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Finnegans Wakes

James Joyce’s astonishing Finnegans Wake (1939) is universally acknowledged to be untranslatable. Still, fifteen complete translations exist in twelve different languages, with ten more underway in ...

Interdependent Magic

Edited by Jessica Watkin
Categories: Plays, playscripts

Interdependent Magic: Disability Performance in Canada is a collection of plays and interviews by, for, and about Disabled theatre artists that invites readers into the magical worlds of Disability arts ...

Shifting Baseline Syndrome

By (author) Aaron Kreuter
Categories: Poetry
Series: Oskana Poetry & Poetics

Shifting Baseline Syndrome is a satirical and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time. Aaron Kreuter asks the hard questions: what is it like to have an ...

It Should Be Easy to Fix

By (author) Bonnie Robichaud
Categories: Biography: general

In 1977, Bonnie Robichaud accepted a job at the Department of Defence military base in North Bay, Ontario. After a string of dead-end jobs, with five young children at home, Robichaud was ecstatic to ...

The Vernacular Strain in Newfoundland Poetry

Mary Dalton’s 2020 Pratt Lecture engages with the vernacular voice in Newfoundland poetry, illustrating the move from uncertainty to acceptance and welcoming of the beauty and variety of the language ...

Confluences 3

The essays in this volume continue the examination, begun in Confluences 1 and continued in Confluences 2, of the exciting new writing that has emerged in Canada in the past few decades. Employing a variety ...

Unvarnished

By (author) Emily Carr
Edited by Kathryn Bridge
Categories: Biography: general

Culled from the handwritten pages in old-fashioned scribblers and almost-forgotten typescripts amid drafts for her published stories, Unvarnished features among the last unpublished and highly personal ...

Digital Performance in Canada

Especially necessary in a historical moment in which many theatre companies have been forced to move their work online, Digital Performance in Canada illuminates the influence and ubiquity of digital technology ...

Hubert Aquin et les médias, 1949-1962

Les trois volumes de ce vaste projet anthologique réuniront les principaux textes – entrevues, émissions, rapports de recherche et interventions médiatiques – d’Hubert Aquin parus dans la presse ...

Rien de beau sur la guerre

Le 30 avril 1975, jour de la chute de Saïgon, Maï Nguyen fuit le Vietnam avec sa mère et ses sept frères. Elle a dix ans. Dans Rien de beau sur la guerre, elle refait le chemin parcouru de son enfance ...