Auto Biography In Canada

Author : Julie Rak
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1554587719
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Auto/biography in Canada written by Julie Rak and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2009-08-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and biography as discrete genres with definable properties, and rather than focusing on critical approaches, the essays explore auto/biography as a discourse about identity and representation in the context of numerous disciplinary shifts. Auto/biography in Canada looks at how life narratives are made in Canada . Originating from literary studies, history, and social work, the essays in this collection cover topics that range from queer Canadian autobiography, autobiography and autism, and newspaper death notices as biography, to Canadian autobiography and the Holocaust, Grey Owl and authenticity, France Théoret and autofiction, and a new reading of Stolen Life, the collaborative text by Yvonne Johnson and Rudy Wiebe. Julie Rak’s useful “big picture” introduction traces the history of auto/biography studies in Canada. While the contributors chart disciplinary shifts taking place in auto/biography studies, their essays are also part of the ongoing scholarship that is remaking ways to understand Canada.

Author : William Matthews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian Diaries and Autobiographies written by William Matthews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : K. Peter Stich
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
ISBN 13 : 0776601954
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflections written by K. Peter Stich and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume discusses the autobiographical inclination in Canadian literature, exploring works by such writers as Alice Munro, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, John Glassco, and Susanna Moodie. Others works, including the oral memoirs of a Métis, an Inuit's account as being civil servant in Ottawa, and the autobiographical writings of pioneer women and French missionaries are examined to show the depth and breadth of this tradition in Canada. These texts act as starting points for an in depth look at the relationships between autobiography, biography and fiction in Canadian literature. Published in English.

Author : Sonja Boon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000800946
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada written by Sonja Boon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-29 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada explores the exciting world of nonfiction writing about the self, designed to give teachers and students the tools they need to study both canonical and lesser-known works. The volume introduces important texts and contexts for interpreting life narratives, demonstrates the conceptual tools necessary to understand what life narratives are and how they work, and offers an historical overview of key moments in Canadian auto/biography. Not sure what life writing in Canada is, or how to study it? This critical introduction covers the tools and approaches you require in order to undertake your own interpretation of life writing texts. You will encounter nonfictional writing about individual lives and experiences—including biography, autobiography, letters, diaries, comics, poetry, plays, and memoirs. The volume includes case studies to provide examples of how to study and research life narratives and toolkits to help you apply what you learn. The Routledge Introduction to Auto/biography in Canada provides instructors and students with the contexts and the critical tools to discover the power of life writing, and the skills to study any kind of nonfiction, from Canada and around the world.

Author : Samuel Thompson
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the last Fifty Years: An Autobiography written by Samuel Thompson and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the autobiography of Samuel Thompson, a pioneer farmer and settler to the Canadian frontier. He was born in London, England in 1810. And after an apprenticeship with a printer, he moved to Upper Canada in 1833 with his two brothers and settled on farms there. In 1837, he went to Toronto in search of work where he joined the city guards during the Upper Canada Rebellion. He subsequently worked in newspaper and insurance business ventures. It was while in his final position as manager of the city library that he wrote his autobiography.

Author : James Tyman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Inside Out written by James Tyman and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : History of the Book in Canada Project
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 080208012X
Total Pages : 697 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History of the Book in Canada: 1840-1918 written by History of the Book in Canada Project and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second of three volumes in theHistory of the Book in Canada demonstrates the same research and editorial standards established with Volume One by book history specialists from across the nation.

Author : Samuel Thompson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330652770
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the Last Fifty Years written by Samuel Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of a Canadian Pioneer for the Last Fifty Years: An Autobiography It has been a labour of love to me, to place on record many honourable deeds of Nature's gentlemen, whose lights ought not to be hidden altogether "under a bushel," and whose names should be enrolled by Canada amongst her earliest worthies. I have had the advantage, in several cases, of the use of family records, which have assisted me materially in rendering more complete several of the earlier chapters, particularly the account of Mackenzie's movements while in the neighbourhood of Gallows Hill; also the sketches of the "Tories of Rebellion Times;" as well as the history of the Mechanics' Institute, in which though a very old member, I never occupied any official position. Since the first part of these pages was in type, I have had to lament the deaths of more than one comrade whose name is recorded therein; amongst them Dr. A. A. Riddel - my "Archie" - and my dearest friend Dr. Alpheus Todd, to whom I have been indebted for a thousand proofs of generous sympathy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : George Fetherling
Publisher : Vintage Books Canada
ISBN 13 : 0679310622
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs written by George Fetherling and published by Vintage Books Canada. This book was released on 2001 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Editor George Fetherling, himself the author of an acclaimed memoir, Travels by Night: A Memoir of the Sixties, has selected twenty-four literary memoirs by well-known Canadian writers for this unique and timely anthology. Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family, Margaret Atwood's Remembering Marian Engel, Timothy Findley's From Stage to Page, and Mordercai Richler's A Sense of the Ridiculous are just a few of the fascinating selections. George Fetherling's lively and thoughtful introduction sheds light on the characteristics that make the memoir genre so unique, a genre for which Canadians seem to have a particular passion. The anthology is divided into four thematically grouped sections, each with its own preface written by the editor — At Home and Abroad; Getting Started; Uprootedness and Family; and Tragedies, Choices and Losses. There is also a comprehensive bibliography.

Author : Susanna Moodie
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780886290450
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roughing it in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada written by Susanna Moodie and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1988 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susanna Moodie (1803-1885) is the author of the best-known narrative of Canadian pioneer settlement life, Roughing It in the Bush. The story of her family's struggles to establish themselves in an environment they found to be strange, enchanting, hostile, and amusing, Roughing It is a highly detailed portrait of frontier conditions in Upper Canada in the 1830s. This new edition of Susanna's most important work offers for the first time the complete version that she intended for the public to read in 1852, including a chapter that has until now been omitted--from back cover.