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The New Wascana Anthology

Medrie Purdham,Michael Trussler
The New Wascana Anthology Book PDF

Author : Medrie Purdham,Michael Trussler
Publisher : Canadian Plains Research Center
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0889773084

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The New Wascana Anthology is named for the Cree word "oskana," meaning "bones,"* but this anthology is no literary graveyard. It will introduce you to stories, poems, and essays that can be discussed over drinks, or used to impress friends years after leaving English 100 behind. Offering a taster's choice of the best Canadian writing, with a special focus on Aboriginal and Prairie writers, this anthology includes pieces selected to introduce you to the English literary canon. Going back hundreds of years, the oldest poems included here have no known author, while the youngest writer is a recent university graduate. Building on the bones of the canon (including all of Canada's Man Booker Prize-winners and newest Nobel Laureate), The New Wascana Anthology features writers such as Flannery O'Connor, Thomas King, Carmine Starnino, and Ursula K. Le Guin who will challenge your worldview. Most importantly, this anthology is about turning the page, opening your mind, and revelling in the pleasures of reading. *The bones referred to are the bones of plains bison, a species that once numbered in the tens of millions on the Great Plains.

The Wascana Poetry Anthology

University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
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Author : University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 0889770964

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The Wascana Poetry Anthology by University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center Pdf

This is an anthology of English verse from the Middle Ages to recent times, from both sides of the Atlantic. Special emphasis has been given to poetry by writers of the Great Plains region (both Canadian and American) and by Aboriginal poets. Intended for introductory classes, poems have been selected with an eye to works--not necessarily easy ones--which address experiences and ideas more readily available to beginning university students and which are more direct and straightforward in expression than many currently anthologized.

The Wascana Anthology of Short Fiction

University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
The Wascana Anthology of Short Fiction Book PDF

Author : University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Nouvelles
ISBN : 0889771138

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The Wascana Anthology of Short Fiction by University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center Pdf

This anthology of short stories has been designed specifically as an instructional text for first-year university students. To explore the many dimensions of short narrative fiction, the collection includes traditional classics from European culture, from Chaucer to Gogol and Chekhov, and extends to popular and celebrated stories from contemporary writers. There is a decided emphasis on new stories from the Plains region of Canada and the United States. Guy Vanderhaeghe, Richard Ford, Margaret Laurence, Thomas King, Bonnie Burnard, Louise Erdrich--all of them present masterly tales with specific appeal to students at post-secondary institutions.

"I Could Not Speak My Heart"

University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
I Could Not Speak My Heart Book PDF

Author : University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center
Publisher : University of Regina Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0889771782

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"I Could Not Speak My Heart" by University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center Pdf

This anthology of 19 articles documents the pain & misunderstanding that lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgendered people have experienced in the very recent past and demonstrates the real progress, both in theory & in practice, that has been made in the struggle for equity & social justice. The articles include autobiography, testament, fiction, poetry, and traditional personal & analytic essays, from authors with different intellectual perspectives: human rights, social reform & human justice, feminist, liberationist, and queer theory.

Forty-One Pages

John Steffler
Forty One Pages Book PDF

Author : John Steffler
Publisher : Oskana Poetry & Poetics
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-16
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0889775877

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Forty-One Pages by John Steffler Pdf

Reflections on our salvation in a world of environmental decline.

Shadow Tag

Louise Erdrich
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Author : Louise Erdrich
Publisher : Harper Perennial
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061536105

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When Irene America discovers that her artist husband, Gil, has been reading her diary, she begins a secret Blue Notebook, stashed securely in a safe-deposit box. There she records the truth about her life and marriage, while turning her Red Diary—hidden where Gil will find it—into a manipulative charade. As Irene and Gil fight to keep up appearances for their three children, their home becomes a place of increasing violence and secrecy. And Irene drifts into alcoholism, moving ever closer to the ultimate destruction of a relationship filled with shadowy need and strange ironies. Alternating between Irene's twin journals and an unflinching third-person narrative, Louise Erdrich's Shadow Tag fearlessly explores the complex nature of love, the fluid boundaries of identity, and the anatomy of one family's struggle for survival and redemption.

