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The Canadian Modernists Meet
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

The Canadian Modernists Meet

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 t...

Painted Fires
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 398

Painted Fires

Painted Fires, first published in 1925, narrates the trials and tribulations of Helmi Milander, a Finnish immigrant, during the years approaching the First World War. The novel serves as a vehicle for McClung’s social activism, especially in terms of temperance, woman suffrage, and immigration policies that favour cultural assimilation. In her afterword, Cecily Devereux situates Painted Fires in the context of McClung’s feminist fiction and her interest in contemporary questions of immigration and “naturalization.” She also considers how McClung’s representation of Helmi Milander’s story draws on popular culture narratives.

Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 329

Ancient Rhetorics and Digital Networks

An examination of two seemingly incongruous areas of study: ancient rhetoric and digitally networked communication

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 371

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

One West, Two Myths II
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 250

One West, Two Myths II

Presents scholarly views on the comparison of the Canadian and American Wests and the various methodologies involved.

Detective Agency
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 331

Detective Agency

A fun book about genre fiction and the ways women have appropriated the hard-boiled tradition of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Mike Hammer and the writings of Hammet, Chandler, Spillane, and others. A story of texts, movies, TV shows, and publishing, it goes quite beyond textual analysis. A bit like Jan Radway's and Tania Modleski's analysis of culture in the making (and we'll probably have blurbs from both on the cover of our book).

Is Canada Postcolonial?
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Is Canada Postcolonial?

How can postcolonialism be applied to Canadian literature? In all that has been written about postcolonialism, surprisingly little has specifically addressed the position of Canada, Canadian literature, or Canadian culture. Postcolonialism is a theory that has gained credence throughout the world; it is be productive to ask if and how we, as Canadians, participate in postcolonial debates. It is also vital to examine the ways in which Canada and Canadian culture fit into global discussions as our culture reflects how we interact with our neighbours, allies, and adversaries. This collection wrestles with the problems of situating Canadian literature in the ongoing debates about culture, identi...

Literature, Rhetoric and Values
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 260

Literature, Rhetoric and Values

The essays in this collection combine cutting-edge literary and rhetorical scholarship to investigate the evolving values of the modern world, confronting such issues as torture, genocide, environmental apocalypse, and post-traumatic stress syndrome. First delivered as part of the vibrant ideas exchange of an international conference, they are the product of rigorous selection and review undertaken with an emphasis on their complementarity. The authors include established scholars such as gr ...

Cybernetic Aesthetics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

Cybernetic Aesthetics

This book shows that modernist literature creatively negotiated the same issues of data processing that cybernetics technologies would later tackle.

Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Northern Experience and the Myths of Canadian Culture

She considers each of these diverse genres in terms of the way it explains the cultural identity of a nation formed from the settlement of immigrant peoples on the lands of dispossessed indigenous peoples.