Roderick L. Haig-Brown welcomes us onto his lush farm for a year of insights and observations. In this eloquently written account, Haig-Brown, his wife Ann and their four children tour us through each season, and teach us the ways in...
Literary arts
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Author:Haig-Brown, Roderick L.Summary: - Author:League of Canadian PoetsSummary:
A society without poetry and the other arts would have broken its mirror and cut out its heart.--"Margaret Atwood. So boldly insists one of our greatest writers in Measures of Astonishment, a refreshing and eclectic mix of both deeply...
- Author:Carrière, MarieSummary:
Le mythe de l'infanticide Médée a toujours connu une fortune littéraire et la littérature féminine contemporaine ne fait pas exception. L'analyse comparée de huit textes de femmes de divers horizons tente de cerner les enjeux...
- Author:Nolan, YvetteSummary:
Contemporary Indigenous theatre in Canada is just over thirty years old, if one begins counting from the premier of Linda Griffiths and Maria Campbell's Jessica in Saskatoon and the establishment of Native Earth Performing Arts in...
- Author:De Hamel, ChristopherSummary:
Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts is a remarkable examination of twelve illuminated manuscripts from the medieval period. Noted authority Christopher de Hamel invites the listener into intimate conversations with these texts to...
- Author:Funk, CarlaSummary:
Carla Funk is a teenager with her hands on the church piano keys and her feet edging toward the flames. Coming of age in a remote valley town-a place rich in Mennonites, loggers, and dutiful wives who submit to their husbands-she knows...
- Author:Manguel, AlbertoSummary:
Du Petit Chaperon rouge à Dracula, en passant par Alice, Faust, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoé, Superman, Sindbad le marin, ou encore Frankenstein, l'un des plus éminents bibliophiles nous invite à retrouver les personnages légendaires de la...
- Author:Crummey, MichaelSummary:
Most of What Follows Is True is an examination of the complex relationship between fact and fiction, between the "real world" and the stories we tell to explain the world to ourselves. Drawing on his own experience appropriating...
- Author:Hayden, TylerSummary:
Mother’s Message in a Bottle is an inspirational collection of over 40 letters from mothers around the world to the people they love. The aim of the book is to provide direction, wisdom, and connection between mothers and their children...
- Author:Fisher, NateSummary:
From the ongoing podcast Movie Nightcap comes the Reserve Collection, a series of exclusive episodes featuring hosts Jill Tighe, Abe Saffer, and Nate Fisher. Each episode is a journey of discovery, fueled by beer. The hosts are joined...
- Author:Fraser, AntoniaSummary:
Biographer Antonia Fraser recounts her 33 years with husband Harold Pinter--a Nobel Prize winner and one of the most acclaimed modern-day playwrights. Here Antonia draws an intimate portrait of her marriage to Pinter--and reveals him to...
- Author:Offutt, ChrisSummary:
When Andrew Offutt died, his son, Chris, inherited a desk, a rifle, and eighteen hundred pounds of pornographic fiction. Andrew had been considered the "king of twentieth-century smut," with a writing career that began as a strategy to...
- Author:Tolstaya, Sofia Andreevna, Donskov, Andrew, Woodsworth, John, Klioutchanski, ArkadiSummary:
<p>The Modern Language Association (MLA) awarded the Lois Roth Award to John Woodsworth and Arkadi Klioutchanski of the University of Ottawa’s Slavic Research Group for their translation of Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya&...
- Author:Mead, RebeccaSummary:
In this wise and revealing work of biography, reportage, and memoir, Rebecca Mead leads us into the world of George Eliot's Middlemarch, the life that the book made for her, and the many lives the novel has led since it was written...
- Author:Stroińska, MagdaSummary:
My Life in Propaganda is Magda Stroińska's personal account of growing up with communist propaganda in Eastern Europe. She looks at the influence of her family history that contradicted what she was taught at school; the cognitive...
- Author:Tuten, FredericSummary:
Novelist, essayist, and critic Frederic Tuten recalls his personal and artistic coming-of-age in 1950s New York, a defining period that would set him on the course to becoming a writer.
- Author:Barnett, ColleenSummary:
Many bibliographers focus on women who write. Lawyer Barnett looks at women who detect, at women sleuths and at the evolving roles of women in professions and in society. Excellent for all women's studies programs, as well as for the...
- Author:Blatt, Ben.Summary:
A statistician and journalist applies data analysis to the literary canon to discover trends in the works of famous writers. Examines authors' favorite words, whether men and women write differently, use of clichés, opening sentences,...
- Author:Bonczek, MichelleSummary:
Informed by a writing philosophy that values both spontaneity and discipline, Michelle Bonczek Evory's Naming the Unnameable: An Approach to Poetry for New Generations offers practical advice and strategies for developing a writing...
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If literature has often informed the creation of a national imaginary-a sense of common history and destiny-it has also complicated, even challenged, the unifying vision assumed in the formation of a national literature and sense of...
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