Painted Fires

Afterword by Cecily Devereux
By Nellie L. McClung
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Fiction
Series: Early Canadian Literature

Painted Fires, first published in 1925, narrates the trials and tribulations of Helmi Milander, a Finnish immigrant, during the years approaching the First World War. The novel serves as a vehicle for ...

Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase

Edited by Brett Josef Grubisic, Gisèle M. Baxter, and Tara Lee
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

In Blast, Corrupt, Dismantle, Erase, twenty-five contributors investigate how dystopian fiction reflects twenty-first century reality, using diverse critical methodologies to examine how North America ...

Indigenous Poetics in Canada

Edited by Neal McLeod
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Indigenous Studies, Poetry
Series: Indigenous Studies

Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume ...

Critical Collaborations

Edited by Smaro Kamboureli & Christl Verduyn
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

Critical Collaborations: Indigeneity, Diaspora, and Ecology in Canadian Literary Studies is the third volume of essays produced as part of the TransCanada conferences project. The essays gathered in Critical ...

The Foreigner

Afterword by Daniel Coleman
By Ralph Connor
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Fiction
Series: Early Canadian Literature

The Foreigner (1909) tells the story of Kalman Kalmar, a young Ukrainian immigrant working in rural Saskatchewan. It addresses the themes of male maturation, cultural assimilation, and a form of “muscular ...

Detecting Canada

Edited by Jeannette Sloniowski & Marilyn Rose
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Film & Media
Series: Film and Media Studies

The first serious book-length study of crime writing in Canada, Detecting Canada Canada’s most popular crime writers, including Peter Robinson, Giles Blunt, Gail Bowen, Thomas King, Michael Slade, Margaret A ...

Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory

Edited by Eva C. Karpinski, Ian Sowton, Jennifer Henderson, and Ray Ellenwood
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and ...

The Newfoundland Diaspora

By Jennifer Bowering Delisle
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Canadian Literature, Political Science, Globalization

Out-migration, driven by high unemployment and a floundering economy, has been a defining aspect of Newfoundland society for well over a century, and it reached new heights with the cod moratorium in ...

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 ...