The legendary comedian, actor, and writer of Monty Python, Fawlty Towers , and A Fish Called Wanda fame shares his key ideas about creativity: that it's a learnable, improvable skill. "Many people have written about creativity, but...
Literary arts
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Author:Cleese, JohnSummary: - Author:Page, JoannaSummary:
With a burgeoning academic interest in Latin American science fiction and cyberfiction and in representations of science and technology in Latin American literature and cinema, this book adds new understanding to the growing body of...
- Author:Kirkland, GlenSummary:
"Gage Crossroads 10 Anthology" offers a variety of literary genres and themes, featuring contemporary and classic authors from Canada and around the world. The selections were chosen for their impact, student appeal, values...
- Author:Montell, AmandaSummary:
What causes people to join--and more importantly, stay in--extreme groups? We secretly want to know: Could it happen to me? Amanda Montell argues that, on some level, it already has.
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Translators connect languages and landscapes, sparking conversations that enlarge our imagination. In Canada, where translation has had an especially important role to play, the nature of the connections has changed. These wide-ranging...
- Author:Béchard, Deni EllisSummary:
Almost unbelievable. You'll swear it's fiction. "You haven't read a story like this one, even if your father was the kind of magnificent scoundrel you only find in Russian novels. Béchard is the rare writer who knows the secret to...
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Cet enregistrement, issu de l'adaptation de l'émission de France Inter "Ça peut pas faire de mal", est consacré à la poésie. Retrouver la voix de Guillaume Gallienne lorsque s'ouvre "L'invitation...
- Author:Le Guin, Ursula K.Summary:
From modern literature to menopause, from utopian thought to rodeos-in this classic collection of essays, Ursula K. Le Guin roves with her customary audacity over the intersecting arenas of literature, feminism, and social...
- Author:Skallerup Bessette, LeeSummary:
This collection of essays looks at the body of work of Quebec writer Dany Laferrière, including his notorious first novel, Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer, through a variety of critical and analytic lenses. Issues...
- Author:Burriesci, MattSummary:
After his daughter was born prematurely in 2010, Burriesci set out to write a book for her eighteenth birthday. In short, honest letters, Burriesci teaches his daughter about thirty-two great books, from Plato to Karl Marx, and how...
- Author:Vargas, Jose AntonioSummary:
In this young readers' adaptation of his memoir, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and undocumented immigrant Jose Antonio Vargas tells his story, in light of the twelve million undocumented immigrants currently in the United States. By...
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To millions of kids, the books they read are more than entertainment - they are mirrors to hold up to their own lives. And the creators of those books are more than just writers - they are mentors, confidants, friends, sometimes the...
- Author:Warren, LouiseSummary:
Archives are often depicted as musty repositories, museum cellars, warehouses shoring up retaining walls against forgetfulness and the inevitable erosions of time. Objects deposited in the archives are tucked away for safekeeping. But...
- Author:Yelin, Hirsch Gilah, Marrelli, Nancy, Yelin, ShulamisSummary:
Demonic to Divine: The Double Life of Shulamis Yelin is a weaving of the Montreal writer’s stories and selected diary excerpts and family photographs revealing a far-reaching creative personality who is haunted from the age of ten by...
- Author:Smith, PattiSummary:
Based on the Windham-Campbell Lectures, delivered annually to commemorate the awarding of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes at Yale University, artist and author Patti Smith explores the nature of creative invention...
- Author:McKee, RobertSummary:
From Macbeth to Breaking Bad, McKee deconstructs key scenes to illustrate the strategies and techniques of dialogue. This book applies a framework of incisive thinking to instruct the prospective writer on how to craft artful, impactful...
- Author:Shutt, Timothy BakerSummary:
Shutt delivers a thought-provoking exploration of the worlds of two of the greatest authors of the 19th century: Mark Twain and Charles Dickens. Although these literary giants lived on opposite sides of the Atlantic, fascinating...
- Author:Schmiesing, AnnSummary:
Although dozens of disabled characters appear in the Grimms' Children's and Household Tales, the issue of disability in their collection has remained largely unexplored by scholars. In Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the...
- Author:Sanders, Joe SutliffSummary:
At the heart of some of the most beloved childrens novels is a passionate discussion about discipline, love, and the changing role of girls in the twentieth century. Joe Sutliff Sanders traces this debate as it began in the sentimental...
- Author:Leduc, AmandaSummary:
Fairy tales shape how we see the world, so what happens when you identify more with the Beast than Beauty? If every disabled character is mocked and mistreated, how does the Beast ever imagine a happily-ever-after? Amanda Leduc looks at...
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