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By Fernand Robert. 1971
Petite synthèse d'histoire de la littérature grecque classique selon les genres: épopée, poésie lyrique, théâtre, histoire, philosophie. Le dernier chapitre…
traite de la littérature à l'époque alexandrine et romaine. [SDM]. 1971.By Fredson Bowers, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. 1983
By Fredson Bowers, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov. 1980
For two decades, first at Wellesley and then at Cornell, Nabokov introduced undergraduates to the delights of great fiction. Here,…
collected for the first time, are his lectures, which include Mansfield Park, Bleak House, and Ulysses. 1980.By Frédéric Beigbeder. 2001
De Nadja d'André Breton (n° 50) à L'étranger d'Albert Camus (n° 1), F. Beigbeder offre un palmarès drolatique et irrespectueux…
de la littérature du XXe siècle. Il s'autorise ainsi tous les raccourcis et les parallèles avec les mouvements littéraires actuels.By Pierre Grimal. 1972
La littérature latine est celle de la Rome républicaine, impériale et triomphante. Du IIIe siècle av. J.-C. au Ve siècle…
de notre ère, cet ouvrage nous invite à découvrir les oeuvres de Livius, Caton, Cicéron, Ovide, Horace, Virgile, Sénèque, Tacite... 1972.By Catherine Mory, Daniel Berlion. 2013
"Un panorama des principaux genres et mouvements littéraires; des biographies vivantes des grands écrivains français et une analyse de leurs…
apports et de leurs styles; des focus sur les oeuvres les plus importantes de la littérature. "-- 4e de couv.By Florence Kaefer, Edward Gamblin. 2014
In 1954, at the age of nineteen, Florence Kaefer accepted a job as a teacher at Norway House. In 1967,…
Norway House Indian Residential School of Manitoba closed its doors after a questionable past. Many years later, Florence unexpectedly reconnected with one of her Norway House students, Edward Gamblin. He told her of the abuse he had suffered at the residential school and how the government had erased his cultural identity. This is the story of their personal reconciliation. c2014.By Vincent Schilling. 2011
Ten biographies of First Nations/Native activists who advocate not only for the environment but for Native rights. Their stories are…
full of highs and lows, triumphs and setbacks. Environmental trailblazers, these men and women are role models for children everywhere. Grades 4-7. 2011. (First Nations Series for Young Readers)By Auldham Roy Petrie. 1978
Joseph Brant followed his father as an Iroquois chief, and, like his father, swore loyalty to the British in North…
America and was received by British royalty in London. Petrie chronicles the life of Brant, from his childhood and youth, to his first battles as an Iroquois warrior and his crucial aid to the British during the American War of Independence. Grades 5-8. 1978.By James Tyman. 1989
James Tyman is a young Native man who grew up with racism, turned to crime and drugs, and repeatedly ended…
up in jail. At age 24, while serving a 2 year prison sentence, James wrote this record of his own journey to self-discovery. Strong language. 1989.By David Shields, Powell Caleb. 2014
An impassioned, funny, probing, fiercely inconclusive, nearly-to-the-death debate about life and art - beers included. Caleb Powell always wanted to…
become an artist, but he overcommitted to life, whereas his former professor David Shields always wanted to become a human being, but he overcommitted to art. They spend four days at a cabin in the Cascade Mountains, playing chess, shooting hoops, hiking; they rewatch My Dinner with André and The Trip, relax in a hot tub, and talk about everything they can think of in the name of exploring and debating life and art, marriage, family, sports, sex, happiness, drugs, death, betrayal - and, of course, writers and writing. 2014.By Beth Brant. 1995
A hundred years of Native North American history emerges from the lives of fifteen Elders of Tyendinaga, in conversation with…
Mohawk writer Beth Brant. School teachers, domestic workers, miners, civil servants and factory workers people these accounts with the grist and joy of everyday lives spanning the 20th century. c1995.By Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Harry Zohn. 1973
The literary-philosophical works of Walter Benjamin rank among the most influential of the post-war era. "Illuminations" contains essays on art…
and philosophy, as well as others on the art of translation, Kafka, storytelling, Baudelaire, Brecht's epic theatre, Proust and book collecting. 1973. Uniform title: Schriften.By Nick Mount. 2017
In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature was transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon…
that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In "Arrival", acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom? 2017.By Christy Jordan-Fenton, Margaret Pokiak-Fenton. 2010
Taunted and humiliated by Raven, the unkind nun in charge of the young Inuit girls at her residential school, Margaret…
is willing to endure almost anything as long as she can learn to read. The unpleasant chores don’t daunt her, but the teasing of other students and the unfair punishments do. When she is the only girl forced to wear ugly red stockings, however, Margaret has enough, and fights back. Followed by “A stranger at home” (DC41414). Grades 3-6. 2010.By Beatrice Mosionier. 2009
Mosionier's memoir in part answers the question: how much of her novel, "April Raintree" (DC37700), is based on her own…
life? She recounts a life of great loss: of family, innocence and dignity. She also shares how she has found fulfilment - artistically, politically, and personally - and describes the recovery of her bond with her mother, one nearly destroyed by the family's separation in 1952. Explicit descriptions of sex, explicit descriptions of violence and some strong language. c2009.By Barbara Hager. 1996
Metis author Hagar focusses on 16 aboriginal people from across Canada. Coming from many different walks of life, those profiled…
have made contributions to the Canadian cultural, artistic, social, athletic or political fabric of the country. Among those portrayed are Elijah Harper, Shania Twain, and Ted Nolan. 1996.By Peter Michael O'Neil. 2016
Gerry St. Germain was an air force pilot, undercover policeman and West Coast chicken farmer. Business gave way to politics,…
and in 1988 he became one of a tiny number of Aboriginal Canadians named to a federal cabinet. From the Brian Mulroney era to that of Stephen Harper, St. Germain remained a trusted confidant of prime ministers and a crucial and often daring behind-the-scenes broker in bringing warring factions together. But he is most proud of his later efforts, when he spearheaded major Senate reports on key issues like land claims and on-reserve education. That role reflected St. Germain’s profound determination to help people who are still dealing today with the brutal legacy of residential schools and the paternalistic Indian Act. 2016.By Joe Jackson. 2016
Black Elk, the Native American holy man, is known to millions of readers around the world from his 1932 testimonial,…
"Black Elk Speaks". Cryptic and deeply personal, it has been read as a spiritual guide, a philosophical manifesto, and a text to be deconstructed--while the historical Black Elk has faded from view. Jackson provides the definitive biographical account of a figure whose dramatic life converged with some of the most momentous events in the history of the American West. Born in an era of rising violence, Black Elk killed his first man at Little Big Horn, witnessed the death of his second cousin Crazy Horse, and traveled to Europe with Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Upon his return, he was swept up in the traditionalist Ghost Dance movement and shaken by the massacre at Wounded Knee. But Black Elk was not a warrior and instead chose the path of a healer and holy man, motivated by a powerful prophetic vision that haunted and inspired him, even after he converted to Catholicism in his later years. Winner of the Spur 2017 best western biography award. Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. 2016.By Michael D. C Drout. 2006
In this course, Wheaton College professor Michael D.C. Drout traces the history of science fiction. From Mary Shelly's Frankenstein to…
today's cutting-edge authors, Drout offers a compelling analysis of the genre. 2006.