Product Description: Volume 8 in ECW's bibliography of Canada's major authors.

Product Description: The Borderlands Project is meant to promote greater recognition and understanding of the status of the United States and Canada as border neighbors. It is a comprehensive study of transborder attributes undertaken by a multidisciplinary team of social science and humanities scholars from both sides of the border...read more

Product Description: Dennis Le's Civil Elegies remains one of the most potent long poems devoted to the nature of Canadian identity. Lee wanted us to realize that the cadence of our speaking and reading is politically charged. However, the rational problems that he raised also drove him crazy...read more

Product Description: A study of the Canadian fiction writers Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, W.P. Kinsella, and David Adams Richards.

Product Description: A study of the Canadian fiction writers Adele Wiseman, Hugh Garner, Ethel Wilson, Robertson Davies, and Mordecai Richler.

Product Description: Providing in-depth, original criticism on Canadian writers—including George Bowering, Daphne Marlatt, bpNichol, Michael Ondaatje, and bill bissett—this series features essays by Canadian literary specialists. Each volume contains four to five essays that are unified in a general introduction...read more

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Product Description: With sharp humor and fascinating insight, this memoir of the Canadian publishing industry travels from the boom years of the 1970s to the changing world of books today. Readers are invited along for the ride as Lecker's turn in academia gives way to pop culture publishing, running a journal, and facing the real business challenges of selling books...read more

Keepers of the Code explores the complex network of associations and negotiations that influenced the development of literary anthologies in English Canada from 1837 to the present. Lecker shows that these anthologies are deeply conflicted narratives that embody the tensions and anxieties felt by their editors when faced with the challenge of constructing or rejecting national ideals. He argues that these are intensely self-conscious works with their own literary mechanisms and architecture. In reading the history of these anthologies, he witnesses a complex narrative of nation, a compelling story about the values and interests informing English-Canadian literary history.

Product Description: In these wide-ranging and controversial essays, Lecker explores-and explodes-many of the myths surrounding the business of studying, teaching, and evaluating English-Canadian literature. Making It Real challenges our preconceptions of our literature, offering new insights into its historic connection with the idea of Canada...read more

Product Description: Unhampered by any predetermined theme or critical mould, Lecker is free to respond to the qualities and idiosyncrasies which make Blaise, Metcalf, and Hood unique. Lecker's introduction discusses the writers' development and traces their impact on the modern Canadian short story...read more

Product Description: This is the first full-length study of the short stories and novels by Clark Blaise. It follows his development as a deeply self-conscious writer who becomes involved in the dualities of the world around him—dualities that are reflected in the structure of his fiction and in the narrative strategies he employs to convey an image of himself...read more