Writing the Body in Motion
A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature
Over the last decade, a proliferation of sport literature courses across the continent is evidence of the sophisticated and evolving body of work developing in this area. Writing the Body in Motion offers introductory essays on the most commonly taught Canadian sport literature texts.
The Medium Is the Monster
Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English.
Reading Vincent van Gogh
A Thematic Guide to the Letters
Reading Vincent van Gogh is at once an interpretive guide to Van Gogh’s letters and a distillation of the key themes that reoccur throughout his collected letters.
“My Own Portrait in Writing”
Self-Fashioning in the Letters of Vincent van Gogh
An inspiring book that argues for Van Gogh’s letters to be placed alongside the literary work of Blake and Eliot.
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
A Critical Study
As the first literary critical study of Vincent van Gogh’s letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh presents the painter’s letters as purposeful imaginative creations that chart van Gogh’s evolving conception of himself as an artist.
Selves and Subjectivities
Reflections on Canadian Arts and Culture
The self and the other in the works of Canadian contemporary artists.
On the Art of Being Canadian
Drawing on a wealth of artistic expression, this book explores how the arts and artists have shaped Canadian national identity.
Wild Words
Essays on Alberta Literature
As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Alberta writers, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifying Alberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects of study in their own right.
Working Girls in the West
Representations of Wage-Earning Women
Examining the eager debate that followed women into the paid workforce in the early twentieth century, this volume uncovers the “working girl” heroines of western Canada’s poetry, prose, and fiction.