Canadian Literature and Poetry in English

An exhibition catalogue featuring over one hundred highlights of a large and extraordinary collection of Canadian little magazines and Canadian small press and micro-press imprints assembled by David McKnight, a librarian and collector who donated the collection to the University of Alberta Libraries in 2012. It now forms part of the Bruce Peel Special Collections.

Analyzes the emergence of small-press publications in Canada (such as Alphabet, Tish, and Delta) which had their beginnings in the American modernist movement. Also includes a bibliography of Canadian little magazines and other titles related to the subject.

A critical assessment that shows the major roles played by women in disseminating modernisms through a series of little and not-so-little magazines. Dorothy Livesay was highly influential in the left-wing Masses; Eleanor Godfrey edited The Canadian Forum; Livesay and Floris McLaren helped to found Contemporary Verse and P.K. Page, Kit Shaw, and Peggy Anderson were primarily responsible for publishing Preview.

PN4914 .L62 I79 2008
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Studies the impact of the American periodical industry on Canadian magazine publishing. In the 1920s, due to the advances in printing technology, business practices, improvements in living standards, and increases in the attainment of formal education, Canadians devoted more time to reading Ladies’ Home Journal, Saturday Evening Post, and other periodicals imported from the United States.

Vipond analyzes the efforts of the Magazine Publishers’ Association of Canada (MPAC) and other groups in curtailing the competition between Canadian and American periodical publishers for Canadian readership.

Examines the connection between the promotion of travel industry in Canadian commercial magazines (among them Mayfair, Chatelaine, and La Revue Moderne) and its cultural association with social mobility.

Canadian Dimension is a left-leaning magazine first published in Winnipeg in 1963 that includes analysis of Canadian economic, social, cultural, artistic and political issues. Hundreds of Canada’s leading figures of the left have contributed to its pages over the years, writing about every major topic in Canadian public life.

This book offers an account of the most important developments in Canadian history from the sixties until today, as seen and interpreted by scholars and writers on the pages of Dimension.

Each chapter reviews a major theme, such as Canada’s relationship to the United States, the development of our health care system, the dynamics of Aboriginal-non-Aboriginal relations and the role of Canadian cultural work in shaping Canadian society.

A critical examination of The Asianadian, one of Canada’s first anti-racist, anti-sexist, and anti-homophobic magazines. Over the course of its seven-year run, the small but mighty magazine led a nation-wide dialogue for all Canadians on the struggles and social issues that concerned Asians in Canada. The Asianadian established a national platform for then-emerging Asian-Canadian writers, artists, musicians, activists, and scholars, such as Sky Lee, Jim Wong-Chu, Joy Kogawa, Himani Bannerji, and Paul Yee.

PN4920 .A75 W66 2023
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PN4914 .W6 K67 2000
Stacks

A directory of underground periodicals published in Canada up to 1960. The 413 titles are organized by geographic region and subject.

An issue devoted to the current scholarly publishing landscape in Canada, including articles on open access and its impact on academic libraries, the development and changes of the Wilfred Laurier and Concordia University Presses, copyright, academic publishing in Indigenous studies, and other topics.

Analyzes the history of newspaper publishing and journalistic production between 1752 (the publication of the Halifax Gazzette, the first newspaper in Canada) and the mid-1960s. Details individual histories of the major Canadian English and French newspapers: The Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, Le Presse, and the Vancouver Province.

PN4904 .K4 1970
Canadiana

Examines the role of Canada’s first mass communication medium in shaping Canadian politics and national consciousness and how their publishing model developed into a profit-driven industry.

PN4908 .S63 1997
Stacks

PN4908 .A45 2013
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Broadside: A Feminist Review was a feminist newspaper which was published between 1979 and 1989.

Masters analyzes the influence of the newspapers on the lives of its journalists, editors, publishers, and readers.