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The author traces and evaluates the possible influences of Celtic tradition on the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf. He discusses theories of the origins of the poem, draws parallels between elements in Beowulf and in Celtic literary tradition, and suggests that the central plot of the poem, the conflict with Grendel and his mother, is "fundamentally indebted to Celtic folktale elements." The study is well documented and rich in references to Celtic literature, legend, and folklore.

Deyohahá ge:, "two roads or paths" in Cayuga language, evokes the Covenant Chain-Two Row Wampum, known as the "grandfather of the treaties." Famously, this Haudenosaunee wampum agreement showed how Indigenous people and newcomers could build peace and friendship by respecting each other's cultures, beliefs, and laws as they shared the river of life. Written by members of Six Nations and their neighbours, this book's chapters introduce readers not only to the 17th-century history of how the Dutch and British joined the wampum agreement, but also to how it might restore good relations today. Many Canadians and Americans have never heard of the Covenant Chain or Two Row Wampum, but 200 years of disregard have not obliterated the covenant. We all need to learn about this foundational wampum, because it is resurging in our communities, institutions, and courthouses--charting a way to a future. The writers of Deyohahá ge: delve into the eco-philosophy, legal evolution, and ethical protocols of two-path peace-making. They tend the sacred, ethical space that many of us navigate between these paths. They show how people today create peace, friendship, and respect--literally--on the river of everyday life.

This volume provides a range of perspectives, practices, and ideas relative to social work's engagements with individualsliving with autism, intellectual disability and developmental disabilities.Contributors in this peer-reviewed volume include social work practitioners, academic and community-based researchers, educators, activists, andself-advocates. Reflecting different ways of theorizing, speaking about, andworking with people with autism, intellectual disability and developmentaldisabilities, it explores both tensions and possibilities for social workpractice, research, education, advocacy and policy development that better meettheir needs and desires for their lives.

A dazzling selection of poems spanning nearly 50 years of Okanagan author and teacher John Lent's beautiful and genre-leaping poetry. This selection--highlighting Lent's restless fascination with literary forms as well as his life-long obsession with the possibilities of apprehending consciousness--deepens Lent's reputation as a masterful artist.

Who gets to write poetry? Whose voices are made public? Whose voices are heeded? These are the questions at the heart of Erasing Frankenstein. This book tells the story of a public humanities project involving federally incarcerated women and university students in which participants collaboratively created a long erasure poem using Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as source text. What happens when we remake the monster?

Soundin' Canaan refers to the code name often used for Canada during the Black migration. The book focuses on intersections between music and poetry as border-crossing practices that expand how we think about citizenship. It demonstrates how music in Black Canadian poetry is a form of social, ethical, and political expression.

A collection exploring the ways the arts participate in emerging environmentally focused interdisciplinary fields, such as the Environmental Humanities. Essays examine what creative practice and visual language lend to these vital conversations, and how the arts and artistic practitioners share environmental knowledge.

A sociocultural history of children and childhood in Canada from the early 19th century to the late 20th century. It approaches these subjects both thematically and chronologically, with attention to the ways in which world historic events--the Great War, the Depression, the Second World War, the Cold War--affected children's lives.

This study of the development of education in the British West Indian colonies during the last half of the nineteenth century examines the educational policies and curriculum used in schools following the abolition of slavery. During this period the nature and development of the educational system in the region was profoundly affected by the decline of the sugar industry, the emergence of black and coloured middle classes and the threat they posed to the ruling white elite, and the institutionalization of cultural divisions between the black and white populations. Bacchus argues that after 1846 the elite white plantocracy used the educational system to maintain domination following the end of slavery. This is the first book to present an overall picture of educational developments in the British West Indies in this period and pays special attention to the historical context in which they occurred. In Education as and for Legitimacy, the author continues the study of West Indian education he began with his previous book, Utilization, Misuse, and Development of Human Resources in the Early West Indian Colonies.

Both a visitor's guide to the Elora Gorge on the Upper Grand River in southwestern Ontario and a thorough yet accessible introduction to its history, from the origins of its bedrock some 430 million years ago in prehistoric tropical seas, to contemporary natural and human processes affecting this fascinating example of rivers in rock.

An experimental and radical commentary on the publishing industry, the centrepiece of this book is an autoethnographic comic erotic thriller about the Frankfurt Book Fair, self-published under the pseudonym Blaire Squiscoll. The critical edition enriches the novella with essays, annotations, and creative assemblages.

Quiet Rebels tells the stories of 187 women who were called to the Ontario bar between 1897 and 1957, identifying gendered patterns of exclusion. It also explores women lawyers' experiences in later decades, when many more women entered the legal profession, assessing the extent of "changes" or "continuities" for some women lawyers.

A study of the performance and circulation of the figure of Salome as it shaped the modern business of skin-baring dance in imperial Europe and settler colonial North America at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.