Canadian Literature and Poetry in English

A comprehensive, authoritative guide to many different genres, topics, and aspects of Canadian literary history, including prairie literature.

PR9180.2 .O95 2016
Stacks

A comprehensive introduction to major writers, genres and topics in Canadian literature, including regionalism and urbanism.

PR9184.3 .C34 2017
Stacks

Focuses on the imaginative mystique of the wilderness of the Canadian North. Writers discussed include Robert Service, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, E.J. Pratt, Marian Engel, Margaret Laurence and Gwendolyn MacEwan.

An investigation of the idea of the “North” as an element of Canada’s national identity and the development of this theme in Canadian culture and Canadian literature.

PR9185.5 .N67H84 2002
Stacks

Explores how Samuel Hearne’s account of the Bloody Falls massacre has shaped the ongoing colonization and economic exploitation of the North.

Biographical, critical, and bibliographic information about more than 150 New Brunswick writers and literary subjects. Also includes Acadian and Francophone authors.

What is the relationship between literature and the society in which it incubates? Are there common political, social, and economic factors that predominate during periods of heightened literary activity?

This book considers these questions and explores the relationships between periods of creative ferment in New Brunswick and the socio-cultural conditions of those times.

PR9198.2 .N3 N48 2017
Stacks

Concise biographies of authors, accopanied by synopses and samples of their published work.

Bryant explores how colonized and Indigenous environments occupy the same given geographical coordinates even while existing in distinct epistemological worlds through the analysis of a wide range of northeastern texts, including Puritan captivity narratives, Wabanaki wampum belts, and contemporary Innu poetry.

PR9184.3 .B79 2017
Stacks

Explores how Atlantic-Canadian writers present a picture of the region that is much more complex and less quaint than the stereotypes through which it is typically viewed: Michael Winter, Lisa Moore, George Elliott Clarke, Rita Joe, Frank Barry, Shaun Comish, and Bernice Morgan, among others.

PR9198.2 .A8 W95 2011
Stacks

Traces the history of Montreal as the literary centre of Quebec and Toronto as the literary centre of English Canada.

Examines the contributions of performers and other artists to the Yiddish theatre and culture in Montreal in the first half of the twentieth century, with consideration to the social landscape of the city.

F1054.5 .M89 J563 2011
Stacks

Examines the contributions of performers and other artists to the Yiddish theatre and culture in Montreal in the first half of the twentieth century, with consideration to the social landscape of the city.

Segal’s poetic production is referenced, translated and rigorously analyzed, and includes over 100 pages of appendices, shedding light on the artistic, spiritual, cultural and historical importance of his oeuvre.

PJ5129 .S37 Z5313 2017
Stacks

Focuses on four key Ontario authors—Stephen Leacock, Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, and Jane Urquhart—as well as many secondary authors, examining small-town representations in Canadian literature as sophisticated statements on the effects of modernity in the increasingly urbanized and cosmopolitan provice.

PR9198.2 .O5 P67 2019
Stacks

A bilingual collection of essays on the themes of cultural identities and immigrant writing in Canada. The emphasis is upon diversity as essays range in subject matter from Margaret Atwood, Margaret Laurence, and Marie-Claire Blais to Danny Laferrière, Ukranian-Canadian plays, “Franglo-théâtre,” contemporary Acadian and Africadian poetry and the Ontario Protestant novel.

Traces the history of Montreal as the literary centre of Quebec and Toronto as the literary centre of English Canada.

Traces Toronto’s literary genealogies from their origins in First-Nations stories to present-day graphic novels and analyzes the portrayal of the city in local literature.

The revised and enlarged the previous, 1973 edition, this bibliography is recognized as finest introduction to the literature of the Canadian Prairies.

Z1365 .P4 2003
Reference

Volume One, “From Writing-on-Stone to World War II” explores the provincial identity as something distinct from region, nation, empire or world.

Bio-literary discussions of historical figures, high and critical studies of single texts, including the works of Robert Kroetsch, Sheila Watson, Alice Major, Fred Stenson, David Albahari, and Nestor Dmytrow.

PR9198.2 .A4 W75 2017
Stacks

This book begins before the first prairie novel and traces the growth of prairie fiction over the last century noting the influence of culture on man’s reaction to the landscape.

PR9192.6 .P7 H3
Stacks

Traci, a cultural geographer, explores how reading poetry influences the way we see the Prairies.

PR9198.2 .P7 T74 2016
Stacks

An comprehensive anthology of fiction and nonfiction writings by Black authors from the Prairies, from nineteenthth-century fur traders and pioneers to avant-garde writers of the present day.

Includes correspondence, memoirs, excerpts from autobiographies political treatises and writings, photographs, interviews, short stories, poems and other types of writing from Daniel T. Williams, Mildred Jane Lewis Ware, George Washington Slater, Jr. Lawrence Hill, Esi Edugyan, Miranda Martini, and other contributors.

PR9194.5 .B55 B527 2020
Stacks

Examines the fictionalization of the Mennonite break event (the collapse of the “Mennonite Commonwealth” in the 1920s) through strains of religious, ethnic, trauma, and meta-narratives.

PR9192.6 .M45 Z24 2013
Stacks

An important regional outlet that publishes poetry, short fiction, drama, literary criticism, reviews, bibliography, interviews, profiles and artwork. Selected works are available on the journal’s web site.

Available Online

The stories in this collection take place in Vancouver and are written by Pauline Johnson, Emily Carr, Alice Munro, Ethel Wilson and Malcolm Lowry, William Gibson, Timothy Taylor, Zsuzsi Gartner, and Madeline Thien.