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781772122862

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Ten Canadian Writers in Context by Marie Carrière,Curtis Gillespie,Jason Purcell Pdf

Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reaches into its ten-year archive of Brown Bag Lunch readings to sample some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature. This anthology offers readers samples from some of Canada’s most exciting writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. Each selection is introduced by a brief essay, serving as a point of entry into the writer’s work. From the east coast of Newfoundland to Kitamaat territory on British Columbia’s central coast, there is a story for everyone, from everywhere. True to Canada’s multilingual and multicultural heritage, these ten writers come from diverse ethnicities and backgrounds, and work in multiple languages, including English, French, and Cree. Ying Chen | essay by Julie Rodgers Lynn Coady | essay by Maïté Snauwaert Michael Crummey | essay by Jennifer Bowering Delisle Caterina Edwards | essay by Joseph Pivato Marina Endicott | essay by Daniel Laforest Lawrence Hill | essay by Winfried Siemerling Alice Major | essay by Don Perkins Eden Robinson | essay by Kit Dobson Gregory Scofield | essay by Angela Van Essen Kim Thúy | essay by Pamela V. Sing

Author : Curtis Gillespie,Marie J. Carrière,Jason Purcell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Authorship
ISBN : 1772122858

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Ten Canadian Writers in Context by Curtis Gillespie,Marie J. Carrière,Jason Purcell Pdf

"Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littérature canadienne reached into its Brown Bag Lunch Reading Series to present a sampling of some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature from Newfoundland to British Columbia. Each piece is accompanied by a concise critical essay addressing the author's writerly preoccupations and practices. The literary selections and essays will be of interest to engaged readers who want direction in analyzing these authors' work as well as to teachers and students of Canadian literature."--

Author : Ying Chen
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-27
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781772121414

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Ten Canadian Writers in Context by Ying Chen Pdf

"Ten years, ten authors, ten critics. The Canadian Literature Centre/Centre de littâerature canadienne reached into its Brown Bag Lunch Reading Series to present a sampling of some of the most diverse and powerful voices in contemporary Canadian literature from Newfoundland to British Columbia. Each piece is accompanied by a concise critical essay addressing the author's writerly preoccupations and practices. The literary selections and essays will be of interest to engaged readers who want direction in analyzing these authors' work as well as to teachers and students of Canadian literature."--

Author : Camille R. La Bossière
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776603605

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Context North America by Camille R. La Bossière Pdf

Context North America is a comparative study of Canadian and American literary relations that emphasizes the cultural and institutional contexts in which Canadian literature is taught and read. This volume exemplifies the question of how the literatures of Canada might aptly be studied and contextualized in the days of heightened discontinuity and increasingly ambiguous borderlines both between and within the many narratives that make up North America. Published in English.

Author : Ajay Heble,Donna Palmateer Pennee,J.R. Struthers
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1551111063

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New Contexts of Canadian Criticism by Ajay Heble,Donna Palmateer Pennee,J.R. Struthers Pdf

Times change, lives change, and the terms we need to describe our literature or society or condition—what Raymond Williams calls “keywords”—change with them. Perhaps the most significant development in the quarter-century since Eli Mandel edited his anthology Contexts of Canadian Criticism has been the growing recognition that not only do different people need different terms, but the same terms have different meanings for different people and in different contexts. Nation, history, culture, art, identity—the positions we take discussing these and other issues can lead to conflict, but also hold the promise of a new sort of community. Speaking of First Nations people and their literature, Beth Brant observes that “Our connections … are like the threads of a weaving. … While the colour and beauty of each thread is unique and important, together they make a communal material of strength and durability.” New Contexts of Canadian Criticism is designed to be read, to work, in much the same manner.

Author : Robert Lecker,Jack David,Ellen Quigley
Publisher : Downsview, Ont. : ECW Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015015183802

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Canadian Writers and Their Works by Robert Lecker,Jack David,Ellen Quigley Pdf

Providing in-depth, original criticism on Canadian writers—including Leonard Cohen, Dave Godfrey, Robert Kroetsch, Jack Hodgins, and Robert Harlow—this series features essays by Canadian literary specialists. Each volume contains four to five essays that are unified in a general introduction.

Author : Stephen Henighan
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 088984240X

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When Words Deny the World by Stephen Henighan Pdf

`It's the liveliest, most cogently argued, most provocative and most infuriatingly self-satisfied work of literary criticism to be published in this country in at least the last decade.'

Author : Robert Lecker,Jack David,Ellen Quigley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : UOM:39015031862348

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Canadian Writers and Their Works by Robert Lecker,Jack David,Ellen Quigley Pdf

Author : Alison Calder,Robert Wardhaugh
Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780887559846

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History, Literature and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies by Alison Calder,Robert Wardhaugh Pdf

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.

Author : Jennifer Blair
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0888644434

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ReCalling Early Canada by Jennifer Blair Pdf

ReCalling Early Canada is the first substantial collection of essays to focus on the production of Canadian literary and cultural works prior to WWI. Reflecting an emerging critical interest in the literary past, the authors seek to retrieve the early repertoire available to Canadian readers-fiction and poetry certainly, but family letters, photographs, journalism, and captivity narratives are also investigated. Filling a significant gap in Canadian criticism, the authors demonstrate that to recall the past is not only to shape it, but also to reshape the present. This fresh interest in the cultural past, informed by new approaches to historical inquiry, has resulted in a unique and diverse investigation of more than two centuries of a little known "early Canada."

