Department of English Faculty Publications
Byron and Translation
Maria Schoina and Alexander Grammatikos, eds. – Liverpool University Press, 2024
This collection of essays offers an image of Byron not only as a poet – for which he is best known – but as a translator of foreign literature and culture. To recover this underexplored element of Byron’s work, the contributors examine his translated pieces in both textual and extra-textual contexts, including analysis of manuscripts, composition history, publishing history, and other literary and historical factors. They explore the motives behind Byron’s choice to translate in the first place, as well as reconstructing the translational methods he applied, and his ideas on translation and the role of the translator in general.
ISBN: 9781835537961
After We Drowned
Jill Yonit Goldberg - Anvil Press, 2024
After an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico explodes, everything in fifteen-year-old Jesse’s life is derailed. His father, Emmett, a rig worker who survived in the blast, but carries a terrible secret about a colleague who did not, unravels. He moves the family to Nowheresville, drinks himself to despair, and hounds Jesse about being a man. When Emmett finally abandons the family, Jesse must finally decide if he can save his loved ones by being true to his gentle nature or if proving himself means adopting the cruelty of his father and his surroundings.
ISBN: 978-1772142273
Ecologizing Education: Nature-Centered Teaching for Cultural Change
Sean Blenkinsop and Estella C. Kuchta – Cornell University Press, 2024
Ecologizing Education explores how we can reenvision education to meet the demands of an unjust and rapidly changing world. Going beyond "green" schooling programs that aim only to shape behavior, Sean Blenkinsop and Estella Kuchta advance a pedagogical approach that seeks to instills eco-conscious and socially just change at the cultural level.
ISBN: 9781501774713
The Marysburgh Vortex Vol. 1: Jack Wenland, Time Guardian
Trevor Newland – Simply Read Books, 2024
Welcome to the world of Jack Wenland, first officer of the interplanetary and interdimensional Time Guardian Bureau. Imagine being sent back in time from the future to locate a mysterious element known as “elusine,” the only element that can save Earth’s dying atmosphere. Join Jack and his ragtag team as they scramble to outrun an army of drones, robots and assassins led by a figure known only as “The Dark Master” and save Earth’s future.
ISBN: 978-1772291001
The Fire Still Burns: Life In and After Residential School
Sam George, with Jill Yonit Goldberg, Liam Belson, Dylan MacPhee, and Tanis Wilson - UBC Press, 2023
The Fire Still Burns is an unflinching look at the horrors of a childhood in the Indian Residential School system and the long-term effects on survivors. It illustrates the healing power of one’s culture and the resilience that allows an individual to rebuild a life and a future. This frank and powerful personal story of trauma and resilience will bring a greater understanding to all readers – Indigenous and non-Indigenous alike – of residential schools and the impact they had on those who were forced to attend them.
ISBN: 9780774880855
A Game in the Life
Jordan Rudek – 2023
A Game In The Life seeks to highlight how video games can have a lasting and profound effect on those who enjoy them, and how they can serve as miniature time capsules of the periods in our lives when they brought us so much joy. Looking back at classic titles like Capcom's Mega Man 2 and Square Enix's Final Fantasy VI, in addition to more recent games like BioWare's Mass Effect 2 and FromSoftware's Dark Souls, Jordan Rudek shares his insights as an avid player, reviewer, and lover of all things video game.
ISBN: 979-8223309901
The Atheneum
Trevor Newland - Simply Read Books, 2021
In the Atheneum, everyone has an adventure waiting. And so when young Jack, voiceless, alone and lost in a storm, seeks shelter there one night, he finds himself wandering its winding corridors under the guidance of a mysterious old man who has made a most peculiar offer: Jack must find a voice of his own among the dusty old books that line its endless shelves. But sooner than he’d imagine, he slips into somewhere farther than he’s ever been from home but closer than he’s ever been to where he should be.
