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  1. Acadia University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  2. The Aeneid
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
  3. Against Theory: Literary Studies and the New Pragmatism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    "Against Theory," the title essay in this volume, challenges the notion that literary theory has any real work to do, or any results to show. This challenge—issued by Steven Knapp and Walter Benn Michaels in Critical Inquiry (8:4)—strikes some critics as scandalous, others as provocative and productive.
  4. All That Is Solid Melts Into Air
    The Experience of Modernity

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    Berman examines the clash of classes, histories, and clutures in the modern world, and ponders our prospects for coming to terms with the relationship between a liberating social and philosophical idealism and a complex, bureaucratic materialism.
  5. Banned Books
    Informal Notes on Some Books Banned for Various Reasons

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  6. Brandon University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  7. Break Their Haughty Power
    Resource Type: Website
    Articles on capitalism, socialism, and revolution, from a left-Marxist perspective.
  8. The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry, Aboriginal writings, Francophone writings, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, urban writing, nature writing, travel writing, and short fiction.
  9. The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  10. Canada Council for the Arts
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  11. Canadian Students' Guide to Language, Literature, and Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
    Meant for secondary schools, independent use, or small group study
  12. The Canterbury Tales
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
  13. Censors at Work: How States Shaped Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    A book on literary censorship and the role that states have played in it.
  14. Colonial Legacy in Caribbean Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The author argues that Caribbean literature has been separated from the source of its natural development by a colonialist educational system and the exaltation of European literary traditions and styles. As a result it has been difficult for a truly liberating literature to emerge, although the popular arts (music, song, dance) contain the historical trends of tradition and power.
  15. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
  16. The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2005
    This book is based on the Oxford Chronology of English Literature.
  17. The Conquest of Bread
    Review article

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Kropotkin’s classic, The Conquest of Bread, reveals problems of radical politics and organisation that remain vital today, argues Dominic Alexander.
  18. Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory
    Resource Type: Book
  19. Dictionary of Literary Biography
    Resource Type: Book
  20. Dictionary of Mexican Literature
    Resource Type: Book
  21. Dictionary of the Literature of the Iberian Peninsula
    Resource Type: Book
  22. Downfall by Degrees
    And Other Stories

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Downfall by Degrees takes the reader on a journey that explores the nature of alienation and exile. These are stories of love and identity, longing and becoming, exile and return - stories that probe with masterful precision and exquisite balance and condition of modern people at odds with themselves.
  23. The Duke
    Resource Type: Book
    Banned for seven years by the Argentinian military government, this novel follows a small-time ex-prizefighter called the Duke, who endures events powerfully reflecting the brutality and excesses of his time. Medina is the author of six other novels also once banned but now being republished in Argentina.
  24. Encyclopedia of Continential Women Writers
    Resource Type: Book
  25. Encyclopedia of Mystery and Detection
    Resource Type: Book
  26. Facts on File Dictionary of Classical, Biblical and Literary Allusions
    Resource Type: Book
  27. Fame & Fortune Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
  28. George Orwell: A Life
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    A biography of George Orwell.
  29. Gide's Bent
    Writing, Sexuality, Politics

    Resource Type: Book
    Lucey describes how Gide wrote about his homosexuality in the 1920s and 1930s and became involved in left-wing political activity.
  30. How sensitivity readers corrupt literature
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2022
    They sullied my memoir to suit their agenda
  31. International Acclaim For Books By Hamilton, Ontario Publisher
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    The latest release from Bridgeross, Prose To Go: Tales From A Private List, has been hailed by South African reviewer Lois C. Henderson writing in the New York Journal of Books as “a life-enhancing experience.”
  32. Jahaji Bhai
    An Anthology of Indo-Caribbean Writing

