Canadian Authors Research Articles

‘After All the Years of Separation’: Musically Representing Author L.M. Montgomery’s Suspended Romances

Canadian author L.M. Montgomery did not set out to write stories about romance. As she indicated in her journals, she wrote character-driven stories of young girls navigating their way through girlhood. However, she understood that the public, and her publishers, expected these girls to experience romance that culminated in marriage, following the societal traditions of the time. Montgomery managed this dichotomy by having many characters experience a suspended romance, delaying the romantic aspect of the relationship for as long as possible. Arts-based practice is a mode of analysis and offers the opportunity to find a new way of understanding and communicating Montgomery’s type of suspended romance. Music is, in many ways, considered romantic, so it is an appropriate medium to communicate Montgomery’s romantic narrative structures. This paper investigates Montgomery’s use of suspended romance in her novels and how this delay provided her characters with time to develop other areas of their lives. An arts-based methodology was used to identify and analyse recurring themes in Montgomery’s work, as the question is not can Montgomery’s theme of romance be musically represented but how. The result of this creative experimentation is a new musical composition that articulates these suspended romances using six different musical devices. This creative work exemplifies the intertextual link that exists between Montgomery’s work and new musical compositions.

Global trends in research of venous thromboembolism associated with lower limb joint arthroplasty: A bibliometric analysis.

This study aims to visualize publications related to venous thromboembolism (VTE) and lower limb joint arthroplasty to identify research frontiers and hotspots, providing references and guidance for further research. We retrieved original articles published from 1985 to 2022 and their recorded information from the Web of Science Core Collection. The search strategy used terms related to knee or hip arthroplasty and thromboembolic events. Microsoft Excel was used to analyze the annual publications and citations of the included literature. The rest of the data were analyzed using the VOSviewer, citespace and R and produced visualizations of these collaborative networks. We retrieved 3543 original articles and the results showed an overall upward trend in annual publications. The United States of America had the most significant number of publications (Np) and collaborative links with other countries. McMaster University had the greatest Np. Papers published by Geerts WH in 2008 had the highest total link strength. Journal of Arthroplasty published the most articles on the research of VTE associated with lower limb joint arthroplasty. The latest research trend mainly involved "general anesthesia" "revision" and "tranexamic acid." This bibliometric study revealed that the research on VTE after lower limb joint arthroplasty is developing rapidly. The United States of America leads in terms of both quantity and quality of publications, while European and Canadian institutions and authors also make significant contributions. Recent research focused on the use of tranexamic acid, anesthesia selection, and the VTE risk in revision surgeries.

Putting Flash in the Canadian Literature Classroom

ABSTRACT This teaching note considers the benefits of including very short stories or “flash fiction” in the (Canadian) literature classroom. Because the genre is relatively new and favors brevity, it can be attractive to students. Teachers can be sure the students will have read the story, or even find the time to have them read entire stories in class. As well, choosing very short works lets us introduce a variety of Canadian authors to our students. We begin by questioning the dominance of context-hunting and theme-searching among young readers, and point out that this mode of reading comes at the expense of an appreciation or serious consideration of form and language. While historical context and themes are of course important to understanding any story, students often privilege the extra-textual over the literary merits of fiction; they are not necessarily reading literature as literature. The latter part of the note zeroes in on classroom experiences we have had while teaching stories by John Gould, Carin Makuz and Douglas Glover.

VEVERICA PLAŠLJIVICA MELANI VOT – INTERAKCIJA VERBALNOG I VIZUELNOG

The paper deals with the picture book Scaredy Squirrel illustrated and written by the Canadian author Melanie Watt. First, it is about the contemporary production of picture books about feelings, and then it is considered what is the place of the picture book Scaredy Squirrel among them. The picture book is analyzed as dual, visual, and verbal piece of art whose meaning emerges from the dialogue between image and text. The role of paratext, metatextual playing and the fragmentation of the narrative dominated by linguistic and pictorial enumerations and interruptions of linear storytelling with non-literary genres (tables, plans, lists) are pointed out. The emphasis is on interactivity and communicativeness and addressing a dual readership, children and adults. Children are encouraged in an unobtrusive, playful, and humorous way, while the understanding of adults is also offered with meanings related to criticism and parody of modern media and the society of fear.

