A collection of quotations from Canada’s greatest literary theorist. "There is no Canadian writer of whom we can say … that their readers can grow up inside their work without ever being...
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Author: Colombo, John Robert, O'Grady, Jean, Frye, NorthropSummary:
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Author: Rampton, DavidSummary:
More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye remains one of Canada's most influential intellectuals. This reappraisal reasserts the relevance of his work...
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Author: Denham, Robert D., Lynch, Gerald, Ganz, Shoshannah, Kealey, JosepheneSummary:
Eminent Northrop Frye scholar Robert D. Denham explores the connection between Frye and twelve writers who influenced his thinking but about whom he didn’t write anything expansive. Denham draws...
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Author: Frye, NorthropSummary:
"Any publication by Northrop Frye is an important literary event; this one is of the highest importance to Canadian literature." - Globe and Mail Originally published by Anansi in 1971, The Bush...
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Author: Manguel, AlbertoSummary:
In 1943, Northrop Frye wrote a paper, left unfinished, on "the state of the world." His ideas of what to expect after the end of the war and the role that literature might play in a time of peace...
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Author: Bissoondath, NeilSummary:
Stories shape the world, imposing order on chaos, and the stories we tell declare: I exist. Neil Bissoondath presses these assertions about narrative further. Stories are also, he says, forms of...
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Author: Frye, NorthropSummary:
"What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?" Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous...
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Author: Atwood, MargaretSummary:
The fifty essays in Second Words span the period from 1962 to 1980 and reveal Margaret Atwood's views on feminism, Canadian literature, the creative process, nationalism, sexism, as well as...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays -
Author: Dickinson, MarkSummary:
"Mark Dickinson's Canadian Primalis a decisive event in Canadian literary criticism, comparable to Margaret Atwood's Survival and Northrop Frye's The Bush Garden. Dickinson...
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Author: Soper, Ella, Bradley, NicholasSummary:
Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to...
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Author: Clarke, George ElliottSummary:
In his 2018 Pratt Lecture, The Quest for a 'National' Nationalism, renowned author and critic George Elliott Clarke investigates E.J. Pratt's poetic attempt to become the epic poet of Canada. And...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Social science -
Author: Richards, David AdamsSummary:
In this provocative essay, David Adams Richards brings together his ideas about writing -- how great works of literature are created, the writer's essential position as an outsider, and the...
Genre: Canadian nonfiction, Essays, Social science -
Literary Titans Revisited The Earle Toppings Interviews with CanLit Poets and Writers of the Sixties
Author: Urbancic, AnneSummary:Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s. From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers...
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Author: Gilmour, DavidSummary:
Like a tourist visiting his own life, David Gilmour's narrator journeys in time to reexamine those critical moments that created him. He revisits the terrible hurt of a first love, the shock of a...
Genre: General fiction, Canadian fiction -
Author: Gilmour, DavidSummary:
From the 2005 winner of the Governor-General's Award for Fiction and the former national film critic for CBC television comes a delightful and absorbing book about the agonies and joys of home-...