Two Solitudes

Two Solitudes
Title Two Solitudes PDF eBook
Author Hugh MacLennan
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 410
Release 2018-06-01
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0773553908

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Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction Canada Reads Selection (CBC), 2013 A landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes is the story of two peoples within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation should be. In his vivid portrayals of human drama in First World War–era Quebec, MacLennan focuses on two individuals whose love increases the prejudices that surround them until they discover that “love consists in this, that two solitudes protect, and touch and greet each other.” The novel centres around Paul Tallard and his struggles in reconciling the differences between the English identity of his love Heather Methuen and her family, and the French identity of his father. Against this backdrop the country is forming, the chasm between French and English communities growing deeper. Published in 1945, the novel popularized the use of “two solitudes” as referring to a perceived lack of communication between English- and French-speaking Canadians. Content note: This book contains racial slurs that readers may find offensive or upsetting.

Voices in Time

Voices in Time
Title Voices in Time PDF eBook
Author Hugh MacLennan
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 389
Release 2011
Genre Fiction
ISBN 0773524940

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In 2030, an old man who has survived the holocaustic destruction of civilization in the 1980's illuminates the events of the past by portraying the lives of his cousin, a journalist during the 1970 war measures act, and his stepfather, a German caught up in the madness of the Hitler era.

Wet Apples, White Blood

Wet Apples, White Blood
Title Wet Apples, White Blood PDF eBook
Author Naomi Guttman
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 90
Release 2007-03-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0773577165

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Naomi Guttman's new poetry collection was inspired by the role of nursing in human evolution and culture. The first cycle of poems, "Wet Apples, White Blood," offers lyric glimpses into archetypes of breastfeeding women in history and myth. The dramatic action in the second cycle, "Galactopoesis," centers around the experience of a mother whose young child is hospitalized. Galactopoesis is the medical term for the continued secretion and production of milk. It derives from the Greek radicals for 'milk' (galacto) and 'making' (poesis), which is also 'poetry.' In Wet Apples, White Blood, nursing, as a constant creative act dependent on the baby's demand, is a trope for the creative process and for questions of biology, psychology, and spirituality.

The Milk of Amnesia

The Milk of Amnesia
Title The Milk of Amnesia PDF eBook
Author Danielle Janess
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 92
Release 2021-03-24
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0228004667

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fire / and water surging on the screen - / since children, metros, planets, beds, and lovers are / so lightly swept away - I must not even breathe. Danielle Janess's debut poetry collection resists the erasing effects of war, nationalism, and forced migration. Following the speaker's arduous relocation to a twenty-first-century Europe still etched with the wounds of the past, the poems take on daring forms and language, becoming theatre, film clips, photographs, and dance, all embodied by a cast of characters marked by the violence of the last century. Arrested in Warsaw within the first twenty days of the Second World War, Janess's maternal grandfather was sent to a Soviet gulag where he survived for three years before joining the Free Polish Army in Russia and later the battle of Monte Cassino in the Italian Campaign. Many of the poems in The Milk of Amnesia grow from the soil of Warsaw and Berlin, where the poet-speaker catapults herself and her young child in an effort to locate and unearth their family inheritance. Drawing from the tradition of poetry of witness, The Milk of Amnesia performs a visionary resistance, lit with signposts in a charged atmosphere. An address to our ongoing struggles with historical memory, these poems act as both artifact of and antidote to our time.

Dear Marian, Dear Hugh

Dear Marian, Dear Hugh
Title Dear Marian, Dear Hugh PDF eBook
Author Hugh MacLennan
Publisher University of Ottawa Press
Pages 143
Release 1995
Genre History
ISBN 0776604031

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A student at McGill in the mid-1950s, Marian Engel wrote her M.A. thesis under the direction of Hugh MacLennan. Their work together became the basis of a correspondence, the MacLennan half of which survives and is detailed here. Both personal and professional in nature, MacLennan's letters to Engel provide fascinating insights into his life's pursuit of writing and offer another glimpse of the author of Two Solitudes.

Chess Pieces

Chess Pieces
Title Chess Pieces PDF eBook
Author David Solway
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 89
Release 1999
Genre Poetry
ISBN 0773519017

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David Solway's new collection of poems is a profound and witty work by a grandmaster of English verse. In forms ranging from free verse to strict quatrains to sly "translations," the poems in Chess Pieces display an astonishing formal skill. These are poems of wit, elegance, and humour but, more darkly, they are also explorations of the play of power as enacted in the game of chess.

Return of the Sphinx

Return of the Sphinx
Title Return of the Sphinx PDF eBook
Author Hugh MacLennan
Publisher McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Pages 304
Release 2009-05
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 0773583130

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The works of a seminal Canadian writer, available again.