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Home Ground and Foreign Territory: Essays on Early Canadian Literature (Reappraisals: Canadian Writers)
Par Janice Fiamengo. 2014
Home Ground and Foreign Territory is an original collection of essays on early Canadian literature in English. Aiming to be…
both provocative and scholarly, it encompasses a variety of (sometimes opposing) perspectives, subjects, and methods, with the aim of reassessing the field, unearthing neglected texts, and proposing new approaches to canonical authors. Renowned experts in early Canadian literary studies, including D.M.R. Bentley, Mary Jane Edwards, and Carole Gerson, join emerging scholars in a collection distinguished by its clarity of argument and breadth of reference. Together, the essays offer bold and informative contributions to the study of this dynamic literature. Home Ground and Foreign Territory reaches out far beyond the scope of early Canadian literature. Its multi-disciplinary approach innovates literal studies and appeals to literature specialists and general readership alike.Shakespeare and Canada: Remembrance of Ourselves (Reappraisals: Canadian Writers)
Par Annie Brisset, Richard Cavell, Dana Colarusso, Daniel Fischlin, Troni Grande, Peter Kuling, Sarah Mackenzie, C. E. McGee, Don Moore, Ian Rae, Tom Scholte, Kailin Wright. 2016
Shakespeare in Canada is the result of a collective desire to explore the role that Shakespeare has played in Canada…
over the past two hundred years, but also to comprehend the way our country’s culture has influenced our interpretation of his literary career and heritage. What function does Shakespeare serve in Canada today? How has he been reconfigured in different ways for particular Canadian contexts? The authors of this book attempt to answer these questions while imagining what the future might hold for William Shakespeare in Canada. Covering the Stratford Festival, the cult CBC television program Slings and Arrows, major Canadian critics such as Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan, the influential acting teacher Neil Freiman, the rise of Québécois and First Nation approaches to Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s place in secondary schools today, this collection reflects the diversity and energy of Shakespeare’s afterlife in Canada. Collectively, the authors suggest that Shakespeare continues to offer Canadians “remembrance of ourselves.” This is a refreshingly original and impressive contribution to Shakespeare studies—a considerable achievement in any work on the history of one of the central figures in the western literary canon.The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy (Reappraisals: Canadian Writers)
Par Gerald Lynch, Shoshannah Ganz, Josephene T. M. Kealey. 2008
If one poet can be said to be the Canadian poet, that poet is Al Purdy (1918–2000). Numerous eminent scholars…
and writers have attested to this pre-eminent status. George Bowering described him as “the world’s most Canadian poet” (1970), while Sam Solecki titled his book-length study of Purdy The Last Canadian Poet (1999). In The Ivory Thought: Essays on Al Purdy, a group of seventeen scholars, critics, writers, and educators appraise and reappraise Purdy’s contribution to English literature. They explore Purdy’s continuing significance to contemporary writers; the life he dedicated to literature and the persona he crafted; the influences acting on his development as a poet; the ongoing scholarly projects of editing and publishing his writing; particular poems and individual books of poetry, fiction, and non-fiction; and the larger themes in his work, such as the Canadian North and the predominant importance of place. In addition, two contemporary poets pay tribute with original poems.Littéraire, non littéraire: Enjeux traductologiques d’une problématique transdisciplinaire (Regards sur la traduction)
Par Christiane Nord, Marie-Alice Belle, Valérie Bouchard, Hélène Buzelin, Bruno Courbon, Fayza El Qasem, Nicolas Froeliger, Patricia Godbout, Andrée Mercier, Adrien Rannaud, Marie-Andrée Ricard. 2021
Cet ouvrage collectif aborde les aires de divergence et de convergence, les différences et les confluences entre le littéraire et…