Dôre Michelut: Voicing One’s Linguistic and Existential Hybridity Through Multilingual Writing and Self-Translating

This article investigates the practice of self-translation in the context of migration by examining the literary production of Dôre Michelut, a Canadian author of Italian origins. It specifically illustrates how Michelut’s writing and translating are rooted in her migrant experience and operate as instruments through which the author can voice her hybrid identity and bridge Italian and Canadian worlds. Michelut’s experience of living in-between multiple linguistic and cultural spaces is recreated on the written page, which becomes the site where these multiple spaces are connected and interwoven. The act of writing and translating are thus interrelated in a continuous process of creation that leads to the production of a “hybrid text” and to the enactment of a “hybrid process.” In the first case, hybridity emerges through multilingual writing. In the second case, it is articulated around a specific form of self-translation that is in-between writing and translating.

Animal representations in Margaret Atwood’s novels: a study based on pan-indexicality model

Abstract Margaret Atwood is a Canadian author of more than thirty-five books and the winner of prestigious literary prizes, such as the Booker Prize, the Giller Prize, and the Governor General’s Award. Her influence on Canadian literature and contemporary literature as a whole is phenomenal. Nevertheless, little is known with respect to how Atwood represents animals covering the full range of her novels. This paper reports on the analysis of animal representations in Atwood’s seventeen novels through Python programming and close reading under the framework of a new semiotic research finding, a pan-indexicality model within the context of literature and the environment. This study investigates the frequencies of animal vocabulary in the seventeen novels, the changes of animal representations in her novels before 1990s and after 1990s, and the implication of the ever-changing animal representations during the fifty years. This paper concludes that nonhuman animal descriptions in Atwood’s novels of 1970s and 1980s run at a high level and decrease in her novels of 1990s, while scientific animal descriptions increase in her novels of 2000s and 2010s. Nonhuman animals in her novels of 1970s and 1980s are instrumentalized as a vehicle for indigenization and national individuation from the United States, and scientific animals in her novels of 2000s and 2010s are instrumentalized in the service of environmental apocalypticism. This study suggests that the pan-indexicality model can be employed to understand the meaning of signs in literature and the environment from the perspective of authorial intention, with reference to authors’ encyclopedic knowledge, personal experience, social, and cultural background information.

THE ANTI-IMPERIAL GENRE PARADIGM OF THE CANADIAN POST-VICTORIAN NOVEL

The paper offers a comprehensive analysis of discursive anti-imperial models in Canadian post-Victorian novels. The set tasks relate to detailing the features of this genre paradigm. In particular, attention is focused on the study of its historical, literary, and cultural context. The explanation of the socio-historical background typical of classical English Victorianism, provided in the paper, helps to trace the evolution of the related genre on Canadian soil. Its reinterpretation was prompted by the polyethnic and cultural ‘mosaic’ of the country, which became a prerequisite for the emergence of original models in modern sociology, cultural studies, and fiction.
 The study postulates the idea of an anti-imperial paradigm of the genre within the Dominion of Canada. Hence, the process of transforming the discourse of the Victorian novel into the post-Victorian one is demonstrated to be determined by the peculiarities of the post-colonial multicultural structure of the country, which manifests itself at the thematic, cognitive, psychological, and poetic levels. For the purpose of comprehensive analysis, the research is based on the plurality of historical and philosophical foundations within the field of ethics. The range of methods encompasses syncretic, cultural-historical, psychoanalytic, ‘close reading’, genetic, and gynocriticism.
 The study led to the observation that the social pattern of the Victorian era (a strict religious and moral code, the pretext of which was Protestantism, mysticism, etc.) permeated Canadian prose as an echo of English Victorianism. There was an ontological dialogue between the Victorian era and post-Victorianism, between individuals and the times in which they lived. The relationship between literature and individuals of different cultural and historical periods had an evolutionary character. The evolution of the genre of the Canadian post-Victorian novel, particularly in the works by L. M. Montgomery, B. Moore, and M. Atwood, is related to the multifaceted style, which involves the use of diverse elements from various aesthetic forms. This synthesis is the result of an experiment with both new and traditional literary models in Canadian literature. The correlation between the classical and post-Victorian genres shows the functionality of such means as satire, pastiche, and simulacrum in the latter. These tools transform the Victorian novel into an ‘anti-Victorian’ one. The examination of the modern version of the classical genre demonstrates the heterogeneity of meanings, their layering and transmission, a new role and conceptual load, motivated by purely national means of explanation.
 Over the course of an extended journey through time, the traditional Victorian models, adopted in the literature of the metropolis, had been transformed on Canadian soil. They acquired unique qualities, expanding the field of event and poetic content of the works by Canadian authors and demonstrating their solid post-Victorian anti-imperial discourse.

