Literature
Literature broadly is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose fiction, drama, and poetry. In recent centuries, the definition has expanded to include oral literature, much of which has been transcribed. Literature is a method of recording, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and entertainment. Literature, as an art form, can also include works in various non-fiction genres, such as autobiography, diaries, memoir, letters, and the essay. Within its broad definition, literature includes non-fictional books, articles or other printed information on a particular subject.Etymologically, the term …
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AUP: Athabasca University Press · 22 November 2024 English
sense. This is hockey talk that works across the aisle.” —Jason Blake, author of Canadian Hockey Literature …
LCSH: Canadian literature—20th century—History and criticism. | LCSH: Canadian literature—21st century—History … LCSH: Hockey in literature. | LCSH: Imagination in literature. | CSH: Canadian literature (English)—20th … century—History and criticism. | CSH: Canadian literature (English)—21st century— History and criticism …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 15 November 2024 English
The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises. So-called scroungers, cheats, and disability fakers persistently occupy the centre of public policy discussions, even as official …
DOUBT 5 historical perspective in much of the literature on modern iterations of local discretion is … period from 1601 to the later 1970s. While the literature on vagrants, beggars, and thieves is rich, surprisingly … fraud. In this area, the recent and historical literature has a more determined imprint and sits at the … sociology, anthropology, media, management, English literature – rather than being rooted solely in history … and social policy. No single review of that literature can do justice to its intellectual, methodological …
DDN: Dundurn Press · 12 November 2024 English
The political life of Dene leader Georges Erasmus — a radical Native rights crusader widely regarded as one of the most important Indigenous leaders of the past fifty years. For …
avid reader, Georges now dove into political literature, particu- larly the writing of Paulo Freire, …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
Railway commuting is today a mundane and routine necessity, yet for the Victorians it was a novel experience. It opened up new possibilities of living at a remove from the …
state to the railway. By highlighting gaps in the literature and identifying new approaches to the subject … filling this vacuum, there is a great weight of literature writ- ten by and for enthusiasts, which covers …
UOP: University of Ottawa Press · 12 November 2024 English
Dangling in the Glimmer of Hope met en lumière les actions entreprises par des universitaires en réponse à certains des appels à l’action de la Commission de vérité et réconciliation. …
Research, and Learning Through First Nations Literature. Other successes heightened TRU’s desire to … student in Garry’s graduate course in Indigenous Literature. I soon recognized I was in the class of a master … were far more than an analysis of Indigenous literature. Garry invited students to explore out loud the … the issuesIntroduction xxvii that the literature revealed, the understandings and misunderstandings …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
The COVID-19 virus was responsible for the deaths of over thirty-five thousand Canadians in its first two years alone. Described as the biggest public health crisis of the century, it …
overview of covid-19 and situating it in the risk literature 21 1 How It Started and Key covid-19–Related … Outcomes 23 2 Situating covid-19 in the Risk Literature: Four Rationales for Risk 50 Part two – regime … the social science of risk and risk-governance literature. The role of institutions figures prominently … in July 2023. We depended largely on academic literature on the social science of risk and risk governance … introduction to the case and the social science of risk literature; (2) the government’s response to the pandemic …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
The poetic memorialization of the Maghribī city illuminates the ways in which exilic Maghribī poets constructed idealized images of their native cities from the ninth to nineteenth centuries CE. The …
Nostalgia in literature. | LCSH: Cities and towns in literature. | LCSH: Memory in literature. | LCSH: Loss … Loss (Psychology) in literature. Classification: LCC PJ7542.E4 H47 2024 | DDC 892.7/109—dc23 Set in … the Journal of Arabic Literature 48 (2017): 270–97; The City in Arabic Literature: Classical and Modern … transliteration system employed by the Journal of Arabic Literature. Furthermore, in the appendix, I have opted to … disserta- tions in English, and an extensive body of literature in Arabic.24 Needless to say, all the Maghribī …
MQUP: McGill-Queen's University Press · 12 November 2024 English
Prisoners’ Bodies investigates the history of the Irish ordinary prisoners’ movement and how it was shaped by public discourse, highlighting the lived experiences of individual people in prison.
the changing discourse over two decades. The Literature on Irish Prison History Imprisonment has an unusual … but have traditionally been neglected by the literature. Since 2000, we have seen new vistas of this … there26 | Prisoners’ Bodies is a well-established literature on the importance of protecting the identities … experiences. The second reason draws on the growing literature which questions the process of the reanonymising …
Fraser Institute · 7 November 2024 English
Provincial and federal government debt has grown significantly in recent years. A growing body of literature links government debt to slower economic growth. We provide a three-phase analysis linking government …
significantly in recent years. • A growing body of literature links government debt to slower economic growth … provided an incredible boost to a new stream of literature focused on the relationship between public debt … debt. Salmon (2021) offers a summary of the literature published between 2010 and 2020. Of the 40 works … on Canadian sub-national jurisdictions, prior literature examining the rela- tionship between economic … debt at all levels of government. We add to the literature concerning the relationship between public debt …
Fraser Institute · 7 November 2024 English
Provincial and federal government debt has grown significantly in recent years. A growing body of literature links government debt to slower economic growth. We provide a three-phase analysis linking government …