Hacker Packer

Cassidy McFadzean
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Author : Cassidy McFadzean
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780771057229

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Hacker Packer by Cassidy McFadzean Pdf

A playfully inventive and invigorating debut collection of poetry from a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize and The Walrus Poetry Prize. With settings ranging from the ancient sites and lavish museums of Europe to the inner-city neighbourhood in North Central Regina where the poet grew up, the poems in Cassidy McFadzean’s startling first collection embrace myth and metaphysics and explore the contradictory human impulses to create art and enact cruelty. A child burn victim is conscripted into a Grade Eight fire safety seminar; various road-killed animals make their cases for sainthood; and the fantastical visions in Hieronymus Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights move off the canvas and onto the speaker’s splendid pair of leggings. Precociously wise, formally dexterous, and unrepentantly strange, the poems in Hacker Packer present a wholly memorable poetic debut.

Measures of Astonishment

League of Canadian Poets
Measures of Astonishment Book PDF

Author : League of Canadian Poets
Publisher : Canadian Plains Research Center
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0889773718

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Measures of Astonishment by League of Canadian Poets Pdf

Most of the essays in this volume were previously presented as lectures as part of the Anne Szumigalski lecture series.

Alfabet/alphabet

Sadiqa De Meijer
Alfabet alphabet Book PDF

Author : Sadiqa De Meijer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1989287638

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Alfabet/alphabet by Sadiqa De Meijer Pdf

Alfabet / alphabet is the record of Sadiqa de Meijer's transition from speaking Dutch to English. Exploring questions of identity, landscape, family, and translation, the essays navigate the shifting cultural currents of language by using an eclectic approach to storytelling. As such, fellow linguistic migrants to anglophone Canada will recognize elements of their experience in alfabet / alphabet, while lifelong English speakers will perceive their mother tongue in a new light.

Hat Girl

Wanda Campbell
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Author : Wanda Campbell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1927426200

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Pertice McIlveen, a young Ontario woman who loves Hemingway and hates hats, receives a mysterious key in the mail. Accompanied by her best friend Es, she travels to Gannet Island off the coast of New Brunswick to find the door it fits into. There she discovers a charming cottage by the sea has been willed to her by a secret benefactor identified only as PM, on the condition she wears the hats that come with it. She accepts the challenge, leaving behind her life in Toronto and moving into Honeysuckle Cottage. As she seeks to solve the mystery of PM, Pertice is gradually changed by the hats she wears and the islanders she meets. With the help of Charlotte, the proprietor of the local bed and breakfast, her artist husband Will, and two men caught between land and sea, Pertice discovers a new kind of grace under pressure.

The Making of a Story

Alice LaPlante
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Author : Alice LaPlante
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780393337082

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The Making of a Story by Alice LaPlante Pdf

A Los Angeles Times bestseller: wonderfully lucid and illuminating, Alice LaPlante’s guide to writing fiction “recalls Francine Prose’s bestseller, Reading Like a Writer” (Library Journal). The Making of a Story is a fresh and inspiring guide to the basics of creative writing—both fiction and creative nonfiction. Its hands-on, completely accessible approach walks writers through each stage of the creative process, from the initial triggering idea to the revision of the final manuscript. It is unique in combing the three main aspects of creative writing instruction: process (finding inspiration, getting ideas on the page), craft (specific techniques like characterization), and anthology (learning by reading masters of the form). Succinct, clear definitions of basic terms of fiction are accompanied by examples, including excerpts from masterpieces of short fiction and essays as well as contemporary novels. A special highlight is Alice LaPlante's systematic debunking of many of the so-called rules of creative writing. This book is perfect for writers working alone as well as for creative writing classes, both introductory and advanced.