Voices of those living with type 2 diabetes in Belize: barriers to care before and during the COVID-19 pandemic

Belize has the highest national prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) of Central and South America, and fifth direst in the world. T2D is the leading cause of death in Belize, a country facing burdens of increasing prevalence with few resources. Since March of 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the difficulties of those living with T2D in Belize. To address T2D issues in Belize, our interdisciplinary research team explored the barriers to care and self-management for adult patients with T2D in Belize prior to and during the COVID-19 pandemic.Research relationships between Canadian (ARH) and Belizean (LE) authors have been ongoing since 2016. Together we used a qualitative Constructivist Grounded Theory design generating knowledge through 35 semi-structured patient interviews, 25 key informant discussions, and participant observation with field notes between February 2020 to September 2021. We used Dedoose analysis software for a systematized thematic coding process, as well as iterative verification activities. Findings revealed several barriers to care and self-management, including: 1) the tiered health and social care system with major gaps in coverage; 2) the unfulfilled demand for accurate health information and innovative dissemination methods; and 3) the compounding of loss of community supports, physical exercise, and health services due to COVID-19 restrictions. In the post-pandemic period, it is necessary to invest in physical, nutritional, economic, and psychosocial health through organized activities adaptable to changeable public health restrictions. Recommendations for activities include sending patients informational and motivational text messages, providing recipes with accessibly sourced T2D foods, televising educational workshops, making online tools more accessible, and mobilising community and peer support networks.

Playing on the Expectations: Seth’s It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken (1993–1996) as Graphic Autofiction

Abstract The article revises the well-established reading of the Canadian author and artist Seth’s first graphic novel It’s a Good Life, If You Don’t Weaken (1993–1996) as autofiction, employing a more recent theorization on autofiction and the autofictional (that is, autofictional pact and strategies of counterfactuality). Seth consciously constructs his narrative identity, exploiting generic conventions and respective social expectations, which arise at the turn of the twenty-first century in light of the rising popularity of confessional writing in American alternative comics. Within the scope of this article, I touch upon the pragmatic of authorial self-articulation, that is, manipulation of architextual relations by means of his pseudonym, professional label, and genre elements, as well as the functional analysis of the binary system of characters. The study suggests the importance of differentiating between the fictional and referential in autofiction in order to preserve the autofictional equilibrium of establishment and subversion of authenticity.

Decolonizing the Authority File

This article examines decolonization efforts at the Indigenous Authors Collection at the University of Calgary in Canada. The 47-book collection is an example of a decolonization attempt by the University, which aligns with the institution's Indigenous strategy. This project enhanced the Indigenous collection by adding Canadian authors and providing culturally appropriate metadata to increase visibility and access in the library’s catalogue. The authors discuss the problems they faced with current metadata standards not allowing the use of special characters, enhancements made, and the implications of cataloguing policies and workflow for other collections. The authors also demonstrate how users view and access their changes and show new ways that users can interact with the collection. They also explore future possibilities that linked data practices offer to display enhanced author information from local authorities and broaden the collection’s reach even further.

The impact of Canadian-produced research on the global orthopedic literature: a bibliometric analysis.

Little is known about the quality and impact of Canadian-produced research relative to that of other developed nations. The purpose of this study was to determine the contribution of Canadian authors to the orthopedic literature globally and nationally as well as Canada's research productivity in orthopedics. We hypothesized that Canada ranks among the most impactful countries in terms of orthopedic research productivity. We performed a bibliometric analysis to identify articles published between 2001 and 2020 in the category of orthopedics. We identified Canada's global rank in terms of overall productivity and assessed the contributions of individual Canadian authors. We also examined the quality of publications as determined by category normalized citation impact (CNCI) and publication in the top quartile of journals (%Q1) in terms of impact factor. In addition, we calculated the percentage of Canadian publications that were in orthopedics. We identified 10 821 orthopedic publications from 2001 to 2020. Canada placed sixth globally in terms of productivity in orthopedic research. The annual productivity of Canadian orthopedic researchers increased over the study period by a factor of 3.2. In terms of research quality, with a %Q1 of 36.5% and a CNCI of 1.22, Canada outperformed Asian countries and the United States; the latter country had a %Q1 of 35.3% and a CNCI of 1.14 over the study period. The body of Canadian orthopedic literature has grown consistently over the past 20 years. Despite the overall leadership of the United States and other developed nations such as China and Japan, Canada ranks among the most influential countries in terms of the quality and quantity of orthopedic research.

