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Twenty Years of Change: The Paradox of Italian-Canadian Writers
(Strange Peregrinations, 2006)
The most significant development which has taken place among Italian-Canadian writers since 1986 is the great amount of writing and publication. This was not supposed to happen according to most opinions. I recall that for ...
A Midsummer Night's Mash-up: Adapting Shakespeare as a Canada Day Dance Party
(Canadian Theatre Review, 2002)
On 1 July 2000, Toronto's Opera House became
the unlikely set for a passing strange adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Serenity Industries, a Toronto dance party promotion company, hired the Queen ...
Ipsographing the Dubject; or, The Contradictions of Twitter
(Socialist Studies, 2009)
Five–Fold Translation in the Theatre of Marco Micone
(Canadian Theatre Review, 2001)
In the complex relationship between the literatures of English Canada and Quebec translation has played an important role. Now with the emergence of ethnic minority writing in Canada this binary model of the literary ...
Agamben, Hegel, and the State of Exception
(Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2007)
In his account of the state of exception, Agamben repeatedly relies upon what Hegel
would have called Wesenslogik or ‘transcendental thinking’. Because of this reliance, the state of
exception appears in Agamben’s account ...
A Species-Based Environmental Ethic in Hegel’s Logic of Life
(The Owl of Minerva, 2009)
In this paper I will argue that Hegel’s account of the category of
life in the Science of Logic provides ontological grounds for the recognition
of living species along with their various ecosystems as the proper objects ...
"Come on back to the war": Germany as the Other National Other in Canadian Popular Literature
(University of Toronto Quarterly, 2009)
This essay argues for bringing the methodology of post-colonial studies to bear on mainstream Canadian popular culture, towards a rethinking of Canada's ideological affinities with nations traditionally considered as ...