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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 ...

This is the beautifully written, compellingly inspiring rags-to-riches story of a Taiwanese youngster, Ruey Yu, born into a ravaged and occupied country, who went on to co-found and build a multi-million-dollar American skin care empire, NeoStrata.

The widest-ranging exploration to date of the interaction between English Canadian literature and film.

Looks at the role played throughout history by translators and interpreters in international relations. This book considers how political linguistics function and have functioned throughout history.

A return on Erving Goffman's seminal 1963 Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity.

The first comprehensive analysis of the July 2012 Supreme Court of Canada rulings on five copyright cases, this indispensible volume, edited by Michael Geist identifies the key aspects of the Court's decisions and considers the implications for the future of copyright law in Canada.

In the fight against zombies, our most important weapons are our brains. It's time to unleash them.

Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot's travel diary of his 1887 trip to Morocco, which presents his personal reflections on the "Orient" and its inhabitants.

The first multi-disciplinary collection of essays to focus exclusively on early Canadian literature with the aim of reassessing the field and proposing new approaches.

Flora Lyndsay, a prequel to Susanna Moodie's Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Clearings, presents a fictionalized record of her family's experiences in planning their emigration and crossing the Atlantic.

Presents an analysis of the emergence of simultaneous interpretation a the Nuremburg Trail and the individuals who made the process possible. This work provides an overview of the specific linguistic needs of the trial, and examines the recruiting of interpreters and the technical support available to them.

This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss in a fire. In fact, the typescript itself has probably been read by at most a dozen people since Lowry scholars learned that it was deposited at the New York Public Library.

eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls' and young women's experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars, as well as Canada's foremost digital literacy organization, MediaSmarts, this collection presents the complex realities of digitized communications ...

A young man marches over the Pyrenees to fight fascism. This new edition of Ted Allan's novel reintroduces readers to the electrifying milieu of the Spanish Civil War.

Colin Grant challenges the popular use of "myth" as a dismissive designation of the superstitions and falsehoods of "other" cultures. The author maintains that myths occupy a place in our present-day lives that is every bit as important to us as the divinities and heroes of classical antiquity were to the ancients. The myths themselves are in a constant state of flux and transformation. They ebb and flow, both within the context of wider cultu...

With nine out of ten Canadians claiming a religious affiliation of some kind, faith has huge impact on our personal and social lives. In this book, the author offers a comprehensive history of religion in Canada and examines the tug-of-war between modernity and conservatism within the religious traditions themselves.

The revolutionary movements of 1848 viewed the political cataclysm of continental Europe as an explosion of liberty, an age of freedom and equality. This title focuses on the relationship between democratic and socialist currents in 1848, seeking to reassess the relevance of these currents to the era of global economic liberalism.

From refugee policy to migration songs, this unique collection of essays demonstrates how important immigration and ties to other parts of the world are to Canadians and to the Canadian identity. Contributors explore how migration has been a key issue in Canada's social, economic, political, and cultural life.

Translating Women explores women in translation in many contexts, whether they are translators, authors, or characters. Together the contributors show that feminist theory can apply to translation in many new and unexplored ways and that it deserves the full attention of the discipline that helped it become internationally influential.

DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance.Combining the rhythms of reggae, digital sounds and rapid-fire DJ lyrics, danceh...