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Frankenstein as a figure of globalization in Canada’s postcolonial popular culture
(Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2011-10)This essay analyzes the cultural functions of Frankenstein as a figure of globalization in postcolonial popular culture. Focusing on the case of Canadian film production, I begin by contextualizing Canadian film as a ... -
Frankenstein Meets the FAANG Five: Figures of Monstrous Technology in Digital Media Discourse
(University of Delaware Press, 2022)This chapter first reprises the twofold argument from my book The Medium Is the Monster: the argument that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein effectively reinvented the meaning of the word "technology" for modern English, and ... -
Friulani Writers in Canada: Elegy for the Future
(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 ... -
Fuga e Ritorno: Italian-Canadian Narratives
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The Fur Trade and Western Canadian Society, 1670-1870
(The Canadian Historical Association, 1987)The political, economic, and social history of present day Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, was, for the first two hundred years of European contact, a product of the fur trade. At various posts ... -
Helen Creighton and the Traditional Songs of Nova Scota
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The Historiography of the Red River Settlement, 1830-1868
(Prairie Forum, 1981)In the many studies of the Red River Settlement written since 1856, the prime factors affecting the Settlement have been variously conceived as economic, geographic or political. In contrast to the traditional historical ... -
History of the Canadian Metis : study guide
(Athabasca University, 1996)The political, economic, and social history of present-day Canada was, for the first three huhdred years after European contact, a product of the fisheries and the fur trade. Posts along the ocean shores and along the ... -
In Memoriam R2Rs, 1981-1997
(The Canadian Folk Music Bulletin, 1998) -
In Memoriam: John Hasted, 1921-2002
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The Influence of French and English Socialism on the Early Thought of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, 1835-1847
(2008-05-17)The Influence of French and English Socialism on the Early Thought of Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx, 1835-1847 -
Insidious Sources and the Historical Interpretation of the Pre-1870 West
(Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1991)There has been a noticeable absence of the Anglican church, or its documents, in the mainstream of Canadian historical writing on the pre-1870 west. This does not mean that the Church of England has not been the subject ... -
Institutions and Interpellations of the Dubject, the Doubled and Spaced Self
(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 ... -
Interpretation on the New Frontier:The Alberta Experience
(Alberta Museums Review, 1994)The author has provided a thought-provoking analysis of the origins and influences of the heritage interpretation field in Alberta. He explores the effect successive generations of immigrants have had on the culture of the ... -
Introduction to New Fronts in the Copyfight, Part 1 (2014-15)
(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 ... -
Introduction to New Fronts in the Copyfight, Part 2 (2015-16)
(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 ... -
Ipsographing the Dubject; or, The Contradictions of Twitter
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An Italian Jesuit in Canada: Faith and the Imagination in the 'Breve Relatione' of 1653
(2010-06-23)Bressani published his Breve Relatione in Italian in 1653. He had spent the years 1642 to 1650 in New France as a Jesuit missionary. As a Jesuit he was aware of the expansion of the European powers in the New World: ... -
Jewels Left in the Dung-hills: Broadside and other Vernacular Ballads Rejected by Francis Child
(Canadian Journal for Traditional Music/Revue de musique folklorique canadienne, 2002)Although The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1 882-1 898) was the most systematic and scholarly collection of vernacular ballads published in the Victorian era, Francis Child nonetheless omitted from his canon a ... -
Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' Knowledge of French Socialism in 1842‑43
(Historical Reflections, 1983)