A spellbinding and varied line-up of recollections of the star turn of the 20th-century South African literary scene, Remembering Bosman: Herman Charles Bosman Recollected includes detailed memoirs of four of Bosman’s keepers...
Literary Criticism
- Author:GREY, Stephen (Editor)Summary:
- 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:Richter, David H.Summary:
Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel is a lively exploration of the evolution of the English novel from 1688-1815. A range of major works and authors are discussed along with important developments in the genre, and the impact of novels...
- 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:Landry, Pierre-Luc, Poirier Girard, Guillaume, Boisclair, IsabelleSummary:
En plus d'offrir un portrait des productions culturelles queer au Québec tant francophones qu'anglophones, dont certaines autochtones, cet ouvrage s'attarde à révéler le caractère queer de celles qui ne le sont pas de...
- Author:Perkin, J. RussellSummary:
The 1970s in Britain saw a series of industrial disputes, a referendum on membership in the European Economic Community, conflict about issues of immigration and citizenship, and emergent environmental and feminist movements. It was...
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"Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literatureuncovers a surprising nuance in the Renaissance construction of masculinity -- namely, that it is precisely the destabilization of manhood in Ovid that Renaissance writers use to...
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"This impressive collection is the first major attempt to chronicle the experience of Gaelic-speaking peoples in North America, as well as their contribution to North American life and society. North American Gaelswill be an invaluable...
- Author:Manguel, AlbertoSummary:
Du Petit Chaperon rouge à Dracula, en passant par Alice, Faust, Don Juan, Robinson Crusoé, Superman, Sindbad le marin, ou encore Frankenstein, l'un des plus éminents bibliophiles nous invite à retrouver les personnages légendaires de la...
- Author:Propst, LisaSummary:
Efforts to fight back against silencing are central to social justice movements and scholarly fields such as feminist and postcolonial studies. But claiming to give voice to people who have been silenced always risks appropriating those...
- Author:Redekop, MagdaleneSummary:
Making Believe responds to a remarkable flowering of art by Mennonites in Canada. After the publication of his first novel in 1962, Rudy Wiebe was the only identifiable Mennonite literary writer in the country. Beginning in the 1970s,...
- Author:Rubio, MarySummary:
Mary Henley Rubio has spent over two decades researching Montgomery's life, and has put together a comprehensive and penetrating picture of this Canadian literary icon, all set in rich social context. Extensive interviews with people...
- Author:Fréchette-Piperni, SuzySummary:
Grâce à cette lecture, tous ceux qui côtoient les parents en deuil - grands-parents, frères, soeurs, amis, collègues de travail -, qui sont touchés par leur perte et assistent, impuissants, à leur désespoir, trouveront des moyens de les...
- Author:Nabokov, VladimirSummary:
The author's observations on the great nineteenth-century Russian writers-Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, Tolstoy, and Turgenev. "This volume...'ever once fails to instruct and stimulate. This is a great Russian talking of great...
- Author:Mercier, Andrée, Dion, RobertSummary:
Être contemporain c'est, au premier chef, être de son temps (ou en avance sur lui) et produire une œuvre qui puisse être reçue parmi celles qui constituent le cœur vivant de la période la plus actuelle. Cet ouvrage se penche sur la...
- Author:Paquin, CarolineSummary:
"Perdre un enfant à sa naissance... Comment voir clair à travers toute cette tristesse, cette culpabilité, cette impuissance, cette colère, cette peur ? Comment continuer à être vivante ? A propos de l'auteure Caroline Paquin a vu le...
- Author:Damrosch, DavidSummary:
The new edition of this highly popular guide, How to Read World Literature, addresses the unique challenges and joys faced when approaching the literature of other cultures and eras. Fully revised to address important developments in...
- Author:Sol, AdamSummary:
A collection of playfully elucidating essays to help reluctant poetry readers become well-versed in verseDeveloped from Adam Sol's popular blog, How a Poem Moves is a collection of 35 short essays that walks readers through an array of...
- Author:Roye, Susmita, Banerjee, Amrita, Bauer, Helen Pike, Crane, Ralph, Goodwin, Gráinne, Johnson, Alan, Johnston, Anna, Nielsen, Danielle, Richardson, LeeAnne MSummary:
Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics. She spent 22 years in India, mainly in the Punjab. This...
- Author:Barr, Marleen S.Summary:
The surprising and controversial thesis of Feminist Fabulation is unflinching: the postmodern canon has systematically excluded a wide range of important women's writing by dismissing it as genre fiction. Marleen Barr issues an urgent...