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

Article | Contributeur(s): 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 | Contributeur(s): Cyrus Hoy

On First Looking into Lumley's Euripides

Article | Contributeur(s): 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 Justice and Liberty in Natalia Ginzburg's Non-Fictional Writings

Article | Contributeur(s): 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 | Contributeur(s): 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 | Contributeur(s): Andrew Barker

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

Article | Contributeur(s): 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 | Contributeur(s): Steen Jansen

On the Dancing in Romeo and Juliet

Article | Contributeur(s): Philip C. McGuire

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

Article | Contributeur(s): 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 | Contributeur(s): 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...

On the Legacy and Cultural Significance of Italian Grocers in Ontario

Article | Contributeur(s): Jim Zucchero

On the Responsibility to Implement the Perspective of the People in Focus of (Digital) Projects

2024-01-25 22:16:47 | Presentation | Contributeur(s): Nastasia Herold, Thérèse Ottawa | https://doi.org/10.25547/ZR7Q-SR46

digital humanities, indigenous studies

On the Seriousness of Things: Pirandello’s Ma non è una cosa seria from Page to Screen

Article | Contributeur(s): Michael Syrimis

A study of Mario Camerini’s Ma non è una cosa seria (But It’s Nothing Serious [1936]), a film based on Luigi Pirandello’s eponymous 1918 play and typical of the 1930s Italian romantic comedy genre, elucidates the transformations that a literary conception undergoes when adapted for the screen,...

On Writing and Dreaming

Article | Contributeur(s): Venera Fazio

Open Access Agreements

2024-04-11 18:57:23 | Report | Contributeur(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/13XE-GG92

In March 2021, The University of California (UC) announced a “breakthrough” open access (OA) agreement with Elsevier, the world’s largest scientific publisher (2021). Under the agreement, all articles with a lead author based at UC will be OA upon publication, and researchers at UC will have...

Open Access in the Humanities and Social Sciences in Canada: A Conversation

2024-04-11 18:19:21 | Report | Contributeur(s): Canadian Federation for the Humanities And Social Sciences (federationhss.ca) | https://doi.org/10.25547/K11B-A998

Over the last decade, Open Access (OA) has gained support among researchers and policymakers, with increasingly vocal advocacy for free online access to scholarly work. While incorporating Open Access policies in Canada reflects a rapidly changing publishing landscape, with the rise of...

Open Access Monographs

2024-04-11 19:00:12 | Report | Contributeur(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/GW5T-3W32

As the international open access (OA) movement gains momentum, the question of how to make the shift to OA for monographs is becoming more pressing and, in recent years, efforts to determine a sustainable model for publishing OA monographs have increased.

Open Access Monographs Update

2024-04-11 18:29:30 | Report | Contributeur(s): Caroline Winter | https://doi.org/10.25547/YJQF-5E87

As discussed in the observation “Open Access Monographs,” published in March 2021, increasing attention has been paid in recent years to strategies for successfully publishing open access (OA) monographs and other long-form publications such as book chapters. Martin Eve and Anthony Cond described...

Open Access Publishing Negotiations in Europe

2024-04-11 20:58:15 | Report | Contributeur(s): Kimberly Silk | https://doi.org/10.25547/VXRH-0M63

In Europe, where publisher negotiations are often done at the national rather than the institutional level, universities are pushing for scholarly journals to become open access, in part due to the E.U.’s mandate to make all scientific articles freely available by 2020.