Literary Criticism
Leo Kennedy and His Works
By Francis Zichy
A study of the Canadian poet and critic Leo Kennedy and his work.
Leon Rooke
By Keith Garebian
These studies of Canadian authors fulfill a real need in the study of Canadian literature. Each monograph is a separately bound study that contains a biography of the author, a description of the tradition and milieu that influenced the author, a survey of the criticism on the ... Read more
Let’s Go Exploring
By Michael Hingston
A fascinating investigation of a beloved comic strip
The internet is home to impassioned debates on just about everything, but there’s one thing that’s universally beloved: Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Until its retirement in 1995 after a ten-year run, ... Read more
Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 19291954
By Conrad Aiken
Edited by Cynthia C Sugars
From the beginning, John Sutherland recognized that his literary gifts lay in criticism rather than in poetry. His independence from the academy and his largely autodidactic training gave him a unique perspective as a critic of Canadian literature. What these letters document, ... Read more
Life Experience Coolant
By Colin Fulton
Life Experience Coolant is a collection of four long poems informed by artistic isolation, directionless reading, and the avoidance mechanisms that make poetry simultaneously possible and impossible at our current cultural velocity. Using methodologies of textual appropriation, ... Read more
Life Struggle
By W.J. Keith
A literary exploration of Hugh MacLennan and his iconic Canadian novel The Watch That Ends the Night. Canadian Fiction Studies are an answer to every librarian's, student's, and teacher's wishes. Each book contains clear information on a major Canadian novel. These studies are ... Read more
Linda Griffiths
Edited by Jacqueline Petropoulos
For more than three decades, Griffiths worked tirelessly and passionately to redefine drama and performance in Canada, constantly pushing artistic boundaries in her quest to tell new and unconventional stories about Canadians and women.
Weaving together new critical essays on ... Read more
Living Language and Dead Reckoning
By Edward J. Chamberlin
In this highly personal essay, Ted Chamberlin asks some old, old questions such as "why do we need stories and songs?" Turning frequently to First Nations people, he looks at their culture and asks what it means to listen. In response, he notes that we take great pleasure in ... Read more
Living Over The Abyss
By Carol Beran
A literary exploration of Margaret Atwood and her novel Life Before Man.
