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In ballast to the white sea
This is the first edition of In Ballast to the White Sea, the autobiographical novel by Malcolm Lowry, known to most only through the highly romanticized story of its loss in a fire. In fact, the typescript itself has probably been read by at most a dozen people since Lowry scholars learned that ...
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Voice and versification in translating poems
Robert Frost, the modern American poet, claimed ‘poetry’ was what is lost in translation. This refreshing yet rigorous and extensive examination of the art and science of versification and translation focuses on the poem while offering a broad overview of the technical terminology involved.
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Swinging the maelstrom
An annotated scholarly edition including versions of the Malcolm Lowry novella that at different times was titled “The Last Address”, “Swinging the Maelstrom” and “Lunar Caustic.”
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Double-takes
The widest-ranging exploration to date of the interaction between English Canadian literature and film.
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Flora lyndsay; or, passages in an eventful life
Flora Lyndsay, a prequel to Susanna Moodie’s Roughing it in the Bush and Life in the Clearings, presents a fictionalized record of her family’s experiences in planning their emigration and crossing the Atlantic.
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Home ground and foreign territory
The first multi-disciplinary collection of essays to focus exclusively on early Canadian literature with the aim of reassessing the field and proposing new approaches.
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Homelessness & health in canada
Homelessness & Health in Canada explores, for the first time, the social, structural, and environmental factors that shape the health of homeless persons in Canada. Covering a wide range of topics from youth homelessness to end-of-life care, the authors strive to outline policy and practice r...
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Egirls, ecitizens
eGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many forces that shape girls’ and young women’s experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars...
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Transformative physical rehabilitation
Transformative Physical Rehabilitation: Thriving After a Major Health Event offers an innovative theoretical approach as well as a practical application to physical rehabilitation, based on the model of Meaning Perspective Transformation in Physical Rehabilitation.
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Law, privacy and surveillance in canada in the post-snowden era
Months of surveillance-related leaks from U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden have fueled an international debate over privacy, spying, and Internet surveillance. This book explores current issues torn from the headlines with a uniquely Canadian perspective.
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Canada's fluid borders
Crossing borders involves much more than going through checkpoints. By drawing on an innovative transdisciplinary reconceptualization of the border as elastic or fluid, Canada’s Fluid Borders offers fresh interpretations of the major geopolitical and socioeconomic issues that require the immediat...
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Canada’s official languages
This book is the first in-depth study of the implementation of official languages policy in the federal public service from 1967-2013 in the National Capital Region. Its analysis of language policy confronting actors, ideas, and institutions explains the state of the language of work in the publi...
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The evolved self
There is a self-help industry built on the notion of becoming the person “we were meant to be.” But what is the self at the core of such striving? This book answers that question by drawing on philosophy, psychology, various cultural traditions, and original research. The resultant method of mapp...
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Contextualizing openness
A fascinating look at Open Science and the democratization of knowledge in international development and social transformation.
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The god of gods: a canadian play
This is the first critical edition of The God of Gods: A Canadian Play by Carroll Aikins. With an abundance of archival material, this volume offers a unique insight into early Canadian theatre and modernism.
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Warring sovereignties
Warring Sovereignties: Church Control and State Pressure at the University of Ottawa examines the battle between religious and non-secular cultures for control of the university in the 1960s.
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Alice munro’s miraculous art
Alice Munro’s Miraculous Art is a collection of sixteen original essays on Nobel laureate Alice Munro’s writings.
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Cultural policy
Cultural Policy: Origins, Evolution, and Implementation in Canada's Provinces and Territories offers a comprehensive synthesis of the history of subnational cultural policies, including governments’ institutionalization and instrumentalization of culture, and the development, dissemination, and i...
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Leo tolstoy in conversation with four peasant sectarian writers
Andrew Donskov takes a critical look not only at Tolstoy’s attitude towards the peasant class he so often championed for their simple ways and freedom from upper-class sophistication and pretentiousness, but more importantly, gives voice to representatives of the peasant class itself.
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They have bodies, by barney allen
Sexy, saucy, and unsparingly satirical, Barney Allen’s They Have Bodies is the most experimental book written by a Canadian until well into the 1960s. Gregory Betts reintroduces this censored “realistic novel in eleven chapters and three acts.”
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Reconceptualizing teacher education
This book counters the cultural homogenization of global policy. It examines the integrity of teacher education in particular places, serving particular communities, at particular historical moments.
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Robert kroetsch
Robert Kroetsch: Essayist, Novelist, Poet brings together an international cast of critics, scholars, and writers to examine the immense significance that Kroetsch holds in the twenty-first-century.
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Innovating south-south cooperation
In the ever-changing arena of global development governance, South-South Cooperation (SSC) entails diverse forms of cooperation among developing countries. Novel approaches for furthering SSC on a global scale.
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Man should rejoice, by hugh maclennan
This work is a scholarly, critical edition of Man Should Rejoice, a previously unpublished novel by major 20th-century Canadian author Hugh MacLennan.
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Creative theatre, by roy mitchell
Creative Theatre by Roy Mitchell, remains Canada’s only full-length work of theatre theory. It is a concentrated cultural analysis that advocates for a performance practice rooted in modernist theatre theory, while simultaneously functioning as a transformational spiritual communion and initiatio...
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Immersion at university level
Immigration at University Level: Rethinking Policies, Approaches and Implementations establishes a framework for higher education institutions hoping to create a French immersion program.
