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: ...

Auto/biography in Canada

Edited by Julie Rak
Subjects: Life Writing, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: Life Writing

Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, ...

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 ...

Thanks for Listening

By Ernest Buckler
Edited by Marta Dvořák
Subjects: Fiction, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

A treasure chest of exceptional stories by one of Canadas classic authorsall now available in one volume.
Ernest Buckler, best known as the author of the Canadian classic, The Mountain and the Valley ...

Making Babies

By Sandra Sabatini
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Although the infant has been a consistent figure in literature (and, for many people, a significant figure in personal life), there’s been little attention focused on infants, or on their place in Canadian f ...

Is Canada Postcolonial?

Edited by Laura Moss
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

How can postcolonialism be applied to Canadian literature?

In all that has been written about postcolonialism, surprisingly little has specifically addressed the position of Canada, Canadian literature, ...

Reading In

By JoAnn McCaig
Subjects: Archival Studies, Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

What can we learn about authorship through a reading of a writer’s archive?

Collections of authors’ manuscripts and correspondence have traditionally been used in ways that further illuminate the published t ...

Progressive Heritage

By James Doyle
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Most critics and literary historians have ignored Marxist-inspired creative literature in Canada, or dismissed it as an ephemeral phenomenon of the 1930s. Research reveals, however, that from the 1920s ...

Ernest Buckler

By Marta Dvořák
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Margaret Atwood called Ernest Buckler “one of the pathbreakers for the modern Canadian novel,” yet he has slipped into relative obscurity. This new book by Marta Dvořák, Ernest Buckler: Rediscovery and ...

The Feminine Gaze

By Anne Innis Dagg
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Women’s Studies

Many Canadian women fiction writers have become justifiably famous. But what about women who have written non-fiction?
When Anne Innis Dagg set out on a personal quest to make such non-fiction authors ...