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The main purpose of this article is to represent the visible identity issues in the works of Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood as Canadian authors, as well as to focus on their female voices as examples of feminist literature. In their works, both authors strive to show their feminine emotions and feelings, trying to raise a number of questions related to identity and women. As Canadian literature experienced its existential crisis in the 20th century, there was a need to protect and give Canadian literature a greater voice. That is why the issues of preserving identity and creating its vision arose. And that was the reason why the best field of expression for Alice Munro and Margaret Atwood was literature, through which they tried to express themselves, thereby showing their feminist views. Through their works, the authors try not only to show certain questions and problems regarding the equality of women’s rights but also to offer their own solutions that can be useful in the concepts of feminist literature. Both Alice Monroe’s and Margaret Atwood’s literary works tend to reveal the inner emotions, conflicts, riots, and resulting intrapersonal manifestations of a woman as an individual.

Embryonic Citizenship: Disidentifications of Asian Racialized Settlerhood

This essay tracks an allegorical figure termed the "child-citizen" in order to consider how the nonlinear temporality of Asian racialized development illuminates the ambivalent logic of Asian North American citizenship as one premised on a simultaneous identification with and disavowal of settler colonial erasures of Indigenous presence. The primary literary work under consideration is the 2001 novel The Kappa Child by Japanese Canadian author Hiromi Goto. Informed by the critical lens of new materialism, this essay reads The Kappa Child through and as a feminist and queer reckoning with Darwinian evolutionary theory that provides an asynchronous model of development, which ultimately figures Asian racialized settlerhood as an uneven (dis)identification with the circuits of citizenship.

Affidamento and (Pop)-Feminism: Advocating for Women’s Rights in The Handmaid’s Tale and Luna Nera

ABSTRACT The Handmaid’s Tale ([1985] 2017), a must-read feminist dystopian novel by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, and Luna Nera [Black Moon] (2019), a recent historical-fantasy novel by Italian writer Tiziana Triana, present narratives that encourage their readers to question traditional models of femininity. Set in different times, yet in settings that are in many ways similar, both narratives describe societies where women are perceived as individuals to be controlled and at the same time where sisterhood helps them to succeed. Following the rise of right-wing governments and ideologies on both sides of the Atlantic and the backlash of the patriarchy against women’s hard-won rights and freedoms, Atwood’s twentieth-century masterpiece has regained visibility thanks to its on-screen adaptation as a TV series. Similarly, Triana’s Luna Nera has also recently been adapted as a Netflix original TV series directed by Francesca Comencini, Paola Randi and Susanna Nicchiarelli, thus revealing the neglected history of witches in seventeenth-century central Italy to global viewers. Through some fictional examples as a starting point for the discussion, this article will reflect on the following questions: at a time when women’s rights, particularly reproductive rights, are under threat, what can novels and TV series inspired by them tell us about contemporary gender concerns? How can symbolic motherhood and sisterhood help women in these challenging scenarios to escape patriarchal control? And how, in turn, might their actions influence the audience? Building on feminist discourses on the practice of affidamento [entrustment], I will discuss a series of sociocultural issues relevant to contemporary women, with particular attention to reproductive rights, represented in the novels and their TV series adaptation in the context of the current political debates on both sides of the Atlantic and beyond.

Less Punk, More Splatter: Heavy Metal, Horror Video, and the Literary Nasties of Shaun Hutson

Less Punk, More Splatter: Heavy Metal, Horror Video, and the Literary Nasties of Shaun Hutson

Perspectivas de archivo en la gestión de datos de investigación

It presents a proposal for a relationship between Integrated Archival Science and Research Data Management based on the development of archival functions recommended by Canadian authors Jean-Yves Rousseau and Carol Couture. It approaches Research Data Management as a multidisciplinary activity and develops the role of Archival Science in Research Data Management. It demonstrates the potential of integrating the two disciplines.

