Books

This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its...

In Indigenous Women’s Writing and the Cultural Study of Law, Cheryl Suzack explores Indigenous women’s writing in the post-civil rights period thro...

In Ballast to the White Sea is Malcolm Lowry’s most ambitious work of the mid-1930s. Inspired by his life experience, the novel recounts the story ...

Imagining Care brings literature and philosophy into dialogue by examining caregiving in literature by contemporary Canadian writers alongside ethi...

The essays in this collection of symposium papers about the eminent Ukrainian philosopher and poet Hryhorij Skovoroda (1722–94) examine this unique...

Home Ground and Foreign Territory is an original collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English. Aiming to be both provocative and sc...

In his 2015 Garnett Sedgewick lecture, award-winning poet and literary critic Stephen Burt discusses the relation of poetry to time, space and plac...

Aboriginal Canadians tell their own stories, about their own people, in their own voice, from their own perspective.If as recently as forty years a...

Aboriginal Canadians tell their own stories, about their own people, in their own voice, from their own perspective.If as recently as forty years a...

This volume offers the first comprehensive analysis of the work of East German theatre director Fritz Bennewitz in India between 1970 and 1994. Joe...

French Écocritique is the first book-length study of the culturally specific ways in which contemporary French literature and theory raise question...

Scholarship on Italian emigration has generally omitted the Julian-Dalmatians, a group of Italians from Istria and Dalmatia, two regions that, in t...

Fact and Fiction explores the intersection between literature and the sciences, focusing on German and British culture between the eighteenth centu...

This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The play was banned by the Toronto p...

Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: ...

Thisbook establishes the existence of a road trip genre in the literatures ofCanada. Geography describes the land, and history peoples it, just as ...

What are the fictions that shape Canadian engagements with the global? What frictions emerge from these encounters? In negotiating aesthetic and p...

Where do children travel when they read a story? In this collection, scholars and authors explore the imaginative geography of a wide range of plac...

This volume explores the theoretical foundations of postcolonial translation in settings as diverse as Malaysia, Ireland, India and South America. ...

In the richly interdisciplinary study, Challenging Addiction in Canadian Literature and Classrooms, Cara Fabre argues that popular culture in its m...

Rich with literary awards and honours, Alberto Manguel extends his literary genius to address and complete a thoughtfully crafted extrapolation on ...

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

Biblical poetry, written between the fourth and eleventh centuries, is an eclectic body of literature that disseminated popular knowledge of the Bi...

Once a work is completed, when and how do writers and other artists embrace their next creative work?In this fascinating book, Monique LaRue, the a...

For Canadians, the First World War was a dynamic period of literary activity. Almost every poet wrote about the war, critics made bold predictions ...

Avant Canada presents a rich collection of original essays and creative works on a representative array of avant-garde literary movements in Canada...

At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy...

Dani Spinosa takes up anarchism’s power as a cultural and artistic ideology, rather than as a political philosophy, with a persistent emphasis on t...

Engaged, passionate, and consistently entertaining,An Informal History of the Hugos is a book about the renowned science fiction award for the many...

Robert Ward has always enjoyed travelling, especially on foot. When he discovered the ancient pilgrimage route to Santiago in Spain, he felt compel...