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The American Western in Canadian literature

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2022

Author: Deshaye, Joel

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press

Call Number: 08.1 D45t

Author: Deshaye, Joel

Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: x, 414 pages ; 23 cm.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Nationalism; Literature; Canada; Canada - Western Region; History; American

Abstract: The first historically broad and in-depth study of the Canadian Western, its relationship to the American genre, and its shifting place within Canada's national and regional literary traditions. The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions, responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to create a national literary tradition. The American Western in Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region. It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines, hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction. Signposts and scales -- Scaling and spacing the genre transnationalism, nationalism, and regionalism -- Tom King's John Wayne Indigenous perspectives on the Western -- Northwestern Cross Christianity and Transnationalism in early Canadian westerns -- From law to outlaw -- Second World War, westerns, and the '40s pulps -- CanLit's postmodern westerns ghosts and the cowgirl riding off into the sunrise -- Degeneration through violence contemporary historical westerns and post-human horsemen -- Conclusion mining the western in the Twenty-First Century.

ISBN: 9781773852676

Accession Number: P2023.07

Call Number: 08.1 D45t

Collection: Archives Library

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Abandoned in the Arctic : Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay expedition, 1881 - 1884

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2007

Author: Clark, Geoffrey E.

Publisher: Portsmouth Athenaeum

Call Number: G670 C53 A23

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Author: Clark, Geoffrey E.

Responsibility: Geoffrey E. Clark

Publisher: Portsmouth Athenaeum

Published Date: 2007

Physical Description: 81 pages : illustrations, maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Regions; Research; Survival; Film making; Films; American

Abstract: In August, 1881 Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and a team of 25 determined men set out as part of the First International Polar Year to build a research station on Ellesmere Island, 450 miles from the North Pole. The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition began as the most ambitious arctic expedition in United States history, but was destined to descend into a three year journey through a frozen hell - a voyage of forced retreaat, starvation, brewing mutiny and cannibalism. Against all odds, six men survived and returned to Portsmouth, New Hampshire as American heros. (from back of book)

Contents: Introduction; Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition; The Beginning; Research and Exploration; The Retreat; The Rescue; Greely's Later Years; The Making of the Flim - Abandoned in the Arctic; List of Illustrations; Bibliography

Notes: DVD of associated film included with publication; Robson Gmoser was a member of the 2004 expedition team which also included Bob Saunders, Scott Simper, Julia Szucs, Tom Stere, Jeff Clark, Steve Smith, James Shedd, Gino Ded Guercio

ISBN: 0974089524

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: G670 C53 A23

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Link to publication on Abe Books

Websites

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A Century of American alpinism, 2002

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2002

Author: Fay, Charles Ernest; Bent, Allen Herbert; Palmer, Howard; Thorington, James Monroe; Kauffman, Andrew John; Putnam, William Lowell

Publisher: Boulder, CO : American Alpine Club,

Call Number: G505 F39 C46

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Author: Fay, Charles Ernest; Bent, Allen Herbert; Palmer, Howard; Thorington, James Monroe; Kauffman, Andrew John; Putnam, William Lowell

Responsibility: Charles Earnest Fay, Allen Herbert Bent, Howard Palmer, James Monroe Thorington, Andrew John Kauffman, William Lowell Putnam

Publisher: Boulder, CO : American Alpine Club,

Published Date: 2002

Physical Description: ix, 196 pages, xxxii pages of plates : illustrations, portraits

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: American Alpine Club; History; Mountaineering; Clubs

Abstract: Pertains to a century of American alpinism from 1902 to 2002

Contents: Forward; Preface; I Earliest American Mountaineers; II Pacific Crests; III Later and Farther North; IV Tidewater Alaska; V Early Amerian Ascents in the Alps; VI Appalachian Mountain Club Roots; VII The Social Aspect of Alpinism; VIII To the Top of the Continent; IX Other Mountain Clubs of America; X Momentous Events; XI Afield and at War; XII Changing Mores; XIII Moving West; XIV Not All Sweetness and Light; XV The Study of Mountain Elevations; XVI Exclusiveness or Inclusiveness; XVII Changing Faces; Appendices; Index

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: G505 F39 C46

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: American Alpine Club link to book

Websites

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Touch the top of the world : a blind man's journey to climb farther than the eye can see

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2001

Author: Weihenmayer, Erik

Publisher: New York : Dutton

Call Number: G512 W4 T6

Author: Weihenmayer, Erik

Publisher: New York : Dutton

Published Date: 2001

Physical Description: 304p. : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Disabled; Mountaineers, American

ISBN: 0525945784

Call Number: G512 W4 T6

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Kiss or kill : confessions of a serial climber

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2001

Author: Twight, Mark

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Call Number: G512 T85

Author: Twight, Mark

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Published Date: 2001

Physical Description: 206p. : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mountaineers, American

ISBN: 0898867630

Call Number: G512 T85

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Kiss or kill : confessions of a serial climber

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2001

Author: Twight, Mark

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Call Number: 01 T92k

Author: Twight, Mark

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Published Date: 2001

Physical Description: 206p. : ill

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Biography; Mountaineers, American

Notes: Winner of 2001 Jon Whyte Award for Mountain Literature; Annotated: Thank you for the support - and the taking a chance on this book signed Mark Twight, 12/12/01