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Conversations with Trotsky provides a unique insight into Canadian Trotskyism during the Radical 1930s through an original collection of Birney's work.

Across more than twenty chapters, Future Horizons explores the past, present, and future of digital humanities research, teaching, and experimentation in Canada. Bringing together work by established and emerging scholars, this collection presents contemporary initiatives in digital humanities alongside a reassessment of the field's legacy to date and conversations about its future potential. It also offers a historical view of the important, yet largely unknown, digital projects in Canada. Future Horizons offers deep dives into projects that enlist a diverse range of approaches--from digital games to makerspaces, sound archives to born-digital poetry, visual arts to digital textual analysis--and that work with both historical and contemporary Canadian materials. The essays demonstrate how these diverse approaches challenge disciplinary knowledge by enabling humanities researchers to ask new questions. The collection challenges the idea that there is either a single definition of digital humanities or a collective national identity. By looking to digital engagements with race, Indigeneity, gender, and sexuality--not to mention history, poetry, and nationhood--this volume expands what it means to work at the intersection of digital humanities and humanities in Canada today. Available formats: trade paperback, accessible PDF, and accessible ePub

Sexy, saucy, and unsparingly satirical, Barney Allen's TheyHave Bodies is the most experimental book written by a Canadian until well intothe 1960s. Gregory Betts reintroduces this censored "realistic novel in elevenchapters and three acts."

Robert D. Denham pursues his quest to uncoverthe links between Northrop Frye and writers and otherswho directly influenced his thinking but about whomhe did not write an extensive commentary.The first chapter is about Frye's reading of Patanjali,the founder of the philosophy of Hindu yoga, whilethe second, discusses cultural mythographerGiambattista Vico, literary history and poetic language.The focus of Frye's criticism was the verbal arts,but he also had an abiding interest in both the visualarts and music; hence Frye's admiration of J.S. Bach. The essay on Tolkien examines the tendency in literaryhistory to return from irony to myth, as well as the rolethat Tolkien played in Frye's fiction-writing fantasies.In subsequent chapters, Denham explores Frye'spreference for romance and his critique of realism,which run parallel to the views of Oscar Wilde, and theirstrong shared convictions about the centripetal thrustof art, and about criticism being as creative as literature. Frye's appreciation for Whitehead's conceptof interpenetration in Science in the Modern Worldbecame a key feature of Frye's speculations about thehighest reaches of literature and religion. Frye is clearlyindebted to Martin Buber, particularly his influentialmeditation I and Thou. Aristotle, an important influenceupon Frye, was partially filtered through R.S. Craneand his The Languages of Criticism and the Structureof Poetry. Finally, the relationship between Fryeand his Oxford tutor Edmund Blunden are explored,while the last is an essay on Frye and M.H. Abramson how Frye's critical project might be vieweddeveloped in Abrams's The Mirror and the Lamp.This book is published in English.-Robert D. Denham poursuit son examen d'crivains et autres influences qui ont marqu l'minent critique Northrop Frye, mais sur lesquels celui-ci n'avait pas consacr de rflexions trs dveloppes.Le premier chapitre porte sur la lecture que fait Frye de Patanjali, le fondateur de la philosophie du yoga hindou, et le deuxime, sur le mythographe culturel Giambattista Vico, l'histoire littraire et le langage potique.Frye s'intressait aux arts visuels et la musique et Denham approfondit l'influence de J.S. Bach sur Frye. Le chapitre sur Tolkien porte sur la tendance en histoire littraire de passer de l'ironie au mythe, mais aussi sur l'ascendant de Tolkien sur la fiction fantaisiste de Frye.Dans les chapitres suivants, Denham explore la prfrence de Frye pour le romantique et sa critique du ralisme, qui trouvent cho chez Oscar Wilde, de mme que leur conviction, partage, de l'importance de l'art, et de la critique comme tant aussi crative que la littrature. L'admiration de Frye pour le concept d'interpntration prsent dans leScience in the Modern Worldde Whitehead est devenue un lment cl des rflexions de Frye sur la porte de la littrature et de la religion.Denham explore aussi le lien entre Frye et Martin Buber, dont la mditationI and Thoul'a beaucoup inspir, et celui entre Frye et R.S. Crane, qui parle beaucoup d'Aristote dans son ouvrageThe Languages of Criticism and the Structure of Poetry. Le chapitre 9 explore la relation entre Frye et son tuteur d'Oxford, Edmund Blunden, alors que le dernier chapitre porte sur Frye et M.H. Abrams, et notamment sur le projet critique de Frye compris la lumire du cadre sur la thorie critique dvelopp par Abrams dansThe Mirror and the Lamp.Ce livre est publi en anglais.

A young Canadian marches over the Pyrenees and enters into history by joining the International Brigades-men and women from around the world who volunteered to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. This new edition of Ted Allan's novel, This Time a Better Earth, reintroduces readers to the electrifying milieu of the Spanish Civil War and Madrid, which for a short time in the 1930s became the epicentre of a global struggle between democracy and fascism. This Time a Better Earth, first published in 1939, tells the story of Canadian Bob Curtis from the time of his arrival in Spain and the idealism and trials of the international volunteers. Allan's novel achieves the distinction of being both a work of considerable literary and historical significance and a real page-turner.This is the first installment of a series of titles to be published in the Canadian Literature Collection under the Canada and the Spanish Civil War banner. This is a large-scale project devoted to the recovery and presentation of Canadian cultural production about the Spanish Civil War (spanishcivilwar.ca), directed by Bart Vautour and Emily Robins Sharpe.

Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never private, emotional but not confessional, thoughtful but never cerebral. The subtlety of her craft is the hallmark of a modernist poet whose work opens to the world and its readers. She details intoxicating romance and mature love, the pleasures of marriage and motherhood, the experience of raising two sons to adulthood, and the ineffable pain of divorce. As she moved through life, she wrote clearly and uncompromisingly about the vast sweep of Canada, her travels to new lands, the passage of time, the death of her ex-husband, the loss of close friends and, later, of growing old.

Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avantgardist, successfully experimenting in literature, visual arts, film, and theatre. Brooker brought all of his experimental ambitions to his short fiction and prose. The Wrong World presents a rich sampling of his prose work, much of it previously unpublished, which adds new insight into his aesthetic ambitions. Working during an incredible period of transition in Canadian society, Brooker's stories document Canada's evolution from a provincial colony into a modern, urban country. His essays participated in that evolution by advocating a passionate awakening of the arts, the end of prudish sentiment and censorship, and a radical rethinking of the nature of war. They capture the limitations and hypocrisies of the Canadian social contract and argue for a more just and spiritual society. His stories humanize his social vision by dramatizing the psychological and emotional cost of Canada's transition into a modern civilization. In turn devastating, penetrating and poignant, Brooker's prose works offer a sharply focussed window into the turbulent interwar years in Canada.

Dry Water tells the story of Donald Strand, from the time of his arrival as a ten-year-old orphan at his relatives' Manitoba farm in 1890 to his apogee as a successful farmer. It recounts the crises he faces during a troubled marriage and the great stock market crash of 1929. His life parallels the growth and development of Manitoba during the same period.Stead considered Dry Water, written in 1934-1935, to be his crowning achievement. He was unable to find a publisher for it during his lifetime, although an abridged edition was published by Tecumseh Press in 1983. This new edition includes the complete typescript, a critical introduction, and explanatory notes that place this novel in its proper literary and historical context.

A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s, often called Canada's "Grapes of Wrath" and the most important novel of its time.

Malcolm Lowry 1940 Under the Volcano has been regarded too often as little more than Lowry's blueprint - though a tentative one at best - for his 1947 masterwork, Under the Volcano. It has never been adequately considered in terms of Lowry's work that preceded it, or been fully critically edited on its own terms.

Theroad trip genre, well established in the literatures of Canada, is a naturaloutcome of the nation's obsession with geography. Divided Highways examines road trip works by Anglophone,Quebecois and Indigenous authors andthese communities' sense of place and nationhood.

Creative Theatre by Roy Mitchell, remainsCanada's only full-length work of theatre theory. It is a concentrated culturalanalysis that advocates for a performance practice rooted in modernist theatretheory, while simultaneously functioning as a transformational spiritualcommunion and initiation for its practitioners and audience.

In this second installment of a three-volume series, Northrop Frye expert Robert D. Denham continues his invaluable examination of a number of significant but understated influences that informed the intellectual vision of the renowned literary theorist and critic.

This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss in a fire. In fact, the typescript itself has probably been read by at most a dozen people since Lowry scholars learned that it was deposited at the New York Public Library.

Translocated Modernisms focuses on the other lost generations of expatriates from modernism's global peripheries-principally but not exclusively from Canada-who travelled to and through Paris in the early to mid-20th century.

Meet Me on the Barricades is a hallucinatory, comic novel about leftism, modernism, and the Spanish Civil War. It features a "guileless" protagonist whose weak heart means that, instead of fighting on the battlefields of Spain, he daydreams about life as a soldier.

Malcolm Lowry's Poetics of Space offers a collection of exciting, new, and often controversial readings which seek to readdress not only Lowry's master work, Under the Volcano, but also many of his other writings.

This book explores the amazing journey of Anne Hebert's writing into English by people "in the middle" of the process of editing, publishing, distributing, and preservation.

This is the first critical edition of The God of Gods: A Canadian Play by Carroll Aikins. With an abundance of archival material, this volume offers a unique insight into early Canadian theatre and modernism.

The short story occupies a prominent place in Canadian literature and never more so than since Alice Munro's 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Kruk's work is a singularly original exploration of the layered "double-voicing" in the short fiction of eight acclaimed Canadian writers.

Flora Lyndsay, a prequel to Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Clearings, presents a fictionalized record of her family's experiences in planning their emigration and crossing the Atlantic.

The first scholarly edition of the only play banned in Canada for political reasons.

Eminent Frye scholar Robert D. Denham explores the connection between Frye and writers who influenced his thinking but about whom he never wrote anything extensive: Aristotle, Longinus, Joachim of Floris, Giordano Bruno, Henry Reynolds, Robert Burton, Kierkegaard, Lewis Carroll, Stephane Mallarme, Colin Still, Paul Tillich, and Frances A. Yates.

Social justice is at the core of these award-winning stories exploring the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, feminism, racism, disenfranchisement, and mistreatment.

An annotated scholarly edition including versions of the Malcolm Lowry novella that at different times was titled "The Last Address", "Swinging the Maelstrom" and "Lunar Caustic."

Thiswork is a scholarly, critical edition of ManShould Rejoice, a previously unpublished novel by major 20th-centuryCanadian author HughMacLennan.