From the 1960s until his death in 2000, Al Purdy was one of the most prominent writers in Canada, famous for his frank language and his boisterous personality. He travelled the country and wrote about its people and places from...
Literary arts
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Author:Bradley, NicholasSummary: - Author:Kroeger, PaulSummary:
This book provides an introduction to the study of meaning in human language, from a linguistic perspective. It covers a fairly broad range of topics, including lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics. The chapters...
- Author:Odell, Amy.Summary:
Au sein de la microsphère fashion, où paillettes et coups bas sont de mise, vit et règne Anna Wintour. Est-elle vraiment la tyrannique rédactrice en chef du Diable s'habille en Prada ou bien simplement une femme engagée,...
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Una antología crítica de textos literarios del mundo hispanohablante. Se enfoca en autores canónicos y también se intenta incluir voces marginadas. Cada texto tiene una introducción y anotaciones creadas por estudiantes. // A...
- Author:Maillet, Antonine, McLauchlan, Wade, Conrad, MargaretSummary:
Antonine Maillet, prodigieuse & Acadienne, femme et écrivaine, tisse habilement les fils du mythe, de la patrie et de lendemains nouveaux dans cette inspirante allocution prononcée à l'occasion de la cérémonie de remise de la...
- Author:Sagan, FrançoiseSummary:
Styliste admirable, Françoise Sagan avait l'art de la formule. En parcourant son œuvre, que ce soit ses romans, son théâtre ou ses nouvelles, on est à la fois surpris et charmé de découvrir combien les aphorismes y sont nombreux....
- Author:Manjikian, MarySummary:
Mary Manjikian's Apocalypse and Post-Politics: The Romance of the End advances the thesis that only those who feel the most safe and whose lives are least precarious can engage in the sort of storytelling which envisions erasing...
- Author:Braz, AlbertSummary:
In the 1930s Grey Owl was considered the foremost conservationist and nature writer in the world. He owed his fame largely to his four internationally bestselling books, which he supported with a series of extremely popular illustrated...
- Author:Damrosch, DavidSummary:
A transporting and illuminating voyage around the globe, through classic and modern literary works that are in conversation with one another and with the world around them *Featured in the Chicago Tribune' s Great 2021 Fall Book...
- Author:Thompson, BillSummary:
Art and Craft presents the hand-picked fruit of Bill Thompson’s three decades covering writers and writing as book review editor of Charleston, South Carolina’s Post and Courier. Beginning with a foreword by Charleston novelist...
- Author:Gaiman, NeilSummary:
Drawn from Gaiman's trove of published speeches, poems, and creative manifestos, this book is an embodiment of this remarkable multimedia artist's vision, and a timely call to arms.
- Author:Bailey, LindaSummary:
The adventures of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of the legendary Sherlock Holmes, come to life in this inspiring picture book biography. What if you wrote a story about a detective, and he became the most famous detective ever? Wouldn...
- Author:Nevala-Lee, AlecSummary:
"A big biography of John Campbell, the genius magazine editor who created a mass market for science fiction, couldn't be timelier. Alec Nevala-Lee's granular portrait of Campbell and the quirky superstars whose careers he...
- Author:Glover, DouglasSummary:
In the tradition of E.M. Forster, John Gardner, and James Wood, Douglas Glover has produced a book on writing at once erudite, anecdotal, instructive, and amusing. Attack of the Copula Spiders represents the accumulated wisdom of a...
- Author:Davis, KathrynSummary:
This memoir is a meditation on the way imagination shapes life and how life, as it moves forward, shapes imagination. Kathryn Davis centers the book on the death of her husband, Eric. The book unfolds as a study of their marriage, its...
- Author:Reder, DeannaSummary:
Autobiography as Indigenous Intellectual Tradition critiques ways of approaching Indigenous texts that are informed by the Western academic tradition and offers instead a new way of theorizing Indigenous literature based on the...
- Author:Knausgaard, Karl OveSummary:
From the author of the monumental My Struggle series, Karl Ove Knausgaard, one of the masters of contemporary literature and a genius of observation and introspection, comes the first in a new autobiographical quartet based on the four...
- Author:Betts, Gregory, Bök, ChristianSummary:
Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada from the past fifty years. From the work of Leonard Cohen and bpNichol to that of Jordan...
- Author:Brossard, NicoleSummary:
Avant Desire moves through Brossard's body of work with a playful attentiveness to its ongoing lines of inquiry. Like her work, this reader moves beyond conventional textual material to include ephemera, interviews, marginalia,...
- Author:Langley, TravisSummary:
Batman is one of the most compelling and enduring characters to come from the Golden Age of Comics, and interest in his story has only increased through countless incarnations since his first appearance in Detective Comics #27 in 1939....
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