Reappraisals:
Canadian Writers
Reappraisals:
Canadian Writers was begun in 1973 in response to a need for single volumes of
essays on Canadian authors who had not received the critical attention they deserved
or who warranted extensive and intensive reconsideration. It is the longest running
series dedicated to the study of Canadian literary subjects. Since the publication
of The Grove Symposium in 1973, we have broadened our focus to include
volumes on important genres, topics, or theoretical issues in Canadian literature
as well as volumes on individual authors. In each case, our editorial policy has
been clear: each year to make permanently available in a single volume the best
of the criticism presented at our symposia, thereby creating a body of work on
and a critical base for the study of Canadian writers and subjects.
The
General Editor of the Reappraisals: Canadian Writers series is Gerald Lynch.
The
most recent book in the series is:
 Northrop Frye: New Directions from Old
edited by David Rampton.
$38.00, 372 pages, ISBN 13: 9780776606958
More than fifty years after the publication of Anatomy of Criticism, Northrop Frye remains one of Canada’s most influential intellectuals. This reappraisal reasserts the relevance of his work to the study of literature and illuminates its fruitful intersection with a variety of other fields, including film, cultural studies, linguistics, and feminism. The volume provides an in-depth examination of Frye’s work on a range of literary questions, periods, and genres, as well as a consideration of his contributions to literary theory, philosophy, and theology. The portrait that emerges is that of a writer who still has much to offer those interested in literature and the ways it represents and transforms our world. The book’s overall argument is that Frye’s case for the centrality of the imagination has never been more important where understanding history, reconciling science and culture, or reconceptualizing social change is concerned.
Previous
Titles in the Series
 The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy
edited by Gerald Lynch, Shoshannah Ganz and Josephene Kealey.
$38.00, 265 pages, ISBN 13: 9780776606651
If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918–2000). George Bowering described him as “the world’s most Canadian poet” (1970), while Sam Solecki titled his book-length study of Purdy The Last Canadian Poet (1999). In The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy, a group of seventeen scholars, critics, writers, and educators appraise and reappraise Purdy’s contribution to English literature. They explore Purdy’s continuing significance to contemporary writers; the life he dedicated to literature and the persona he crafted; the influences acting on his own development as a poet; the ongoing scholarly projects of editing and publishing his writing; particular poems and individual books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction; and the larger themes in his work, such as the Canadian North and the predominant importance of place. In addition, two contemporary poets pay tribute with original poems.
 Other Selves: Animals in the
Canadian Literary Imagination
edited by Janice Fiamengo (2007)
$45.00,
361 pages, 0-7766-0645-3
Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary
Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in that Country, that animals have occupied a peculiarly central
position in the Canadian imagination. Tackling more than a century of writing,
from 19th-century narratives of women travelers, to the ‘natural’ conversion
of Grey Owl, to the award-winning novels of Farley Mowat, Marian Engel, Timothy
Findley, Barbara Gowdy, and Yann Martel, these essays engage the reader in this
widely acknowledged but inadequately explored aspect of Canadian literature.
 Margaret
Atwood: The Open Eye
edited by John Moss and Tobi Kozakewich (2007)
$55.00,
472 pages, 0-7766-0613-1
The
range of perspectives in this volume is stimulating and enlightening. The Open
Eye begins with a focus on Atwood as she presents herself and is presented
in Canada and abroad, and then proceeds to consider, more broadly, the intersection
of life and literature that Atwood’s works and persona effect. It offers
fresh insight into Atwood’s early writing, redresses the critical void regarding
her poetry and shorter prose pieces, and provides a critical base from which readers
can assess Atwood’s most recent novels.
 The
Canadian Modernists Meet
Dean Irvine (2005)
$35.00, 384 pages, 0-7766-0599-2
The
Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and
rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's
well-known poem ''The Canadian Authors Meet'' sets the theme for the volume: a
revisiting of English Canada's formative movements in modernist poetry, fiction,
and drama. As did Scott's poem, Dean Irvine's collection raises questions - about
modernism and antimodernism, nationalism and antinationalism, gender and class,
originality and influence - that remain central to contemporary research on early
to mid-twentieth-century English Canadian literature.
 Home-Work:
Postcolonialism, Pedagogy and Canadian Literature
Cynthia Sugars (2004)
$35.00,
544 pages, 0-7766-0577-1
Canadian literature, and specifically the teaching
of Canadian literature, has emerged from a colonial duty to a nationalist enterprise
and into the current territory of postcolonialism. From practical discussions
related to specific texts, to more theoretical discussions about pedagogical practice
regarding issues of nationalism and identity, Home-Work constitutes a major
investigation and reassessment of the influence of postcolonial theory on Canadian
literary pedagogy from some of the top scholars in the field.
At
the Speed of Light There is Only Illumination
John Moss & Linda Morra
(2004)
$24.95, 272 pages, 0-7766-0572-0
This book collects a dozen re-evaluative
essays on Marshall McLuhan and his critical and theoretical legacy; from intellectual
adventurer creating a complex architecture of ideas to cultural icon standing
in line in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Given McLuhan's prominent status in many
academic disciplines, the contributors reflect a multidisciplinary background.
