Biography & Autobiography General
Breaking Words
Literary Confessions
- Publisher
- Bayeux Arts, Inc.
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2021
- Category
- General, Literary
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9781988440729
- Publish Date
- Oct 2021
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Breaking Words: Literary Confessions provides a lively discussion of the impact of books on an author's identity. George Melnyk is an Alberta writer, who has published in various genres--essays, poetry, Alberta literature, and Canadian cinema. Why he came to be identified by certain communities of readers with one specific book and not any of his others is a mystery to be solved. He offers an engaged description of how reviews, cultural trends, and funding for writers impacts creativity. Nor is he afraid to provide the nitty-gritty of the financial results from his writing. This is the first ever literary memoir by an Alberta writer. It offers insights into the complex nature of the literary arts when practiced in western Canada.
About the author
George Melnyk is an associate professor of Canadian studies and film studies in the Faculty of Communication and Culture, University of Calgary. He is a cultural historian who specializes in Canadian cinema. Among his film publications are One Hundred Years of Canadian Cinema (2004) and Great Canadian Film Directors (2007). Most recently he has published The Young, the Restless, and the Dead: Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers (2008) in the Film and Media Studies series at WLU Press.
Other titles by George Melnyk
Finding Refuge in Canada
Narratives of Dislocation
We are One
Poems from the Pandemic
The North End Revisited
Photographs by John Paskievich
Writing Alberta
Building on a Literary Identity
First Person Plural
Film and the City
The Urban Imaginary in Canadian Cinema
Art of University Teaching
The Gendered Screen
Canadian Women Filmmakers
The Young, the Restless, and the Dead
Interviews with Canadian Filmmakers
Wild Words
Essays on Alberta Literature