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A growing number of literary historians and critics recognize the contemporary long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This title offers a collection of essays that enables the reader to understand Canadian literary cultures in terms of their local intimacies and idiosyncrasies as well as in their national contexts.

This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town.

As we commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, the most translated and performed playwright in the world continues to live on in our imagination. How might we historicize Shakespeare's influence in Canada?

Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings.

The Worlds of Carol Shields is the first book to examine Shields' extraordinary career and life through the lens both of close friends and of literary critics.

A volume that re-evaluates Canada's first man of letters: Sir Charles G D Roberts, poet and novelist, romancer and critic, writer and translator, journalist and historian.

Focuses on the life and work of Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887).

Presents a result of the fourth symposium in the University of Ottawa Symposia series following those on Canadian writers Grove (1973), Klein (1974), and Lampman (1975).

The first multi-disciplinary collection of essays to focus exclusively on early Canadian literature with the aim of reassessing the field and proposing new approaches.

The widest-ranging exploration to date of the interaction between English Canadian literature and film.

Presents the history of Canadian postmodernism. This title explores the development of the idea of the postmodern and debates about its meaning and its applicability to various genres of Canadian writing, and charting its decline in recent years as a favoured critical trope.

If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918-2000). This title explores: Purdy's significance to contemporary writers; the life he dedicated to literature and the persona he crafted; the influences acting on his development as a poet; and, the larger themes in his work, such as "The Canadian North".

Explores how and what the animals in this country have meant through all genres and periods of Canadian writing. This title tackles more than a century of writing, from 19th-century narrative of women travellers, to the 'natural' conversion of Grey Owl, to the award-winning novels of Farley Mowat, Marian Engel, Timothy Findley, and Yann Martel.

Collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall".

Offers a collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies that addresses the basic problems in reading his work. This title looks at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in 'gaps' or spaces 'in between'.

A collection of essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. It raises questions - about modernism and antimodernism, nationalism and antinationalism, gender and class, originality and influence - that remain central to contemporary research on early to mid-twentieth-century English Canadian literature.

Offering perspectives of MacLennan's personality, character and artistry, this title examines his writing, and reappraises his status as one of Canada's premier novelists.

Presents a study of Canadian and American literary relations that emphasizes the cultural and institutional contexts in which Canadian literature is taught and read. This title exemplifies the question of how the literatures of Canada might aptly be studied and contextualized.

Aims to reappraise the legacy of Sinclair Ross. This title attempts to re-establish the value of his writings in their literary and historical contexts.

Discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature. This title examines others works, including the oral memoirs of a Metis, an Inuit's account as being civil servant in Ottawa, and the autobiographical writings of pioneer women and French missionaries to show the depth and breadth of this tradition in Canada.

A collection of essays that explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town".

Thomas Chandler Haliburton was perhaps the only Canadian writer whose name was a household word in nineteenth-century Canada. This title includes the ten papers that reappraise the historical, geographical, political and literary contexts within which Haliburton lived and worked.

Northrop Frye remains one of Canada's most influential intellectuals. This book explores the development of his extraordinary intellectual range and the implications of his imaginative syntheses.

Margaret Atwood enjoys a unique prominence in Canadian letters. With over thirty books to her credit, in genres ranging from children's writing to dystopic novels, she is as creatively diverse as she is internationally acclaimed. This title provides a critical base from which readers can assess Atwood's novels.

No longer dismissed as 'escapist' reading, critics have finally discovered a brave new world of science fiction and fantasy literature. This book pays tribute to this previously ignored genre, placing these works within a general context of Canadian literature and culture.

This collection of essays confirms and celebrates the artistry of Canadian children's literature. Contributors include Janet Lunn and Tim Wynne-Jones.

Highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. This title features a collection of essays that explores her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers.

From practical discussions related to specific texts, to more theoretical discussions about pedagogical practice regarding issues of nationalism and identity, this work constitutes a major investigation and reassessment of the influence of postcolonial theory on Canadian literary pedagogy from some of the top scholars in the field.

Robert Kroetsch:Essayist, Novelist, Poet brings together an international cast ofcritics, scholars, and writers to examine the immense significance thatKroetsch holds in the twenty-first-century.