Prime ministers, the central figures in parliamentary government and the leaders of political parties, fill dominant roles in Canada's political history. Their importance is recognized in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography/Dictionnaire biographique du Canada by the space devoted to them. Each political leader is presented by a notable Canadian scholar who, following the rigorous standards of research, writing, and critical judgement set by the DCB/DBC, has brought life and understanding to the careers of the individuals who have served in Canada's pre-eminent political...
Prime ministers, the central figures in parliamentary government and the leaders of political parties, fill dominant roles in Canada's political hi...
"Robert Fraser's "Poems for the Short-Term Memory" unveils the very threadwork of modern American life with a keen sense of current social conflicts and political agendas. These thrifted wisdoms display rhythm beat, and demand an awareness of truth and values achieved through struggle and personal enlightenment." - Adam Zagger
"Robert Fraser's "Poems for the Short-Term Memory" unveils the very threadwork of modern American life with a keen sense of current social conflicts a...
In 1899 Marcel Proust read a translation of Ruskin's The Lamp of Memory in a Belgian magazine. Fourteen years later he back-projected the experience onto the narrator of Du cote de chez Swann who describes himself as a boy reading the self-same piece in the garden at Combray. In between lay a period of intermittent enthusiasm for Victorian writing: a period which saw the refurbishment of Proust's method and a fundamental rethinking of his views. Much of this reassessment was achieved in relation to English writers whom Proust adopted, absorbed and then as often as not discarded. The end...
In 1899 Marcel Proust read a translation of Ruskin's The Lamp of Memory in a Belgian magazine. Fourteen years later he back-projected the experience o...
