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by Claudette Lauzon
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2017
In a world where the notion of home is more traumatizing than it is comforting, artists are using this literal and figurative space to reframe human responses to trauma.
Building on the scholarship of key art historians and theorists such as Judith Butler and Mieke Bal, Claudette Lauzon embarks...
by Maureen Moynagh
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2008
The concept of political tourism is new to cultural and postcolonial studies. Nonetheless, it is a concept with major implications for scholarship. Political Tourism and Its Texts looks at the writings of political tourists, travellers who seek solidarity with international political struggles. With...
Be a Good Soldier
Children's Grief in English Modernist Novels
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2011
In the modern era, children experiencing grief were encouraged to dry their tears and ‘be good soldiers.’ How was this phenomenon interrogated and deconstructed in the period's literature? Be a Good Soldier initiates conversation on the figure of the child in modernist novels, investigating the...
by Joel Faflak, Jason Haslam
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
The Public Intellectual and the Culture of Hope brings together a number of winners of the Polanyi Prize in Literature – a group whose research constitutes a diversity of methodological approaches to the study of culture – to examine the rich but often troubled association between the concepts...
The Search for English-Canadian Literature
An Anthology of Critical Articles from the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1975
The search for a distinctive Canadian literature is not new. It began in the 1820s, and even then involved many of the same issues that concern critics today. Much of this early material is now inaccessible to most Canadians. Carl Ballstadt has selected for this volume a number of the most importance...
Bennewitz, Goethe, 'Faust'
German and Intercultural Stagings
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
Fritz Bennewitz (1926-1995) was the director-in-chief of East Germany's Weimar National Theatre. Extraordinary in his capacity for cultural and linguistic adjustment, he directed productions in twelve countries, always adapting shows to make them meaningful to local audiences. Notably, Bennewitz conducted...
View From the Murney Tower
Salem Bland, the Late-Victorian Controversies, and the Search for a New Christianity, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2008
Salem Goldworth Bland (1859-1950) was among the most significant religious leaders in Canadian history. A Methodist and, later, United Church minister, Bland's long career and widespread influence made him a leading figure in the popularizing of liberal theology, social reform, and the Social Gospel...
Tumultuous Decade
Empire, Society, and Diplomacy in 1930s Japan
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
The 1930s was a dark period in international affairs. The Great Depression affected the economic and social circumstances of the world’s major powers, contributing to armed conflicts such as the Spanish Civil War and the Second World War. This volume focuses exclusively on Japan, which witnessed...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1997
Sixteenth-century English Protestant reformers were hard-pressed to establish a historical pedigree that would provide their ideas with weight and legitimacy. Many of those reformers turned back to early fifteenth-century Lollard texts, recycling and reprinting them to serve the needs, both political...
Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations
Selected Essays
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2004
The twelve essays that make up Reflections on Native-Newcomer Relations illustrate the development in thought by one of Canada's leading scholars in the field of Native history - J.R. Miller. The collection, comprising pieces that were written over a period spanning nearly two decades, deals with...
Writing by Ear
Clarice Lispector and the Aural Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2016
Considering Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector’s literature as a case study and a source of theory, Writing by Ear presents an aural theory of the novel based on readings of Near to the Wild Heart (1943), The Besieged City (1949), The Passion According to G.H. (1964), Agua Viva (1973), The Hour...
Yakuglas' Legacy
The Art and Times of Charlie James
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
Charlie James (1867–1937) was a premier carver and painter from the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation of British Columbia. Also known by his ceremonial name Yakuglas, he was a prolific artist and activist during a period of severe oppression for First Nations people in Canada.
Yakuglas’ Legacy...
On Friendship and Freedom
The Correspondence of Ignazio Silone and Marcel Fleischmann
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Ignazio Silone, the anti-fascist, Italian author and political activist, continues to intrigue readers and stimulate their minds nearly four decades after his death. On Friendship and Freedom contains the first published collection of correspondence between Silone and his longtime friend the philanthropist...
Verlaine
A Study in Parallels
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1969
The contradictions of Verlaine's nature are mirrored in his verse, which is alternately mystic, sensuous, exquisite and prosaic. He had extraordinary lyric powers; he was a master of eerie harmonies such as few other poets have achieved, and, in Sagesse, he produced religious verse which challenges...