In 1906, Nello Vernon-Wood (1882–1978) reinvented himself as Tex Wood, Banff hunting guide and writer of “yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman.” His homespun stories of a vanishing...
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Auteur: Gow, Andrew, Rak, Julie, Athabasca University PressSommaire: -
Auteur: Rak, JulieSommaire:Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self,...
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Auteur: Rak, JulieSommaire:Since the early 1990s, tens of thousands of memoirs by celebrities and unknown people have been published, sold, and read by millions of American readers. The memoir boom, as the explosion of...
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Auteur: Wunker, Erin, McGregor, Hannah, Rak, JulieSommaire:CanLit-the commonly used short form for English Canadian Literature as a cultural formation and industry-has been at the heart of several recent public controversies. Why? Because CanLit is...
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Auteur: Rak, JulieSommaire:The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human...
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Auteur: Freeman, Mini Aodla, Martin, Keavy, Rak, Julie, Dunning, NormaSommaire:
Life Among the Qallunaat is the story of Mini Aodla Freeman’s experiences growing up in the Inuit communities of James Bay and her journey in the 1950s from her home to the strange land and...