English & Literature Studies
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From  Terms and ConditionsFrom: Gang Life |
The story of Ivan is told in Chapter Ten. He is forty-one years of age, and he came to Canada as a young boy when his family — mother, stepfather, and younger brother — fled a civil … | Mark Totten | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! The Arts in Interesting Times |
This chapter is Margaret Atwood’s 2026 keynote at the Canadian Arts Summit in Banff, in which she reflects on the evolution of Canadian arts from the infrastructure-less 1960s to a sector … | Margaret Atwood | 14 | 2026 | $1.40 Add |
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From  The BeginningsFrom: In Pursuit of Justice |
Errol Sharpe; Stacey Byrne | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add | |
 The Big Book of Nature ActivitiesA Year-Round Guide to Outdoor Learning |
The average child can identify over 300 corporate logos, but only 10 native plants or animals—a telling indictment of our modern disconnection from nature. Soaring levels of obesity, high … | 387 | View | ||
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From  The Bisexuality Wars:The Perils of Identity as Marginality From: In a Queer Country |
Zoe Newman’s ‘The Bisexuality Wars: The Perils of Identity as Marginality" looks at differing views of sexual orientation, in particular the role of self-identified bisexuals in … | Zoë Newman | 21 | 2001 | $0.42 Add |
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From  The Books of Don QuixoteFrom: The City of Words |
In this chapter, Manguel examines Cervantes’s Don Quixote (1605) and the forced expulsion of Jews and Moriscos from the late fifteenth to early seventeenth centuries. | Alberto Manguel | 29 | 2007 | $2.90 Add |
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From The Bricks of BabelFrom: The City of Words |
In this chapter, Manguel explores the interplay between language, identity, and storytelling, drawing on Kafka’s 1918 Babel meditations, Irish colonial history, and Inuit narrative … | Alberto Manguel | 31 | 2007 | $3.10 Add |
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From  Hanlan’s PointFrom: Any Other Way |
Ed Jackson recounds the evolution of Hanlan’s point on Toronto Island from queer gathering place to the city’s first oficially designated clothing optional beach. | Ed Jackson | 1 | 2017 | $0.10 Add |
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From  The Buck Stops Here Virginia and New York, 1984-87From: Holocaust to Resistance |
Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis … | Suzanne Berliner Weiss | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From The Call of Global Solidarity Toronto, 2004-16From: Holocaust to Resistance |
Holocaust to Resistance, My Journey is a powerful, awe-inspiring memoir from author and activist Suzanne Berliner Weiss. Born to Jewish parents in Paris in 1941, Suzanne was hidden from the Nazis … | Suzanne Berliner Weiss | 15 | 2019 | $1.50 Add |
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From  The Casual Labour Problem |
Dave Broad | 8 | 2000 | $1.52 Add | |
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From  The Centre and the Periphery |
This chapter will focus on two main themes: the creation and development of a popular literature in the periphery (with the help of translation), and the possible relations between the popular … | Nitsa Ben-Ari | 62 | 2006 | $6.82 Add |
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From  The Child Whose Head Was Bathed in DarknessFrom: Disfigured |
Chapter 1 examines the objectives behind fairy tales, exploring topics including folk tales and oral traditions, myth and superstition, the Brothers Grimm, happy endings, nature and the woods, … | Amanda Leduc | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From  "The Chronicles of l’Anse Saint-Roch" 1968From: The Quebec Anthology |
In 1968, a complete edition of Perron’s stories appeared. Called simply Contes, it included the stories from the two earlier collections as well as four previously unpublished stories, one … | Jacques Ferron | 15 | 1997 | $0.90 Add |
The City of Words |
In the 2007 CBC Massey Lectures, Alberto Manguel leads us back into our literary tradition to find insight about one of the most contentious issues of our time: the rise of ethnic nationalism. … | Alberto Manguel | 178 | 2007 | View |
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From The Raid on The Body PoliticFrom: Any Other Way |
Ed Jackson recalls a raid on the Body Politic newspaper by the police’s anti-pornography unit, and the fight for the freedom of the press that ensued. | Ed Jackson | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
