University Of Ottawa Press: 132 books
Revolution or Renaissance
Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
In Revolution or Renaissance, D. Paul Schafer subjects two of the most powerful forces in the world – economics and culture – to a detailed and historically sensitive analysis. He argues that the economic age has produced a great deal of wealth and unleashed tremendous productive power; however,...
by Ruth Hubbard, Gilles Paquet
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2007
In 2004, Paul Martin asked Justice John Gomery to lead a public inquiry into potential misspending in the federal Sponsorship Program, a relatively small investment of taxpayers' money to try to convince Quebeckers of the benefits of Canadian federalism in the aftermath of the 1995 referendum on Quebec...
eGirls, eCitizens
Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
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,...
Reality
Fundamental Topics is Metaphysics
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
In Reality: Fundamental Topics in Metaphysics, Peter Loptson argues for a conception of metaphysics as the most general or comprehensive method of inquiry. Working from a broadly analytic and naturalist perspective, he confronts positions that claim metaphysics to be impossible, as advanced in ancient,...
Other Selves
Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Other Selves: Animals in the Canadian Literary Imagination begins with the premise, first suggested by Margaret Atwood in The Animals in That Country (1968), that animals have occupied a peculiarly central position in the Canadian imagination. Unlike the longer-settled countries of Europe or the more...
Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue
An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2013
Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose text by Yoko Tawada entitled ‘Portrait of a Tongue’ [‘Porträt...
They Divided the Sky
A Novel by Christa Wolf
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2013
First published in 1963, in East Germany, They Divided the Sky tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of the political positions they gradually develop but, very concretely, by the Berlin Wall, which...
The Hermes Complex
Philosophical Reflections on Translation
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words.
The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver the ideas and words...
by Réal Fillion
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2012
This work underscores the need to examine history philosophically, not only to better appreciate how it unfolds and relates to our own unfolding lives, but to better appreciate our free engagement in this changing world. Linking a conception of ourselves as free beings to the historical process was...
The Collected Poems of Miriam Waddington
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never private, emotional but not confessional, thoughtful but never cerebral. The subtlety of her craft is the hallmark of a modernist poet whose work opens to the world and its readers. She details intoxicating romance and mature...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2005
The Canadian Modernists Meet is a collection of new critical essays on major and rediscovered Canadian writers of the early to mid-twentieth century. F.R. Scott's well-known poem 'The Canadian Authors Meet' sets the theme for the volume: a revisiting of English Canada's formative movements in modernist...
Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History
Exploring Kant, Hegel, and Marx
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Multicultural Dynamics and the Ends of History provides a strikingly original reading of key texts in the philosophy of history by Kant, Hegel, and Marx, as well as strong arguments for why these texts are still relevant to understanding history today. Réal Fillion offers a critical exposition of...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2001
The articles in this collection, written by medievalists and Renaissance scholars, are part of the recent "cultural turn" in translation studies, which approaches translation as an activity that is powerfully affected by its socio-political context and the demands of the translating culture....
Stigma Revisited
Implications of the Mark
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
Stigma Revisited: Implications of the Mark is a collection of qualitative, empirical studies of populations who experience stigma. Discrimination, marginality and social injustice are recognized as indelibly tied to the phenomena of stigma. This volume builds on the work of Erving Goffman and integrates...