Author : Frank M. Tierney
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 24,91 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0776601091
Thomas Chandler Haliburton was perhaps the only Canadian writer whose name was a household word in nineteenth-century Canada. The ten papers in this volume reappraise the historical, geographical, political and literary contexts within which Haliburton lived and worked. His letters, his historical books, the Club papers and Sam Slick sketches are all included in these valuable and lively criticisms. Published in English.
Author : Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 1860*
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Author : Gerald Lynch
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,31 MB
Release : 1999-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0776615807
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.
Author : Camille R. La Bossière
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0776605704
Grade level: 10, 11, 12, i, s, t.
Author : David Staines
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2001-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0776616587
This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. The essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers today.
Author : Angela Robbeson
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 077660483X
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.
Author : Camille La Bossière
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 21,50 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0776615718
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.
Author : Gerald Lynch
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 14,93 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0776602861
The tarnished reputation of this turn-of-the-century poet is persuasively burnished anew by fifteen scholars, editors, and poets. Published in English.
Author : Lorraine McMullen
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 34,61 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0776601970
The modern literary searchlight has flushed out Canada's long neglected nineteenth century female writers. New critical approaches are advocated and others are encouraged to take on the difficulties - and rewards - of research into the lives of our foremothers. Published in English.
Author : David Staines
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0776601466
This collection of essays explores the many dimensions of the writings of Stephen Leacock, the well-loved Canadian author of Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town. Published in English.
