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Sisters Brothers 2014-2015
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Cellist of Sarajevo 2009-2010
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Black Bird 2005-2006
Deafening 2004-2005
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The MacEwan Book for 2014-15 is Patrick deWitt's The Sisters Brothers
Selected Articles
Polic, Vanja. "Chapter Eight: The Sisters Brothers Pack Heat: Or How the Sisters Fared in the West." Facing the Crises: Anglophone Literature in the Postmodern World. Eds. Ljubica Matek and Jasna Poljak Rehlicki. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars P
128-146. Web.
Reviews
From a variety of periodicals
Interviews and Videos
From the the 2011 Giller Prize
From the TV Book Club
Official Book Trailer
Wild West in Literature
Bold, Christine. The Frontier Club: Popular Westerns and Cultural Power 1880-1924. New York : Oxford U P. 2013. Oxford Scholarship Online. Web. 27 June 2014.
Burns, Ken, dir. The West. Paramount Home Entertainment. 2004. DVD.
Kowalewski, Michael., ed. Reading the West: New Essays on the Literature of the American West. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996. Print.
Old West series by Time-Life Books
This print series includes DeWitt's inspiration, The Forty-Niners as well as The Gunfighters and The Women.
Scheer, Ron. How The West Was Written: Volume 1 Frontier Fiction 1880-1906. Freeville, NY : Beat to a Pulp, 2014. Print.
Spurgeon, Sara L. Exploding the Western: Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier. College Station : Texas A&M U P, 2005. Ebrary. Web. 27 June 2014.
Turner, Frederick Jackson. The Frontier in American History. New York: Henry Hold and Company, 1921. Project Gutenberg. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.
"Western." Encyclopædia Britannica (2014): Research Starters. Web. 27 June 2014.
White, John. Westerns. New York : Routledge 2011. MyiLibrary. Web. 27 June 2014.
Witschi, Nicolas S. A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American West. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. Ebscohost Ebook. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
Wild West in Film
Chaplin, Charlie. The Gold Rush. United Artists, 1942. DVD
Langford, Barry. "Revisiting the 'Revisionist' Western." Film & History 33.2 (2003): 26-35. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 4 Feb. 2015.
Other Brothers in Literature
Bannon, Cynthia Jordan. The Brothers of Romus: Fraternal Pietas in Roman Law, Literature, and Society. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1997. Ebrary. Web. 22 Jan. 2015
Feuer, Lois. "Happy Families: Repentance and Restoration in The Tempest and the Joseph Narrative." Philological Quarterly 76.(1997): 271-287. OmniFile Full Text Select. Web. 2 July 2014.
Quinones, Ricardo J. The Changes of Cain: Violence and the Lost Brother in Cain and Abel Literature. Princeton: Princeton Legacy Library, 2014. Print.
Dark Humour in Literature
Coletta, Lisa. "British Modernism and Dark Humor." Precursors & Aftermaths 2.1 (2004): 40-54. OmniFile Full Text Select. Web. 2 July 2014.
Hobby, Blake, and Harold Bloom, eds. Dark Humor. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2010. Ebscohost Ebook. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
The Gold Rush
Clay, Karen, and Randall Jones. "Migrating to Riches? Evidence from the California Gold Rush." Journal Of Economic History 68.4 (2008): 997-1027. Business Source Complete. Web. 2 July 2014.
"The Gold Rush." Films On Demand. Films Media Group, 2006. Web. 2 July 2014.
Kowalewski, Michael. "Imagining the California Gold Rush: The Visual and Verbal Legacy." California History 1 (1992): 60. Jstor Arts & Sciences V. Web. 2 July 2014.
Violence in Literature
Kowalewski, Michael. Deadly Musings: Violence and Verbal Form In American Fiction. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton U P, 1993. Ebrary. Web. 2 July 2014.
Environmental Issues
Love, Glen A. Practical Ecocriticism: Literature, Biology, and the Environment. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2003. Print
Slovic, Scott, ed. Nature And The Environment. Ipswich: Salem Press, 2013. Ebscohost eBook. Web. 22 Jan. 2015.
Psychopathology
Hare, Robert & Craig Neumann. "Psychopathy: Assessment and Forensic Implications." Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 54.12 (2009): 791-802. OmniFile Full Text Select. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.
MacDonald, Ann-Marie, Narr. The Psychopath Next Door. CBC Doc Zone. 27 Nov. 2014. Web. 2 Feb. 2015.
Including a link to take the test.
Ronson, Jon. The Psychopath Test : A Journey Through the Madness Industry. New York: Riverhead, 2012. Print
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