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Debating Metis Rights
(Literary Review of Canada, 1992-04)Thomas Flanagan usually manages to place himself at the centre of controversy whenever he writes about the Metis. While his work may often appear to be motivated by ideology rather than the persuasiveness of historical ... -
The Decade of Transition: The North Atlantic Triangle during the 1920s
(The North Atlantic triangle in a changing world : Anglo-American-Canadian relations, 1902-1956 (Toronto (Ont), 1996), 1996) -
The DJ as Critic, "constructing a sort of argument"
(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 ... -
Downloading Doppelgängers: New Media Anxieties and Transnational Ironies in Battlestar Galactica
(SFFTV, Liverpool University Press, 2009)This essay reads the re-made Battlestar Galactica series—-a 21st-century Frankenstein—-according to the Canadian contexts of its production and the globalized contexts of its distribution, both formal (on cable TV) and ... -
Dubjection: A Node (Reflections on Web-Conferencing, McLuhan, and Intellectual Property)
(2014-03-20)From the editors' introduction to the book in which this chapter appears, _McLuhan's Global Village Today_ (Pickering & Chatto, 2014): "Mark A. McCutcheon’s contribution, ‘Dubjection: A Node (Reflections on Web-Conferencing, ... -
E.D. Blodgett and Comparative Canadian Literature
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The Elisabeth Greenleaf Collection at MUNFLA: An Overview
(Canadian Folk Music/Bulletin de musique folklorique canadienne, 2003) -
The Evacuation of the Japanese Canadians, 1942: A Realist Critique of the Received Version
(Ottawa, Canadian Committee for the History of the Second World War, 1988, 1988) -
The Expanse Season 6 [media review]
(Foundation: The International Review of Science Fiction, 2022)A critical review of season 6 of the science fiction TV series The Expanse for the international SF journal Foundation. -
Fair dealing: We’ve got it, let’s use it. Review of Rosemary Coombe et al's Dynamic Fair Dealing
(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 ... -
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 ... -
Fonds Edith Fowke
(Canadian Folk Music/Bulletin de musique folklorique canadienne, 2002) -
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
(Canadian Folk Music/Bulletin de musique folklorique canadienne, 2004) -
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 ...