Browsing Centre for Humanities by Title
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Karl Marx's and Friedrich Engels' Knowledge of French Socialism in 1842‑43
(Historical Reflections, 1983) -
Kenneth Peacock’s Songs of the Newfoundland Outports
(Canadian Folk Music/Musique folklorique canadienne, 2006) -
Liber Amoris and the Lineaments of Hazlitt’s Desire
(TSLL, University of Texas Press, 2004)This essay counters the literary critical consensus whereby William Hazlitt’s representations of the woman he arguably libeled in Liber Amoris have been taken at face value. The essay first historicizes Hazlitt’s professional ... -
"Little crimeworn histories": Nick Cave and the Roots-Raves-Rehab Story of Rock Stardom
(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 ... -
Lomax on Canadian Folk Music
(Canadian Folk Music/Bulletin de musique folklorique canadienne, 2002) -
Marginalized, Excluded, Denied: Italian-Canadian Writers and the Hyphen
(University of Winnipeg, 2018-09-28) -
The Medicine Line and the Thin Red Line
(Montana, the Magazine of Western History, 1996)The Medicine Line, the name given by the Blackfoot to the Canadian-American border, reflects the "magic" that it imposes on certain people. How can similar peoples sharing the same continent be so different when divided ... -
The Medium Is the Monster: Canadian Adaptations of Frankenstein and the Discourse of Technology
(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 ... -
Metis Studies : The Development of a Field and New Directions
(University of Alberta Press, 2001)Until recently, sources for Mets studies have been few both for classroom use as well as academic reflection. Lately, there has been a virtual explosion of interest, although largely among non-Mets historians. Now this to ... -
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 ... -
Moira Cameron: Northern Balladeer
(Canadian Folk Music/Bulletin de musique folklorique canadienne, 2002) -
Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Methods: Review of Monsters of the Market: Zombies, Vampires, and Global Capitalism, by David McNally
(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. -
Nature and Culture: A New World Heritage Context
(International Journal of Cultural Property, 2008)The understanding of the relationship between culture and nature as manifested in the UNESCO declarations and practices has changed over the last few years. The World Heritage Convention is continuing to evolve ... -
A New Monster Manual, in Theory (Review of The Monster Theory Reader, ed. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock)
(Extrapolation, 2021)A review of The Monster Theory Reader, edited by Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock (U of Minnesota P, 2020), in the SF studies journal Extrapolation vol. 62 no. 3 (2021). This is a post-print copy; the published version of record ... -
Newfoundland Traditional Song: The Legacy from the English West Country
(Canadian Journal for Traditional Music/Revue de musique folklorique canadienne, 2004) -
On "Vulgar Exhibition": Hazlitt, "The Fight" and the Pornography of Popularity
(Nineteenth-Century Prose, 2009)This essay pursues Hazlitt as a case in Cultural Studies historiography by reading his 1822 essay "The Fight" as a contribution to the historical emergence of the discourse of "popular culture" as a class-inflected euphemism ... -
Paratextual and "sampladelic" techniques for "committing centonism" in contemporary poetry published in Canada
(Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2022-04)This chapter attempts to model a twofold method for reading centos ‒- poems composed wholly of excerpts from other works -‒ in relation to intellectual property (IP) law, in the context of contemporary poetry published in ...