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In Vintage Living Texts teachers and students will find the essential guide to the works of Margaret Atwood. This guide will deal with her themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will be accompanied with likely exam questions, and contexts and comparisons - as well as providing a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.

This bracing and far-ranging study compares modern (post-1492) literary treatments of millenarian narratives-"end of the world" stories charting an ultimate battle between good and evil that destroys previous social structures and rings in a lasting new order. While present in many cultures for as long as tales have been told, these accounts take on a profound dramatic resonance in the context of Europe's centuries-long colonization of the American hemisphere. With an impressive interdiscip...

Written in the backdrop of the American Civil War, this work focuses mainly on the turmoil that it brought to public and private life. The bravery of the participants and the crisis faced by the nation is also described. An amazing narrative that sheds light on the human side of that era.

As the first collection of literary criticism focusing on Albertawriters, Wild Words establishes a basis for identifyingAlberta fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction as valid subjects ofstudy in their own right. By critically situating and assessingspecific Alberta authors according to genre, this volume continues thework begun with Melnyk's Literary History of Alberta.

Contemporary science presents us with the remarkable theory that the universe began to exist about fifteen billion years ago with a cataclysmic explosion called `the Big Bang'. The question of whether Big Bang cosmology supports theism or atheism has long been a matter of discussion among the general public and in popular science books, but has received scant attention from philosophers. This book sets out to fill this gap by means of a sustained debate between two philosophers, William Lane Cr...

Excuse Me! worked by Rupert Hughes. Author of "The Old Nest". With Five Illustrations A. L. BURT COMPANY. Publishers in 1911, by The H. K. Fly Company. Rupert Hughes was an American historian, novelist, film director and composer based in Hollywood.

Indigenous Poetics in Canada broadens the way in which Indigenous poetry is examined, studied, and discussed in Canada. Breaking from the parameters of traditional English literature studies, this volume embraces a wider sense of poetics, including Indigenous oralities, languages, and understandings of place. Featuring work by academics and poets, the book examines four elements of Indigenous poetics. First, it explores the poetics of memory: collective memory, the persistence of Indigenous poet...

Literature not only represents Canada as "our home and native land" but has been used as evidence of the civilization needed to claim and rule that land. Indigenous people have long been represented as roaming "savages" without land title and without literature. Literary Land Claims: From Pontiac's War to Attawapiskat analyzes works produced between 1832 and the late 1970s by writers who resisted these dominant notions. Margery Fee examines John Richardson's novels about Pontiac's War and the W...

Dating back to the 13th century, St Edmund Hall claims to be one of Oxford's more interesting as well as ancient institutions. Originally one of the numerous academical halls which in the middle ages, before the colleges took over, housed the vast majority of undergraduates, it continued as their sole survivor until the early 1950s. It then sought incorporation as a college and in 1978 opened its doors to women, both as dons and students. This book explores the Hall's connnection with St Edmund...