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...
Literary arts
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Author:Husti-Laboye, CarmenSummary: - 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:Irvine, Andrew David, Rivère, Edmond, Tolman, StephanieSummary:
Une bibliographie incontournable des Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général du Canada Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Antonine Maillet, Carol Shields, Marie-Claire Blais, Michael Ondaatje, Gilles Vigneault… Les écrivains canadiens sont...
- Author:LaRamee-Jones, Shanda, McDougall, CarolSummary:
Let’s Read brings parents, babies and books together to celebrate the joys of reading. This latest book in the popular Baby Steps series shows the many ways babies engage with books at different ages and stages, from looking and...
- Author:Rilke, Rainer MariaSummary:
These have been called the most famous and beloved letters of the past century. Rainer Maria Rilke himself said that much of his creative expression went into his correspondence, and here he touches upon a wide range of subjects that...
- Author:Apollinaire, GuillaumeSummary:
1914. Mobilisation générale. La France est en guerre. Le Polonais Apollinaire fait sa demande de naturalisation pour s'engager auprès des soldats français. L'offensive allemande menace Paris et en attendant l'issue de...
- Author:Sanders, RobertSummary:
Leyendas y arquetipos del Romanticismo español is an introduction to nineteenth-century Spanish literature with a thematic focus on legends and archetypes. It presents Romanticism in the context of nineteenth-century literary and...
- Author:Twain, MarkSummary:
Twain grew up on the river, achieved his boyhood dream of being a river pilot, and then had the good sense to write about it.
- Author:Laurence, Patricia OndekSummary:
Lily Briscoe's Chinese Eyes traces the romance of Julian Bell, nephew of Virginia Woolf, and Ling Shuhua, a writer and painter Bell met while teaching at Wuhan University in China in 1935. Relying on a wide selection of previously...
- Author:Freire, PauloSummary:
Freire and Macedo analyse the connection between literacy and politics according to whether it produces existing social relations, or introduces a new set of cultural practices that promote democratic and emancipatory change.
- Author:Steinberg, Theodore L.Summary:
This book attempts to make the study of literature more than simply another school subject that students have to take. At a time when all subjects seem to be valued only for their testability, this book tries to show the value of...
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