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Zydeco!
An inside view of this Louisiana Creole dance music in photos, interviews, and commentary
La Vie Littéraire Au Québec
Cet ouvrage comportera six volumes et couvrira la période 1764-1936. La série traite de l'étude du fait littéraire par l'examen des textes eux-mêmes et par l'analyse du processus de leur production et de leur réception. Conçue comme un outil de référence à caractère scientifique, cette histoire littéraire n'est pas principalement organisée autour des oeuvres et des auteurs. Elle s'attache en premier lieu à l'étude des conditions d'émergence et du cheminement par lequel la littérature acquiert son autonomie et sa légitimation, c'est-à-dire sa reconnaissance sociale (cf. la présentation, v. 1, p. vii-xiv). [SDM].
Nationalism and Literature
Sarah Corse's analysis of nearly two hundred American and Canadian novels offers a theory of national literatures. Demonstrating that national canon formation occurs in tandem with nation-building, and that canonical novels play a symbolic role in this, this 1996 book accounts for cross-national literary differences, addresses issues of mediation and representation in theories of 'reflection', and illuminates the historically constructed nature of the relationship between literature and the nation-state.
Amazing Airmen
Canadian and British airmen engaged in fierce and deadly battles in the skies over Europe during the Second World War. Those who survived often had to overcome incredible obstacles to do so. These painstakingly researched stories will enable you to feel what veterans endured while young men in the air war against Nazi Germany.
Reading Nelligan
Émile Nelligan (1879–1941) wrote all of his poetry as an adolescent, before spending four decades in a psychiatric asylum. Considering all of Nelligan's work and using a largely textual approach, Émile Talbot points out the Canadian roots of Nelligan's originality. He argues that these are discernable despite Nelligan's use of the discourse of nineteenth-century continental French poetry, particularly that of the Parnassians and the Decadents. Talbot's textual analysis is integrated with a consideration of the social, cultural, artistic, and religious climate of both late nineteenth-century Montreal and the European literary culture to which Nelligan was responding. Talbot considers such pertinent factors as the spirituality of guilt, the role of the mother, and a societal context that rejected both the revelation of the self and the autonomy of art. In doing so he sheds new light on Nelligan's use of European poetic language to fashion a poetry marked by his own culture.
French XX Bibliography
Provides the most complete listing available of books, articles, and book reviews concerned with French literature since 1885. The bibliography is divided into three major divisions: general studies, author subjects (arranged alphabetically), and cinema. This book is for the study of French literature and culture.
Ramblin' on My Mind
This compilation of essays takes the study of the blues to a welcome new level. Distinguished scholars and well-established writers from such diverse backgrounds as musicology, anthropology, musicianship, and folklore join together to examine blues as literature, music, personal expression, and cultural product. Ramblin' on My Mind contains pieces on Ella Fitzgerald, Son House, and Robert Johnson; on the styles of vaudeville, solo guitar, and zydeco; on a comparison of blues and African music; on blues nicknames; and on lyric themes of disillusionment. Contributors are Lynn Abbott, James Bennighof, Katharine Cartwright, Andrew M. Cohen, David Evans, Bob Groom, Elliott Hurwitt, Gerhard Kubik, John Minton, Luigi Monge, and Doug Seroff.
L'invention du retour d'Europe
Aller à Paris fut le rêve des artistes et des écrivains de maints pays. Près de la moitié des écrivains québécois du début du xxe siècle ont ainsi traversé l'Atlantique pour explorer cette capitale culturelle. Seulement, il fallait aussi en revenir, et pour plusieurs le choc du retour fut une épreuve. Ces multiples traversées transatlantiques ont profondément marqué l'histoire de la littérature québécoise et l'imaginaire québécois. Un personnage emblématique et complexe en est né, celui du retour d'Europe. Cet ouvrage retrace son émergence et analyse ses principales facettes, en plongeant dans les textes qui lui ont donné vie et en examinant les échanges culturels franco-québécois du début du siècle. Ce faisant, une cartographie détaillée des réseaux artistiques et littéraires entre la France et le Québec est accomplie, de même qu'une analyse des principaux transferts culturels que ces réseaux favorisent. On voit ainsi, dans ces pages, Marcel Dugas et les exotiques aller étudier à Paris, hanter les salons mondains et royalistes, mais découvrir aussi les Ballets russes et le futurisme italien, Satie et Apollinaire, etc.
