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Artful Flight
Essays and Reviews 1985-2019
Price:
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780889848795
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: Porcupine's Quill
Susan Glickman muses that thoughtful literary criticism is not merely about `duelling with words, however full of flourishes and feints'. Rather it `means-or ought to mean-to evaluate something dispassionately, seeing not only its faults but its virtues.' In Artful Flight, she does just that, writing respectfully but uncompromisingly about artistic topics both ostensibly familiar (such as considerations of writers like Northrop Frye, Don Coles, Erín Moure and Bronwen Wallace) and delightfully arcane (such as the etymological evolution of contranyms in Shakespeare and beyond).
With keen intelligence and droll wit, Glickman explores a variety of artistic concerns, from the expectations of literary genre, the formalist hurdles of poetry and the tyranny of modern opinion to the magical history of the violin and the pleasure of creating visual art later in life. Her approach is unabashedly her own: feminist, supportive and drawing on a wide range of cultural and literary references.
These well-reasoned essays...
The Discovery of Flight
Price:
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781771335133
Pub Date: April 2018
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Finalist for the 2019 International Book Awards ofr Young Adult Fiction
The Discovery of Flight is a novel in two voices about the relationship between two sisters, the older of whom is disabled by cerebral palsy and only able to communicate with assistive technology (she can control her computer by moving her eyes). It interweaves the fantasy novel sixteen-year-old Libby is writing for Sophie's thirteenth birthday, and Sophie's diary, in which she discusses the deteriorating condition of her older sister. The book's title is also the title of Libby's novel, in which Libby takes the form of a hawk telepathically linked to a girl who, like her sister, is a good artist. Sophie's diary is in fact illustrated with the occasional black-and-white drawing. The sicker Libby gets, the more she retreats into her novel and the less she interacts with the outside world. Though the situation is tragic, Sophie's voice is...
Bernadette in the Doghouse
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CA$8.95
ISBN: 9781897187920
Pub Date: October 2011
Imprint: Second Story Press
Bernadette continues her adventures with Annie, Keisha, and Megan, aka "The Lunch Bunch". Things are great until Bernadette ignores her new friends in favor of spending time with her old friend Jasmine. She then has to prove to the Lunch Bunch that she values their friendship.
Bernadette to the Rescue
Price:
CA$8.95
ISBN: 9781926920382
Pub Date: April 2012
Imprint: Second Story Press
Bernadette Inez O’Brian Schwartz is back with the Lunch Bunch in their third adventure. Bernadette finally gets the puppy she has been dreaming of for so long, the girls learn how to give back when they help raise money at a charity garage sale, and Bernadette indulges her love of science when the local frogs go missing.
Bernadette and the Lunch Bunch
Price:
CA$6.95
ISBN: 9781897187517
Pub Date: September 2008
Imprint: Second Story Press
A very small girl with a very long name and a BIG imagination.
The Picturesque and the Sublime
A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape
Price:
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780773521353
Pub Date: January 2000
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English and the Raymond Klibansky Prize, The Picturesque and the Sublime is a cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary encounters with landscape. Arguing against the received wisdom (made popular by Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood) that Canadian writers view nature as hostile, Susan Glickman places Canadian literature in the English and European traditions of the sublime and the picturesque.
The Picturesque and the Sublime
A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape
Price:
CA$125.00
ISBN: 9780773517325
Pub Date: July 1998
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English and the Raymond Klibansky Prize, The Picturesque and the Sublime is a cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary encounters with landscape. Arguing against the received wisdom (made popular by Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood) that Canadian writers view nature as hostile, Susan Glickman places Canadian literature in the English and European traditions of the sublime and the picturesque.
Safe as Houses
Price:
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781770864368
Pub Date: May 2015
Imprint: Cormorant Books
Liz Ryerson believes that Hillcrest Village, her Toronto neighbourhood, is quaint and quiet, but stumbling over a corpse while walking her dog dissolves that illusion for good. When she realizes that...
Violin Lover
Price:
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780864924339
Pub Date: March 2006
Imprint: Goose Lane Editions
Set in Jewish London in the 1930s, Susan Glickman's The Violin Lover is written against the backdrop of Hitler's escalating campaign against the Jews. This beautifully written novel tells the story...
Artful Flight
Essays and Reviews 1985-2019
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780889848795
Pub Date: February 2022
Imprint: Porcupine's Quill
Susan Glickman muses that thoughtful literary criticism is not merely about `duelling with words, however full of flourishes and feints'. Rather it `means-or ought to mean-to evaluate something dispassionately, seeing not only its faults but its virtues.' In Artful Flight, she does just that, writing respectfully but uncompromisingly about artistic topics both ostensibly familiar (such as considerations of writers like Northrop Frye, Don Coles, Erín Moure and Bronwen Wallace) and delightfully arcane (such as the etymological evolution of contranyms in Shakespeare and beyond).
With keen intelligence and droll wit, Glickman explores a variety of artistic concerns, from the expectations of literary genre, the formalist hurdles of poetry and the tyranny of modern opinion to the magical history of the violin and the pleasure of creating visual art later in life. Her approach is unabashedly her own: feminist, supportive and drawing on a wide range of cultural and literary references.
These well-reasoned essays...
The Discovery of Flight
CA$19.95
ISBN: 9781771335133
Pub Date: April 2018
Imprint: Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
Finalist for the 2019 International Book Awards ofr Young Adult Fiction
The Discovery of Flight is a novel in two voices about the relationship between two sisters, the older of whom is disabled by cerebral palsy and only able to communicate with assistive technology (she can control her computer by moving her eyes). It interweaves the fantasy novel sixteen-year-old Libby is writing for Sophie's thirteenth birthday, and Sophie's diary, in which she discusses the deteriorating condition of her older sister. The book's title is also the title of Libby's novel, in which Libby takes the form of a hawk telepathically linked to a girl who, like her sister, is a good artist. Sophie's diary is in fact illustrated with the occasional black-and-white drawing. The sicker Libby gets, the more she retreats into her novel and the less she interacts with the outside world. Though the situation is tragic, Sophie's voice is...
Bernadette in the Doghouse
CA$8.95
ISBN: 9781897187920
Pub Date: October 2011
Imprint: Second Story Press
Bernadette to the Rescue
CA$8.95
ISBN: 9781926920382
Pub Date: April 2012
Imprint: Second Story Press
Bernadette and the Lunch Bunch
CA$6.95
ISBN: 9781897187517
Pub Date: September 2008
Imprint: Second Story Press
The Picturesque and the Sublime
A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape
CA$37.95
ISBN: 9780773521353
Pub Date: January 2000
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
The Picturesque and the Sublime
A Poetics of the Canadian Landscape
CA$125.00
ISBN: 9780773517325
Pub Date: July 1998
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Safe as Houses
CA$20.00
ISBN: 9781770864368
Pub Date: May 2015
Imprint: Cormorant Books
Violin Lover
CA$22.95
ISBN: 9780864924339
Pub Date: March 2006
Imprint: Goose Lane Editions