le non littéraire dans la perspective d’une application à la traduction et à la traductologie. Cette réflexion épistémologique est alimentée non seulement par l’apport de traductologues, mais aussi par ceux de chercheurs issus des domaines extérieurs ou connexes à la traductologie et dont cette dernière se nourrit – en l’occurrence, le droit, la lexicologie, la théorie littéraire (narratologie et histoire littéraire) et la philosophie. Le pari de ce collectif est double : d’une part, il cherche à illustrer de manière concrète comment peut fonctionner et évoluer la traductologie en tant qu’interdiscipline, voire polydiscipline, par le simple fait de réunir dans un seul ouvrage des contributions complémentaires qui, prises ensemble ou séparément, peuvent inspirer de nouvelles avenues aux traductologues. D’autre part, il vise à mettre en évidence l’urgente nécessité de repenser la traductologie dans une perspective décloisonnée. Préfacé par Christiane Nord, traductologue incarnant aujourd’hui l’héritage de la traductologie fonctionnaliste allemande, cet ouvrage réunit traductologues et non-traductologues autour de la traductologie et des vastes enjeux qu’elle embrasse, ceux-ci étant souvent sous-estimés ou méconnus en-dehors de la sphère traductologique.Traductions et métraductions de Jane Austen: Effacement et survivance de la voix auctoriale (Regards sur la traduction)
Par Rosemarie Fournier-Guillemette. 2021
La réputation de l’autrice britannique Jane Austen, particulièrement dans le monde anglophone, n’est plus à faire : son œuvre est…
abondamment fréquentée par les lecteurs et lectrices, et l’on ne compte plus les adaptations et continuations – textuelles et transmédiatiques – de ses romans. En français seulement, ses ouvrages ont été l’objet de plus de 70 traductions en deux siècles d’existence.Comment son écriture, où abondent humour, ironie et discours indirect libre, a-t-elle été intégrée au corpus français ? Alors qu’Austen fait déjà l’objet de débats dans le monde anglo-saxon, quelle interprétation aura franchi la Manche et été proposée au lectorat francophone ? Ce transfert linguistique aura-t-il, pour l’autrice, donné lieu à une traduction ou à une métraduction ?Analyse littéraire combinant les disciplines de la traductologie, la narratologie et des études féministes, ce livre se penche, avec une approche diachronique, sur les traductions françaises de trois romans de Jane Austen : Northanger Abbey (1803 [†1818]), Pride and Prejudice (1813) et Persuasion (†1818).Dans cette étude traductologique et littéraire des versions françaises des romans de Jane Austen, Rosemarie Fournier-Guillemette s’intéresse aux destinées françaises des prises de position et de l’écriture de cette autrice qui a inspiré de nombreuses féministes par sa critique de l’institution du mariage.Eight Men Speak: A Play by Oscar Ryan et al. (Canadian Literature Collection)
Par Oscar Ryan, Edward Cecil-Smith, Frank Love, Mildred Goldberg. 2012
This volume comprises a reprinting and gloss of the original text of the 1933 Communist play Eight Men Speak. The…
play was banned by the Toronto police after its first performance, banned by the Winnipeg police shortly thereafter and subsequently banned by the Canadian Post Office. The play can be considered as one stage–the published text–of a meta-text that culminated in 1934 at Maple Leaf Gardens when the (then illegal) Communist Party of Canada celebrated the release of its leader, Tim Buck, from prison. Eight Men Speak had been written and staged on behalf of the campaign to free Buck by the Canadian Labour Defence League, the public advocacy group of the CPC. In its theatrical techniques, incorporating avant-garde expressionist staging, mass chant, agitprop and modernist dramaturgy, Eight Men Speak exemplified the vanguardist aesthetics of the Communist left in the years before the Popular Front. It is the first instance of the collective theatrical techniques that would become widespread in subsequent decades and formative in the development of modern Canadian drama. These include a decentred narrative, collaborative authorship and a refusal of dramaturgical linearity in favour of theatricalist demonstration. As such it is one of the most significant Canadian plays of the first half of the century, and, on the evidence of the surviving photograph of the mise-en-scene, one of the earliest examples of modernist staging in Canada. - This book is published in English.Selected Letters of Vernon Lee, 1856–1935 (The Pickering Masters #3)
Par Sophie Geoffroy, Amanda Gagel. 2024
Vernon Lee was the pen name of Violet Paget – a prolific author best known for her supernatural fiction, her…
support of the Aesthetic Movement and her radical polemics. She was an active correspondent who included many well-known figures among her circle. This scholarly edition of her letters makes a selection from more than 30 archives worldwide.Edmund Spenser and Animal Life (Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature)
Par Rachel Stenner, Abigail Shinn. 2024
This book is the first extended critical study of the early modern poet Edmund Spenser from the perspective of animal…
studies. With an introduction situating Spenser in current discussions of animal life and literary form, and early modern animal studies, the book proceeds in four sections: “Animals and Cultural Practices”; “Animals, Slavery, and Race”; “Animals in Complaints”; “Readers and Poetics in The Faerie Queene”. Contributors discuss a broad range of Spenser’s work, putting it into dialogue with a number of early modern discourses, including politics, poetics, and natural history.The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives (AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series)
