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The sixteen articles in The Rhetoric of Canadian Writing are a welcome contribution to the growing interest in Canadian culture, indicating its variety - Aboriginal, Anglo-Canadian and French-Canadian culture and their interrelationships are all represented. In classical oratory the term “rhetoric” signifies the art of influencing the thought and conduct of readers and listeners, and this concept is used as an underlying current of debate in this volume. Contributors address the theme of identity and post-colonial disputation in their explorations of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing by Elizabeth Simcoe, Catharine Parr Traill and Lucy Montgomery as well as contemporary works by Margaret Atwood, Nancy Huston, Wayne Johnston, Susan Swan, Jacques Poulin and Rudy Wiebe. Quebecoise writer Louis Dupré contributes a compelling reflection on women's writing in Quebec.
By focusing on the incarceration of women in Canada and Québec, this book reveals that imprisonment, as a penal device, is surprisingly tenacious.
Avec l’arrivée au pouvoir à Ottawa des libéraux de Wilfrid Laurier en 1896 s’ouvrent pour le Canada des années de prospérité économique et de croissance démographique mais aussi d’acerbes conflits politiques qui marqueront tout le pays. Au Québec, les mouvements d’industrialisation et d’urbanisation s’accélèrent, non sans résistance. Appel d’air pour les uns, menace pour les autres, la migration vers la modernité ébranle les colonnes de l’identité nationale. La période 1895 à 1918 voit Montréal s’affirmer comme pôle culturel. La concentration de la presse durant ces années y attire de plus en plus les activités littéraires, alors que l’Université La...
In Le Corbusier's Formative Years we learn what made Le Corbusier the person, and the designer that he was. Using twenty years of research, H. Allen Brooks has unearthed an incredible wealth of documents that show every facet of the formative years of this influential architect. "There is much in this fine volume for anyone interested not just in architecture, but in the roots of human creativity and in the origins of the most powerful artistic current of our century. . . . This book is a life's work of scholarship. It has been well spent."—Toronto Globe and Mail
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Did he ever play Hamlet? Has she worked in television? What was the title of his first novel? Under whom did she study? How many children has he? Answers to such questions about contemporary Canadian artists have often been difficult, even impossible, to find. This series has been created to provide the answers; it covers creative and performing artists who have contributed as individuals to the culture of Canada in the twentieth century. Each volume in the series presents a cross-section of many different kinds of artists: authors of imaginative works, artists and sculptors, musicians (performers, composers, conductors, and directors), and performing artists in ballet, modern dance, radio, ...
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