Author : Marie Carrière,Ursula Mathis-Moser,Kit Dobson
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781772125245

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All the Feels / Tous les sens by Marie Carrière,Ursula Mathis-Moser,Kit Dobson Pdf

All the Feels / Tous les sens presents research into emotion and cognition in Canadian, Indigenous, and Québécois writings in English or French. Affect is both internal and external, private and public; with its fluid boundaries, it represents a productive dimension for literary analysis. The emerging field of affect studies makes vital claims about ethical impulses, social justice, and critical resistance, and thus much is at stake when we adopt affective reading practices. The contributors ask what we can learn from reading contemporary literatures through this lens. Unique and timely, readable and teachable, this collection is a welcome resource for scholars of literature, feminism, philosophy, and transnational studies as well as anyone who yearns to imagine the world differently. Contributors: Nicole Brossard, Marie Carrière, Matthew Cormier, Kit Dobson, Nicoletta Dolce, Louise Dupré, Margery Fee, Ana María Fraile-Marcos, Smaro Kamboureli, Aaron Kreuter, Daniel Laforest, Carmen Mata Barreiro, Ursula Mathis-Moser, Heather Milne, Eric Schmaltz, Maïté Snauwaert, Jeanette den Toonder

Author : Margaret Atwood
Publisher : University of Alberta
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781772123043

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The Burgess Shale by Margaret Atwood Pdf

“Atwood provides a window into her own early writing days . . . a treasure for readers interested in Canadian literature because this is where it all began.” —Prairie Fire Review of Books “The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before. It’s always difficult for young people to see their own time in perspective: when you’re in your teens, a decade earlier feels like ancient history and the present moment seems normal: what exists now is surely what has always existed.” In this short work, Margaret Atwood, author of The Handmaid’s Tale and “Canada’s most famous writer” (The New Yorker), compares the Canadian literary landscape of the 1960s to the Burgess Shale, a geological formation that contains the fossils of many strange prehistoric life forms. The Burgess Shale is not entirely about writing itself, however: Atwood also provides some insight into the meager writing infrastructure of that time, taking a lighthearted look at the early days of the institutions we take for granted today—from writers’ organizations, prizes, and grant programs to book tours and festivals. “Allows the reader a brief glimpse into the mind of a great writer and her perspective and experience living through what would now seem to many the Stone Age of the Canadian writing scene . . . invaluable and very readable.” —Canadian Literature

Author : Karina Vernon
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781771123754

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The Black Prairie Archives by Karina Vernon Pdf

The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published here for the first time, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first century. This anthology establishes a new black prairie literary tradition and transforms inherited understandings of what prairie literature looks and sounds like. It collects varied and unique work by writers who were both conscious and unconscious of themselves as black writers or as “prairie” people. Their letters, recipes, oral literature, autobiographies, rap, and poetry- provide vivid glimpses into the reality of their lived experiences and give meaning to them. The book includes introductory notes for each writer in non-specialist language, and notes to assist readers in their engagement with the literature. This archive and its supporting text offer new scholarly and pedagogical possibilities by expanding the nation’s and the region’s archives. They enrich our understanding of black Canada by bringing to light the prairies' black histories, cultures, and presences.

Author : Bart Vautour,Erin Wunker,Travis V. Mason,Christl Verduyn
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771120494

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Public Poetics by Bart Vautour,Erin Wunker,Travis V. Mason,Christl Verduyn Pdf

Public Poetics is a collection of essays and poems that address some of the most pressing issues of the discipline in the twenty-first century. The collection brings together fifteen original essays addressing “publics,” “poetry,” and “poetics” from the situated space of Canada while simultaneously troubling the notion of the nation as a stable term. It asks hard questions about who and what count as “publics” in Canada. Critical essays stand alongside poetry as visual and editorial reminders of the cross-pollination required in thinking through both poetry and poetics. Public Poetics is divided into three thematic sections. The first contains essays surveying poetics in the present moment through the lens of the public/private divide, systematic racism in Canada, the counterpublic, feminist poetics, and Canadian innovations on postmodern poetics. The second section contains author-specific studies of public poets. The final section contains essays that use innovative renderings of “poetics” as a means of articulating alternative communities and practices. Each section is paired with a collection of original poetry by ten contemporary Canadian poets. This collection attends to the changing landscape of critical discourse around poetry and poetics in Canada, and will be of use to teachers and students of poetry and poetics.

Author : Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030825768

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Migrant Masculinities in Women’s Writing by Ashwiny O. Kistnareddy Pdf

This book examines the representation of masculinities in contemporary texts written by women who have immigrated into France or Canada from a range of geographical spaces. Exploring works by Léonora Miano (Cameroon), Fatou Diome (Senegal), Assia Djebar, Malika Mokeddem (Algeria), Ananda Devi (Mauritius), Ying Chen (China) and Kim Thúy (Vietnam), this study charts the extent to which migration generates new ways of understanding and writing masculinities. It draws on diverse theoretical perspectives, including postcolonial theory, affect theory and critical race theory, while bringing visibility to the many women across various historical and geographical terrains who write about (im)migration and the impact on men, even as these women, too, acquire a different position in the new society.