Par Jerry Butters, Jim Henle. 2023
The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of baseball puzzles, logical baseball puzzles. To jump in,…
all you need is logic and a casual fan’s knowledge of the game. The puzzles are solved by reasoning from the rules of the game and a few facts.The logic in the puzzles is like legal reasoning. A solution must argue from evidence (the facts) and law (the rules). Unlike legal arguments, however, a solution must reach an unassailable conclusion.There are many puzzle books. But there’s nothing remotely like this book. The puzzles here, while rigorously deductive, are firmly attached to actual events, to struggles that are reported in the papers every day.The puzzles offer a unique and scintillating connection between abstract logic and gritty reality.Actually, this book offers the reader an unlimited number of puzzles. Once you’ve solved a few of the challenges here, every boxscore you see in the papers or online is a new puzzle! It can be anywhere from simple, to complex, to impossible. For anyone who enjoys logical puzzles For anyone interested in legal reasoning For anyone who loves the game of baseballHow to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies
Par Robert Dale Parker. 2020
Offering a refreshing combination of accessibility and intellectual rigor, How to Interpret Literature: Critical Theory for Literary and Cultural Studies,…
Fourth Edition, presents an up-to-date, concise, and wide-ranging historicist survey of contemporary thinking in critical theory. The only book of its kind that thoroughly merges literary studies with cultural studies, this text provides a critical look at the major movements in literary studies from the 1930s to the present. It is the only up-to-date survey of literary theory that devotes extensive treatment to queer studies, postcolonial and race studies, environmental criticism, and disability studies. How to Interpret Literature is ideal as a stand-alone text or in conjunction with an anthology of primary readings, like Robert Dale Parker's Critical Theory: A Reader for Literary and Cultural Studies.Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present (Routledge Studies in Romanticism)
Par Andrea Ceccherelli. 2024
Dante and Polish Writers: From Romanticism to the Present explores the phenomenon of Polish Danteism from a hermeneutic perspective. The chapters…
shed light on a series of “encounters” of eminent Polish writers with Dante and the Divine Comedy, resulting in original interpretations, creative reworkings, and a wealth of intertextual references testifying to a dialogue that has always been – and still is - alive, not excluding antagonism and bitter controversy. The contributors are all scholars of Polish literature with comparative expertise, teaching in Italian and Polish universities, which ensures a consistently focused point of view on the receptive context and the ways in which it is affected by the confrontation with Dante. The hermeneutic horizon ranges from the Inferno-like reading of the inhuman lands with which history abounds, to the metaphysical yearning underlying Dante’s “poetics of transhumanizing,” to recent perspectives related to the posthuman and storytelling.Dancing an Embodied Sinthome: Beyond Phallic Jouissance (The Palgrave Lacan Series)
Par Megan Sherritt. 2023
This book provides the first in-depth analysis of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and the art of dance and explores what each…
practice can offer the other. It takes as its starting point Jacques Lacan’s assertion that James Joyce’s literary works helped him create what Lacan terms a sinthome, thereby preventing psychosis. That is, Joyce’s use of written language helped him maintain a “normal” existence despite showing tendencies towards psychosis. Here it is proposed that writing was only the method through which Joyce worked but that the key element in his sinthome was play, specifically the play of the Lacanian real.The book moves on to consider how dance operates similarly to Joyce’s writing and details the components of Joyce’s sinthome, not as a product that keeps him sane, but as an interminable process for coping with the (Lacanian) real. The author contends that Joyce goes beyond words and meaning, using language’s metre, tone, rhythm, and cadence to play with the real, mirroring his experience of it and confining it to his works, creating order in the chaos of his mind. The art of dance is shown to be a process that likewise allows one to play with the real. However, it is emphasized that dance goes further: it also teaches someone how to play if one doesn't already know how. This book offers a compelling analysis that sheds new light on the fields of psychoanalysis and dance and looks to what this can tell us about—and the possibilities for—both practices, concluding that psychoanalysis and dance both offer processes that open possibilities that might otherwise seem impossible. This original analysis will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of psychoanalysis, aesthetics, psychoanalytic theory, critical theory, art therapy, and dance studies.The Effluent Eye: Narratives for Decolonial Right-Making
