• Reading poetry and its paratexts model users’ rights: Mary Dalton’s Hooking, cento poetics, and copyright law 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (2020-03)

  This draft paper focuses on Newfoundland poet Mary Dalton's 2013 book Hooking -- a collection of centos (poems composed only of lines from other poems) -- in order to propose a method for reading the exercise of users' ...

• The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (Athabasca University Press, 2018)

  Technology, a word that emerged historically first to denote the study of any art or technique, has come, in modernity, to describe advanced machines, industrial systems, and media. McCutcheon argues that it is Mary Shelley’s ...

• "Little crimeworn histories": Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (Palgrave Macmillan, 2018)

  From James Rovira's introduction: "Mark A. McCutcheon shifts the locus of suffering to substance abuse in '"Little crimeworn histories": Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom.' McCutcheon examines the ...

• Stephen Harper as killer robot 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (English Studies in Canada, 2017)

  In popular culture and public discourse, especially on the Internet, the image of Canada’s former Prime Minister Stephen Harper is conspicuously characterized and caricatured as robotic [...] Amidst popular culture’s hordes ...

• A Close Reading of Part 5 of Robert Kroetsch’s 1977 long poem SEED CATALOGUE 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (The Explicator, 2017)

  A close reading of Part 5 of Robert Kroetsch's 1977 long poem Seed Catalogue

• Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Methods: Review of Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism, by David McNally 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (Extrapolation (Liverpool UP), 2014)

  A book review of Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism (2012) by David McNally, published in the science fiction studies journal Extrapolation.

• "Come on back to the war": Germany as the Other National Other in Canadian Popular Literature 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (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 ...

• Institutions and Interpellations of the Dubject, the Doubled and Spaced Self 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (Athabasca University Press, 2016)

  This essay develops the idea of the dubject as a model of remediateda subjectivity. It will discuss some theoretical and institutional contexts of the dubject, and then will consider digital manifestations of the dubject ...

• Resistance is Futile: On the Under-Representation of Unions in Science Fiction 

  McCutcheon, Mark A.; Barnetson, Bob (TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 2016)

  This article surveys science fiction (SF) since 1980, and queries the conspicuous under-representation of recognizable images of unions in popular SF, which includes, in contrast, numerous images and narratives of corporate ...

• Fair dealing: We’ve got it, let’s use it. Review of Rosemary Coombe et al's Dynamic Fair Dealing 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, 2016)

  This review of Rosemary Coombe et al's edited collection Dynamic Fair Dealing: Creating Canadian culture online (University of Toronto Press, 2014) sketches the global and Canadian copyright contexts that make this book ...

• Introduction to New Fronts in the Copyfight, Part 2 (2015-16) 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, 2016)

  This article introduces the second part of New fronts in the copyfight: Multidisciplinary directions in critical copyright studies (the first part of which appeared in DSCN Vol. 4 [2014]). The article surveys recent and ...

• Introduction to New Fronts in the Copyfight, Part 1 (2014-15) 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (Digital Studies/Le champ numérique, 2015)

  Intellectual property (IP) is a subject of concern to all academics because it is the legal-economic infrastructure of all academic work. The long-increasing, now accelerating, and multilateral strengthening of IP regulation ...

• The DJ as Critic, "constructing a sort of argument" 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (English Studies in Canada, 2015)

  Countering romanticized representations of the disc jockey (DJ) as author, rock star, or shaman, this essay argues that the DJ is best understood as a critic, emblematic of appropriation as criticism in a mediascape ...

• Cynicism, the Heuristic Pharmakon 

  McCutcheon, Mark A. (English Studies in Canada, 2012-06)

  Cynicism can productively guide critical thinking about social relations under late neoliberal capital, in terms of power and ethics, in terms of knowledge and interpretation. A cynical perspective makes for a safe bet in ...

• Problems for the Italian-Canadian Writer and Critic: A Discussion in Three Parts 

  Pivato, Joseph J. (University of Toronto, Iacobucci Centre, 2009)

  Part One: The State of the Art; Part Two: Younger Writers; Part Three: The Burdens of History for the Italian

• Twenty Years of Change: The Paradox of Italian-Canadian Writers 

  Pivato, Joseph J. (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 ...

• Cosmic Ear: Calabrian Writers in Canada 

  Pivato, Joseph J. (Australasian Canadian Studies, 2005)

  "Our House is in a Cosmic Ear" is the title of a poem by Antonino Mazza, a poet and translator who epitomizes Calabrian writers in Canada. Calabrians constitute a very large proportion of the Italians in Canada. There are ...

• Friulani Writers in Canada: Elegy for the Future 

  Pivato, Joseph J. (Udine: Forum, 2005)

  One day we got lost in Pordenone. On a long drive from Udine to Bassano we took a wrong turn and found ourselves in a newly built area of Pordenone. The streets, sidewalks, green lawns and house designs were all a reproduction ...

• Five–Fold Translation in the Theatre of Marco Micone 

  Pivato, Joseph J. (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 ...

• Shirt and the Happy Man: Theory and Politics in Ethnic Minority Writing 

  Pivato, Joseph J. (Canadian Ethnic Studies, 1996)

  Ethnic minority writing in Canada was once a neglected field not only by Canadianists promoting a canon for a national literature, but also by theorists who focused on the great works from major European languages as the ...

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