Obscuring the Veil: Food Advertising as Public Pedagogy

2025-03-19 22:03:26 | Article | Autor(es): Ellyse Winter | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v7i1.377

Working with Karl Marx’s concept of commodity fetishism, the purpose of this paper is to argue that food advertisements and packaging work to further obfuscate the social, economic, and environmental relations behind the animal products and by-products consumed in Canada and the United States....

Observations on Milton’s Accents

Article | Autor(es): John K. Hale

Milton’s diacritics in six languages, though mostly typical of his time, allow some inferences about his language attainments and scholarship. For Latin verse, he uses accents to disambiguate rhythm or meaning. For Greek scholarship, he is punctilious. Italian authors are culture to him, French...

Of Golden Feathers and Light Reading: Guido Gozzano's "Piumadoro e Piombofino"

Article | Autor(es): Cristina Mazzoni

Guido Gozzano's "Piumadoro e Piombofino" (1909) is a text light in terms of genre (a literary fairy tale), style (six short, poetic segments, rich in repetitions and fantastic elements), and, most obviously, content (the eponymous protagonist suffers from a spell that has made her body...

Of Horse Fish And Frozen Words

Article | Autor(es): Kim Campbell

Of Solitude, Skepticism, and Subjectivity: Michel de Montaigne's poêle in La Villa

Article | Autor(es): Scott D. Juall

Cet article examine les expériences de solitude de Michel de Montaigne aux bains de La Villa dépeintes dans le Journal de voyage en Italie (1580-1581), ouvrage autobiographique portant en grande partie sur les épreuves de l'écrivain devenu voyageur en essayant de se guérir d'un cas sérieux et...

Of Songs and Chants and Religious Rants: Late Sixteenth Century Hymns and Spiritual Songs Among Followers of Caspar von Schwenckfeld

Article | Autor(es): E.J. Furcha

Old habits die hard: The need for feminist rethinking in global food and agricultural policies

2025-03-19 22:03:40 | Article | Autor(es): Andrea M. Collins | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v5i1.228

A number of global initiatives designed in recent years address global food security and aim to reduce the vulnerability of small-scale and peasant farmers in the face of expanded transnational investment in large-scale agriculture and land acquisition. While there have been efforts to...

On Crossing Borders

Article | Autor(es): Cristina Perissinotto

On Dark Laughter: Leopardi’s and Beckett’s Humour

Article | Autor(es): Roberta Cauchi-Santoro

The desire not to desire is crucial to Samuel Beckett and Giacomo Leopardi. Beckett explores this theme in Proust where Leopardi’s poem “A Se Stesso” is thrice quoted. Before citing this poem, Beckett catalogues Leopardi as one of the philosophers who proposed the only impossible solution—the...

On Editing Elizabethan Plays

2023-06-22 19:39:50 | Article | Autor(es): Cyrus Hoy

On First Looking into Lumley's Euripides

Article | Autor(es): Patricia Demers

This essay explores the text of Lady Jane Lumley's Tudor translation of Iphigeneia at Aulis in an attempt to see the mind of an erudite, privileged young woman at work. By braiding domestic and political contexts in Lumley's adroitly oblique allusions to her time, it attends to her interest in...

On Genre as Social Action, Uptake, and Modest Grand Theory

2025-07-10 17:50:21 | Article | Autor(es): Sune Auken | https://doi.org/10.31468/cjsdwr.823

Carolyn Miller’s (1984) “Genre as Social Action,” the primary topic—or target—of Anne Freadman’s brilliant and thought-provoking article, holds a special place in genre research. If I pick up an unknown piece of research on genre, the first thing I do is look for Miller’s article in the...

On Justice and Liberty in Natalia Ginzburg's Non-Fictional Writings

Article | Autor(es): Joseph Francese

Natalia Ginzburg's value system impacted her poetics and her artistic production over her entire career as a writer. After the publication of Lessico famigliare (1963) through her death (1991) her youthful belief in the ideals of justice and liberty evolved to reflect the growing importance, for...

On Lesbian Acts and Female Pleasures in Juvenal Commentaries from Antiquity to 1500

Article | Autor(es): Marc D. Schachter

This article explores the representation of sex between women in an understudied archive: commentaries on Juvenal’s Satires from antiquity to the end of the fifteenth century. By tracking the changes in glosses to a passage in the Sixth Satire that refers to sex between women, it contributes to...

On Philosophy and the Sciences in Antiquity

Article | Autor(es): Andrew Barker

On Reading La Puce de Madame Des-Roches: Catherine des Roches's Responces (1583)

Article | Autor(es): Anne R. Larsen

Catherine des Roches's authorial participation in the famous poetic flea contest during the Grands Jours of Poitiers in 1579 was all but forgotten a decade and a half after her death when Estienne Pasquier claimed the volume of La Puce de Madame Des-Roches as his own by eliminating her name from...

On the Clauses in a Scenario of Flaminio Scala

Article | Autor(es): Steen Jansen

On the Dancing in Romeo and Juliet

Article | Autor(es): Philip C. McGuire

On the Dignity of Voluptas: Valla's Philosophy of Pleasure

Article | Autor(es): Domenico Pietropaolo

On the Front Lines in Food Policy: Assessing the Role of Neighbourhoods for Food Systems Transformation in the Montreal Food Polity

2025-03-19 22:03:18 | Review | Autor(es): Anna-Liisa Aunio, Laurette Dube | https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v8i2.493

This paper reports a multi-year design-based implementation research (DBIR) that examines practical issues, challenges, and innovations faced by the Montreal food polity in transforming food systems for alleviating insecurity in vulnerable populations. Community organizations in three...