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Pascal the Philosopher
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Blaise Pascal has always been appreciated as a literary giant and a religious guide, but has received only grudging recognition as a philosopher: philosophers have mistaken Pascal’s harsh criticism of their discipline as a rejection of it. But according to Graeme Hunter, Pascal’s critics have...
by Patrizia Gentile, Jane Nicholas
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
From fur coats to nude paintings, and from sports to beauty contests, the body has been central to the literal and figurative fashioning of ourselves as individuals and as a nation. In this first collection on the history of the body in Canada, an interdisciplinary group of scholars explores the multiple...
Silent Moments in Education
An Autoethnography of Learning, Teaching, and Learning to Teach
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
Colette A. Granger's highly original book considers moments in several areas of education in which silence may serve as both a response to difficulty and a means of working through it. The author, a teacher educator, presents narratives and other textual artefacts from her own experiences of learning...
Reconciling Canada
Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2013
Truth and reconciliation commissions and official governmental apologies continue to surface worldwide as mechanisms for coming to terms with human rights violations and social atrocities. As the first scholarly collection to explore the intersections and differences between a range of redress cases...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1954
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1954
Sarah Hutchinson has never been much more than a name, though a name connected with some of the greatest in English literature. The sister of Mrs. Wordsworth, and a member of the Wordsworth household for thirty years, Coleridge's beloved Asra to whom many of his poems were written, Southey's friend...
by Gerard Bouchard, Les Editions du Boreal
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths – Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific – are...
Karl Philipp Moritz
At the Fringe of Genius
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1979
This is the first complete biographical and critical study of Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–93), German novelist, teacher, journalist, and philologist. His psychological novel, Anton Reiser, replete with insights into the sociological and psychological life of the time, was one of the most important...
by Benjamin Bart, Robert Cook
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1977
The sources for La Légende de Saint Julien l’Hospitalier, one of Flaubert’s finest literary works, have long been the subject of numerous conflicting theories. The implications of the controversy are broad and important, not only for Flaubert’s work but also for our understanding of how writers...
Encounters with a Radical Erasmus
Erasmus' Work as a Source of Radical Thought in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2008
Although Erasmus is now accepted as a harbinger of liberal trends in mainstream Christian theology, the radical - even subversive - aspects of his work have received less attention. Beginning with a redefinition of the term radicalism, Peter G. Bietenholz examines the ways in which the radical aspects...
The Correspondence of Wolfgang Capito
Volume 3 (1532-1536)
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2015
Wolfgang Capito (1478–1541), a leading Christian Hebraist and Catholic churchman who converted to Protestantism, was a pivotal figure in the history of the Reformation. After serving as a professor of theology in Basel and adviser to the archbishop of Mainz, he moved to Strasbourg, which became,...
Body & Soul
Narratives of Healing from Ars Medica
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2011
Illness affects us all; we are called on to support and care for loved ones who face health challenges, and in turn, we encounter our own physical and emotional frailties when our health declines. Body & Soul features inspiring and award-winning fiction, essays, memoirs, poetry, photography, and...
The Correspondence of Erasmus
Letters 2357 to 2471
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Many of the letters in this volume, which covers the period August 1530 to March 1531, reflect Erasmus' anxieties over events at the Diet of Augsburg (June-November 1530), at which the first of many attempts to achieve a negotiated settlement of the religious division in Germany came to a rancorous...
A.M. Klein The Letters
Collected Works of A.M. Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2011
In the final volume of the Collected Works of A.M. Klein, Elizabeth Popham completes the process of restoring the public voice of one of Canada's most respected authors. A.M. Klein: The Letters is the first compilation of a significant body of Klein's correspondence. Using his communications to construct...
Remodelling Communication
From WWII to the WWW
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Covering major developments from post-war cybernetics and telegraphy to the Internet and our networked society, Remodelling Communication explores the critical literature from across disciplines and eras on the models used for studying communications and culture.
Proceeding model-by-model,...