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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Canadian literature"”.
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After Dark: Reading Canadian Literature in a Light-Polluted Age
… a diverse crew to consider the ways in which Canadian writers have chronicled the shift from natural darkness to artificial light. Too easily dismissed as nostalgic or sentimental, the desire to see the night sky make its return has never mattered more. To live in a time and a place where …
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Wildhoods: Bioregionalism and the Child Figure in Contemporary Canadian Literature
… Environment and Place through Children’s Literature (2011) emphasize the significance of critically recognizing the value and relevance of the child-nature connection in our understanding of diverse environments and places. However, much of this work has remained within non-Canadian …
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Getting to know them : characters labelled as mentally disabled in ten Canadian short stories and novels
… a study of the treatment of mental disability in Canadian literature. Literature reflects the perceptions and practises of the culture of which it is a part. Radical changes have been made in recent years in the thinking about persons with mental handicaps. The issue of whether the changes are …
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The afterlife of survival: a thematic guide to contemporary Canadian short fiction
Margaret Atwood’s Survival: a thematic guide to Canadian literature was originally published by House of Anansi Press in Toronto in 1972. In spite of the mixed reception, Survival became a key text in the study of Canadian Literature. Although it is now taught as a historical curiosity, it is …
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Lumberjacks, Muscular Christianity, and Nation Building: Creating an Aspirational Canadian Masculinity, 1820 – 1912
In the first half of the nineteenth century, Canadian lumberjacks were viewed by Upper Canada’s urban middle class as embodying transgressive masculinity due to the lumberjack’s lack of adherence to British Protestant middle-class social norms. In the second half of the nineteenth century, public …
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The educational experiences of Black individuals with late-diagnosed autism
… among children under 17 in Canada. As a result, Canadian literature explores the diagnostic processes, services, educational experiences, resources, and success of interventions for autism in young populations. Though this research is important, it fails to address the experiences of autistic …
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Work, class and gender in Canadian fiction, 1890s-1920s
… of working women in popular English-Canadian novels from the 1890s to the 1920s. Drawing upon sociohistorical contexts, this study examines the oft-neglected theme of women's work in Canadian literature. Through sustained, comparative analysis of a sample of popular fiction from this …
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Exploring the Integration Experiences of Internationally Educated Nurses (IENs) within the Canadian Health Care System
… nursing demands in Canada continues. Current Canadian research that examines IENs’ experience as they integrate into their workplaces is scarce. With an increasingly diverse Canadian and patient population due to rising immigration trends, a workforce that addresses the needs of the diverse …
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Chasing Captain Canada: National Identity Challenged Through Superheroes In Canadian Comic Books
… the superheroic effigy in domestically produced Canadian superhero comics, with an eye on how Indigenous superhero comics published within Canada may enrich or complicate this landscape. Domestically produced comics and/or graphic novels are defined in this thesis as ones authored and published …
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(Generic Pronoun) Creates: Anarchism, Authorship, Experiment
My work develops a postanarchist literary theory that repositions the reading and writing of experimental texts as activist practice. Following the most recent trends in anarchist theory and political philosophy, postanarchist literary theory merges the primary concerns of classical anarchism with …
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Reimagining Subject-Other Relations: Embracing the other Without and Within
… through representative post-World War II Western literature. Such relations have been negatively impacted by a “hermeneutics of suspicion,” a phrase coined by French Philosopher Paul Ricœur to refer to thinkers Sigmund Freud, Karl Marx, and Friedrich Nietzsche who, he argued, were shaped by …
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Divagation, prohibition of divagation and divagation of text
"Divagation", which can be translated into English as wandering, rambling, ranting or even trespassing, is a literary "intergenre", closely tied to a norm and an interdiction. As an "intergenre", divagation appears in a variety of forms. We notice, however, a few recurrent elements: distance from …
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"How do you integrate Indian culture into your life?" : second generation Indo-Canadians and the construction of "Indian culture" in Vancouver, Canada
… that this case study is an important addition to literature about South Asians in Canada both because this population segment is absent from existing literature, and because many of these individuals play leading roles in Vancouver's Indian community. Canadian literature which pertains to second …
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Enclosed Edens, Contested Waters & Failed Utopias: An Ecocritical Reading of Epistemic Land Claims in Okanagan Literature
… Reading of Epistemic Land Claims in Okanagan Literature, examines regionally specific literary sites of intersection, conflict and transformation. Focusing on the Okanagan region, which rests in the southern heart of British Columbia and remains the unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan …
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The Virus in the Garrison: Contagious Disease in Canadian Fiction
This dissertation analyzes Canadian representations of contagious disease in novels written after the emergence of HIV/AIDS. Ultimately, I argue that contagion in literature registers distinctive fears about the fluid and changeable nature of Canadian communities in an increasingly globalized …
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“The only reason why it happened is simply because we’re Black women!”: The Black perinatal healthcare experience in Canada.
Abstract Background: Black Canadian mothers are more likely to experience an adverse health outcome compared to any other race. Yet, the Black maternal healthcare experience is not adequately documented within a Canadian context. This research study interpreted and analyzed the maternal healthcare …
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The Scotiabank Giller Prize: How Canadian
… and effecting a major shift in the way this literature is discussed and evaluated, marketed and consumed. Literary prizes are now a major part of the “social-commercial-cultural mechanisms” that, as James F. English asserts, shape national literatures. The Scotiabank Giller Prize is a …
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Cross-sectional and longitudinal relationships between physical activity and health services utilization in community-dwelling older adults
… analysis of data from the Cycle 3.1 of the Canadian Community Health Survey. The analysis was restricted to individuals aged 50 years and older, resulting in an unweighted sample of 56,652 adults (48%M; 52%F; mean age 63.5±10.2 years), stratified a priori into three age groups (50 – 64 …
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