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In this second installment of a three-volume series, Northrop Frye expert Robert D. Denham continues his invaluable examination of a number of significant but understated influences that informed the intellectual vision of the renowned literary theorist and critic.

In 2004, Paul Martin asked Justice John Gomery to lead a public inquiry into potential misspending in the federal Sponsorship Program, a relatively small investment of taxpayers' money to try to convince Quebeckers of the benefits of Canadian federalism in the aftermath of the 1995 referendum on Quebec separation.

This book explores the amazing journey of Anne Hebert's writing into English by people "in the middle" of the process of editing, publishing, distributing, and preservation.

Translocated Modernisms focuses on the other lost generations of expatriates from modernism's global peripheries-principally but not exclusively from Canada-who travelled to and through Paris in the early to mid-20th century.

Meet Me on the Barricades is a hallucinatory, comic novel about leftism, modernism, and the Spanish Civil War. It features a "guileless" protagonist whose weak heart means that, instead of fighting on the battlefields of Spain, he daydreams about life as a soldier.

In 2013, the government abolished the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which had been Canada's flagship foreign aid agency, and transferred its functions to the newly renamed Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development (DFATD). This edition is suitable for those interested in Canada's changing role in the world.

Malcolm Lowry's Poetics of Space offers a collection of exciting, new, and often controversial readings which seek to readdress not only Lowry's master work, Under the Volcano, but also many of his other writings.

Tolstoy and Tolstaya's legacy is still regarded as one of the greatest contributions to Russian history and world literature, while their daily life has been recorded through their correspondence. This work presents the last 239 letters plus 11 hitherto unpublished letters between the spouses, painting a remarkable portrait of their life and times.

Conversations with Trotsky provides a unique insight into Canadian Trotskyism during the Radical 1930s through an original collection of Birney's work.

"Fascism, states Jean-Frederic Legare Tremblay, is a kind of spectre that comes back to haunt us in many forms." Fifty years after Adrien Arcand's death, his legacy continues to challenge us. How could such ideas threatening to minorities have flourished in our presumably inclusive society?

Tu sais, mon vieux Jean-Pierre offers a series of essays on the archaeology and history of New France, and sets out to dispense with old-fashioned and facile generalizations and get down to the business of understanding real people and their possessions in context.

As we commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, the most translated and performed playwright in the world continues to live on in our imagination. How might we historicize Shakespeare's influence in Canada?

Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings.

This collection written by professors experiencing the journey to tenure in education puts the reader in the writer's shoes to provide insight for those who are considering this path, as well as for policy makers.

In 1969, Canada officially embraced and wrote into law the equality of English and French, and in 1988, both were legislated as working languages in its federal institutions. With the half-century mark fast approaching, this book takes an unflinching look at the divergence between policy and practice.

Why has there been an upsurge in Canadians converting to Buddhism in recent decades and what does it mean to lead a Buddhist life in contemporary Canada? This book answers these questions and more athrough life stories richly complemented by images and contextual readings.

This is the first critical edition of The God of Gods: A Canadian Play by Carroll Aikins. With an abundance of archival material, this volume offers a unique insight into early Canadian theatre and modernism.

The short story occupies a prominent place in Canadian literature and never more so than since Alice Munro's 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Kruk's work is a singularly original exploration of the layered "double-voicing" in the short fiction of eight acclaimed Canadian writers.

Travel back in time to the North-Eastern part of North America of the 1500s, when initial and sustained contacts between Europeans and Natives were being formed along increasingly developed trade routes.

Engages the imagination to illustrate the power of mathematical modelling. This book brings together a highly skilled team of contributors to fend off a zombie uprising. It helps you to learn how modelling can advise government policy, and how theoretical results can be communicated to a nonmathematical audience.

A woman contemplates the deadly consequences of a croissant. Children's fates are intertwined with a Rottweiler's. Witty and refreshing, with unpredictable plots and quirky characters, Death Sentences intrigue and entertain.

This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss in a fire. In fact, the typescript itself has probably been read by at most a dozen people since Lowry scholars learned that it was deposited at the New York Public Library.

The Worlds of Carol Shields is the first book to examine Shields' extraordinary career and life through the lens both of close friends and of literary critics.

Months of surveillance-related leaks from U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden have fuelled an international debate over privacy, spying, and Internet surveillance. This book explores current issues torn from the headlines with a uniquely Canadian perspective.

A volume that re-evaluates Canada's first man of letters: Sir Charles G D Roberts, poet and novelist, romancer and critic, writer and translator, journalist and historian.

Focuses on the life and work of Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887).

Presents a result of the fourth symposium in the University of Ottawa Symposia series following those on Canadian writers Grove (1973), Klein (1974), and Lampman (1975).

In the late 19th century, the impact of the Canadian wilderness on writers led to the formation of a new and uniquely Canadian genre, the realistic animal story. This collection of short stories reflects the author's talents as writer, naturalist, and artist.

Features twelve selected stories by Canadian author Robert Barr. This title includes his essay 'How to Write a Short Story'.