Books in the Reappraisals: Canadian Writers series

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.

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".

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.

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".

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.

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