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Literary Theory & CriticismA Peepshow with Views of the Interior: ParatextsAislinn Hunter • Palimpsest PressA collection of essays on writing and material culture that address our ability to know or understand‘things.’ Essay topics include Charlotte Brontë’s dogs, Wordsworth’s hair, bird displays in museums,Victorian peepshows, and clocks and convalescence.Aislinn Hunter is the author of two books of poetry, Into the Early Hours and The Possible Past; a shortstory collection, What’s Left Us; and a novel, Stay, all of which won national awards, including theDorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, the ReLit Prize, the Gerald Lampert Award,the Danuta Gleed Award, and a nomination for the Journey Prize. She teaches creative writing part-timeat Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and divides her time between Canada and the UK, where she isfinishing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh.ISBN-13: 9780978491765paperback / 104 pp5.5 x 8.5 / $18.00November 2009Key words: Curatorial criticism, Collecting, Art & visual traditions, Critical theory, Aesthetics, SpectacleLanguage Acts: Anglo-Quebec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st CenturyEdited by Jason Camlot & Todd Smith • Véhicule PressLanguage Acts brings together twenty provocative essays on the state of English-language poetry in Quebecsince 1976. Born and raised during this historically resonant period of Trudeauism, Quebecois nationalism,language legislation, and profound demographic and cultural change, Anglo-Quebec poetry has comeof age in the twenty-first century as a literature with its own distinct arguments about itself, and its ownpoetical acts in language.Jason Camlot is the author of two collections of poetry, Attention All Typewriters and The Animal Library.He teaches English literature at Concordia University in Montreal.ISBN-13: 9781550652253paperback / 276 pp5.5 x 8.5 / $22.95March 2007Todd Swift is the author of three critically-acclaimed poetry collections, Budavox, Café Alibi, and Rue duRegard. He is the editor of Poetry Nation, 100 Poets Against the War, and Babylon Burning.Key words: Essays, Angophone identities in Quebec, English poetry, Literary criticismEssays & IdeasPain, Porn and Complicity: Women Heroes from Pygmalion to TwilightKathleen McConnell • Wolsak & WynnWhy does Bella lie so much in Twilight? Why was Catwoman such a bad movie? Why was Dark Angel soshort-lived? Poet and scholar Kathleen McConnell tackles these, and other, subjects in this collection ofessays. Drawing on analysis from Freud to chaos theory, and a large body of research, McConnell startswith Pygmalion, and unravels the cultural threads that bind the way women protagonists are characterizedin popular culture. This careful, and at times wry, examination considers not only why women areportrayed in these ways, but discusses the effect of those characterizations on the culture that consumesthem.ISBN-13: 9781894987684paperback / 196 pp6 x 9 / $19.00December 201236Kathleen McConnell’s first book of poetry won the Lampert Award, and was a finalist for the GovernorGeneral’s Award. She lives in Fredericton, New Brunswick, where she teaches creative writing and womenwriters in the English department at St. Thomas University. Kathleen McConnell also writes poetry underthe name Kathy Mac.Key words: Gender constructs in pop culture, Feminism, Film studies, Media studies, Literary studies,Twilight, Catwoman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Science ficitonLiterary Press Group / Congress 2013