{"title":"Reappraisals: Canadian Writers","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"robertson-davies-book-camille-bossiere-9780776605319","title":"Robertson Davies","description":"This collection of essays on the writing of Robertson Davies addresses the basic problems in reading his work by looking at the topics of doubling, disguise, irony, paradox, and dwelling in gaps or spaces in between. The essays present new insights on a broad range of topics in Davies' oeuvre and represent one of the first major discussions devoted to Davies' work since his death in 1995.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50364248097041,"sku":"CIN0776605313G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007013060881,"sku":"NIN9780776605319","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0776605313.jpg?v=1750946177"},{"product_id":"worlds-of-carol-shields-book-david-staines-9780776622064","title":"The Worlds of Carol Shields","description":"\"Carol was a very fine writer and a remarkable human being, a wonderful person whose work I closely followed for more than 20 years.  I interviewed her frequently over those years, with virtually every work she produced -novel, radio drama, play, book of stories.  So I had a good sense of the span of her work and also her evolution as a stylist. But the key reason I wanted to make a book focusing on her life and work is that we were friends.\" -Eleanor Wachtel  This book strikes the right balance between intimate accounts and literary analysis. It opens with reminiscences by close friend Eleanor Wachtel, which are followed by a study of Shields' poetry by her daughter and grandson, then by various aspects of her fiction, including a detailed examination of her plays. It closes with reminiscences by four close friends: Jane Urquhart, Joan Clark, Wayson Choy and Martin Levin.  The 23 contributors offer new insights, new theories, and new perspectives about Shields' illuminating career.  Only one piece-her obituary written by Margaret Atwood-has been previously published.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51006934319377,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51006937858321,"sku":"NIN9780776622064","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0776622064.jpg?v=1750849268"},{"product_id":"canadian-modernists-meet-book-dean-irvine-9780776605999","title":"The Canadian Modernists Meet","description":"\"The Canadian Modernists Meet\" is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem \"The Canadian Authors Meet\" sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada's formative movements in modernist poetry, fiction, and drama. As did Scott's poem, Dean Irvine's collection 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. \"The Canadian Modernists Meet\" is the first collection of its kind: a gathering of texts by literary critics, textual editors, biographers, literary historians, and art historians whose collective research contributes to the study of modernism in Canada. The collection stages a major reassessment of the origins and development of modernist literature in Canada, its relationship to international modernist literature, its regional variations, its gender and class inflections, and its connections to visual art, architecture, and film. It presents a range of scholarly perspectives, drawing upon the multidisciplinarity that characterizes the international field of modernist studies.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51007011094801,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007014764817,"sku":"NIN9780776605999","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0776605992.jpg?v=1751011190"},{"product_id":"margaret-atwood-book-john-moss-9780776606132","title":"Margaret Atwood","description":"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. Her success, however, has been double-edged: the very popularity that makes her such a prominent figure in the literary world also renders her vulnerable to claims of being a 'sell-out', as she relates in her Empson lectures. \"The Open Eye\" negotiates the space between these positions, acknowledging Atwood's remarkable achievement while considering how it impacts on national politics and identity. The range of perspectives in this volume is stimulating and enlightening. \"The Open Eye\" begins with a focus on Atwood as she presents herself and is presented in Canada and abroad, and then proceeds to consider, more broadly, the intersection of life and literature that Atwood's works and persona effect. It offers fresh insight into Atwood's early writing, redresses the critical void regarding her poetry and shorter prose pieces, and provides a critical base from which readers can assess Atwood's most recent novels. A common thread throughout these essays is the recognition of Atwood's importance in the literary realm in general, and in Canadian literature more particularly.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51007029346577,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007031771409,"sku":"NIN9780776606132","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0776606131.jpg?v=1764842939"},{"product_id":"alice-munro-s-miraculous-art-book-janice-fiamengo-9780776624334","title":"Alice Munro's Miraculous Art","description":"Alice Munro's Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro's writings.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51007043436817,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51007046058257,"sku":"NIN9780776624334","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0776624334.jpg?v=1751263969"},{"product_id":"echoing-silence-book-john-moss-9780776604411","title":"Echoing Silence","description":"The North has always had, and still has, an irresistible attraction. This fascination is made up of a mixture of perspectives, among these, the various explorations of the Arctic itself and the Inuk cultural heritage found in the elders' and contemporary stories. This book discusses the different generations of explorers and writers and illustrates how the sounds of a landscape are inseparable from the stories of its inhabitants.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51481485508881,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51481486655761,"sku":"CIN0776604414A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0776604414.jpg?v=1751075670"},{"product_id":"at-the-speed-of-light-there-is-only-illumination-book-john-moss-9780776605722","title":"At the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740013228305,"sku":"NIN9780776605722","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780776605722.jpg?v=1763480772"},{"product_id":"windows-and-words-book-susanann-cooper-9780776605562","title":"Windows and Words","description":"This collection of essays confirms and celebrates the artistry of Canadian children's literature. Contributors include Janet Lunn and Tim Wynne-Jones.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52740012933393,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740013326609,"sku":"NIN9780776605562","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780776605562.jpg?v=1763480772"},{"product_id":"robert-kroetsch-book-david-staines-9780776631288","title":"Robert Kroetsch","description":"Robert Kroetsch:  Essayist, Novelist, Poet brings together an international cast of  critics, scholars, and writers to examine the immense significance that  Kroetsch holds in the twenty-first-century.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740014670097,"sku":"NIN9780776631288","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780776631288.jpg?v=1763480779"},{"product_id":"margaret-laurence-book-david-staines-9780776604466","title":"Margaret Laurence","description":"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.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52740016832785,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52740016931089,"sku":"NIN9780776604466","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780776604466.jpg?v=1763480814"},{"product_id":"reflections-book-k-p-stich-9780776601953","title":"Reflections","description":"This volume discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature, exploring works by such writers as Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, John Glassco, and Susanna Moodie. Others works, including the oral memoirs of a M tis, an Inuit's account as being civil servant in Ottawa, and the autobiographical writings of pioneer women and French missionaries are examined to show the depth and breadth of this tradition in Canada. These texts act as starting points for an indepth look at the relationships between autobiography, biography and fiction in Canadian literature.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52995959423249,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52995959488785,"sku":"NIN9780776601953","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780776601953.jpg?v=1767666161"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/de-de\/collections\/reappraisals-canadian-writers-buchreihe.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}