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Bonté III was five years old. A cow at that age is at her prime. Prime is an accounting term. A dairy farm is a business and must be managed as such. From this perspective,Bonté III’s days were numbered. Numbered is not an empty word. She had been a good representative...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2015-12-01
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In The Decolonizing Poetics of Indigenous Literatures, Mareike Neuhaus uncovers residues of ancestral languages found in Indigenous uses of English. She shows how these remainders ground a reading strategy that enables us to approach Indigenous texts as literature, with...
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U of R Press
Parution :
2015-11-01
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This smartly illustrated literary miscellanea will pique the interest of English prose enthusiasts anywhere. From “Dead Language – the Speaks” (e.g. ad-speak, etc.) to “Re-writing – Again?” and “Rules – Must We Obey?” authors Healey and Strube scrutinize prose in its...
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Baraka Books
Parution :
2015-04-15
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Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose text byYoko Tawada entitled...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2013-09-26
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Yoko Tawada's Portrait of a Tongue: An Experimental Translation by Chantal Wright is a hybrid text, innovatively combining literary criticism, experimental translation, and scholarly commentary. This work centres on a German-language prose text byYoko Tawada entitled...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2013-09-26
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First published in 1963, in East Germany, Christa Wolf's They Divided the Sky is one of the top 100 Must-Reads (Deutsche Welle).tells the story of a young couple, living in the new, socialist, East Germany, whose relationship is tested to the extreme not only because of...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2013-01-26
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When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words.The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2012-10-06
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When Hermes handed over to Apollo his finest invention, the lyre, in exchange for promotion to the status of messenger of the gods, he relinquished the creativity that gave life to his words.The trade-off proved frustrating: Hermes chafed under the obligation to deliver...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2012-10-06
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The Makura no Sôshi, orThe Pillow Book as it is generally known in English, is a collection of personal reflections and anecdotes about life in the Japanese royal court composed around the turn of the eleventh century by a woman known as Sei Shônagon. Its opening...
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University of Ottawa Press
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2012-06-16
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Canadian Television: Text and Context explores the creation and circulation of entertainment television in Canada from the interdisciplinary perspective of television studies. Each chapter connects arguments about particular texts of Canadian television to critical...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2012-06-01
Collection :
Film and Media Studies
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Ricochet is a bilingual collection of word sonnets by one of the chief innovators of the form, Seymour Mayne. It includes three sequences of pithy and evocative poems that encapsulate moments of sharp perception while also drawing attention to instants of humour that...
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Les Presses de l'Université d'Ottawa
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2011-04-30
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At the beginning of a new writing project—whether it’s the first page of a new novel or a less ambitious project, writers often experience exhilaration, fear, or dread. For Kristjana Gunnars, the call of a new project is “like someone you don’t know knocking on your...
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Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2011-04-07
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Translating Women explores women in translation in many contexts, whether they are translators, authors, or characters. Together the contributors show that feminist theory can apply to translation in many new and unexplored ways and that it deserves the full attention...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2011-03-08
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The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2010-10-30
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Auto/biography in Canada: Critical Directions widens the field of auto/biography studies with its sophisticated multidisciplinary perspectives on the theory, criticism, and practice of self, community, and representation. Rather than considering autobiography and...
Editeur :
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution :
2009-08-02
Collection :
Cultural Studies
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While translation history in Canada is well documented, the history of the translation of Canadian fiction outside the nation remains obscure. Les Belles Étrangères examines the translation of Canadian English-language fiction in France. This book considers the history...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2008-03-10
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In the last thirty years of the twentieth century, Canadian federal governments offered varying degrees of support for literary and other artistic endeavour. A corollary of this patronage of culture at home was an effort to make the resulting works available for...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2007-10-25
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The translation of poetry has always fascinated the theorists, as the chances of "replicating" in another language the one-off resonance of music, imagery, and truth values of a poem are vanishingly small. Translation is often envisaged as a matter of mapping over into...
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University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2007-09-06
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North American Icelandic evolved mainly in Icelandic settlements in Manitoba andNorth Dakota and is the only version of Icelandic that is not spoken in Iceland. ButNorth American Icelandic is a dying language with few left who speak it.
North American Icelandic is the...
Editeur :
University of Manitoba Press
Parution :
2006-12-15
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This volume in honour of Ingrid Meyer is a tribute to her work in the interrelated fields of lexicography, terminology and translation. One key thing shared by these fields is that they all deal with text. Accordingly, the essays in this collection are united by the...
Editeur :
University of Ottawa Press
Parution :
2006-09-28
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