Every great author started out as a kid. Before the bestsellers, fan clubs, and beloved stories we know today, the world's most celebrated writers had regular-kid problems just like you. Sam Clemens (aka Mark Twain) loved to skip school...
Literary arts
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Author:Stabler, DavidSummary: - Author:Marsh, James H.Summary:
In / Know It All: Finding the Impossible Country / James Marsh tells of his evolution from a troubled childhood to a long career in Canadian publishing that culminated in the creation of The Canadian Encyclopedia - what one reviewer...
- Author:Cole, TejuSummary:
The 40-plus essays will span art, literature, and politics, with topics from Virginia Woolf and James Baldwin to President Obama and Boko Haram. The collection will include pre-published essays that gone viral, like "The White...
- Author:Roy, SimonSummary:
"Simon Roy first saw The Shining when he was ten years old. Roy encountered the movie by chance while idly flipping through the channels on the television, but one scene in particular in which the hotel's chef speaks...
- Author:Taylor, Charles, Calvé, NicolasSummary:
Avec cette somme sur la nature du langage, Charles Taylor offre à ses lecteurs le livre qui était présent en arrière-plan de ses travaux précédents, notamment «Les Sources du moi» et «L’Âge séculier». En s’appuyant sur quatre décennies...
- Author:Rochmann, Marie-ChristineSummary:
On appelait " nègre marron " l'esclave qui, aux Antilles, s'échappait de la plantation. La figure de cet esclave fugitif ne cesse d'attirer les écrivains. Des premiers auteurs blancs du XIXe siècle aux romans afro-antillais...
- Author:Hamon, PhilippeSummary:
- Author:Mercier, Andrée, Dion, RobertSummary:
Être contemporain c'est, au premier chef, être de son temps (ou en avance sur lui) et produire une œuvre qui puisse être reçue parmi celles qui constituent le cœur vivant de la période la plus actuelle. Cet ouvrage se penche sur la...
- Author:Husti-Laboye, CarmenSummary:
Nourrie par les problématiques du monde contemporain, engagée dans des relations polémiques avec le pouvoir symbolique, reflétant l'idéologie postmoderne et postcoloniale, mais aussi féministe, la littérature de la diaspora...
- Author:Gaborieau, AntoineSummary:
Un livre que l’on gardera à portée de la main parce qu’il nous renseigne sur des mots anciens que nous utilisons toujours, des mots anglais dont la traduction française nous échappe, ou encore des canadianismes qui, tout en...
- Author:Souaid, Carolyn Marie, Farkas, EndreSummary:
"May you live in interesting times." So goes the ancient Chinese curse. In Quebec, we are always living in "interesting" times. Where else in Canada, perhaps even the world, do you have official language police that...
- Author:Reagan, Timothy G.Summary:
"This book addresses a timely and very important topic: language in education. Language, apparently, is a very tricky business. On the one hand, everyone uses language, and virtually everyone has strong views about language. In the...
- Author:Vermeer, LeslieSummary:
Systematic, practical, complete - an essential resource for anyone who works with words. Proofreaders are like goalkeepers: the last line of defence against mistakes that slip past their hard-working teammates. While proofreading is...
- Author:Córdoba Serrano, María SierraSummary:
Comment une " petite nation " peut-elle exister et subsister dans l'espace culturel mondialisé actuel ? Par quels mécanismes une culture minoritaire peut-elle être exportée et se tailler un créneau dans un marché culturel...
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La naissance et l'évolution d'un genre littéraire : le roman historique, en Europe et ailleurs. Cet essai dégage les formes premières des romans historiques, autour des nouvelles et des romans mémoires de l'âge classique, montre comment...
- Author:Kreuter, AaronSummary:
Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a major role in establishing the...
- Author:Groseclose, TimothySummary:
Dr. Tim Groseclose, a professor of political science and economics at UCLA, has spent years constructing precise quantitative measures of the slant of media outlets. He does this by measuring the political content of news, as a way to...
- Author:Posner, MichaelSummary:
The extraordinary life of one of the world’s greatest music and literary icons, in the words of those who knew him best.
Poet, novelist, singer-songwriter, artist, prophet, icon—there has never been a figure like Leonard Cohen....
- Author:Koustas, JaneSummary:
While translation history in Canada is well documented, the history of the translation of Canadian fiction outside the nation remains obscure. Les Belles Étrangères examines the translation of Canadian English-language fiction in France...
- Author:Nzete, PaulSummary:
L'auteur de ce livre a choisi de s'intéresser à certains aspects de l'oeuvre romanesque de l'écrivain congolais Henri Lopes. Non pas à sa thématique, ni à sa vision du monde, ni à son ancrage socioculturel, mais au sort qu'il réserve...
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