Cabbagetown Diary

By Juan Butler & Tamas Dobozy
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Robert Fulford called it “a remarkable glimpse of the underbelly of Toronto,” but the reviews that greeted the publication of Cabbagetown Diary in 1970 were decidedly mixed. The novel’s rowdy concoction o ...

Women, Reading, Kroetsch

By Susan Rudy
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary ...

Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction, 1905-1980

By Terrence Craig
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Racial Attitudes in English-Canadian Fiction is a critical overview of the appearances and consequences of racism in English-Canadian fiction published between 1905 and 1980.
Based on an analysis of ...

Verse and Worse

By Steve McCaffery
Edited by Darren Wershler
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Verse and Worse: Selected and New Poems of Steve McCaffery 1989–2009 presents texts from the last two decades of work by Steve McCaffery, one of the most influential and innovative of contemporary poets. ...

Veneration and Revolt

By Barry Stephenson
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Religion
Series: Editions SR

One of the most widely read German authors in the world, Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1946. After his death, his novels enjoyed a revival of popularity, becoming a staple ...

Unsettling Narratives

By Clare Bradford
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Children’s Literature, Canadian Literature

Children’s books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position ...

The More Easily Kept Illusions

Afterword by Russell Morton Brown
By Al Purdy
Edited by Robert Budde
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and ’70s poet. The ...

The Postwar Novel in Canada

By Rosmarin Heidenreich
Foreword by Linda Hutcheon
Subjects: Literary Criticism

As a comparative study which includes the analysis of both English-Canadian and Quebec novels, this book provides an overview of the novel as it has developed in this country since the Second World War. ...

Before the First Word

By Lorna Crozier
Edited by Catherine Hunter
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Lorna Crozier’s radical imagination, and the finely tuned emotional intelligence that is revealed in the clarity of her poetry, have made her one of Canada’s most popular poets. Before the First Word: ...

Writing in Our Time

By Pauline Butling & Susan Rudy
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject p ...