The essays collected in this volume constitute a breakthrough in an understanding of the life and works of Kerouac. Fellow Beats, biographers, critics, poets and scholars write about their views of a man who epitomizes both the American Dream and the French-Canadian experience on this continent. Eight essays in English, eleven in French.
The essays collected in this volume constitute a breakthrough in an understanding of the life and works of Kerouac. Fellow Beats, biographers, critics...
The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if these concessions will not cause 'undue hardship.' This principle has caused much debate in Quebec, particularly over issues of language, Muslim head coverings, and religious symbols such as the kirpan (traditional Sikh dagger). In 2007, Quebec Premier Jean Charest commissioned historian and sociologist G?rard Bouchard and philosopher and political scientist Charles Taylor to co-chair a commission that would investigate the limits of reasonable...
The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if t...
The texts collected in this volume unveil the practice and the methods of the translators and scholars who contributed to the reemergence of Yiddish in contemporary Canada. Each of the personalities discussed enlarged the historical position and interpreted various aspects of the Yiddish language in Montreal that until recently remained obscure or inaccessible. -- Les textes rassembles dans ce volume tentent de lever le voile sur la demarche et les methodes des traducteurs et chercheurs qui ont contribue a la reemergence du yiddish dans le Canada contemporain. Ces traducteurs et chercheurs...
The texts collected in this volume unveil the practice and the methods of the translators and scholars who contributed to the reemergence of Yiddish i...
The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if these concessions will not cause 'undue hardship.' This principle has caused much debate in Quebec, particularly over issues of language, Muslim head coverings, and religious symbols such as the kirpan (traditional Sikh dagger). In 2007, Quebec Premier Jean Charest commissioned historian and sociologist G?rard Bouchard and philosopher and political scientist Charles Taylor to co-chair a commission that would investigate the limits of reasonable...
The Canadian principle of reasonable accommodation demands that the cultural majority make certain concessions to the needs of minority groups if t...
Ne en Ukraine en 1896, J.-I. Segal arrive a Montreal en 1910 et allait devenir un des premiers ecrivains yiddish au Canada. Sa poesie lyrique et mystique, de meme que les nombreux essais et articles qu'il a signes, incarnent a la fois une riche tradition litteraire et le modernisme de son temps. Pierre Anctil a ecrit bien plus qu'une biographie. Pour la premiere fois, la production poetique de Segal est referencee, traduite et analysee de maniere rigoureuse. Elle est accompagnee de plus de 100 pages d'appendices qui jettent la lumiere sur l'importance artistique, spirituelle, culturelle...
Ne en Ukraine en 1896, J.-I. Segal arrive a Montreal en 1910 et allait devenir un des premiers ecrivains yiddish au Canada. Sa poesie lyrique et mysti...
