The rise and demise of a book-review magazine interpreting the cultural work of Books in Canada (1971-2008)

This interdisciplinary study examines the contribution that a book-review magazine makes to the cultural identity of its readers. It is the result of reflections on the cultural work of Books in Canada , on whether or not this periodical was a cultural worksite and if that is the case how it performed that cultural work. In addition, it interrogates factors that may have contributed to the magazine's demise. The study affirms that Books in Canada, a cultural enterprise from 1971 to 2008, mirrored and helped to shape book and literary culture in Canada through its circulation, through the personalities of its editors, through its front covers and through its reviewers and their reviews. Furthermore, it proposes that the demise of the enterprise was due to a combination of factors. The study begins with an introduction to book reviewing and special-interest magazines. Chapter I examines the interplay between selected visual and textual contents published in Books in Canada in its founding years. These components reflected and helped to fuel the cultural nationalism that was sweeping Canada subsequent to the 1967 World's Fair in Montreal. There were also persistent rumours and comments about the magazine that caused certain"cracks in the foundation" to appear. Chapter II compares the aims and editorial challenges of Val Clery, founder of Books in Canada , with those of Adrien Thério, founder of Lettres québécoises, and of the editors of the magazines' twentieth-anniversary issues, Paul Stuewe in the case of the former and André Vanasse in the case of the latter. Evidence in the content of the magazine, editorial and otherwise, indicated that the"contracts" that the editors made with their readers over the years were similar, to reflect and shape a cultural identity, but the result of their"projects," that is, the nature of those identities, was distinctly different. Evidently then, personal aims, preferences and political leanings of editors can have a major impact on the content of a book-review magazine and thus on the cultural work that it does. Therefore, in Chapter III, I focus on selected contents published during the tenures of two of Books in Canada 's key editors, Paul Stuewe and Olga Stein, in order to understand ways that their choices constituted a form of cultural work. The second part of this chapter moves from an analysis of the cultural work of editors to an examination of the cultural work of reviewers. Here, through a close-reading of a selection of reviews published in Books in Canada, and in other periodicals, I argue that reviewers do cultural work in the way that they negotiate their presence in a review, and in how they signal that presence through lexical choices and through the degree of intellectual interaction that they invite. Intellectual interaction is at the core of Chapter IV.This chapter consists of close readings of some of the"billboards" of the enterprise, that is, the front covers of Books in Canada , in order to show how these important components do cultural work by requiring readers to make an intellectual leap from image to text. Chapter V suggests that book reviews, the company's"bills of goods," do cultural work in much the same way as the paratexts of a book. One of my own reviews is offered as a case-study along with a number of other reviews of how central components of a book-review magazine do cultural work through the illocutionary force of their sentences. The first part of Chapter VI, the final chapter, measures the legacy of the magazine, in particular, the annual Books in Canada First Novel Award. Created in 1976, this prize is awarded to the author of the novel judged by a Books in Canada prize committee to be the best first novel in English of the year. The second part of Chapter VI sheds light on factors that may have contributed to the closure of the enterprise, including the copyright uproar that accompanied the agreement that Adrian Stein, publisher of Books in Canada and Olga Stein's husband, made in 2001 with the online book merchant, Amazon.com. Furthermore, this penultimate section of the study suggests that one of the most important factors in the magazine's demise was the decision by the Steins to exploit their position as owners, publisher, and editor of a book-review periodical, a government-subsidized one at that, to publish their own lengthy pre-trial defense of Conrad Black. The chapter then zooms back from the particular to the general with a broader consideration of the impact of technology and globalization on the book industry and on the ability of Books in Canada to survive in any form, print or digital.

Uma missão para o império : política missionária e o "novo imperialismo" (1885-1926)

Tese de doutoramento, História («Impérios, Colonialismo e Pós-Colonialismo»), Universidade de Lisboa, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Universidade Católica Portuguesa e Universidade de Évora, 2014

