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Recently published books
Books by English faculty
Recently published books
Lyric Ecology: An Appreciation of the Work of Jan ZwickyEdited by Mark Dickinson and Clare Goulet
Cormorant Books, 2010
Jan Zwicky is one of Canada’s most innovative intellectual figures. As a poet, philosophy teacher, and violinist, Zwicky strives to give voice to the ecology of experience. Whether reflecting on music, history, poetry, or the nature of thought itself, her work opens the reader to nothing less than the possibility of a different way of being. Despite receiving critical and academic praise culminating in nominations for two separate categories of the Governor General’s Literary Award, both in one year, Zwicky’s work remains mostly unknown; Lyric Ecology seeks to change this. This collection of twenty-five meditations from various contributors comprises the first formal consideration of Zwicky’s philosophy. It includes essays, poems, letters, reviews, and songs, all giving readers insight into her work, what it has achieved, and what makes it significant today.
Dr. Laura Penny More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap and Idiots Think They're Right
McClelland and Stewart, 2010.
Publisher's description:
One of Canada's funniest and most incisive social critics reveals why in North America, where governments spend so much on schools and colleges, training is valued far more than education and loud-mouth ignoramuses are widely and publicly celebrated.
Public education in the United States is in such pitiful shape, the president wants to replace it. Test results from Canadian public schools indicate that Canadian students are at least better at taking tests than their American cousins. On both sides of the border, education is rapidly giving way to job training, and learning how to think for yourself and for the sake of dipping into the vast ocean of human knowledge is going distinctly out of fashion.
It gets worse, says Laura Penny, university lecturer and scathingly funny writer. Paradoxically, in the two nations that have among the best universities, libraries, and research institutions in the world, intellectuals are largely distrusted and yelping ignoramuses now clog the arenas of public discourse.
A brilliant defence of the humanities and social sciences, More Money Than Brainstakes a deadly and extremely funny aim at those who would dumb us down.
Books by English faculty
| | Mark Dickinson and Clare Goulet, eds. Lyric Ecology: An Appreciation of the Work of Jan Zwicky. Cormorant Press, 2010. |
.jpg) | Laura Penny. More Money Than Brains: Why Schools Suck, College is Crap, and Idiots Think They're Right. McClelland and Stewart Publishers, April 2010. |
 | Kristin Bieber Domm. Eagle of the Sea. Nimbus, 2010. |
 | David Monaghan, Ariane Hudelet, and John Wiltshire. The Cinematic Jane Austen: Essays on the Filmic Sensibility of the Novels. McFarland, 2009. |
 | John Morgenstern. Playing With Books: A Study of the Reader as Child. McFarland, 2009. |
 | Peter Schwenger.The Tears of Things: Melancholy and Physical Objects. University of Minnesota Press, 2005 |
 | Laura Penny. Your Call is Important to Us: The Truth About Bullshit, released by McClelland and Stewart, Crown (U.S.), and Scribe (Australia) Publishers, May 2005. |
 | Kristin Bieber Domm. Atlantic Puffin: Little Brother of the North. Nimbus, 2005. |
 | Kristin Bieber Domm. The Hatchling's Journey: A Blanding's Turtle Story. Nimbus, 2003. |
 | Martha Westwater. Giant Despair Meets Hopeful: Kristevan Readings of Adolescent Literature. U. of Alberta P, 2000. |
.jpg) | Chris Ferns. Narrating Utopia: Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature. Liverpool University Press, 1999. |
| Peter Schwenger. Fantasm and Fiction: On Textual Envisioning. Stanford University Press, 1999. |
| Rhoda Zuk, ed. Bluestocking Feminism: Writings of the Bluestocking Circle, 1738-1790. Volume 3: Hester Chapone and Catherine Talbot. Pickering & Chatto Publishers, 1999. |
 | David Monaghan. The Falklands War: Myth and Countermyth. London: Macmillan, 1998. |
| Renate Usmiani. Kelusultiek: Original Women's Voices from Atlantic Canada. Halifax: ISW, 1994.
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| Martha Westwater The Spasmodic Career of Sydney Dobell. Lanham and London: University Press of America, 1992. |
| David Monaghan, ed.The New Casebooks "Emma." London: Macmillan, 1992. |
| Renate Usmiani. The Theatre of Frustration: Super Realism in the Work of Franz-Xaver Kroetz and Michel Tremblay. New York: Garland, 1991. |
 | Peter Schwenger. Letter Bomb: Nuclear Holocaust and the Exploding Word. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991. |
| David Monaghan. The Novels of John le Carre. Oxford: Blackwell, 1985. |
 | Peter Schwenger. Phallic Critiques: Masculinity and Twentieth-century Literature. Routledge, 1984. |
| Martha Westwater. The Wilson Sisters: A Biographical Study of Upper Middle-Class Victorian Life. Athens and London: Ohio University Press, 1984. |
 | David Monaghan. Jane Austen: Structure and Social Vision. London: Macmillan, 1980. |
| Chris Ferns. Aldous Huxley: Novelist. London: Athlone, 1980. |
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