Becoming an Active Reader

Eric Henderson
Becoming an Active Reader Book PDF

Author : Eric Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 0199019061

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Becoming an Active Reader offers a three-in-one approach that combines a guide to rhetorical writing, an engaging reader, and a detailed grammar handbook, all in a single volume. The advice and exercises found throughout help students understand and apply the most effective reading and writingstrategies, while the 39 thought-provoking readings encourage meaningful interaction with the written word. Annotated sample student essays, individual and collaborative exercises, checklists, and grammar hints appear throughout to help students navigate effective strategies for reading andwriting.

Field Requiem

Sheri Benning
Field Requiem Book PDF

Author : Sheri Benning
Publisher : Carcanet Press Ltd
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781800171527

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Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (Poetry Book) 2023 Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (City of Saskatoon) 2023 Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022 Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 2022 Field Requiem bears witness to the violence inherent in the shift to industrialised farming in prairie Canada. Sheri Benning's poems chart the ways in which a way of life collapses, the world of the family farm, even as the speaker suffers, too. The first poem in the collection, 'Winter Sleep', is a fever dream: the borders between past and present, between the unconscious and the real, break down. The poem reckons with the devastating social and environmental impacts of the agribusiness industry. The long elegy, 'Let Them Rest', takes its cue from the Dies Irae and the Latin liturgy of the Requiem mass to mourn Saskatchewan's many ruined farmsteads and razed communities. Throughout, the poems trace the still luminous contours of love – for family, for the land – in rendering the horrors of loss. The incantatory voice rises from dream into dark vision. The book also includes lyric poems that give voice to the affective consequences of loss brought on by climate change and factory farming and renew a sense of locality in the teeth of corporate farming practices. Benning has worked with her sister Heather Benning, who constructs large-scale, site specific installations which explore and extend these themes.

The Dying Athabaskan

Brady Harrison
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Author : Brady Harrison
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 1984084925

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Hired to interview a Canadian artist on the 25th anniversary of his most infamous creation, "The Dying Athabaskan," Ritu Agarwal wonders if she may be getting in over her head: Niall O'Keevan, a notorious fabulist, hates to talk about himself or his work and he has been known to spin lies and tell tales. Yet Ritu needs the work, and when she meets O'Keevan at his studio, he begins to tell her the story behind the sculpture of a bizarre, shattered man: how much of it is true, and has the young freelancer discovered the key when she wonders aloud if the statue is really three people pieced together into one monstrous form. . . ? "The Dying Athabaskan" won Twelve Winters Press's Publisher's Long Story Prize.

The North-West Is Our Mother

Jean Teillet
The North West Is Our Mother Book PDF

Author : Jean Teillet
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443450140

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The North-West Is Our Mother by Jean Teillet Pdf

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both First Nations and Europeans Their story begins in the last decade of the eighteenth century in the Canadian North-West. Within twenty years the Métis proclaimed themselves a nation and won their first battle. Within forty years they were famous throughout North America for their military skills, their nomadic life and their buffalo hunts. The Métis Nation didn’t just drift slowly into the Canadian consciousness in the early 1800s; it burst onto the scene fully formed. The Métis were flamboyant, defiant, loud and definitely not noble savages. They were nomads with a very different way of being in the world—always on the move, very much in the moment, passionate and fierce. They were romantics and visionaries with big dreams. They battled continuously—for recognition, for their lands and for their rights and freedoms. In 1870 and 1885, led by the iconic Louis Riel, they fought back when Canada took their lands. These acts of resistance became defining moments in Canadian history, with implications that reverberate to this day: Western alienation, Indigenous rights and the French/English divide. After being defeated at the Battle of Batoche in 1885, the Métis lived in hiding for twenty years. But early in the twentieth century, they determined to hide no more and began a long, successful fight back into the Canadian consciousness. The Métis people are now recognized in Canada as a distinct Indigenous nation. Written by the great-grandniece of Louis Riel, this popular and engaging history of “forgotten people” tells the story up to the present era of national reconciliation with Indigenous peoples. 2019 marks the 175th anniversary of Louis Riel’s birthday (October 22, 1844)