Mary Melfi : Essays on Her Works

William Anselmi
Paperback - $28.95

Expanding on her analysis of the Canadian literary canon, this collection of essays offers an in-depth look at accomplished writer Mary Melfi. Focusing on a variety of genres, from poetry and the novel to drama and the modern fairy tale, this volume ...

Timothy Findley and the Aesthetics of Fascism : Intertextual

Anne Geddes Bailey
Paperback - $25.95

Investigates the troubling relationship between narrative meaning and representations of violence within Timothy Findley's novels.

Don McKay : Essays on His Works

Brian Bartlett
Paperback - $28.95

Analyzing 30 years of Don McKay's achievements, this critique explores one of the most original bodies of work in contemporary English-language poetry. Emphasizing details of ornithology, botany, weather, industry, and the arts, as well as focusing o ...

The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature

Eugene Benson
Hardcover - $202.95

The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature was first published in 1983 to great acclaim. In the fourteen years since its publication Canadian literature has enjoyed an explosion of creative talent. This exciting new edition reflects this vivid flowe ...

The Age of Confession/L'Age de La Confession

Neil Bissoondath
Paperback - $23.95

Stories shape the world, imposing order on chaos, and the stories we tell declare: I exist. Neil Bissoondath presses these assertions about narrative further. Stories are also, he says, forms of confession. Each time we tell a story, we reveal a litt ...

Margaret Atwood (MCV)

Harold Bloom
Library Binding - $92.95

-- Brings together the best criticism on the most widely read poets, novelists, and playwrights
-- Presents complex critical portraits of the most influential writers in the English-speaking world -- from the English medievalists to contemporary w ...

Margaret Laurence's Epic Imagination

Paul Comeau
Paperback - $54.95

Margaret Laurence instinctively turned to the epic mode to create archetypal narratives of loss, exile, and redemption. Drawing on the Bible, Dante, and Milton, Laurence absorbed the epic structure and populated it with the Manawaka world of Hagar Sh ...

Bluesprint : Black British Columbian Literature and Orature

Wayde Compton
Paperback - $31.95

"Bluesprint" is a groundbreaking, first-time collection of the creative output of British Columbia's black citizens, and includes an astonishing range of styles: journal entries, oral histories, letters, journalism, poems, stories, screenplays, and h ...

Alden Nowlan : Essays on His Works

Gregory M. Cook
Paperback - $26.95

This in-depth collection of essays offers a revealing look at Alden Nowlan, a poet, journalist, novelist, and playwright who overcame the disadvantages of both living in poverty and of having completed a mere four grades of education. Nowlan's work, ...

Mordecai Richler : A Life in Ten Novels

Ada Craniford
Paperback - $32.95

Shoveling Trouble in the Stables of the Lord

'He has no skin, only blood.He wants to bleed for everybody."

If the smell of the stable repels you;
If you don't like trouble;
If conflicted attitudes toward God and the Bible bother you; ...