AN ANALYSIS OF EDUCATIONAL VALUE AND DEFENCE MECHANISM IN “LIFE OF PI” NOVEL BY YANN MARTEL

<p>This research was aimed to analyze an educational value and defence mechanism in life of pi novel by Yann Martel. Life of Pi is an award-winning novel written by Yann Martel, a Canadian author. The novel depicts the topic of struggle for life and against death in an emergency situation. It tells about the struggle of an Indian boy who spent 227 days with a fierce tiger in the Pacific Ocean, and as the sole survivor in a shipwreck that killed his family. There are two problems are formulated to guide and limit the discussion in this study. The first problem examines the description of the educational value, the second problem examines the defence mechanism in that novel. The methodology of this research is descriptive qualitative method. All of the data are gathered by reading the novel, identifying, classifying, and reducing the data. The primary data of the study are in the form of monologues and dialogues of the novel itself. The primary data is supported by secondary data that is taken from books, journals, articles, essays, and sites that relate to the study. The selected data is interpreted into understandable meaning by descriptive technique. The result of the research finds that educational value in life of pi novel: he is intelligent, he was able to enter the best secondary school in his town and later achieved top grades as a university student; open- minded, He is open-minded in his way of thinking; spiritual, He practices three religions with the reason that he wants to love God; and has strong determination, He has a strong will and he does not give up or become desperate easily. The defence mechanism carried out by Pi Patel: by recognizing and using his strength, which is made possible by his intelligence; by being realistic about the situation, which is facilitated by his open- mindedness; and by adopting positive attitude, which is facilitated by his spirituality and strong determination.</p>

Repeat the Important Words Until You Understand Them: Metaphor, Memory and Meaning in Anne Carson’s Essaying

ABSTRACT This paper considers essays from Canadian author Anne Carson’s Glass, Irony & God (1992) and Plainwater (1995). Carson has spoken of these as reshapings of her life experience and recollections on the page. I suggest that it is the essential quality of plasticity—inherent to the essay genre, evident in the workings of memory, and displayed in Carson’s hybrid and experimental writing—which makes these works so powerful and expressly suited to their purpose. By working through contemporary definitions of the essay, touching on the neuroscience of memory, and analysing key examples of Carson’s life writing, I will also suggest that the particular qualities of lyric essay, such as its reliance on metaphor, elision and allusion, echo the ambiguities and inconsistencies inherent to identity, interpersonal relationships and autobiographical memory. Thus, this paper shows Carson as reaching beyond traditional textual practices of remembering to develop a unique mode of life writing ideally suited to reshaping and thus handling emotionally and ethically charged material, in order to bring the experimental personal essay to its fullest expression.

Taché’s Voyageur is not Cooper’s Frontiersman: Differences between Canadian and U.S. Concepts of “Frontier”

ABSTRACT Historically, concepts of what constituted a “frontier” developed differently in Canada and the United States. Portrayals in literature of those who inhabited these geographic spaces also are typified by notable differences between the former French and English colonies, yet U.S. literary critics today sometimes conflate the two situations, apparently under the assumption that what applies to the United States pertains in the same way to Canada. The historical reality is far more nuanced. As one example, among the Englishmen who spent time among native cultures, marriage into the culture of “the other” was rare; by contrast, the practice was not at all uncommon among the French who predated the English in Canada. A comparison of two nineteenth-century works—Forestiers et voyageurs by Canadian author Joseph-Charles Taché and The Pioneers by U.S. author James Fenimore Cooper—develops these observations to show how English-origin ideas of “frontier” and “frontiersman” cannot be assumed to apply in discussing Canadian works of literature.

MARGARET ATWOOD’UN ANTİLOP VE FLURYA ROMANINDA EKOLOJİK FELAKET

This study explores ecocatastrophe in Canadian author Margaret Atwood’s novel Oryx and Crake through the lens of environmental apocalypticism. By exploring the characters and motifs in the dystopian world of the novel, relevant contemporary themes such as the implications of genetic engineering, unbridled human avarice and consumerism, population growth and the relationship between human beings and the planet that we inhabit are explored. Through the theme of environmental apocalypse, the novel teaches us that only by acknowledging the interior value and integrity of nature and by trying to establish an equal relationship with nature can humans develop harmoniously, together with nature.