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Books for review - supplement to January 2008 |
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From the Reviews Editor:
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The following books have arrived since the list of books was circulated in January. Please let me know if you would like to review any of them.
Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki (eds), Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007). Paper. 233pp. ISBN 978-0-88920-513-0. [“The study of Canadian Literature – CanLit – has undergone dramatic changes since it became an area of specialization in the 1960s and ‘70s …. new global forces in the 1990s undermined its nation-based critical assumptions …. a new generation of prolific Canadian writers has emerged …. The challenge of moving beyond the troubled legacy of nationalism to address the emergent conditions of transnational and global variables.”]
Bernard D. Thraves, M. L. Lewry, Janis E. Dale, and Hansgeorg Schlichtmann (eds), Saskatchewan: Geographic Perspectives (Regina: University of Regina Canadian Plains Research Centre, 2007), 486pp. Cloth. $75. ISBN 978-0-8897-7189-5.
Francesco Loriggio (ed.), The Last Effort of Dreams: Essays on the Poetry of Pier Giorgio Di Cicco (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2007). 207pp. Hard. ISBN 978-1-55458-019-4. [Italian Canadian poet.]
Roy Parker, Uprooted: The Shipment of Poor Children to Canada, 1867-1917 (Bristol: The Policy Press, University of Bristol, 2008). 354pp. Hard. ISBN 978-1-84742-014-5.
Christopher Dummitt, The Manly Modern: Masculinity in Postwar Canada (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2008 – paper, 2007 cloth). 224pp. Paper. $32.95. ISBN 978-0-7748-1275-7.
Margaret Burgess (ed.), A Glorious and Terrible Life with You: Selected Correspondence of Northrop Frye and Helen Kemp, 1932-1939 (Selected and edited by Margaret Burgess from the edition prepared by Robert D. Denham, with photographs and drawings), (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2007). 426pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-8020-9476-6.
Patrick James and Mark Kasoff (eds), Canadian Studies in the New Millennium (Toronto: University of Toronto Press). 310pp. Paper. £22.50. ISBN 978-0-8020-9468-6.
Steve Penfold, The Donut: A Canadian History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008). 256pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-8020-9545-9. [“tells the story of how a simple treat became a symbol of local and national identity …. Much more than a business history …. the book explores the social history …. and the cultural meaning that lies behind our everyday choices.”]
Gerald Lynch, Shoshannah Ganz, and Josephene T. Kealey (eds), The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2008). 265pp. Paper. ISBN 978-0-7766-0665-1.
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