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...
Literary arts
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Author:Leduc, AmandaSummary: - Author:Halton, DavidSummary:
A biography of Canadian foreign and war correspondent, Matthew Halton, written by his son, David Halton, drawn from archival research and interviews.
- Author:Everett, Daniel L.Summary:
Daniel Everett, then a Christian missionary, arrived among the PirahA in 1977-with his wife and three young children-intending to convert them. What he found was a language that defies all existing linguistic theories and reflects a way...
- Author:Strathern, PaulSummary:
Presents a concise account of Dostoevsky's life and ideas and of his influence on the world.
- Author:Kruk, LaurieSummary:
Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive...
- Author:Orwell, GeorgeSummary:
The first full-length work by the English author George Orwell, published in 1933. It is a memoir in two parts on the theme of poverty in the two cities. The first part is an account of living on the breadline in Paris and the...
- Author:McPhee, JohnSummary:
The long-awaited guide to writing long-form nonfiction by the legendary author and teacher Draft No. 4 is an elucidation of the writer's craft by a master practitioner. In a series of playful but expertly wrought essays, John McPhee...
- Author:Adler, DickSummary:
Serious mystery fans will welcome Dreams of Justice: Mysteries as Social Documents, a collection of thematically arranged reviews by Dick Adler, who writes the "Crime Watch" column for the Chicago Tribune.
- Author:Artichuk, FrancineSummary:
A multi-genre anthology featuring a wide range of selections designed to engage student interest. It is organized into seven key genres: poetry, drama, short fiction, personal writing, essays, non-fiction and media. Each selection...
- Author:Artichuk, FrancineSummary:
A multi-genre anthology featuring a wide range of selections designed to engage student interest. It is organized into seven key genres: poetry, drama, short fiction, personal writing, essays, non-fiction and media. Each selection...
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Twelve essays are presented by outstanding authorities in Nordic medieval studies and range from treatment of broad aspects of the Edda, to consideration of single poems, to analysis of parts of specific works. An attactive and...
- Author:Gibson, GraemeSummary:
Originally published in 1970, Eleven Canadian Novelists Interviewed by Graeme Gibson is a collection of candid and wide-ranging interviews with Canadian writers, including Alice Munro, Mordecai Richler, Margaret Laurence, and more. With...
- Author:Abrams, ShaneSummary:
"EmpoWord is a reader and rhetoric that champions the possibilities of student writing. The textbook uses actual student writing to exemplify effective writing strategies, celebrating dedicated college writing students to encourage and...
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Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game is a classic of science fiction. Though it began its life as a short story, it was later expanded into a Hugo and Nebula Award-winning novel, served as a springboard for a much larger universe...
- Author:Nischik, Reingard M.Summary:
Winner of the 2010 Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Prize. In Engendering Genre, renowned Margaret Atwood scholar Reingard M. Nischik analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Atwood’s works. She approaches Atwood’s oeuvre...
- Author:Woods, GeraldineSummary:
Get some good grammar practice-and start speaking and writing well Good grammar is important, whether you want to advance your career, boost your GPA or increase your SAT or ACT score. Practice is the key to improving your grammar...
- Author:Sexton, JamesSummary:
English Literature: Victorians and Moderns is an anthology with a difference. In addition to providing annotated teaching editions of many of the most frequently-taught classics of Victorian and Modern poetry, fiction and drama, it also...
- Author:Vonnegut, KurtSummary:
Over the course of Kurt Vonnegut's career as a writer, he sat down many times with radio host and interviewer Walter James Miller to conduct in-depth discussions of his work and the world. Now Caedmon has collected the best of...
- Author:Anderson, CatherineSummary:
This Open Educational Resource (OER) brings together Open Access content from around the web and enhances it with dynamic video lectures about the core areas of theoretical linguistics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and...
- Author:May, BrianSummary:
Brian T. May argues that, contrary to widely held assumptions of postcolonial literary criticism, a distinctive subset of postcolonial novels significantly values and scrupulously explores a healthy individuality. These “extravagant”...
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