Anne of Tim Hortons

By Herb Wyile
Subjects: Political Science, Globalization, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Anne of Tim Hortons: Globalization and the Reshaping of Atlantic-Canadian Literature is a study of the work of over twenty contemporary Atlantic-Canadian writers that counters the widespread impression ...

From Room to Room

By Eli Mandel
Edited by Peter Webb
Afterword by Andrew Stubbs
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The career of Eli Mandel (1922–1992) was one of the most prolific and distinguished in all of Canadian literature, yet in recent years his work has gone unsung compared with that of such peers as Margaret A ...

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 ...

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 ...

National Plots

Edited by Andrea Cabajsky & Brett Josef Grubisic
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

Fiction that reconsiders, challenges, reshapes, and/or upholds national narratives of history has long been an integral aspect of Canadian literature. Works by writers of historical fiction (from early ...

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. ...

Speaking in the Past Tense

By Herb Wyile
Subjects: History, Canadian History, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature

“Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid ...

The False Laws of Narrative

By Fred Wah
Edited by Louis Cabri
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Poetry
Series: Laurier Poetry

The False Laws of Narrative is a selection of Fred Wah’s poems covering the poets entire poetic trajectory to date. A founding editor of Tish magazine, Wah was influenced by leading progressive and innovative ...

Wider Boundaries of Daring

Edited by Di Brandt & Barbara Godard
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Social Science, Women’s Studies, Poetry

Wider Boundaries of Daring: The Modernist Impulse in Canadian Women’s Poetry announces a bold revision of the genealogy of Canadian literary modernism by foregrounding the originary and exemplary contribution ...

Transnational Canadas

By Kit Dobson
Subjects: Political Science, Globalization, Social Science, Multiculturalism, Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature
Series: TransCanada

Transnational Canadas marks the first sustained inquiry into the relationship between globalization and Canadian literature written in English. Tracking developments in the literature and its study from ...