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    This anthology contains a representative view of the genres and themes employed by some of the best known Indo-Caribbean writers.
  33. Kafka's Prayer
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Kafka said that writing is a form of prayer and it is in that light that Paul Goodman confronts the body of Kafka's work and ideas.
  34. The Library at Night
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    The Library at Night tells the story of the important role of libraries in human civilization and how books are an essential link between the individual and the world.
  35. Life of Korolenko
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1918
    Rosa Luxemburg wrote this article as a preface to her translation, from Russian into German, of Vladimir Korolenko’s autobiographical novel Istoriia Moego Sovremennika (A History of My Contemporary). She undertook this work during her imprisonment for socialist opposition to the imperialist war from 1915 to 1918. The preface was written July 1918 in Breslau Prison
  36. Literary lists: Proof of our existence
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Katie Kitamura on why novelists are compulsive list-makers.
  37. Literature and Commitment
    Essays on Commonwealth Writing

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  38. Literature & Language Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources

    Resource Type: Website
    A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to literature and language in the Sources directory for the media.
  39. The Long Revolution
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1965
  40. Meaning of Contemporary Realism
    Resource Type: Book
    Lukacs discusses three main trends in modern literature; the literature of the 'avant garde,' socialist realism, and critical realism. He argues that critical realism is both the link with the great literature of the past and also the literature of the future.
  41. Odysseus Ever Returning
    Essays on Canadian writers and writings

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
  42. On Creating Revolutionary Literature and Art
    Speech to Workers in the Field of Literature and Art, November 7, 1964

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
  43. Our Stunning Harvest
    Poems by Ellen Bass

    Resource Type: Book
  44. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature
    Second Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  45. The Oxford Companion to German Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  46. The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Quotations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
    About 4000 quotations, all arranged by subject in one alphabetical sequence blending topics and authors, with a chronological arrangement within each subject.
  47. The Post- Industrial Utopians
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
  48. Radical Perspectives in the Arts
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    An anthology of Marxist literary and cultural criticism.
  49. Resistance and Caribbean Literature
    Resource Type: Book
    Professor Cudjoe's study of the development of the Caribbean novel takes as its starting point the assumption that the literary sensibilities of the finest Caribbean novelists have been shaped by a history of enslavement, colonization and economic dispossession. He presents the analysis of the continuous literary historical trends and forms which the novel has developed in close connection with the changing content of the Caribbean experience.
  50. Robert Graves
    Life on the Edge

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2003
  51. Science fiction is more than just Buck Rogers
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1979
    Like most modern literature, science fiction is concerned with the alienated human condition, yet it articulates this concern in a distinct manner, as a form of literature concerned with the implications of the problems engendered by industrial society.
  52. The Secret Life of Saeed
    The Pessoptimist

    Resource Type: Book
    A hilarious portrayal of Saeed, a Palestinian turned Israeli informer. Combining fact, fantasy, tragedy, and comedy, the luckless adventures of Saeed reveal the absurdities of the positions taken by Israelis, Palestinians, and Arabs.
  53. The Shadow by the Door
    Resource Type: Book
    An Argentinian guerilla recalls the struggle and his dead comrades. Now in exile, he tries to keep his sanity by escaping from the unbearable present through his memories of an adolescent summer in the country and a love affair crushed beneath the weight of political events.
  54. The Silly Turtle and Other Stories for Children
    Selections from the Pancatantra and Jataka Stories

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
  55. Sources Bookshelf
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2009
    Featuring books and DVDs by Sources member authors.
  56. Ted Hughes, The Life of a Poet
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2001
  57. Trishanku
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    Trishanku depicts with precision and subtlety the response of individual men and women to what Parameswaran terms 'the miscegenation of cultures.' Writing from where the Assiniboine River meets the Red, Parameswaran skillfully captures the intersection of people from India with the contemporary Canadian reality. The taut narratives of her poems offer the reader a startling and powerful collage of the experience of uprooting and resettling.
  58. University of Waterloo
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  59. University of Winnipeg
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  60. Wilfrid Laurier University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization


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