Becoming Sun Sui Far
Mary Chapman McGill Queen’s University Press 2016 When her 1912 story collection, Mrs. Spring Fragrance, was rescued from obscurity in the 1990s, scholars were quick to celebrate Sui Sin Far as a pioneering chronicler of Asian American Chinatowns. Newly discovered works, however, reveal that Edith Eaton (1865-1914) published on a wide variety of subjects […]
Remediating McLuhan
Richard Cavell Amsterdam University Press 2016 While current scholarly interest has assured Marshall McLuhan’s (1911-80) foundational status as a media theorist, much room still exists for further exploration of his writings, which have taken on additional layers of significance in our contemporary digital moment. Holding that media were extensions of the human, McLuhan also posited […]
Canadian Literature 227
Christine Kim and Christopher Lee, Guest Editors 2016 Extending Canadian Literature’s commitment to Asian Canadian studies, this special issue interrogates how national epistemes have become sedimented in the field itself, often in barely discernible ways. It is this self-reflexivity that we hope distinguishes Asian Canadian critique from the many cultural, activist, political, and institutional projects […]
The English Language: A Linguistic History
Leslie Arnovick and Laurel J. Brinton Oxford University Press 2016 The English Language is an essential survey of the development of the language from its Indo-European past to the present day. The early chapters introduce students to the fundamental concepts they will need in order to understand phonological, morphological, syntactic, orthographic, semantic, and lexical changes […]
Marshall McLuhan: On the Nature of Media
Richard Cavell Gingko Press 2016 Media studies has been catching up with McLuhan over the last 50 years. These essays are drawn from the most productive quarter-century of his career (1952-1978), and demonstrate his abiding interest in the materiality of mediation, from comic books to fashion, from technology to biology. Anchoring these essays are four […]
Virginia Woolf
Ira Nadel Reaktion Books 2016 Virginia Woolf was one of the most significant literary figures of the twentieth century, and when she died was perhaps the best-known woman novelist in the English-speaking world. Her distinctive writing style inspired a whole generation of writers while her moving novels, such as Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse and […]
From Up River and For One Night Only
Brett Grubisic Now or Never Publishing 2016 “From Up River and For One Night Only is not your typical rock ‘n roll novel. Sure, it’s full of wild misfits, day job drudgery, and dreams of stardom. But the real headliner here is Grubisic’s intoxicating, immersive language. It’s a cacophony of linguistic power chords, a picaresque […]
Badger
Daniel Heath Justice Reaktion Books 2015 Viewed as fierce, menacing or mysterious, badgers have been both admired and reviled throughout human history. Their global reputation for ferocious self-defence has led to brutalization by hunters and sport-seekers; their association with the mythic underworld has made them symbols of earth-based wisdom and steadfast tradition; their burrowing and […]
The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectology
Stefan Dollinger John Benjamins Press 2015 Methods of linguistic data collection are among the most central aspects in empirical linguistics. While written questionnaires have only played a minor role in the field of social dialectology, the study of regional and social variation, the last decade has seen a methodological revival. This book is the first […]
Cathay: Ezra Pound’s Orient
Ira Nadel Penguin 2015 At the turn of the twentieth century, London was a breeding ground for the avant-garde. Modernist writers like T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound became infatuated with the Orient. Pound in particular was inspired by the clarity and precision of Eastern poetry to rethink the nature of an English poem. […]