Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada

Edited by Dean Irvine & Smaro Kamboureli
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

This collection of essays focuses on the varied and complex roles that editors have played in the production of literary and scholarly texts in Canada. With contributions from a wide range of participants ...

Canadian Graphic

Edited by Candida Rifkind & Linda Warley
Subjects: Life Writing, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Life Writing

Canadian Graphic: Picturing Life Narratives presents critical essays on contemporary Canadian cartoonists working in graphic life narrative, from confession to memoir to biography. The contributors draw ...

In Due Season

By Christine van der Mark
Afterword by Carole Gerson & Janice Dowson
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Early Canadian Literature

First published in 1947, In Due Season broke new ground with its fictional representation of women and of Indigenous people. Set during the dustbowl 1930s, this tersely narrated prize-winning novel follows ...

Barking & Biting

By Sina Queyras
Edited by Erin Wunker
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

This collection brings together representative work from Sina Queyras’s poetic oeuvre. Queyras is at the forefront of contemporary discussions of genre, gender, and criticism of poetry. Her influential b ...

Writing between the Lines

Edited by Agnes Whitfield
Subjects: Language Arts & Disciplines, Translation, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

The essays in Writing between the Lines explore the lives of twelve of Canada’s most eminent anglophone literary translators, and delve into how these individuals have contributed to the valuable process o ...

Sonosyntactics

By Paul Dutton
Edited by Gary Barwin
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Sonosyntactics introduces the reader to over forty-five years of Paul Dutton’s diverse and inventive poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Perhaps b ...

Literary Land Claims

By Margery Fee
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies
Series: Indigenous Studies

Literature not only represents Canada as “our home and native land” but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented as roa ...

The Flying Years

Afterword by Alison Calder
By Frederick Niven
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Fiction
Series: Early Canadian Literature

Originally published in 1935, Frederick Niven’s The Flying Years tells the history of Western Canada from the 1850s to the 1920s as witnessed by Angus Munro, a young Scot forced to emigrate to Canada ...

The Forest of Bourg-Marie

Afterword by Cynthia Sugars
By S. Frances Harrison
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Fiction
Series: Early Canadian Literature

In The Forest of Bourg-Marie, originally published in 1898, Toronto author and musician S. Frances Harrison draws together a highly mythologized image of Quebec society and the forms of Gothic literature ...

Sustaining the West

Edited by Liza Piper & Lisa Szabo-Jones
Subjects: Environmental Studies, Literary Criticism, Art, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature
Series: Environmental Humanities

Western Canada’s natural environment faces intensifying threats from industrialization in agriculture and resource development, social and cultural complicity in these destructive practices, and most r ...