Our faculty members are among the leading voices in their fields. Their ground-breaking research and creative works have taken many forms, including novels, works of literary criticism, edited anthologies, public lectures, documentary films, and poems. True to the spirit of interdisciplinary, creative, and politically engaged inquiry that has long been central to York University’s mission, these publications have earned plaudits from audiences around the world. Learn more about some of our recent publications by browsing the book covers below.
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Mysteria
B.W. Powe
B.W. Powe’s Mysteria fuses graphic poetry, prose, and visual art to explore memory, identity, and shifting realities. Through lyrical prose, evocative imagery, and philosophical depth, it creates a multilayered journey of reflection, blending poetry, dreams, essays, and collages that capture the human experience. Drawing on the Canadian and Spanish landscapes, with a deep awareness of cultural and philosophical undercurrents. This new kind of enigmatic form features evocative imagery and calligraphies, pairing visual elements with lyrical prose to invite readers into a multilayered immersion in moments of reflection and discovery.
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Marcus Boon
2015
Though contemporary European philosophy and critical theory have long had a robust engagement with Christianity, there has been no similar …
B.W. Powe
2014
Marshall McLuhan and Northrop Frye are two of Canada’s central cultural figures, colleagues and rivals whose careers unfolded in curious …
Julia Creet
2014
Memory plays an integral part in how individuals and societies construct their identity. While memory is usually considered in the …
David Goldstein
2013
Laws of Rest explores a new form, the prose sonnet—an intricate chamber of text enclosed within four quatrains of right-justified prose. …
David Goldstein
2013
David B. Goldstein argues for a new understanding of Renaissance England from the perspective of communal eating. Rather than focus …
Robert Zacharias
2013
Despite the fact that Russian Mennonites began arriving in Canada en masse in the 1870s, much Canadian Mennonite literature has …
Robert Zacharias
2012
Shifting the Ground of Canadian Literary Studies is a collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine the various contexts—political, social, and cultural—that …
Natalie Neill
2011
The French Revolution is over, and Mr. Dob, a tradesman made rich by the Revolution, has decided to start a …
Karen Valihora
2010
The word is all over Austen’s novels: what ought to be done, what one ought to say, how one ought …
Elizabeth Sabiston
2008
Emily Dickinson’s poem, ‘This is my letter to the World/ That never wrote to Me –‘, opens the Introduction, which …
Brett Zimmerman
2005
Critics have often charged Edgar Allan Poe with sloppy writing. Using stylistics and classical rhetorical theory, Brett Zimmerman demonstrates that …