Wilfrid Laurier University Press: 402 books
Reverse Shots
Indigenous Film and Media in an International Context
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2015
From the dawn of cinema, images of Indigenous peoples have been dominated by Hollywood stereotypes and often negative depictions from elsewhere around the world. With the advent of digital technologies, however, many Indigenous peoples are working to redress the imbalance in numbers and counter the...
Kitchener
An Illustrated History
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 1983
The history of Kitchener is unique among cities in southern Ontario. Although Kitchener shares so much of the character of the region today, its past was considerably different. Until 1916, Kitchener was Berlin, “Canada’s German capital.” Over two-thirds of the residents were of German origin;...
Boom!
Manufacturing Memoir for the Popular Market
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
Introduction
Identifying the Memoir Industry - Julie Rak
This chapter introduces the memoir boom as an effect of the publishing and bookselling industries, and creates a theory of genre to explain how popular non-fiction reading has become. It argues for taking serioulsy the production,...
The H Factor of Personality
Why Some People Are Manipulative, Self-Entitled, Materialistic, and Exploitive—And Why It Matters for Everyone
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The “H” in the H factor stands for “Honesty-Humility,” and it’s one of only six basic dimensions of personality. People who have high levels of H are sincere and modest; people who have low levels are deceitful and pretentious. It isn’t intuitively obvious that traits of honesty and humility...
Canada and the Second World War
Essays in Honour of Terry Copp
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Terry Copp’s tireless teaching, research, and writing has challenged generations of Canadian veterans, teachers, and students to discover an informed memory of their country’s role in the Second World War. This collection, drawn from the work of Terry’s colleagues and former students, considers...
Becoming My Mother’s Daughter
A Story of Survival and Renewal
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2009
Becoming My Mother’s Daughter: A Story of Survival and Renewal tells the story of three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family whose fate has been inextricably bound up with the turbulent history of Europe, from the First World War through the Holocaust and the communist takeover after World War...
by Denyse Baillargeon
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Chapter 1
Denyse Baillargeon
The first chapter covers the French Regime and the beginnings of the British Regime, a period during which the arrival of the French settlers in the Saint-Lawrence valley transforms the way of life and organization of the aboriginal societies and particularly the men/women relationship.
Slippery Pastimes
Reading the Popular in Canadian Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2009
Sixteen essays, written by specialists from many fields, grapple with the problem of a popular culture that is not very popular — but is seen by most as vital to the body politic, whether endangered by globalization or capable of politically progressive messages for its audiences.
Slippery...
Afghanistan
Transition under Threat
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2009
Many have questioned the wisdom of the international intervention in Afghanistan in light of the escalation of violence and instability in the country in the past few years. Particularly uncertain are Canadians, who have been inundated with media coverage of an increasingly dirty war in southern Afghanistan,...
Stranger at the Door
Writers and the Act of Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2011
At the beginning of a new writing project—whether it’s the first page of a new novel or a less ambitious project, writers often experience exhilaration, fear, or dread. For Kristjana Gunnars, the call of a new project is “like someone you don’t know knocking on your door—you either choose...
Ornithologies of Desire
Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2013
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‘Shades of pause / and spill’: Homing, Flying, Falling
Travis V. Mason
Continues to follow the efforts of the Birder-Critic, this time focusing on the genre of the Field Guide as it pertains to experience and to the practice of writing poetry.
Space Between Her Lips
The Poetry of Margaret Christakos
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2017
Space Between Her Lips presents the first selected works of one of Canada's most important poets of the last few decades. Margaret Christakos writes vibrant, exciting, and intellectually challenging poetry. She plays language games that bring a probing and disturbing humour to serious themes that...
Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond
Interfaces of the Oral, Written, and Visual
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
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The Speech-Music Continuum
Paul Dutton
In “The Speech-Music Continuum,” sound poet and sound singer Paul Dutton offers an account of his own experiences along a sonic spectrum that stretches from verbal or syntactically coherent poetry at the one end through drum poetry at the other.
The Newfoundland Diaspora
Mapping the Literature of Out-Migration
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
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E.J. Pratt and the Gateway to Canada
Jennifer Delisle
As the first literary figure of the Newfoundland diaspora, E.J. Pratt’s “authenticity” as a Newfoundlander has been the subject of much debate. Delisle analyzes receptions of Pratt’s work through the mid-twentieth...