Books in the Reappraisals: Canadian Writers series

Collects a dozen re-evaluative essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing in line in Woody Allen's "Annie Hall".

As we commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death, the most translated and performed playwright in the world continues to live on in our imagination. How might we historicize Shakespeare's influence in Canada?

Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings.

The widest-ranging exploration to date of the interaction between English Canadian literature and film.

Presents the history of Canadian postmodernism. This title explores the development of the idea of the postmodern and debates about its meaning and its applicability to various genres of Canadian writing, and charting its decline in recent years as a favoured critical trope.

If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918-2000). This title explores: Purdy's significance to contemporary writers; the life he dedicated to literature and the persona he crafted; the influences acting on his development as a poet; and, the larger themes in his work, such as "The Canadian North".

Explores how and what the animals in this country have meant through all genres and periods of Canadian writing. This title tackles more than a century of writing, from 19th-century narrative of women travellers, to the 'natural' conversion of Grey Owl, to the award-winning novels of Farley Mowat, Marian Engel, Timothy Findley, and Yann Martel.

A collection of essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. It raises questions - about modernism and antimodernism, nationalism and antinationalism, gender and class, originality and influence - that remain central to contemporary research on early to mid-twentieth-century English Canadian literature.

A growing number of literary historians and critics recognize the contemporary long poem as a distinctively Canadian genre. This title offers a collection of essays that enables the reader to understand Canadian literary cultures in terms of their local intimacies and idiosyncrasies as well as in their national contexts.

Discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature. This title examines others works, including the oral memoirs of a Metis, an Inuit's account as being civil servant in Ottawa, and the autobiographical writings of pioneer women and French missionaries to show the depth and breadth of this tradition in Canada.

Northrop Frye remains one of Canada's most influential intellectuals. This book explores the development of his extraordinary intellectual range and the implications of his imaginative syntheses.

Margaret Atwood enjoys a unique prominence in Canadian letters. With over thirty books to her credit, in genres ranging from children's writing to dystopic novels, she is as creatively diverse as she is internationally acclaimed. This title provides a critical base from which readers can assess Atwood's novels.

No longer dismissed as 'escapist' reading, critics have finally discovered a brave new world of science fiction and fantasy literature. This book pays tribute to this previously ignored genre, placing these works within a general context of Canadian literature and culture.

This collection of essays confirms and celebrates the artistry of Canadian children's literature. Contributors include Janet Lunn and Tim Wynne-Jones.

Highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence. This title features a collection of essays that explores her body of work as well as her influence on young Canadian writers.