Worlds
of Wonder : Readings in Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature
Jean-François
Leroux & Camille Labossière (2004)
$27.95, 208 pages, 0-7766-0570-4
No
longer dismissed as "escapist" reading, critics have finally discovered
a brave new world of science fiction and fantasy literature. This book is a long-overdue
tribute to this previously ignored genre, placing these works within a general
context of Canadian literature and culture
Windows
and Words. A Look at Canadian Children's Literature in English
Susan-Ann
Cooper & Aida Hudson (2003)
$22.00, 242 pages, 0-7766-0556-9
A collection
of seventeen essays that confirms and celebrates the artistry of Canadian Children's
Literature. Contributors include Janet Lunn and Tim Wynne-Jones.
Robertson
Davies : A Mingling of Contraries
Camille Labossière & Linda
Morra (2001)
$21.95, 178 pages, 0-7766-0531-3
The collective assessment
of the achievement of Robertson Davies addresses the basic problems in reading
his artfulness, as a moralist committed to the practices of doubling: disguise,
irony, and paradox; dwelling in "gaps" or spaces "in between."
The essays present new insights on a broad range of topics in Davies' oeuvre and
represent one of the first major discussions devoted to Davies' work since his
death in 1995.
Margaret
Laurence: Critical Reflections
David Staines (2001)
$19.95, 174 pages,
0-7766-0446-5
This book highlights the accomplishments of one of Canada's most
acclaimed and beloved fiction writers, Margaret Laurence, who died in 1987. The
essays in this collection explore her body of work as well as her influence on
young Canadian writers today.
Dominant
Impressions: Essays on the Canadian Short Story
Gerald Lynch & Angela
Robbeson (1998)
$22.00, 170 pages, 0-7766-0505-4
Canadian critics and scholars,
along with a growing number from around the world, have long recognized the achievements
of Canadian short story writers. However, these critics have tended to view the
Canadian short story as a historically recent phenomenon. This reappraisal corrects
this mistaken view by addressing the question, "What are the literary and
cultural antecedents of the Canadian short story?"
Bolder
Flights: Essays on the Canadian Long Poem
Frank Tierney & Angela Robbeson
(1998)
$25.00, 196 pages, 0-7766-0483-X
A growing number of literary historians
and critics now recognize the contemporary long poem as a distinctively Canadian
genre. This leads the reader to a deeper understanding of Canadian literary cultures
both in terms of their local intimacies and idiosyncrasies as well as in their
national contexts.
Echoing
silence : Essays on Arctic Narrative
John Moss (1997)
$24.00, 238 pages,
0-7766-0389-2
The North has always had, and still has, an irresistible attraction.
This fascination is made up of a mixture of perspectives, among these, the various
explorations of the Arctic itself and the Inuk cultural heritage found in the
elders' and contemporary stories. This book discusses the different generations
of explorers and writers as well as the matter of gender, and illustrates how
the sounds of a landscape are inseparable from the stories of its inhabitants.
Hugh
MacLennan
Frank Tierney (1994)
$24.00, 210 pages, 0-7766-0389-2
Context
North America: Canadian/U.S. Literary Relations
Camille Labossière
(1994)
$22.00, 162 pages, 0-7766-0360-4
From
the Heart of the Heartland: The Fiction of Sinclair Ross
John Moss (1992)
$20.00,
142 pages 0-7766-0329-9
Bliss
Carman: A Reappraisal
Gerald Lynch (1990)
$21.00, 210 pages, 0-7766-0286-1
Re(Dis)covering
our Foremothers
Lorraine McMullen (1989)
$21.00, 206 pages, 0-7766-0197-0
Reflections:
Autobiography and Canadian Literature
K.P. Stich (1988)
$19.00, 180
pages, 0-7766-0195-4
Future
Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature
John Moss (1987)
$25.00
S, 250 pages, 0-7766-0161-X
$35.00 H, 250 pages, 0-7766-0185-7
Stephen
Leacock: A Reappraisal
David Staines (1987)
$18.00 S, 176 pages, 0-7766-0146-6
$28.00 H, 176 pages, 0-7766-0180-6
The
Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium
Frank Tierney (1985)
$17.00, 160
pages, 0-7766-0109-1
The
Sir Charles G.D Roberts Symposium
Glenn Clever (1984)
$25.00, 250 pages,
0-7766-4390-8
The
Ethel Wilson Symposium
Lorraine McMullen (1982)
$16.00, 154 pages, 2-7603-4388-X
The
Callaghan Symposium
David Staines (1981)
$14.00, 126 pages, 2-7603-4387-1
The
Duncan Campbell Scott Symposium
K.P. Stich (1980)
$17.00, 158 pages,
2-7603-4386-3
The
Isabella Valancy Crawford Symposium
Frank Tierney (1979)
$17.00, 158
pages, 2-7603-4385-5
The
E.J Pratt Symposium
Glenn Clever (1977)
$18.00, 0-7766-4384-3
The
Lampman Symposium
Lorraine McMullen (1976)
Note : out of print
0-7766-4383-5
The
A.M. Klein Symposium
Seymour Mayne (1975)
Note : out of print
0-7766-4382-7
The
Grove Symposium
John Nause (1974)
$13.00, 114 pages, 0-7766-4381-9
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