Tiff

By Sherrill Grace
Subjects: Biography & Autobiography, Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada’s foremost writers—an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental ...

The Black Prairie Archives

Edited by Karina Vernon
Subjects: Social Science, Multiculturalism, Archival Studies, Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of “black prairie” literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, all ...

The Next Instalment

By Wendy Roy
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Publishing, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Women’s Studies

What happens next?
That was the question asked of early-twentieth-century authors Nellie L. McClung, L. M. Montgomery, and Mazo de la Roche, whose stories and novels appeared serially and kept readers ...

This Is Not a Hoax

By Heather Jessup
Subjects: Art, Ethnography, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies

This Is Not a Hoax shows how the work of some contemporary artists and writers intentionally disrupts the curatorial and authorial practices of the country’s most respected cultural institutions: art g ...

Post-glacial

By Robert Kroetsch
Edited by David Eso
Afterword by Aritha van Herk
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch’s iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered ...

Social Poesis

By Rachel Zolf
Edited by Heather Milne
Subjects: Social Science, Gender Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada’s most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, e ...

Deportment

By Alice Burdick
Edited by Alessandro Porco
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Deportment is a selection of poems – surreal, cerebral, and defiant – by Alice Burdick. Burdick examines the dangers of dogma, women’s rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving elegies, and a ...

Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare

By Nil Santiáñez
Subjects: Philosophy, Ethics, Art, Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies

This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and the experience of war. It puts forth an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s early mor ...

Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts

Edited by Eva Darias-Beautell
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature

This collection of essays studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. It takes as its starting point the nationalist movement of ...

The Homing Place

By Rachel Bryant
Subjects: Literary Criticism, History, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Can literary criticism help transform entrenched Settler Canadian understandings of history and place? How are nationalist historiographies, insular regionalisms, established knowledge systems, state ...