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Canada: Social and Cultural Environments / Environnents Sociaux et Culturels

Canada: Social and Cultural Environments / Environnents Sociaux et Culturels

A. K. Elisabeth Lauridsen et Lisbeth Verstraete-Hansen (eds.)
300 pp.

Table of Contents / Table des matieres

This book can be ordered from the Canadian Studies Center, Department of English, Aarhus University, DK-8000 Aarhus, Denmark

www.canadianstudies.dk

or by email: canstud@hum.au.dk.

Literary Environments

Canada and the Old World

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This book contains contributions from the Stockholm triennial conference of the Nordic Association for Canadian Studies and presents Joy Kogawa's compelling plea for peace and a sheaf of poems by Heather Spears along with twenty essays using a variety of approaches in dealing with a wide range of Canadian writers. The origins and circumstances of travel books and of diaries written by pioneering women are explored as are the functions of sports and science fiction.

Among the offerings are also investigations of the Canadian landscape and its metaphors in a large selection of drama, poetry and prose. The concluding piece discusses the reception of English-Canadian literature in Sweden.

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Amours et cultures. Textes du Québec contemporain

Amours et cultures. Textes du Québec contemporain

sous la direction de Helle Hoeyrup, Inger Jespersen et Lise Toft

Cette anthologie présente des extraits de textes littéraires québécois publiés entre 1985 et 2005. Les textes sont réunis autour du thème de la rencontre des cultures. Ce thème est vu aussi bien comme la rencontre des différentes nationalités au Québec que comme la rencontre des différentes cultures dans la société moderne, comme celle, par exemple, des citadins et des paysans, des enfants et des adultes. L'anthologie est destinée aux lycéens danois apprenant le français et les textes sont munis d'un glossaire français-danois ainsi que des questions visant une meilleure compréhension des textes. Outre l'apprentissage du français langue étrangère, cette anthologie vise à inviter les lecteurs à réflechir sur la question de la rencontre avec l'autre en tant qu'immigrant, par exemple, et à fournir de nouveaux éléments au débat sur l'immigration et l'intégration des immigrants. Le livre est illustré de photos du Québec de Jean-Eudes Schurr de Montréal. Cet ouvrage réalisé sous la direction de Helle Hoeyrup, Inger Jespersen et Lise Toft a été publié au Danemark par Gyldendal (ISBN 87-02-03976-1). On peut se le procurer auprès de l'éditeur au coût de 30$CAN: Gyldendal, Klareboderne 3, 1001 Copenhague K, Danemark, gyldendal@gyldendal.dk.

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Canadian Environments: Essays in Culture, Politics and History

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Responding to the comprehensive topic 'Old Environments - New Environments', scholars from a variety of disciplines reflect the various connotations that the term 'environment' carries in a Canadian context.

Whether moving within the realm of foreign policy, visual arts, constitutional questions, tourism, nature preservation or aboriginal rights, these essays put the capaciousness and cohesiveness of the nation to the test by illustrating the pressures enforced upon it by multiculturalism, the claims for self-determination, anticonfederate agitation and globalisation. The environments scrutinised are many and various, but within each the linchpin remains the quest for identity on the part of the individual, the group or the nation at large.

Individually as well as collectively, the essays in this volume constitute an important contribution to the ongoing debate on Canadianness.

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Rediscovering Canada: Culture and Politics

Available through the University of Iceland Press, v/Sudurgata, IS-101 Reykjvik, ICELAND. E-mail: hu@hi.is Regular price, surface mail, within Europe: ISK 1.785 kr. / US $17; outside Europe: ISK 2.000 / US $20. Regular price, airmail, within Europe: ISK 2.000 kr. / US $20; outside Europe: ISK 2.580 / US $25. Credit cards accepted.

Canada Bound: Essays in Honour of Jørn Carlsen on the Occasion of his Retirement

Contributors:
Michael Böss, John Erik Fossum, Hans Hauge, Elisabeth Lauridsen,
Rikke J. Ljungmann, Bengt Streijffert, Robert Chr. Thomsen, Lise Toft,
Karl-Heinz Westarp; greetings from the Canadian Embassy in Copenhagen.

Rediscovering Canadian Difference

Most of the twenty-six essays selected for this 17th volume of the NACS Text Series are based on papers presented at the 6th triennial NACS conference, held in Reykjavík, Iceland, in 1999. Canadian difference is rediscovered through the international and national aspects of its arts and culture, offering the kind of multinational potlatch of criticism and appreciation that Canada invites as it grapples with historical and cultural questions that are of immediate importance to the world at large.

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Available through the University of Iceland Press, v/Sudurgata, IS-101 Reykjvik, ICELAND. E-mail: hu@hi.is Regular price, surface mail, within Europe: ISK 1.785 kr. / US $17; outside Europe: ISK 2.000 / US $20. Regular price, airmail, within Europe: ISK 2.000 kr. / US $20; outside Europe: ISK 2.580 / US $25. Credit cards accepted.

Special offer through the Vigdis Finnbogadottir Institute for Foreign Languages, Nyi Gardur, v/Sudurgata, IS-101 Reykjavik, ICELAND. E-mail: joto@hi.is Special price, incl. surface mail: ISK 1500 kr. / 17 EUR / CAD $24. Credit cards accepted.

Rediscovering Canada - Image, Place and Text

The twenty-three essays in English and French selected for this 16th volume in the NACS Text Series are based on papers presented at the 6th triennial NACS Conference, held in Reykjavik, Iceland, in 1999. They provide new angles on exploration and rediscovery of Canada through topos and textuality in the visual and audio-visual arts, historical writings and literature.

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Available through the University of Iceland Press, v/Sudurgata, IS-101 Reykjvik, ICELAND. E-mail: hu@hi.is Regular price, surface mail, within Europe: ISK 1.675 kr. / US $16; outside Europe: ISK 1.890 / US $18. Regular price, airmail, within Europe: ISK 1.890 kr. / US $18; outside Europe: ISK 2.470 / US $24. Credit cards accepted.

Special offer through the Vigdis Finnbogadottir Institute for Foreign Languages, Nyi Gardur, v/Sudurgata, IS-101 Reykjavik, ICELAND. E-mail: joto@hi.is. Special price, incl. surface mail: ISK 1.400 kr. / 16 EUR / CAD $22. Credit cards accepted.

The Nordic Association for Canadian Studies Text Series (back copies)

Also published by NACS

NAFTA seen from a Multicultural Perspective

Trade Panel Proceedings
from the 7th Triennial Conference of NACS
8-11 August 2002, Stockholm

Published with the support of NACS

Literatura: Canadian Studies

Vilnius University Research Papers 45 (5). Vilnius University Publishing House, 2003.

With an introduction and plenary lecture on Canadian Women Writers by Isobel Grundy and Nordic contributions by:

Britta Olinder, "The Role of Travelling in the Fiction of Janice Kulyk Keefer and Aritha van Herk", pp. 50-58 and

Jane Mattisson, "Telling Oneself, or a Return to the Beginning: The Metaphor of Return in Aritha van Herk's Restlessness, pp 59-65.

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