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Unthinkable biotechnology: the standing-reserves and sacrificial structures of life itself
2008
Author: McFarlane, Scott Toguri
The Ladies’ Diary and the emergence of the almanac for women, 1704-1753
2008
Author: Miegon, Anna
The wife of Bath’s coverchiefs and conjugal sovereignty in four Chaucerian marriage tales.
2007
Author: Dueck, Ervin Cornelius
The prismatic reality of Canada's Cold War novels
2007
Author: He, Zhongxiu
Queer spellings: Magic and melancholy in fantasy-fiction
2007
Author: Battis, Jes
Relationship rhetoric: Representations of intimacy in contemporary self-help literature
2007
Author: Hill, Cathryn Rae
Promising transnational births: The womb and cyborg poetics in Asian Canadian literature
2006
Author: Lee, Tara
Ideologies of language: Authority, consensus and commonsense in Canadian talk about usage
2006
Author: Rea, Jaclyn Marie
Intellectual identity and the culture industry: Critical thought about intellectuals and mass culture from Adorno to Seinfeld
2006
Author: Jaskela, Mark Eric Steven
Peter Trower: A Poet Laureate For British Columbia
2006
Author: Diotte, Mark Vincent
Alter/nations - long(ing) poems: reconfiguration of the nation-discourse in experimental Canadian poetry (1960s-1980s).
2006
Author: Capperdoni, Alessandra
Writers-in-residence in Canada, 1965-2000: patrons, authors, and Canadian literature
2006
Author: Earle, Nancy Elizabeth LeDrew
Space, time and the pilgrimage in modernist literature
2005
Author: Scheel, Kathleen Mary
"-there ought to be a punch line, but there's not": Gravity's Rainbow and Flights of Digression
2005
Author: Drake, Scott
Mirror of princes: René Girard, Aristotle, and the rebirth of tragedy
2005
Author: Morrissey, Christopher Stewart
"The heartaches and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to": The body politics of trauma in Pinter's The Dwarfs, The Room, A Slight Ache, and The Homecoming
2005
Author: Prosser, Allen David
The Bohr-Einstein dialogue : a rhetorical and genre analysis
2004
Author: Carruthers, Rebecca, M.A
"Make me nod my head in reverence" : passion, pain and politics in hip-hop poetry
2003
Author: Henley, Tara
"Why pass a knife between two texts?" : grafting new novels after modernism : Sheila Watson's The Double hook and the nouveau roman
2003
Author: Langhelle, Karen
Identifying performativity in Paper Shadows
2003
Author: McDonald, Alison Joan
Gathering Up the Threads: Generic and Discursive Patterns in Catherine Parr Traill's "The Backwoods of Canada"
2003
Author: James, Suzanne Elizabeth
Event Hermeneutics and Narrative: Tarrying in the Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer
2003
Author: Ross, Sheila May
The colonial ethos of Jane Eyre : a feminist re-vision
1997
Author: Wood, Colleen Heather
Edmund Spenser's A View of the present state of Ireland : sovereignty, surveillance, and colonialism
1997
Author: Daems, James William
"The rhetorician's touch" : an uncollected Wallace Stevens
1997
Author: Cleghorn, Angus John
Re-exploring travel literature : a discourse-centred approach to the text type
1997
Author: Wispinski, Matthew
Uncommon ground' : dislocation, displacement, and disjunction in the writing of Katherine Mansfield
1996
Author: Milligan, Georgia Dawn
From Mother Goose to the modern world : contextualizing the development of children's poetry
1996
Author: Schellenberger, Kirsti
The Carver chronotope : contextualizing Raymond Carver
1996
Author: Lainsbury, Gregory P
One dogma and one innocuous truth of relativism : incommensurability, indeterminism, and Hans-Georg Gadamer
1996
Author: Bourke, Michael
"Who's there?" : the changing subject(s) of feminism : reading Daphne Marlatt's Ana historic
1996
Author: Plain, Wendy
Famine diaries? : narratives about emigration from Ireland to Lower Canada and Quebec, 1832-1853
1996
Author: King, Jason
The subject of imperialism : the rhetoric of self in the life and work of Flora Annie Steel
1995
Author: Sutcliffe, Rebecca J
The genre of television news : grammar, rhetoric, and the politics of representation
1995
Author: Dueck, Sandra
"Is not outside seeming real as substance inside" : a Bakhtinian reading of the relationship between art and life in Robert Browning's dramatic monologues
1995
Author: Wall, Karolle Lynn
Haunting the tradition of the novel : generic double play in diasporic fiction
1995
Author: He, Shan-Qiang
Impossibility - Exhilirates - Who tastes it : syntactic and epistemological aporia as radical poetic apparatus in Emily Dickinson's poetry
1995
Author: Clark, Susan
The (very) critical reception of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's re-presentation of the Christian prophetess-poet in her "novelized" epic, Aurora Leigh
1995
Author: Hupf, Patricia E. E
Trying to say it all in one sentence : making meaning/making fiction and the syntax of despair in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!
1994
Author: Johanson, Reg
The lie of the land' : Ruskin and the English landscape tradition
1994
Author: Wallace, Rory
An English Kafka? : a reading of Rex Warner's The Professor and Franz Kafka's The Trial
1994
Author: Rauser, Rick
The stylistics of resolution in Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway and To the lighthouse
1994
Author: Takala, Helen R
"The great bright hand" : puritanism in the Zone
1994
Author: Tobler, James
Constancy in the Canadian canon : the reception history of Rosanna Leprohon's Antoinette de Mirecourt and William Kirby's The Golden dog
1993
Author: Blacklock, Deborah
"The grand object of human desire" : the female quest for power in Henrik Ibsen's A doll house, Ghosts, and Hedda Gabler
1993
Author: Hancock, Sheila
Rhetoric and semiotics in context : exploring the genre of female-targeted advertising
1993
Author: Lingard, Lorelei
Writing as transformational : a Marxist feminist analysis of Miriam Tlali's works
1993
Author: Mphahlele, Mante
Domestic disruptions : strategies of resistance in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and Fay Weldon's The heart of the country
1993
Author: Cowan, Karen Jane
A gentle plea for chaos : "new, complex wholeness" in Jeanette Winterson's Sexing the cherry
1993
Author: Stanborough, Maria Elena
Mary Shelley's career decision in Frankenstein and "Transformation" : a biographical approach
1993
Author: King, Linda F