Par Rosemary J. Jolly. 2024
Why human rights don&’t work In The Effluent Eye, Rosemary J. Jolly argues for the decolonization of human rights, attributing…
their failure not simply to state and institutional malfeasance but to the very concept of human rights as anthropocentric—and, therefore, fatally shortsighted. In an engaging mix of literary and cultural criticism, Indigenous and Black critique, and substantive forays into the medical humanities, Jolly proposes right-making in the demise of human rights. Using what she calls an &“effluent eye,&” Jolly draws on &“Fifth Wave&” structural public health to confront the concept of human rights—one of the most powerful and widely entrenched liberal ideas. She builds on Indigenous sovereignty work from authors such as Robin Wall Kimmerer, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and Mark Rifkin as well as the littoral development in Black studies from Christine Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman, and Tiffany Lethabo King to engage decolonial thinking on a range of urgent topics such as pandemic history and grief; gender-based violence and sexual assault; and the connections between colonial capitalism and substance abuse, the Anthropocene, and climate change. Combining witnessed experience with an array of decolonial texts, Jolly argues for an effluent form of reading that begins with the understanding that the granting of &“rights&” to individuals is meaningless in a world compromised by pollution, poverty, and successive pandemics. Retail e-book files for this title are screen-reader friendly.“Hilarious. . . . It’s Cliff Notes for Scripture—screenplay by Plotz, story by God. . . . In the end,…
though, the book is made by the spirit of the writer.” — The New York Times Book Review“Like the Bible itself, Good Book contains multitudes—it is by turns thought-provoking, funny, enlightening and moving.” — A. J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically“Plotz is a genius writer.” — Franklin Foer, author of How Soccer Explains the WorldA whip-smart, laugh-out-loud tour through the most important book in the world, a book most people have never read: the Bible.Problématiques identitaires et discours de l'exil dans les littératures francophones (Transferts culturels)
Par Anissa Talahite-Moodley. 2007
De quelle manière s’est transformée l’idée d’appartenance à une culture, une nation ou une ethnie particulière ? Peut-on encore parler…
d’ « exil » dans le contexte de cultures transnationales et d’identités plurielles ? Y a-t-il une écriture de l’exil ? Cet ouvrage cherche des réponses à ces questions à travers le regard nouveau que portent les écrivains francophones contemporains sur les problématiques identitaires. Un groupe international d’universitaires s’est penché sur des œuvres d’auteurs francophone d’origines diverses – africaine, antillaise, canadienne, chinoise, maghrébine, libanaise, russe pour n’en citer qu’une partie – pour y interpréter le « discours de l’exil ». Ce qui ressort est une diversité immense mais une constante : l’exil est une mise en perspective qui ouvre la possibilité de constructions identitaires nouvelles et fait de ces littératures francophones un lieu de créations fertile en questionnements.RE: Canadian Literature and Criticism after Modernism (Reappraisals: Canadian Writers)
Par Robert David Stacey. 2010
It would be difficult to exaggerate the worldwide impact of postmodernism on the fields of cultural production and the social…
sciences over the last quarter century—even if the concept has been understood in various, even contradictory, ways. An interest in postmodernism and postmodernity has been especially strong in Canada, in part thanks to the country’s non-monolithic approach to history and its multicultural understanding of nationalism, which seems to align with the decentralized, plural, and open-ended pursuit of truth as a multiple possibility as outlined by Jean-François Lyotard. In fact, long before Lyotard published his influential work The Postmodern Condition in 1979, Canadian writers and critics were employing the term to describe a new kind of writing. RE: Reading the Postmodern marks a first cautious step toward a history of Canadian postmodernism, exploring the development of the idea of the postmodern and debates about its meaning and its applicability to various genres of Canadian writing, and charting its decline in recent years as a favoured critical trope.Engendering Genre: The Works of Margaret Atwood
