Journal Articles (Modern Languages and Cultural Studies)

2000

Beck, D.

2017-05-05

Natalie Kononenko

Once seen as survivals of paganism, those aspects of folk belief that differ from canonical religion are now called vernacular religion. They are seen as expressions of the lived faith of parishioners. Previous studies of vernacular religion have examined how people adapt religious canon to their...

2014-01-01

True, Micah

This is the accepted version of the following article: True, Micah. “Strange Bedfellows: Turks, Gauls, and Amerindians in Lescarbot’s Histoire de la Nouvelle France.” French Review, vol. 87, no. 4, 2014, 139-151., which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1353/tfr.2014.0214....

2007

Beard, L.

Introduction: The Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary defines domesticity as "the quality or state of being domestic or domesticated" with two of the definitions of domes­tic being "of or relating to the household or the family" and "devoted to home duties and pleasures." In the popular imagination...

2015

Tarif, J.

Alors que les traducteurs de la littérature destinée aux adultes sont plutôt associés à l’image du « traître » et leurs traductions connotées plutôt négativement, les traducteurs de la littérature jeunesse et leur travail semblent bénéficier d’une image bien plus positive. Ils disposeraient...

2012

Beard, Laura J.

Atanarjat (2001), premiado filme Inuit, inicia com a seguinte frase sendo proferida por um indigena idoso: “Eu so posso cantar esta cancao para alguem que sonsiga compreende-la.” Mas, adinal, o que quer dizer, neste contexio, “comprennder” ou “compreensao”? Sera Que a frase se refere a uma...

1999-01-01

Beard, Laura J.

Introduction: In a published talk on women's writing in Brazil, author Marina Colasanti reminds us that "[l]iteratura... implica linguagem individual. E linguagem individual é transgressão, ruptura das normas, questionamento do já estabelecido" (41). Nélida Piñon, one of the foremost voices in...

2012-01-01

True, Micah

This is an Author’s Accepted Manuscript of an Article published in The American Review of Canadian Studies [copyright Taylor & Francis], available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/02722011.2012.649922 This article argues that the Jesuit Relations, commonly read as the accounts of daring French...

2014

Beard, Laura J.

On March 6, 2014, Cree novelist and playwright Tomson Highway presented the annual Henry Kreisel Memorial Lecture of the Canadian Literature Centre at the University of Alberta. In his brilliant, amusing and provocative talk, entitled “Understanding Each Other: The Essential Importance of...

2011

Tarif, Julie.

Etymology and literary exegesis are of a special significance as far as reading and translating Oliver Twist is concerned. In the first place, Dickens makes the most of the ressources of the English language by using, as a stylistic device, the various etymological roots of the vocabulary he has...