In this book Joan McCullagh shows how, between 1941 and 1952, the magazine Contemporary Verse charted the establishment of modernism in Canadian poetry.

This work lays the foundation for a systematization of aspectual categories on the basis of realized versus unrealized rather than completive and incompletive categories.

This book presents a comprehensive grammar, dealing with deals with all major areas of linguistic structure, including syntax, phonology, and morphology of Sarcee, an Athapaskan language spoken in southern Alberta.

The stories in this collection present the experience of living in Vancouver as filtered through the imagination of some of Canada's most famous writers.

Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, this collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works.

Focusing primarily on British essayists and poets of the nineteenth century from the Romantic Movement through the Edwardian era, the collection features nearly 500 authors and lists over 13,000 works.

The fullest biography of the Ethel Wilson to date.

This old-spelling edition of Don Quixote provides scholars with a text closer to that of Cervantes's original manuscript than any previous edition.

This old-spelling edition of Don Quixote provides scholars with a text closer to that of Cervantes's original manuscript than any previous edition.

These letters observe the mind of eminent author Malcolm Lowry at play on questions of literary technique, on films, and on the beauties and rigors of life in his Dollarton shack on an inlet near Vancouver.

A co-publication with the journal Canadian Literature – Canada's foremost literary journal – this collection examines the growing prominence of contemporary Native writing.

Gives voice to several generations of Canadian writers in their restless search for literary identity. - Calgary Herald

The pioneering authority on Chinese historical phonetics Edwin Pulleyblank has compiled this Lexicon to present the result of his researches on the phonology of Middle Chinese and its evolution to Mandarin.

A comprehensive introduction to the syntactical analysis of classical Chinese.

From an examination of photographer Andre Kertesz to a visit to a Hungarian-American church in Cleveland, Richard Teleky reconciles contemporary identity with a heritage from another country.

This timely book is the first complete descriptive grammar of Lillooet, an indigenous Canadian language spoken in British Columbia, now threatened with extinction.

The Mountain Is Moving describes postwar Japanese society and the roles that women are expected to play within it.

This work explores how the construction of gender was thrown into crisis during the twentieth century, opening a permanent rupture in the gender system, destabilizing masculinity as an unstable category.

Perhaps the fullest account of any Salish language, this is the long-awaited grammar of the Musqueam dialect of Halkomelem which was begun in the late 1950s.