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Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, Mennonite Canadian literature has been marked by a compulsive retelling of the mass migration of some 20,000

“We look around and feel as if book culture as we know it is crumbling to dust, but there’s one important thing to keep in mind: as we know it.” What happens if we separate the idea of "the book" f

In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—the founders of vorticism—undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture.

Flora Annie Steel (1847–1929) was a contemporary of Rudyard Kipling and rivaled his popularity as a writer during her lifetime, but her legacy faded due to gender-biased politics.

Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Canada, past and present, with 11 essays in English an

This book examines the cultural work of space and memory in Canada and Canadian literature, and encourages readers to investigate Canada within its regional, national, and global contexts.

The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists.

“The outburst of cultural energy that took place in the 1960s was in part a product of the two decades that came before.

Essential and engaging essays about the joys and challenges of creative writing and teaching creative writing by a host of Canada’s leading writers.

Here is the latest and perhaps most complete attempt to classify people who shop in bookstores. It takes all kinds, and Shaun Bythell knows them all.

Modern fiction author Jami Attenberg reveals the defining moments that pushed her to create a life, and voice, she could claim for herself.

"Lovely art comes with unusual perspectives on familiar tales about lions, mice and trickster foxes." - Kirkus, starred review "Many children are familiar with Aesop's fables but it is a fair bet t

How do master storytellers compel us? There have been many attempts to understand what makes a good story, but few have used a scientific approach.

Using information from newly-declassified intelligence files and recovered military history, journalist Andrea Pitzer argues that far from being a proponent of art for art's sake, Vladimir Nabokov

A multi-genre anthology on visual experiences from 8 hyphened-Canadian writers.