Par Reingard M. Nischik. 2009
Winner of the 2010 Margaret Atwood Society Best Book Prize. In Engendering Genre, renowned Margaret Atwood scholar Reingard M. Nischik…
analyzes the relationship between gender and genre in Atwood’s works. She approaches Atwood’s oeuvre by genre – poetry, short fiction, novels, criticism, comics, and film – and examines them individually. She explores how Atwood has developed her genres to be gender-sensitive in both content and form and argues that gender and genre are inherently complicit in Atwood’s work: they converge to critique the gender-biased designs of traditional genres. This combination of gender and genre results in the recognizable Atwoodian style that shakes and extends the boundaries of conventional genres and explores them in new ways. The book includes the first in-depth treatment of Atwood’s cartoon art as well as the first survey of her involvement with film, and concludes with an interview with Margaret Atwood on her career “From Survivalwoman to Literary Icon.”Northrop Frye and Others: The Order of Words (Canadian Literature Collection)
Par Robert D. Denham. 2017
This book, based on extensive archival and historical work, identifies and brings to light additional and littlerecognized intellectual influences on…
Frye, and analyzes how they informed his thought. These are variously major thinkers, sets of texts, and intellectual traditions: the Mahayana Sutras, Machiavelli, Rabelais, Boehme, Hegel, Coleridge, Carlyle, Mill, Jane Ellen Harrison and Elizabeth Fraser. In each chapter, dedicated to Frye’s connection to a specific influence, Denham describes how Frye became acquainted with each, and how he interpreted and adapted certain ideas from them to help work out his own conceptual systems. Denham offers insights on Frye’s relationship with his historical and intellectual contexts, provides valuable additional context for understanding the work of one of the 20th century’s leading scholars of literature and culture. Includes over 20 photos, tables and figures, as well as a chapter on Frye’s personal relationship with Elizabeth Fraser.The format of this book is arbitrary and exact, the way paint is in a landscape by Alex Colville. It…
follows the program of the symposium that took place at the University of Ottawa, from April 25 to 27, 1986. As Bakhtin leaps from the sidelines to centre stage, as Derrida clambers out of orchestra pit into the prompter's box, and Lancan swings from the flies, as Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, Barthes, and a throng of others rhubarb their way through the text, one recognizes just how connected all the disparate elements of this critical extravaganza really are.The God of Gods: A Critical Edition (Canadian Literature Collection)
Par Carroll Aikins. 2016
Carroll Aikins’s play The God of Gods (1919) has been out of print since its first and only edition in…
1927. This critical edition not only revives the work for readers and scholars alike, it also provides historical context for Aikins’s often overlooked contributions to theatre in the 1920s and presents research on the different staging techniques in the play’s productions. Much of the play’s historical significance lies in Aikins’s vital role in Canadian theatre, as director of the Home Theatre in British Columbia (1920–22) and artistic director of Toronto’s Hart House Theatre (1927–29). Wright reveals The God of Gods as a modernist Canadian work with overt influences from European and American modernisms. Aikins’s work has been compared to European modernists Gordon Craig, Adolphe Appia, and Jacques Copeau. Importantly, he was also intimately connected with modernist Canadian artists and the Group of Seven (who painted the scenery for Hart House Theatre). The God of Gods contributes to current studies of theatrical modernism by exposing the primitivist aesthetics and theosophical beliefs promoted by some of Canada’s art circles at the turn of the twentieth century. Whereas Aikins is clearly progressive in his political critique of materialism and organized religion, he presents a conservative dramatization of the noble savage as hero. The critical introduction examines how The God of Gods engages with Nietzschean and theosophical philosophies in order to dramatize an Aboriginal lover-artist figure that critiques religious idols, materialism, and violence. Ultimately, The God of Gods offers a look into how English and Canadian theatre audiences responded to primitivism, theatrical modernism, and theosophical tenets during the 1920s.