Worlds of Wonder

Worlds of Wonder PDF Author: Jean-François Leroux
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776617451
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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No longer dismissed as "escapist" reading, critics have finally discovered a brave new world of science fiction and fantasy literature. This book is a long-overdue tribute to this previously ignored genre, placing these works within a general context of Canadian literature and culture.

Worlds of Wonder

Worlds of Wonder PDF Author: Camille R. La Bossière
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776605704
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 209

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Grade level: 10, 11, 12, i, s, t.

Future Indicative

Future Indicative PDF Author: John Moss
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776610589
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 254

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The format of this book is arbitrary and exact, the way paint is in a landscape by Alex Colville. It follows the program of the symposium that took place at the University of Ottawa, from April 25 to 27, 1986. As Bakhtin leaps from the sidelines to centre stage, as Derrida clambers out of orchestra pit into the prompter's box, and Lancan swings from the flies, as Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, Barthes, and a throng of others rhubarb their way through the text, one recognizes just how connected all the disparate elements of this critical extravaganza really are.

Context North America

Context North America PDF Author: Camille La Bossière
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776615718
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Context North America is a comparative study of Canadian and American literary relations that emphasizes the cultural and institutional contexts in which Canadian literature is taught and read. This volume exemplifies the question of how the literatures of Canada might aptly be studied and contextualized in the days of heightened discontinuity and increasingly ambiguous borderlines both between and within the many narratives that make up North America.

The Canadian Modernists Meet

The Canadian Modernists Meet PDF Author: Dean Irvine
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776618644
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem 'The Canadian Authors Meet' sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada's formative movements in modernist poetry, fiction, and drama. As did Scott's poem, Dean Irvine's collection raises questions - about modernism and antimodernism, nationalism and antinationalism, gender and class, originality and influence - that remain central to contemporary research on early to mid-twentieth-century English Canadian literature. The Canadian Modernists Meetis the first collection of its kind: a gathering of texts by literary critics, textual editors, biographers, literary historians, and art historians whose collective research contributes to the study of modernism in Canada. The collection stages a major reassessment of the origins and development of modernist literature in Canada, its relationship to international modernist literature, its regional variations, its gender and class inflections, and its connections to visual art, architecture, and film. It presents a range of scholarly perspectives, drawing upon the multidisciplinarity that characterizes the international field of modernist studies.

Bliss Carman

Bliss Carman PDF Author: Gerald Lynch
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776602861
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215

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The tarnished reputation of this turn-of-the-century poet is persuasively burnished anew by fifteen scholars, editors, and poets. Published in English.

Windows and Words

Windows and Words PDF Author: Susan-Ann Cooper
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776605569
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246

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Windows and Words is a collection of seventeen essays that confirms and celebrates the artistry of Canadian Children's Literature. There are essays that survey a wealth of English language fiction, from the internationally acclaimed work of Lucy Maud Montgomery, the aboriginal adolescent novel, to the increasingly multi-cultural character of children's books. Others examine book illustration, visual literacy, and the creative partnership seen in the picture book and its art design. With contributions by two Governor General's Award winning authors, Janet Lunn and Tim Wynne-Jones, and a final commentary by Elizabeth Waterson, the heart of this collection offers a unique perspective on the artistry of writing for children and claims a rightful place for Canadian children's literature as literature.

Bolder Flights

Bolder Flights PDF Author: Angela Robbeson
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 077660483X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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A growing number of literary historians and critics now recognize the contemporary long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This collection of essays leads the reader to a deeper understanding of Canadian literary cultures in terms of their local intimacies and idiosyncrasies as well as in their national contexts. Published in English.

At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination

At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination PDF Author: John Moss
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776618679
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen’s Annie Hall. Given McLuhan’s prominent status in many academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multi-disciplinary background. John Moss and Linda Morra chose the essays from a gathering of McLuhan’s academic devotees. The contribution – from “McLuhan as Medium” and “McLuhan in Space” to “What McLuhan Got Wrong” and “Trouble in the Global Village” – to provide a kaleidoscope of new views. As Moss writes of the collected essays: “Some are big and some are small, some exegetic and some confessional, some stand as major statements and others are sidelong glances; some resonate with the concerns of public discourse and others are private or privileged or impious and provocative. Each consists of many parts, each a design on its own. They speak to each other...they may have come together as one version of what happened.”

Dominant Impressions

Dominant Impressions PDF Author: Gerald Lynch
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776615807
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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Canadian critics and scholars, along with a growing number from around the world, have long recognized the achievements of Canadian short story writers. However, these critics have tended to view the Canadian short story as a historically recent phenomenon. This reappraisal corrects this mistaken view by exploring the literary and cultural antecedents of the Canadian short story.

The Ivory Thought

The Ivory Thought PDF Author: Gerald Lynch
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
ISBN: 0776618318
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918–2000). Numerous eminent scholars and writers have attested to this pre-eminent status. George Bowering described him as “the world’s most Canadian poet” (1970), while Sam Solecki titled his book-length study of Purdy The Last Canadian Poet (1999). In The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy, a group of seventeen scholars, critics, writers, and educators appraise and reappraise Purdy’s contribution to English literature. They explore Purdy’s continuing significance to contemporary writers; the life he dedicated to literature and the persona he crafted; the influences acting on his development as a poet; the ongoing scholarly projects of editing and publishing his writing; particular poems and individual books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction; and the larger themes in his work, such as the Canadian North and the predominant importance of place. In addition, two contemporary poets pay tribute with original poems.