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Télécharger le livre : Trans.Can.Lit
Smaro Kamboureli
Trans.Can.Lit
The study of Canadian literature—CanLit—has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ’70s. As new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions, its theoretical focus and research methods lost...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22
Collection : TransCanada
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Télécharger le livre : The Widowed Self
Deborah Kestin Van Den Hoonaard
The Widowed Self
How do older women come to terms with widowhood? Are they vulnerable or courageous, predictable or creative in dealing with this life challenge? Most books about widows usually focus on younger women; this book interweaves the voices of older widows their experiences...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22

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Télécharger le livre : Uneasy Partners
Collectif
Uneasy Partners
After decades of extraordinary successes as a multicultural society, new debates are bubbling to the surface in Canada. The contributors to this volume examine the conflict between equality rights, as embedded in the Charter, and multiculturalism as policy and practice,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22
Collection : Canadian Commentaries
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Télécharger le livre : The Water Lily Pond
Han Z. Li
The Water Lily Pond
This evocative narrative draws us into the inner life of a young Chinese peasant girl, May-ping, and her first glimmerings of youthful love and idealism under the Maoist regime in China. As she grows into a mature woman, she becomes increasingly aware of the strife...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre : Through the Hitler Line
Laurence F. Wilmot
Through the Hitler Line
Laurence Wilmot’s Second World War memoir is a rare thing: a first-hand account of front-line battle by an army officer who is a resolute non-combatant. And it is paradoxes such as this that also make Wilmot’s book a unique and compelling document. Wilmot, as an...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre : Writing in Our Time
Pauline Butling , Susan Rudy
Writing in Our Time
Process poetics is about radical poetry — poetry that challenges dominant world views, values, and aesthetic practices with its use of unconventional punctuation, interrupted syntax, variable subject positions, repetition, fragmentation, and disjunction. To trace the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22

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Télécharger le livre : Watermelon Syrup
Di Brandt , Jane Finlay-Young , Annie Jacobsen
Watermelon Syrup
Lexi, a young Mennonite woman from Saskatchewan, comes to work as housekeeper and nanny for a doctor’s family in Waterloo, Ontario, during the Depression. Dr. Gerald Oliver is a handsome philanderer who lives with his neurotic and alcoholic wife, Cammy, and their two...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre : Tracing the Autobiographical
Susanna Egan , Marlene Kadar
Tracing the Autobiographical
The essays in Tracing the Autobiographical work with the literatures of several nations to reveal the intersections of broad agendas (for example, national ones) with the personal, the private, and the individual. Attending to ethics, exile, tyranny, and hope, the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre : Women Theorists on Society and Politics
Lynn Mcdonald
Women Theorists on Society and Politics
Revolution, abolition of slavery, public health care, welfare, violence against women, war and militarism — such issues have been debated for centuries. But much work done by women theorists on these traditional social and political topics is little known or difficult...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22

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Télécharger le livre : Women in God’s Army
Andrew Mark Eason
Women in God’s Army
The early Salvation Army professed its commitment to sexual equality in ministry and leadership. In fact, its founding constitution proclaimed women had the right to preach and hold any office in the organization. But did they? Women in God’s Army is the first study of...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22
Collection : Studies in Women and Religion
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Télécharger le livre : Speaking in the Past Tense
Herb Wyile
Speaking in the Past Tense
“Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of those souls intrepid enough to step onto what is, practically by definition,...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-22

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Télécharger le livre : The Queen of Peace Room
Magie Dominic
The Queen of Peace Room
What is memory, and where is it stored in the body? Can a room be symbolic of a lifetime? Memories are like layers of your skin or layers of paint on a canvas. In The Queen of Peace Room, Magie Dominic peels away these layers as she explores her life, that of a...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-21
Collection : Life Writing
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Télécharger le livre : By Word of Mouth
Dennis Cooley
By Word of Mouth
Dennis Cooley, one of Canada’s most prominent poets, says writing becomes political when you play with certain kinds of voices. His poetry has been influenced and inspired by the prairies and other Canadian poets, but he insists on disturbing the formal poetic...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-21
Collection : Laurier Poetry
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Télécharger le livre : Children of the Outer Dark
Christopher Dewdney
Children of the Outer Dark
A four-time Governor General’s-award nominee for both poetry and non-fiction, Christopher Dewdney is celebrated internationally as a writer and a visionary and is best known for his particular imagining of place and memory. Beginning with Paleozoic fossil formations in...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-21
Collection : Laurier Poetry
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Télécharger le livre : Slippery Pastimes
Joan Nicks , Jeannette Sloniowski
Slippery Pastimes
Sixteen essays, written by specialists from many fields, grapple with the problem of a popular culture that is not very popular — but is seen by most as vital to the body politic, whether endangered by globalization or capable of politically progressive messages for...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-21
Collection : Cultural Studies
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Télécharger le livre : Reading In
Joann Mccaig
Reading In
What can we learn about authorship through a reading of a writer’s archive? Collections of authors’ manuscripts and correspondence have traditionally been used in ways that further illuminate the published text. JoAnn McCaig sets out to show how archival materials can...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-21

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Télécharger le livre : The Shape of the Great Pyramid
Roger Herz-Fischler
The Shape of the Great Pyramid
Who has not seen a picture of the Great Pyramid of Egypt, massive in size but deceptively simple in shape, and not wondered how that shape was determined? Starting in the late eighteenth century, eleven main theories were proposed to explain the shape of the Great...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-10-21

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Télécharger le livre : The Global Food Crisis
Jennifer Clapp , Marc J. Cohen
The Global Food Crisis
The global food crisis is a stark reminder of the fragility of the global food system. The Global Food Crisis: Governance Challenges and Opportunities captures the debate about how to go forward and examines the implications of the crisis for food security in the...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-09-30
Collection : Studies in International Governance
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Télécharger le livre : Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885
D.N. Sprague
Canada and the Métis, 1869-1885
“In this book, Professor D.N. Sprague tells why the Métis did not receive the land that was supposed to be theirs under the Manitoba Act.... Sprague offers many examples of the methods used, such as legislation justifying the sale of the land allotted to Métis children...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-10

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Télécharger le livre : All These Roads
Louis Dudek
All These Roads
A passionate believer in the power of art—and especially poetry—to influence and critique contemporary culture, Louis Dudek devoted much of his life to shaping the Canadian literary scene through his meditative and experimental poems as well as his work in publishing...
Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2009-08-07
Collection : Laurier Poetry
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