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Separate but unequal
The ideology of parallelism distorts our understanding of Indigenous dependency. Restoring the “nation-to-nation” relationship only serves to inhibit Indigenous Peoples’ participation in the Canadian labour force, with the undesirable and unintended effect of entrenching their isolation from the ...
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Ethical hacking
How will governments and courts manoeuvre within the boundaries of protected civil liberties in this new era of hacktivism? This monograph discusses moral and legal issues of ethical hacking and reviews analytics and trends.
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Is two-tier health care the future?
What if Canada’s health-care system were to become a two-tier system? Would wait times be eliminated? Answering this question is critical given an ongoing Charter challenge in British Columbia.
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Scripting feminist ethics in teacher education
This book models teaching ethics and ethical thinking through a feminist lens. Personal narratives and case studies showcase the enduring value of radical feminist consciousness-raising to the moral project that is teacher education and teaching for the common good of public education.
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The demons of leonard cohen
‘With my jingle in your brain, allow the Bridge to arch again’. How are we to understand Leonard Cohen’s plea? Who speaks to whom in this oeuvre spanning six decades? Francis Mus considers the different guises or ‘demons’ that the Canadian singer-songwriter assumes.
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Leo tolstoy and the canadian doukhobors
As an idealist, Leo Tolstoy was constantly searching for practical applications to his philosophical ideas. He found a prime example in the religious group of the Doukhobors, whom he personally helped emigrate from Russia to Canada in 1899, and to whom he referred as “people of the 25th century.”
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Northrop frye and others, volume ii
In this second installment of a three-volume series, Northrop Frye expert Robert D. Denham continues his invaluable examination of a number of significant but understated influences that informed the intellectual vision of the renowned literary theorist and critic. Robert D. Denham poursuit, dans...
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Northrop frye and others, volume i
Eminent Frye scholar Robert D. Denham explores the connection between Frye and writers who influenced his thinking but about whom he never wrote anything extensive: Aristotle, Longinus, Joachim of Floris, Giordano Bruno, Henry Reynolds, Robert Burton, Kierkegaard, Lewis Carroll, Stéphane Mallarmé...
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Eight men speak
The first scholarly edition of the only play banned in Canada for political reasons.
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Double-voicing the canadian short story
The short story occupies a prominent place in Canadian literature and never more so than since Alice Munro’s 2013 Nobel Prize for Literature. Kruk’s work is a singularly original exploration of the layered “double-voicing” in the short fiction of eight acclaimed Canadian writers.
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Northrop frye and others, volume iii
Literary critic Northrop Frye was inspired by a great many writers and others. Robert Denham pursues in this third instalment his examination of lesser-known influences on Frye.
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Malcolm lowry's poetics of space
Malcolm Lowry’s Poetics of Space offers a collection of exciting, new, and often controversial readings which seek to readdress not only Lowry’s master work, Under the Volcano, but also many of his other writings.
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The collected poems of miriam waddington
This anthology brings together, for the first time, the complete published works of Jewish Canadian poet Miriam Waddington and features a rare selection of previously unpublished poems.
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Mathematical modelling of zombies
In this terrible new COVID-19 world, the University of Ottawa is doing its part by offering a 50% discount on this very important book. We decided not to rewrite the witty book description, though we realize it is tone-deaf at the present moment, as we wanted to give readers a sense of the tone o...
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The 1940 under the volcano
Malcolm Lowry 1940 Under the Volcano has been regarded too often as little more than Lowry’s blueprint – though a tentative one at best – for his 1947 masterwork, Under the Volcano. It has never been adequately considered in terms of Lowry’s work that preceded it, or been fully critically edited ...
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Shakespeare and canada
As we commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death, the most translated and performed playwright in the world continues to live on in our imagination. How might we historicize Shakespeare’s influence in Canada?
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Contemporary criminological issues
Contemporary Criminological Issues: Moving Beyond Insecurity and Exclusion tackles some of today’s most pressing social issues, advances cutting-edge theories and methods to make sense of these issues, and proposes policy responses that promote social inclusion and security.
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Citizenship in a connected canada
What does it mean to be a citizen in Canada in a digital context? What are the implications of this digital setting for citizens and policy making? Scholars, activists, and policy makers examine, in Citizenship in a Connected Canada: A Research and Policy Agenda, what a connected society means fo...
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Canada's storytellers | les grands écrivains du canada
Since they were created in 1936, the Governor General’s Literary Awards have been recognized as Canada’s premier literary prize. Like the previous two volumes in this series, this impressive volume adds to our understanding of the awards, containing biographies of all award laureates.
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Meet me on the barricades
Meet Me on the Barricades is a hallucinatory, comic novel about leftism, modernism, and the Spanish Civil War. It features a “guileless” protagonist whose weak heart means that, instead of fighting on the battlefields of Spain, he daydreams about life as a soldier.
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Accessibility and active offer
This edited volume examines language issues within the active offer of health and social services in francophone and anglophone minority communities. Action based, it will help shape the leaders of tomorrow.
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Danse, enfermement et corps résilients | dance, confinement and resilient bodies
Dance offers a space-time that enables us to look at, study, and understand humanity. It exposes bodies, their wounds as well as their strengths; it is a means of reflecting l recovering differently, opening a window onto new perspectives. This work is intended for stakeholders in various fields ...
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This time a better earth, by ted allan
A young man marches over the Pyrenees to fight fascism. This new edition of Ted Allan’s novel reintroduces readers to the electrifying milieu of the Spanish Civil War.
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The academic gateway
This collection written by professors experiencing the journey to tenure in education puts the reader in the writer’s shoes to provide insight for those who are considering this path, as well as for policy makers.
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