Yale University professor Harold Bloom presents a unique and exciting study of Shakespeare's seven greatest tragedies.
Literary arts
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Author:Bloom, HaroldSummary: - Author:Makaryk, Irena R., Prince, Kathryn, Brisset, Annie, Cavell, Richard, Colarusso, Dana, Fischlin, Daniel, Grande, Troni, Kuling, Peter, Mackenzie, Sarah, McGee, C.E., Moore, Don, Rae, Ian, Scholte, Tom, Wright, KailinSummary:
Shakespeare in Canada is the result of a collective desire to explore the role that Shakespeare has played in Canada over the past two hundred years, but also to comprehend the way our country’s culture has influenced our interpretation...
- Author:Graham, Kenneth, Kolentsis, AlysiaSummary:
Today, debates about the cultural role of the humanities and the arts are roiling. Responding to renewed calls to reassess the prominence of canonical writers, Shakespeare On Stage and Off introduces new perspectives on why and how...
- Author:Dean, MichelleSummary:
Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm. Their lives intertwine as they cut through the cultural and intellectual history of...
- Author:Pivato, JosephSummary:
Sheila Watson published the iconic novel, The Double Hook, in 1959 and influenced the writing styles of many Canadian authors who followed her, including: Robert Kroetsch, Michael Ondaatje, George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt and others....
- Author:Metcalf, JohnSummary:
John Metcalf's Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition. Part memoir, part travelogue, part criticism -- wholly Metcalf -- it is thoughtful, engaged, contentious and often very funny. It offers a full does of...
- Author:Simons, PaullinaSummary:
The never-before-told story of the journey behind THE BRONZE HORSEMAN, now in print for the first time. From the author of the celebrated, internationally bestselling BRONZE HORSEMAN saga comes a glimpse into the private life of its...
- Author:Ruhl, SarahSummary:
2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence Longlist Selection. The extraordinary story of one woman's ten-year medical and metaphysical odyssey that brought her physical, creative, emotional, and spiritual healing, by a MacArthur...
- Author:D'Angelo, PascalSummary:
In the original introduction to Pascal D'Angelo's Son of Italy, the renowned literary critic Carl Van Doren praised D'Angelo's autobiography as an impassioned story of his "enormous struggles against every disadvantage." In his...
- Author:Joe, RitaSummary:
Straight from the heart, Rita Joe tells the story of her remarkable life: her tumultuous childhood in foster homes, education in an Indian residential school, turbulent marriage and daily struggles with prejudice, sexism and poverty....
- Author:Sledge, John S., Edgar, WalterSummary:
Southern Bound represents a running conversation on books, writers and literary travel written for the Mobile Press-Register Books page from 1995 to 2011 by John S. Sledge. The collection includes more than 100 of the best pieces culled...
- Author:Arthos, JohnSummary:
John Arthos discovers and promotes an organic reciprocity between rhetoric as a humanist practice and hermeneutics as a theoretical comportment. Although these two traditions have a long and rewarding collaboration, it is only now that...
- Author:Bakhtin, M. M.Summary:
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays presents six short works from Bakhtin's Esthetics of Creative Discourse, published in Moscow in 1979. This is the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union. All but one of...
- Author:Albert, Lisa RondinelliSummary:
A biography of American novelist Stephenie Meyer, author of the best-selling Twilight saga.
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Steps to Success: Crossing the Bridge Between Literacy Research and Practice introduces instructional strategies linked to the most current research-supported practices in the field of literacy. The book includes chapters related to...
- Author:Gibson, DouglasSummary:
Through his recollections we get an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that rarely gets told, from Jack Hodgins' Vancouver Island to Harold Horwood's Labrador, from Alice Munro's Ontario to James Houston's Arctic. Doug...
- Author:Gibson, DouglasSummary:
'I'll kill him!' said Mavis Gallant. Pierre Trudeau almost did, leading him ('Run!') into a whizzing stream of traffic that almost crushed both of them. Alistair MacLeod accused him of a 'home invasion' to grab the manuscript of No...
- Author:Cron, LisaSummary:
It's every novelist's greatest fear: pouring their blood, sweat, and tears into writing hundreds of pages only to realize that their story has no sense of urgency, no internal logic, and so is a page-one rewrite. The...
- Author:McKeen, WilliamSummary:
Professor William McKeen delves into the origins of storytelling, the nature of literary journalism, and the ways in which literary journalism has affected culture and modes of expression.
- Author:Woolf, VirginiaSummary:
Virginia Woolf began writing reviews for the Guardian 'to make a few pence' from her father's death in 1904, and continued until the last decade of her life. The result is a phenomenal collection of articles, of which...
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