ISBN: 978-1772290622
Prison Life Writing: Conversion and the Literary Roots of the U.S. Prison System
Simon Rolston - Wilfred Laurier UP, 2021
Prison Life Writing is the first full-length study of one of the most controversial genres in American literature. By exploring the complicated relationship between life writing and institutional power, this book reveals the overlooked aesthetic innovations of incarcerated people and the surprising literary roots of the U. S. prison system. An interdisciplinary work that brings life writing scholarship into conversation with prison studies and law and literature studies, Prison Life Writing theorizes how life writing works in prison, explains literature’s complicated entanglements with institutional power, and demonstrates the political and aesthetic innovations of one of America’s most fascinating literary genres.
ISBN: 978-1-77112-517-8
The Bare Essentials: 10th Edition
Norton, Green & Holditch - Top Hat, 2021
The key to effective writing instruction is plenty of practice and immediate feedback. The class-tested and proven instructional approach of The Bare Essentials, combined with rich online grammar practice, will allow instructors to offer more personalized support to struggling writers without overwhelming them with grading. Known for clear explanations, a multitude of practice opportunities, and a strong instructor support package, The Bare Essentials has for over 30 years been the preferred choice for students and instructors who need coverage of grammar and sentence and paragraph writing skills. In the latest edition, new co-author Gregory Holditch has updated many of the examples in the text and moved the work towards a more flexible format that will provide a number of options for teaching and learning. The foundational core concept pieces - grammar rules and essentials of English writing skills - continue to be provided and the workbook exercises have now been fully re-integrated into the core textbook.
ISBN: 978-1-77412-841-1
Finding the Daydreamer
Estella Kuchta - ELM Books, 2020
When daydream meets intuition, a young ranch wife's life turns upside down. Fleeing a dangerous husband, she steals away with her young daughter on a wild and unexpected adventure through Depression-era cowboy country in central British Columbia. All the while, she longs to reunite with the cowboy who compels her heart. One escape leads to another as she encounters wild animals, stunning landscapes, suspect businessmen, hunger, abandonment, loneliness, and love. She has nothing to guide her but a strange inner impulse that seems to know the way--if only she can trust it.
ISBN: 978-1941614327
A Century of Weird Fiction, 1832–1937: Disgust, Metaphysics, and the Aesthetics of Cosmic Horror
Jonathan Newell – University of Wales Press, 2020
A Century of Weird Fiction explores the aesthetics of the unthinkable in weird fiction, tracing a twisted entanglement of ontology and aesthetics. Drawing on recent speculative philosophy and affect theory, the study argues that weird fiction exploits the viscerality of disgust to confront readers with the intertwinement of the human and nonhuman.
ISBN: 978-1786835444
Genial Jack
Jonathan Newell – Lost Pages, 2019
Genial Jack is a serialized setting of nautical weirdness and whimsy – horrors and wonders from the deep, mysterious isles, absurd pirates, surreal monsters, sentient storms, and, of course, a whale the size of a mountain. Each volume reveals some aspect of the bizarre seascape traversed by Genial Jack, beginning with an account of Jackburg itself – the ramshackle, symbiotic city built atop and within the beneficent Godwhale.
British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation
Alexander Grammatikos - Palgrave Macmillan, 2018
British Romantic Literature and the Emerging Modern Greek Nation makes an original contribution to the field of British Romantic Hellenism (and Romanticism more broadly) by emphasizing the diversity of Romantic-era writers’ attitudes towards, and portrayals of, Modern Greece. Whereas, traditionally, studies of British Romantic Hellenism have predominantly focused on Europe’s preoccupation with an idealized Ancient Greece, this study emphasizes the nuanced and complex nature of British Romantic writers’ engagements with Modern Greece. Specifically, the book emphasizes the ways that early nineteenth-century British literature about contemporary Greece helped to strengthen British-Greek intercultural relations and, ultimately, to situate Greece within a European sphere of influence.
