614円 Il ne faut pas juger : ce n’est pas l’envie qui manque ni le motif, vous l’avouerez quand j’aurai conté l’histoire d’Armandine. L’ai-je bien connue ? J’en fus sans doute empêché, cette femme pittoresque m’ayant agacé au point que ce récit me dégoûte avant que je le commence. L’on sait que Dieu cr...

438円 DANS le va-et-vient silencieux des garçons au pas rapide et feutré, le murmure discret des verres et des assiettes, les arrivées et les départs de clients, le maëstro, de son archet sentimental, faisait pleurer la Sérénade de Toselli. C’était chez Paillard, cadre de luxe assourdi et lourd, où se ...

6,893円 Ecocriticism can be described in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment are interrelated and conceptualized. Ecocriticism aspires to understand and often to celebrate the natural world, yet it does so indirectly by focusing primarily on writt...

4,245円 This Companion is a thorough introduction to the writings of the Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro. Uniting the talents of distinguished creative writers and noted academics, David Staines has put together a comprehensive, exploratory account of Munro's biography, her position as a feminist, her evo...

1,723円 Further Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer takes up where Stuart Ross’s Confessions of a Small Press Racketeer left off in 2005. Memoir, tirade, unsolicited advice ー this new volume is drawn largely from Stuart’s notorious “Hunkamooga” column that ran in subTerrain, but also includes pieces ...

4,907円 "Sustainable development is, for government and industry at least, primarily a way of turning trees into lumber, tar into oil, and critique into consent; a way to defend the status quo of growth at any cost." ーfrom the Introduction In Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions, Jon Gord...

526円 La vallée de la Matapédia est un ouvrage historique et descriptif du journaliste, homme de lettres et fonctionnaire québécois Arthur Buies (1840 – 1901). Extrait : La vallée de la Matapédia est une belle et fertile zone qui s’étend depuis les dernières concessions des comtés de Rimouski et de Mat...

5,035円 Imagining Care brings literature and philosophy into dialogue by examining caregiving in literature by contemporary Canadian writers alongside ethics of care philosophy. Through close readings of fiction and memoirs by Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ignatieff, Ian Brown, and David Chariand...

5,432円 Why theatre now? Reflecting on the mix of challenges and opportunities that face theatre in communities that are necessarily becoming global in scope and technologically driven, In Defence of Theatre offers a range of passionate reflections on this important question. Kathleen Gallagher and Barry...

265円 Poetry. Beautiful words, long used to speak what we keep hidden at heart and let's be frank, woo the opposite sex,. Poetry comes in every genre, from vicious and bloody to heart wrenchingly eloquent and anything in between. Darker, The Dream Queen is a collection of runes and prose inspired by ev...

7,429円 What does it mean to be Ukrainian in contemporary Canada? The Ukrainian Canadian writers in Unbound challenge the conventions of genre – memoir, fiction, poetry, biography, essay – and the boundaries that separate ethnic and authorial identities and fictional and non-fictional narratives. These i...

4,814円 The awarding of the Nobel Prize in Literature to the Canadian writer Alice Munro in 2013 confirmed her position as a master of the short story form. This book explores Munro's work from a full range of critical perspectives, focussing on three of her most popular and important published collectio...