University Of Ottawa Press: 132 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of culture at home was an effort to make the resulting works available for audiences elsewhere in the world. Current...
The Evolving Physiology of Government
Canadian Public Administration in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2009
Canadian public administration has provided a rich ground for examining the changing nature of the state. Currents of political change have rippled through the administration of the public sector, often producing significant alterations in our understanding of how best to organize and administer public...
Accounting for Culture
Thinking Through Cultural Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2005
Many scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers in the cultural sector argue that Canadian cultural policy is at a crossroads: that the environment for cultural policy-making has evolved substantially and that traditional rationales for state intervention no longer apply.
The concept of cultural...
by Laurie Kruk
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Double-Voicing the Canadian Short Story is the first comparative study of eight internationally and nationally acclaimed writers of short fiction: Sandra Birdsell, Timothy Findley, Jack Hodgins, Thomas King, Alistair MacLeod, Olive Senior, Carol Shields and Guy Vanderhaeghe. With the 2013 Nobel Prize...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
"Carol was a very fine writer and a remarkable human being, a wonderful person whose work I closely followed for more than 20 years. I interviewed her frequently over those years, with virtually every work she produced —novel, radio drama, play, book of stories. So I had a good sense of the...
The God of Gods: A Canadian Play
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 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...
Managing Diversity
Practices of Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2007
Australia, Canada, and Ireland are all engaged in questions of multiculturalism and in the politics of recognition and reconciliation, the opportunities and pressures of geographic regionalism, shifts in political agendas associated with the impact of neo-liberalism, and moves to frame political agendas...
The Forgotten Peace
Mediation at Niagara Falls
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2010
In the early hours of April 22, 1914, American President Woodrow Wilson sent Marines to seize the port of Veracruz in an attempt to alter the course of the Mexican Revolution. As a result, the United States seemed on the brink of war with Mexico. An international uproar ensued. The governments of...
Jacob Isaac Segal
A Montreal Yiddish Poet and His Milieu
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Translated by Vivian Felsen
Finalist, 2018 Governor General’s Literary Awards (GGBooks), Translation category
Born in the Ukraine in 1896, and settling in Montreal in 1910, Segal became one of the first Yiddish writers in Canada. His poetry, infused with lyricism and mysticism, along...
This Time a Better Earth, by Ted Allan
A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
A young Canadian marches over the Pyrenees and enters into history by joining the International Brigades—men and women from around the world who volunteered to fight against fascism in the Spanish Civil War. This new edition of Ted Allan’s novel, This Time a Better Earth, reintroduces readers...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
This collection focuses on Lowry’s spatial dynamics, from the psychogeography of the Letterist and the Situationist International, through musical forms (especially jazz), cinema, photography, and spatialpoetic writing, to the spaces of exception, bio-politics, and the creaturely. It presents previously...
Interpreting the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal
A Sociopolitical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2010
In order to ensure its absolute authority, the Tokyo War Crimes Tribunal (1946–1948), the Japanese counterpart of the Nuremberg Trial, adopted a three-tier structure for its interpreting: Japanese nationals interpreted the proceedings, second-generation Japanese-Americans monitored the interpreting,...
Accessibility and Active Offer
Health Care and Social Services in Linguistic Minority Communities
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
It is imperative that we train leaders who are able to intervene efficiently with service users and to support a better organization of the workplace. It is especially important to look at the many issues related to postsecondary training and human resources, such as recruiting and keeping these leading...
Second Finding
A Poetics of Translation
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2007
The translation of poetry has always fascinated the theorists, as the chances of "replicating" in another language the one-off resonance of music, imagery, and truth values of a poem are vanishingly small. Translation is often envisaged as a matter of mapping over into the target language...