University Of Ottawa Press: 132 books
Dry Water
A Novel by Robert J.C. Stead
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2008
Dry Water tells the story of Donald Strand, from the time of his arrival as a ten-year-old orphan at his relatives’ Manitoba farm in 1890 to his apogee as a successful farmer. It recounts the crises he faces during a troubled marriage and the great stock market crash of 1929. His life parallels...
Conversations with Trotsky
Earle Birney and the Radical 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This collection presents all of Earle Birney’s known published and unpublished writings on Trotsky and Trotskyism for the very first time. It includes their correspondence as well as a selection of Birney’s letters and literary writings.
Before he became one of Canada’s most influential...
Double-Takes
Intersections between Canadian Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2013
Over the past forty years, Canadian literature has found its way to the silver screen with increasing regularity. Beginning with the adaptation of Margaret Laurence’s A Jest of God to the Hollywood film Rachel, Rachel in 1966, Canadian writing would appear to have found a doubly successful life...
Philosophical Apprenticeships
Contemporary Continental Philosophy in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
Philosophical Apprenticeships gathers fresh and innovative essays written by the next generation of Canada's philosophers on the work of prominent Canadian philosophers currently researching topics in continental philosophy. The authors--doctoral students studying at Canadian universities--have studied...
Home-Work
Postcolonialism, Pedagogy, and Canadian Literature
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2004
Canadian literature, and specifically the teaching of Canadian literature, has emerged from a colonial duty to a nationalist enterprise and into the current territory of postcolonialism. From practical discussions related to specific texts, to more theoretical discussions about pedagogical practice...
The Way Ahead
Meeting Canada's Productivity Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2008
Canada is a prosperous country, but this prosperity is being stressed by demographics, pressures on the public purse, and low productivity growth. To maintain the nation's high quality of life, prosperity must increase while remaining sustainable. Combining Tom Brzustowski's extensive knowledge of...
Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures
A Plea for Experimentalism
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2009
In Crippling Epistemologies and Governance Failures, Gilles Paquet criticizes the prevailing practices of the social sciences on the basis of their inadequate concepts of knowledge, evidence and inquiry, concepts he claims have become methodological “mental prisons”. Paquet describes the prevailing...
Life, Fish and Mangroves
Resource Governance in Coastal Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2012
In Life, Fish and Mangroves, Melissa Marschke explores the potential of resource governance, offering a case study of resource-dependent village life. Following six households and one village-based institution in coastal Cambodia over a twelve-year period, Marschke reveals the opportunities and constraints...
The Service State: Rhetoric, Reality and Promise
Rhetoric, Reality and Promise
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
In the past ten years, Canadians have witnessed a renaissance in the delivery of government services. New service organizations are cropping up across the country and accomplishing extraordinary things. Efforts are being made to consult citizens on how to improve and integrate services. Considerable...
Taking It to the Hill
The Complete Guide to Appearing Before Parliamentary Committees
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2005
The standing committees of the House of Commons and Senate make it possible for practically any person or group to access the policy-making process and become a lobbyist. This handy and complete guide coaches prospective witnesses to do it right. Targeted primarily at those who have a stake in advancing...
Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life
A Novel by Susanna Moodie
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Flora Lyndsay is Susanna Moodie’s prequel to Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Clearings. Though Moodie fictionalizes herself in the context of this novel, Flora Lyndsay remains a close personalized record of her family’s experiences in planning their emigration and crossing the Atlantic.
Despite...
The 1940 Under the Volcano
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
The 1940 Under the Volcano—hidden for too long in the shadows of Lowry’s 1947 masterpiece—differs from the latter in significant ways. It is a bridge between Lowry’s 1930s fiction (especially In Ballast to the White Sea) and the 1947 Under the Volcano itself. Joining the recently published...
Swinging the Maelstrom
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2013
Swinging the Maelstrom is the story of a musician enduring existence in the Bellevue psychiatric hospital in New York. Written during his happiest and most fruitful years, this novella reveals the deep healing influence that the idyllic retreat at Dollarton had on Lowry.
This long-overdue...
by Malcolm Lowry, Chris Ackerley
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
In Ballast to the White Sea is Malcolm Lowry’s most ambitious work of the mid-1930s. Inspired by his life experience, the novel recounts the story of a Cambridge undergraduate who aspires to be a writer but has come to believe that both his book and, in a sense, his life have already been “written.”...