ISBN: 978-3319904399
Write 2: Canadian Edition
Kemper, Meyer, Van Rys, Sebranek & Holditch - Nelson, 2016
Created with the ‘student-tested, faculty-approved’ review process, Write 2: Paragraphs and Essays is the second book in a two-book series devoted to helping students improve their writing skills. The authors believe that writing is a process and a cornerstone of the text is teaching students about the traits of good writing and why they are important to the writing process at all stages. Canadian edition edited by Greg Holditch.
ISBN: 978-0-17662-195-7
Race to Pisa!
Trevor Newland - Mosaic Press, 2016
Race to Pisa! is about the smallest king in history, Nasty King Nedward. It’s about his jealousy over Jolly Roger, the rather large royal tailor. It’s about a nasty plan to get rid of this tailor and a balloon race involving clueless Scallywags, blistering blunderbuss balls, flimsy parachutes, and Belarius, the very notorious balloon master. It’s about nasty revenge plans gone awry and the real reason why the world—famous Tower of Pisa leans (a little to the left). Join the Scallywags once again as they revise history and remind us that you don’t need to be very beautiful or extremely intelligent to make your mark in the world. You just need courage and the ability to make a parachute out of your trousers.
ISBN: 978-1-77161-204-3
Garage Criticism: Cultural Missives in an Age of Distraction
Peter Babiak – Anvil Press, 2016
In Garage Criticism Peter Babiak gently eviscerates and deflates some of the cultural hot topics of our time. He deconstructs our fascination with Internet culture and its libertarian ideology, devolves the hallucinations of economics and marketing to rhetorical mystifications, and asserts and reasserts the supremacy of linguistic thinking in everyday cultural affairs no less than politics and philosophy.
ISBN: 978-1-77214-050-7
Mighty Melvin the Magnificent Mouse
Trevor Newland – Mosaic Press, 2016
Everyone knows the world is divided into Biggies (who get whatever they want) and Smallies (who get whatever’s left). Not content with his lot in life as a Smallie, Melvin the Mouse leaves Mouseville and sets out to conquer the world’s Biggest Biggie in the world’s greatest circus. Oblivious the limitations of his size and armed with an outlandish sense of confidence, Melvin pushes past gorillas, lions and rhinos in his quest for the Biggest Biggie, causing maximum mayhem and chaos, but emerging victoriously as the world’s first “Biggie mouse.”
ISBN: 978-1-77161-180-0
The Scallywag Solution
Trevor Newland – Mosaic Press, 2014
The Scallywag Solution is the first of many adventures to come from the Scallywag gang. The Scallywag adventures take young readers on trips through time, illustrating an exciting high-flying adventure story that also lets the reader explore and learn about the mysteries of history. Where did the original Jolly Roger flag come from? Why does the Tower of Pisa lean? How did the Sphinx lose its nose? Who was the real Mona Lisa? The wild and thrilling escapades of the Scallywags will help readers find the answers.
ISBN: 978-0-88962-990-5
Curtains for Roy
Aaron Bushkowsky – Cormorant Books, 2014
A burned out playwright accompanies his best friend, a terminally ill director, to the Okanagan for a final summer of wine tasting only to end up on the set of a doomed Shakespeare production at a winery. A poignant and hilarious trip behind the scenes as the Okanagan fires begin their steady march toward the tents of Bard in the Vineyard. Shortlisted for the 2015 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, An Inside Vancouver Top Ten book of 2014, The Vancouver Sun Readers Group Top Ten book of 2014.
ISBN: 978-1-89715-174-7
My Chernobyl
Aaron Bushkowsky – Playwrights Canada Press, 2009
A Canadian man in his late 30s visits Belarus to find a long lost cousin in order to hand over an inheritance, only to meet a young beautiful woman who has romance in mind as well as Canadian citizenship. A comic gem that shows blood is always thicker than water.
ISBN: 978-0-88754-859-8
