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“neta gordon”

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  • The Broadview Introduction to Literature: Short Fiction - Second Edition

    by Lisa Chalykoff, Neta Gordon, Paul Lumsden ...
    Designed for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. Unlike many other such anthologies, it includes literary non-fiction as well as poetry, short fiction, and drama. In each genre the anthology includes a vibrant mix of classic and contemporary works. Each work is accompanied by an introductory ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Broadview Introduction to Literature: Literary Non-Fiction - Second Edition

    by Lisa Chalykoff, Neta Gordon, Paul Lumsden ...
    Designed for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. Unlike many other such anthologies, it includes literary non-fiction as well as poetry, short fiction, and drama. In each genre the anthology includes a vibrant mix of classic and contemporary works. Each work is accompanied by an introductory ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Bearers of Risk

    Writing Masculinity in Contemporary English-Canadian Short Story Cycles

    by Neta Gordon ...
    The short story and the short story cycle have long been considered a marginal genre, free to make room for fresh or risk-taking voices. But in thematizing masculinity in crisis, the genre uses the premise of the marginal to elevate recuperative masculinity politics and nostalgia for traditional patriarchy.Despite the scholarly tendency to link marginal genres and marginalized voices, features of ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • A Tour of Fabletown

    Patterns and Plots in Bill Willingham's Fables

    by Neta Gordon ...
    In 2002, Vertigo/DC Comics published the first issue of Bill Willingham's Fables. The series imagined the lives of fairy tale figures--Snow White, the Big Bad Wolf, Cinderella and the ubiquitous Prince Charming, among many others--as they made new lives for themselves in modern-day New York City, having fled their storied homeworlds following an invasion. After 150 issues and many awards, Fables ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Catching the Torch

    Contemporary Canadian Literary Responses to World War I

    by Neta Gordon ...
    Catching the Torch examines contemporary novels and plays written about Canada's participation in World War I. Exploring such works as Jane Urquhart's The Underpainter and The Stone Carvers, Jack Hodgins's Broken Ground, Kevin Kerr's Unity (1918), Stephen Massicotte's Mary's Wedding, and Frances Itani's Deafening, the book considers how writers have dealt with the compelling myth that the Canadian ... Read more

    $50.39 CAD

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  • Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature

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    by Margaret Atwood ...
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