This concise and highly accessible textbook outlines the principles and techniques of storytelling. It is intended as a high-school and college-level introduction to the central concepts of narrative theory that will aid students in...
Literary arts
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Author:Ribó, IgnasiSummary: - Author:Yates, Susan, Ioannou, GregSummary:
Many people want to write a family history, but few ever take on the job of publishing one. If you've done the research, and you want to make a book from it, then Publish Your Family History is for you. It will tell you all the...
- Author:Hannah, DanielSummary:
The instability of modernist form has everything to do with the social, political, and economic shakeups of the nineteenth century that left masculinity a site of contestation, racial anxiety, homophobic paranoia, performative display,...
- Author:Troyka, Lynn QuitmanSummary:
Quick Access provides writing advice, research information, and class-tested grammar instruction. The fifth Canadian edition provides students with fast access to information about the writing process including writing research papers,...
- Author:Wachtel, EleanorSummary:
A great conversation can offer insight into the hearts and minds of its participants. In this intimate, wide-ranging collection of conversations (and some correspondence), writer-broadcaster Eleanor Wachtel and her friend, author Carol...
- Author:Stacey, Robert DavidSummary:
It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social sciences over the last quarter century—even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory...
- Author:Nafisi, AzarSummary:
Structured as a series of letters to her father, who taught her as a child about how literature can rescue us in times of trauma, Nafisi Azar explores the most probing questions of our time through the works of Toni Morrison, Salman...
- Author:Thacker, RobertSummary:
In Reading Alice Munro, 1973-2013, the world's leading Munro scholar offers a critical overview of Alice Munro and her writing spanning forty years. Beginning with a newly written overarching introduction, featuring directive...
- Author:Brookes, ChrisSummary:
Students in a high school media literacy course learn to apply the critical tools they use to study books, poetry and short stories, to also analyze the popular culture of movies, music and television. They dissect the message behind...
- Author:Davis, Mike LeeSummary:
Through a careful examination of the work of the canonical nineteenth-century novelists, Mike Davis traces conspiracies and conspiratorial fantasy from one narrative site to another.
- Author:Grant, PatrickSummary:
Soon after his death, Vincent van Gogh’s reputation grew and developed through the remarkably symbiotic relationship evident between his paintings and letters. However, the sheer bulk and complexity of Van Gogh’s complete surviving...
- Author:Tindale, Christopher W.Summary:
Recent decades have witnessed a major restoration of the Sophists' reputation, revising the Platonic and Aristotelian "orthodoxies" that have dominated the tradition. Still lacking is a full appraisal of the Sophists' strategies of...
- Author:Laurence, Margaret, Stovel, Nora Foster, Laurence, David, van Herk, ArithaSummary:
Margaret Laurence, best known for her germinal novels set in the Canadian prairies, is one of the nation's most respected authors. She was also an accomplished essayist, yet today her nonfiction writing is largely unavailable and...
- Author:Katelnikoff, JoelSummary:
"Recombinant Theory" is a collection of literary essays that challenge how readers interact with and perceive text, context, and critical writing. Working with printed pages and scissors, Joel Katelnikoff applies literal cut-...
- Author:Landry, MikeSummary:
The true stories that inspired Lisa Moore’s latest novel Caught. When journalist Mike Landry called Lisa Moore for an interview, he began by listing four names, and asking, “What do these names mean to you?” The award-winning author of...
- Author:Wunker, Erin, McGregor, Hannah, Rak, JulieSummary:
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 breaking open to reveal the accepted...
- Author:Sontag, SusanSummary:
Watching the evening news offers constant evidence of atrocity--a daily commonplace in our "society of spectacle." But are viewers inured--or incited--to violence by the daily depiction of cruelty and horror? Is the viewer's perception...
- Author:Carrière, Marie, Demers, PatriciaSummary:
Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Canada, past and present, with 11 essays in English and 5 in French. Regenerations was born...
- Author:Henighan, StephenSummary:
In this essay collection, Henighan ranges across continents, centuries and linguistic traditions to examine how literary culture and our perception of history are changing as the world grows smaller. He weaves together daring literary...
- Author:Mason, ChrisSummary:
Researcher in a Box: A Guide for Students Both Young and Old on How to Research and Write a Well Thought Out Paper is a short concise guide to help all students write better research papers. The book covers the following topics. Types...
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