Literary Theory & Criticism
The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
A new, vivid account of the final months of the esteemed writer’s life.
Introduction to Literature
Planning and Teaching a First-Year Course
The introductory book can be used as a catch-all for nearly everything first-year students may need to learn as they begin academic study.
Queering Visual Cultures
Re-Presenting Sexual Politics on Stage and Screen
It is imperative that analyses of popular cultural depictions and presentations of the queer are performed with the extensive intent towards encouraging a politics of inclusion and towards deterring the abjection of the queer subject in popular cultural portrayals.
Writing the Body in Motion
A Critical Anthology on Canadian Sport Literature
Over the last decade, a proliferation of sport literature courses across the continent is evidence of the sophisticated and evolving body of work developing in this area. Writing the Body in Motion offers introductory essays on the most commonly taught Canadian sport literature texts.
The Medium Is the Monster
Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein that effectively reinvented the meaning of the word for modern English.
Monsters and Monstrosity in 21st-Century Film and Television
This volume contains discussions and dissections of monsters across multiple media and geographical origins and the reasons why we are so consumed by them.
