House of Anansi Press, 2012. — 328 p. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature is a survey of Canadian literature by Margaret Atwood, one of the best-known Canadian authors. It was first published by House of Anansi in 1972. A work of literary criticism, as Atwood writes in her preface to the 2004 edition, Survival was an attempt to deal with her belief that in the early...
New York: Infobase Publishing, 2009. — 213 p.
Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and has been a finalist for...
New York: Infobase Publishing, 2004. — 118 p. — ISBN: 0-7910-7569-9 Margaret Eleanor Atwood, CC OOnt FRSC (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and environmental activist. She is a winner of the Arthur C. Clarke Award and Prince of Asturias Award for Literature, has been shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, winning once, and...
New York: Cambridge University Press,.2006.—217p.—ISBN: 0-521-54851-9 Margaret Atwood’s international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood’s writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. — 288 p. Literature emerging from nineteenth-century Upper Canada, born of dramatic cultural and political collisions, reveals much about the colony's history through its contrasting understandings of nature, ecology, deforestation, agricultural development, and land rights. In the first detailed study of literary interactions between...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 312 p. — ISBN: 0-521-81441-3. The nominees for the 2002 Booker Prize included three Canadian books: Carol Shields’s Unless, Rohinton Mistry’s Family Matters, and Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. The news was welcomed in Canada with great satisfaction, but because none of the authors was born in the country, media at home and abroad...
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 158 p. — ISBN: 978-0-521-69463-6. Margaret Atwood offers an immensely influential voice in contemporary literature. Her novels have been translated into over twenty-two languages and are widely studied, taught and enjoyed. Her style is defined by her comic wit and willingness to experiment. Her work has ranged across several genres,...
Routledge, 2022. — 218 p. The Routledge Introduction to Gender and Sexuality in Literature in Canada charts the evolution of gender and sexuality, as they have been represented and performed in the literatures of Canada for more than three centuries. From early colonial texts by Frances Brooke, to settler texts by Susanna Moodie and Catherine Parr Traill, to more contemporary...
New York, New Amsterdam, 380 p. — ISBN: 1-56131-040-9 Mythmakers: early literature, Reportes: literature to 1867, Tale-tellers: literature to 1992, Narrators: literature to 1959, Chronological table, Further reading
Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2001. — viii, 172 p. — ISBN: 9780776616582 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. David Staines — Introduction John Lennox — The Spirit and the...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 224 p. This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evocation of life in small-town Ontario,...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 1107 p. The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Literature provides a broad-ranging introduction to some of the key critical fields, genres, and periods in Canadian literary studies. The chapters in this volume, written by prominent theorists in the field, reflect the plurality of critical perspectives, regional and historical specializations, and...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 1006 p. - Represents a diverse array of interests - from the revival of early Canadian writing, to the continued interest in Indigenous, regional, and diasporic traditions, to more recent discussions of globalization, market forces, and neoliberalism - Includes a distinct section dedicated to Indigenous literatures and traditions, as well as a...
Routledge, 2020. — 229 p. This study introduces the history, themes, and critical responses to Canadian fantastic literature. Taking a chronological approach, this volume covers the main periods of Canadian science fiction and fantasy from the early nineteenth century to the first decades of the twenty-first century. The book examines both the texts and the contexts of Canadian...
Москва: АСТ, 2019. — 344 с. «Леонард Коэн: жизнь» – обстоятельный рассказ о необыкновенной жизни одного из самых значительных и влиятельных артистов нашей эпохи. Известная музыкальная журналистка Сильвия Симмонс прослеживает путь Коэна из Монреаля, где он родился, в Лондон, на греческий остров Гидру и далее - в Нью-Йорк шестидесятых, где он начал свою музыкальную карьеру. Она...
Москва: АСТ, 2019. — 344 с. «Леонард Коэн: жизнь» – обстоятельный рассказ о необыкновенной жизни одного из самых значительных и влиятельных артистов нашей эпохи. Известная музыкальная журналистка Сильвия Симмонс прослеживает путь Коэна из Монреаля, где он родился, в Лондон, на греческий остров Гидру и далее - в Нью-Йорк шестидесятых, где он начал свою музыкальную карьеру. Она...
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