A Township at War

By Jonathan F. Vance
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Canadian History

A Township at War is the story of one community, the southern Ontario township of East Flamborough, during the First World War. It takes the reader from rural Canadian field and farm to the slopes of ...

Wittgenstein's Ethics and Modern Warfare

By Nil Santiáñez
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Cultural Studies, Philosophy, Ethics, Art

This original and insightful book establishes a reciprocal relationship between Ludwig Wittgenstein’s notion of ethics and the experience of war. It puts forth an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s ...

1930

By Arthur Haberman
Subjects: Cultural Studies, History

The year 1930 can be seen as the dawn of a period of darkness, the beginning of a decade that Auden would style “low, dishonest. ” That year was one of the most reflective moments in modernity. After ...

Unruly Penelopes and the Ghosts

Edited by Eva Darias-Beautell
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Canadian Literature, Cultural Studies

This collection of essays studies the cultural and literary contexts of narrative texts produced in English Canada over the last forty years. It takes as its starting point the nationalist movement of ...

Landscapes and Landmarks of Canada

Edited by Maeve Conrick, Munroe Eagles, Jane Koustas, and Caitríona Ní Chasaide
Subjects: Cultural Studies
Series: Cultural Studies

The image of the “land” is an ongoing trope in conceptions of Canada—from the national anthem and the flag to the symbols on coins—the land and nature remain linked to the Canadian sense of belonging ...

Making Feminist Media

By Elizabeth Groeneveld
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Film & Media, Language Arts & Disciplines, Publishing, Social Science, Women’s Studies
Series: Film and Media Studies

Making Feminist Media provides new ways of thinking about the vibrant media and craft cultures generated by Riot Grrrl and feminism’s third wave. It focuses on a cluster of feminist publications—including ...

Celebrity Cultures in Canada

Edited by Katja Lee & Lorraine York
Subjects: Cultural Studies, Film & Media
Series: Cultural Studies

Celebrity Cultures in Canada is an interdisciplinary collection that explores celebrity phenomena and the ways they have operated and developed in Canada over the last two centuries. The chapters address ...

Music in Range

By Brian Fauteux
Subjects: Film & Media, Cultural Studies, Music
Series: Film and Media Studies

Music in Range explores the history of Canadian campus radio, highlighting the factors that have shaped its close relationship with local music and culture. The book traces how campus radio practitioners ...

Girls, Texts, Cultures

Edited by Clare Bradford & Mavis Reimer
Subjects: Literary Criticism, Children’s Literature, Cultural Studies, Social Science, Gender Studies
Series: Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada

This book focuses on girls and girlhoods, texts for and about girls, and the cultural contexts that shape girls’ experience. It brings together scholars from girls’ studies and children’s literature, ...

Material Cultures in Canada

Edited by Thomas Allen & Jennifer Blair
Subjects: Cultural Studies
Series: Cultural Studies

Material Cultures in Canada presents the vibrant and diverse field of material culture studies in Canadian literary, artistic, and political contexts today. The first of its kind, this collection features ...