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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2015
Chapter 12
Reading Smart Girls: Post-Nerds in Post-Feminist Popular Culture
Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby
Shauna Pomerantz and Rebecca Raby examine how the “post-nerd smart girl”--attractive, intelligent and sexually desirable--is portrayed in The Gilmore Girls, High School...
by Kirstin Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This study examines Mary Wollstonecraft—generally recognized as the founder of the early feminist movement—by shedding light on her contributions to eighteenth-century instructional literature, and feminist pedagogy in particular. While contemporary scholars have extensively theorized Wollstonecraft’s...
bpNichol
What History Teaches
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Scobie illuminates bpNichol’s relationship to Dadaism, contemporary French literary theory and the writing of Gertrude Stein, and argues strongly for Nichol’s importance as a writer of fiction.
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Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory
Essays in Honour of Barbara Godard
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Trans/acting Culture, Writing, and Memory is a collection of essays written in honour of Barbara Godard, one of the most original and wide-ranging literary critics, theorists, teachers, translators, and public intellectuals Canada has ever produced. The contributors, both established and emerging...
Helene Cixous
Authorship, Autobiography and Love
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2013
This book is a clear and accessible introduction to the writings of Helene Cixous, novelist, dramatist and critic, whose work has had a major impact on feminist theory and practice.
Susan Sellers, a major scholar on Cixous, provides a lucid account of Cixous's theoretical position, and in particular...
Regenerations / Régénérations
Canadian Women's Writing / Écriture des femmes au Canada
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Buttressed by a wealth of new, collaborative research methods and technologies, the contributors of this collection examine women's writing in Canada, past and present, with 11 essays in English and 5 in French. Regenerations was born out of the inaugural conference of the Canadian Writing Research...
by Martine Beugnet, Marion Schmid
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Film established itself as an artistic form of expression at the same time that Proust started work on his masterpiece, A la recherche du temps perdu. If Proust apparently took little interest in what he described as a poor avatar of reductive, mimetic representation, the resonances between his own...
Sounding Off
Rhythm, Music, and Identity in West African and Caribbean Francophone Novels
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Intrigued by "texted" sonorities—the rhythms, musics, ordinary noises, and sounds of language in narratives—Julie Huntington examines the soundscapes in contemporary Francophone novels such as Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood (Senegal), and Patrick Chamoiseau's Solibo Magnificent...
Locating Hybridity
Creole, Identities and Body Politics in the Novels of Ananda Devi
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
Despite its inherent negative implications as a purveyor of essentialism, the concept of hybridity holds a great deal of critical purchase in the postcolonial world. Hybridity allows identities and cultures to be conceptualized as different and manifold, allowing for the undermining of the binaries...
Cinepoetry
Imaginary Cinemas in French Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Cinepoetry analyzes how French poets have remapped poetry through the lens of cinema for more than a century. In showing how poets have drawn on mass culture, technology, and material images to incorporate the idea, technique, and experience of cinema into writing, Wall-Romana documents the long history...
The Politics of Interweaving Performance Cultures
Beyond Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This book provides a timely intervention in the fields of performance studies and theatre history, and to larger issues of global cultural exchange. The authors offer a provocative argument for rethinking the scholarly assessment of how diverse performative cultures interact, how they are interwoven,...
Meanwhile
The Critical Writings of bpNichol
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Representing a substantial collection of bpNichol’s critical writing from the mid-1960s to the year of his death, 1988, Meanwhile puts him on the vanguard of Canadian literature and critical theory. This collection is essential to our sense of Nichol not only as a writer, but also as a person of exemplary generosity, imagination and intellectual range.
Ravel the Decadent
Memory, Sublimation, and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
The music of Maurice Ravel (1875-1937), beloved by musicians and audiences since its debut, has been a difficult topic for scholars. The traditional stylistic categories of impressionism, symbolism, and neoclassicism, while relevant, have offered too little purchase on this fascinating but enigmatic...
Sonic Rupture
A Practice-led Approach to Urban Soundscape Design
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Sonic Rupture applies a practitioner-led approach to urban soundscape design, which foregrounds the importance of creative encounters in global cities. This presents an alternative to those urban soundscape design approaches concerned with managing the negative health impacts of noise. Instead, urban...