Junior Recital, May 20, 1971

Concert program for Junior Recital, May 20, 1971

Senior Recital, May 22, 1971

Concert program for Senior Recital, May 22, 1971

The Philadelphia String Quartet, January 8, 1971

Concert program for The Philadelphia String Quartet, January 8, 1971

Twentieth Century Music December 6, 1971

Concert Program for Twentieth Century Music, Dec. 6, 1971

An Evening of Opera Excerpts November 22, 23, 1971

Concert program for An Evening of Opera Excerpts, Nov 22, 23, 1971

The Philadelphia String Quartet November 19, 1971

Concert program for Philadelphia String Quartet, Nov. 19, 1971

Philadelphia String Quartet October 29, 1971

Concert Program for Philadelphia String Quartet, Oct. 29, 1971

An Operatic Triptych August 18, 20, 1971

Concert program for An Operatic Triptych August 18, 20, 1971

The Philadelphia String Quartet July 13, 1971

Concert program for The Philadelphia String Quartet, July 13, 1971

The British electoral system 1885-1970

At a time when the electoral system is coming under renewed scrutiny, this article examines the origins and creation of the present system in 1884-5, and its subsequent survival. This is the first such analysis to draw upon Public Record Office and party archives. Whilst showing that the political classes have been quite prepared to consider the merits of alternatives, particularly S.T.V., for Ireland or in colonial settings, they have usually been seen as less appropriate for Westminster. In exploring why that should be the case this article seeks to provide a new explanation for the longevity of the electoral arrangements of 1885.

Georg Lukács as a Communications Scholar: Cultural and Digital Labour in the Context of Lukács’ Ontology of Social Being

The task of this work is to apply thoughts from Georg Lukács’ final book, the Ontology of Social Being, for the theoretical analysis of cultural and digital labour. It discusses Lukács’ concepts of work and communication and relates them to the analysis of cultural and digital work. It also analyses his conception of the relation of labour and ideology and points out how we can make use of it for critically understanding social media ideologies. Lukács opposes the dualist separation of the realms of work and ideas. He introduces in this context the notion of teleological positing that allows us to better understand cultural and digital labour as well as associated ideologies, such as the engaging/connecting/sharing-ideology, today. The analysis shows that Lukács’ Ontology is in the age of Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter still a very relevant book, although it has thus far not received the attention that it deserves. This article also introduces the Ontology’s main ideas on work and culture, which is important because large parts of the book have not been translated from the German original into English. Lukács’ notion of teleological positing is crucial for understanding the common features of the economy and culture.

Regressos quase perfeitos. Etnografia da memória de guerra em Angola (1971-1973)

Entre 1961 e 1974 Portugal combateu uma guerra em África. Quarenta anos após a revolução que depôs o regime, já não existe a nação pluricontinental em nome da qual foram enviados para África mais de 800 mil homens. Esta guerra, que nunca foi oficialmente declarada, sobrevive ainda na memória daqueles que nela participaram. O objetivo desta dissertação é contribuir para a compreensão do processo através do qual a memória conta a guerra colonial no presente. Impossível que é reproduzir fielmente o momento vivido, o conhecimento do passado resulta da produção de aproximações imperfeitas daquilo que já não existe. A memória não é estanque e imutável, nem tampouco irredutivelmente individual. Ela é recriada e atualizada pelo olhar retrospectivo de agentes – individuais ou coletivos - que a cada momento conferem inteligibilidade ao passado através da negociação do modo pelo qual ele pode ser formulado. Ao combinar de uma forma singular o mundo privado da recordação pessoal e o mundo público da memória social, a memória de guerra constitui um locus privilegiado para a análise do processo pelo qual as experiências pessoais são interrogadas e inscritas em narrativas públicas mais vastas. Partindo da comissão de serviço de uma unidade do Exército português em Angola entre 1971 e 1973, construiu-se uma etnografia da memória de guerra que articula diversos lugares e momentos do tempo e que cruza as várias escalas em que memória vive. As memórias pessoais dos antigos militares desta companhia de artilharia foram confrontadas com outras narrativas sobre o mesmo fragmento da guerra colonial (o relato institucional militar, a narrativa literária de António Lobo Antunes, antigo alferes médico da unidade) e com as retóricas públicas que, durante o Estado Novo e no Portugal contemporâneo, forneceram as ideias e as palavras com as quais o país e o mundo eram pensados. Foi nesta viagem entre tempos e escalas diversas que se procurou compreender a memória de guerra, construção compósita que articula a dimensão pessoal da subjetividade individual com a dimensão social das narrativas públicas que desenham os limites no interior dos quais a guerra, o colonialismo, a nação, o passado e o presente podem ser imaginados.

Resultado de la primera marcación experimental de anchoveta (Engraulis ringens J.) en el mar. abril 1970 - setiembre 1971

Presenta la metodología y resultados del primer experimento de marcaciones internas de anchoveta, realizado en el mar del Perú y se resume experiencias previas de marcación en plantas de reducción.