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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 ... -
Phil Thomas: An Odyssey in Song
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Postmodern theory's retreat amidst postmodern art's return: neglect of IP law as a possible cause of postmodernism's "death"
(Faculty of Humanities & Social Sciences, Athabasca University, 2015-09-23)Despite the centrality of appropriation to postmodernist aesthetics, despite the embroilment of postmodernist artists in copyright actions, and despite the steady toughening of intellectual property (IP) law during the ... -
A Probe Into the Demographic Structure of Nineteenth Century Red River
(University of Alberta Press, 1976)To the casual observer in 1830 Red River appeared a picturesque rural backwater dotted with church steeples and numerous windmills. The impression would not have been inaccurate. By 1830 the settlement had recovered from ... -
Problems for the Italian-Canadian Writer and Critic: A Discussion in Three Parts
(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 -
Protestant agricultural Zions for the western Indian
(Journal of the Canadian Church Historical Society, 1972-09)Three evangelical Protestant denominations, the Anglicans, Methodists and Presbyterians established missions in the Canadian West from 1820 to 1870. Their success was marginal, with no missionary achieving the ultimate ... -
Reading poetry and its paratexts for evidence of fair dealing: Mary Dalton’s Hooking, cento poetics, and copyright law
(2020-11-14)A close reading of Canadian poetry books’ citational paratexts — such as the copyright page, whose statements hold both intertextual information and legal consequence — argues that Canadian poetry publishers make extensive ... -
Representation of Ethnicity as Problem: Essence or Construction
(Journal of Canadian Studies, 1996)The reading and study of ethnic minority writing repeatedly confront the problem of representation, and raise many questions in the debate between essentialism and social construction and implications for the issues of ... -
Resistance is Futile: On the Under-Representation of Unions in Science Fiction
(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 ... -
The Rev. Griffiths Owen Corbett and the Red River Civil War of 1869-70
(University of Toronto Press (http://www.utpjournals.com/jour.ihtml?lp=CHR.html), 1976-06)G.F.G. Stanley and W.L. Morton have offered two contradictory and well documented interpretations of the first Riel resistance. Professor Stanley places the resistance within the framework of the frontier thesis. To him ... -
The Rev. James Evans and the social antagonisms of the fur trade society, 1840-1846
(Canadian Plains Research Centre, 1974)In 1839 the Hudson's Bay Company invited four Methodist missionaries, James Evans, William Mason, Robert T. Rundle and George Barnley, to educate the heathen in Rupert's Land. By 1848 only Mason remained, and in 1854 he ... -
Review of Andrew C. Rouse, The Remunerated Vernacular Singer: From Medieval England to the Post-War Revival
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Review of Helen Creighton: Canada’s First Lady of Folklore, by Clary Croft (Halifax, NS: Nimbus, 1999)
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Review of Songs of the Sea: Traditional Folk Songs and Narratives from the Dr. Helen Creighton Collection (Dartmouth, NS: Helen Creighton Folklore Society, 2003)
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Review of The Expanse (TV series)
(SFRA Review, 2021-05-04)A co-authored review of The Expanse (TV series), focusing on Season 5, for the open-access online journal SFRA Review -
Riel House : A Critical Review
(Archivaria, 1984)A very critical study of the preservation strategies employed at Riel House. Riel House was opened to the public by Parks Canada in the summer of 1980, after almost a decade of research and restoration. Situated at 330 ... -
The Rise of the Heritage Priesthood or the Decline of Community Based Heritage
(Historic Preservation Forum, 1998)In October 1996 the United States Department of the Interior sent a cover letter for a lengthy document to state historic preservation officers and copied "tribes, professional organizations, and other interested parties." ...