Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory

Edited by Eva C. Karpinski, Jennifer Henderson, Ian Sowton, 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 ...

Please, No More Poetry

By derek beaulieu & Kit Dobson
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Since the beginning of his poetic career in the 1990s, derek beaulieu has created works that have challenged readers to understand in new ways the possibilities of poetry. With nine books currently to ...

William Wilfred Campbell

Edited by Laurel Boone
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

This is a representative collection of the writings of a neglected Canadian author, William Wilfred Campbell (1858-1918).
Among the 112 poems in William Wilfred Campbell: Selected Poetry and Essays are ...

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 ...

Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies

Edited by Smaro Kamboureli & Robert Zacharias
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that have shaped the study of Canadian literature and ...

Plans Deranged by Time

By George Fetherling
Edited by A.F. Moritz
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. Plans ...

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada

Edited by Christine Kim, Sophie McCall, and Melina Baum Singer
Subjects: Political Science, Globalization, Social Science, Multiculturalism, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. ...

Chronicles

By Dionne Brand
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry

One of Canada’s most distinguished poets, Dionne Brand explores and chronicles how history shapes human existence, in particular the lives of those ruptured and scattered by New World slaveries and modern c ...

Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground

By F.R. Scott
Edited by Laura Moss
Afterword by George Elliott Clarke
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground contains thirty-five of F.R. Scott’s poems from across the five decades of his career. Scott’s artistic responses to a litany of social problems, as well as his emp ...