Mqup imprint: 803 books
Singing from the Darktime
A Childhood Memoir in Poetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Escaping Germany, Weilbach describes her surreal experience aboard the luxury refugee ship the St Louis, refused the right to land first by Cuba and then by the United States and Canada and finally forced to turn back to Europe, where England and other countries eventually provided some sanctuary....
by Robin Durnford
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
A Lovely Gutting echoes with the music of traditional nature poetry, but its romantic style is ripped by rawness. These poems - enraged and erotic, tormented and tender - swirl around the pain of personal loss, ebbing and surging like the North Atlantic. Durnford pictures a Newfoundland not found...
The Blue Mountains and Other Gaelic Stories from Cape Breton
Na Beanntaichean Gorma agus Sgeulachdan Eile à Ceap Breatainn
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2007
Shaw provides both the Gaelic texts and English translations. When possible, he identifies both the original Gaelic storyteller and the local reciters. Reciters in the collection include Joe Neil MacNeil, a major Canadian storyteller, as well as others whose stories have never before been published....
Nietzsche's Justice
Naturalism in Search of an Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
In Nietzsche's Justice, Peter Sedgwick takes the theme of justice to the very heart of the great thinker's philosophy. He argues that Nietzsche's treatment of justice springs from an engagement with the themes charted in his first book, The Birth of Tragedy, which invokes the notion of an absolute...
by Peter Scott
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
Working always to connect the polemical to the personal, Peter Dale Scott's political poems - from the tear gas of Berkeley protests in the 1960s to the problems of Thai forest monks in an era of drug-trafficking and deforestation - are a process of self-questioning. Self-questioning also marks his...
by Mladen Ovadija
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Sound is born and dies with action. In this surprising, resourceful study, Mladen Ovadija makes a case for the centrality of sound as an integral element of contemporary theatre. He argues that sound in theatre inevitably "betrays" the dramatic text, and that sound is performance. Until...
by Peter Swirski
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2006
Rather than analyzing Lem solely as a science fiction writer, the contributors examine the larger themes in his work, such as social engineering and human violence, agency and consciousness, Freudianism and the creative process, evolution and the philosophy of the future, virtual reality and epistemological illusion, and science fiction and socio-cultural policy.
Ancient Mythology of Modern Science
A Mythologist Looks (Seriously) at Popular Science Writing
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2012
Humans have long been captivated by mythology and theorized about the lessons embedded in their tales. In The Ancient Mythology of Modern Science, Gregory Schrempp brings a mythologist's critical eye to popular science writing, a flourishing genre that forms a key link between science and popular consciousness....
Before Ontario
The Archaeology of a Province
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Before Ontario there was ice. As the last ice age came to an end, land began to emerge from the melting glaciers. With time, plants and animals moved into the new landscape and people followed. For almost 15,000 years, the land that is now Ontario has provided a home for their descendants: hundreds...
Mr Charlotte Brontë
The Life of Arthur Bell Nicholls
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2008
Alan Adamson's biography takes recent scholarship into account and adds new material about Nicholl's family, education, and early life in Ireland to give a more balanced view. The book explores why Brontë, cool and often hostile towards Nicholls in the early days of his curacy at Haworth, came to respect...
Educating the Imagination
Northrop Frye, Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Northrop Frye's long career made him Canada's most creative public intellectual. A century after his birth, his many books demonstrate a powerful vision of the resources of the human imagination. Frye's critical theory sought the continuities linking human creation in all spheres of life, trusting in...
American Protestant Theology
A Historical Sketch
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In American Protestant Theology, Luigi Giussani traces the history of the most meaningful theological expressions and the cultural significance of American Protestantism, from its origins in seventeenth-century Puritanism to the 1950s. Giussani clarifies and assesses elements of Protestantism such as...
Bearing Witness
Perspectives on War and Peace from the Arts and Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
As the centenary of the Great War approaches, citizens worldwide are reflecting on the history, trauma, and losses of a war-torn twentieth century. It is in remembering past wars that we are at once confronted with the profound horror and suffering of armed conflict and the increasing elusiveness of...
Race Riots
Comedy and Ethnicity in Modern British Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2006
Ross examines racial humour as a manifestation of post-colonialism and questions contemporary critiques of "political correctness." Looking at cartoons from pre-World War II issues of Punch, Ross shows how disdain for non-Europeans plays a key role in period British humour and links this idea to the...