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The wellsprings of neo-classicism in music: The nineteenth-century suite and serenade
Keywords: Neoclassicism (Music)
Suite (Music)
Music
History and criticism
Néoclassicisme (Musique)
Suite (Musique)
Musique
Histoire et critique

Musicologists, for the most part, seem unaware that an appreciable stream of neo-classicism flowed through the latter decades of the nineteenth century. Furthermore, we accord little recognition to the many minor composers who, by emulating older models, showed that much of the musical mainstream drew inspiration from eighteenth-century music. European culture saw the eighteenth century as music's Classical era-and Bach, Handel, Haydn, and Mozart were "ancient masters" whose works exemplified classicism. This dissertation describes how after 1850, following the Romantic era, composers revived and cultivated the long dormant suite and serenade genres as reflections of eighteenth-century classicism. Incorporating modern elements, these revitalized suites and serenades represent the wellsprings of neo-classicism in music. Initially, an exploration of a nineteenth-century context for neo-classical ideals leads to a workable definition: neo-classicism is a spirit captured in new compositions that apply modern methods and procedures to older models. A discussion of the terms suite and serenade shows that in the first half of the nineteenth century, a suite had become a collection of light salon pieces for piano, while a serenade implied either a single-movement, song-like character piece, or a light, multi-movement work for a chamber ensemble. By mid-century, however, works for piano, chamber ensemble, and orchestra inspired by, and modelled after, eighteenth-century suites and serenades began to emerge. The repertory of nineteenth-century suites and serenades is presented in three stages. The years 1850-70 saw modern suites and serenades produced by Brahms, Lachner, Massenet, Raff, and Saint-Saëns. According to many contemporary sources, such works were alternatives to sonatas, symphonies, and programmatic tone poems. From 1871-89, the new genres became established all over Europe with prominent examples provided by Tchaikovsky and Dvor—ák. Then in the years 1890-1914, several composers, notably Reger, produced such works maintaining a neo-classical thread through the time of ' fin-de-siècle' modernism. This dissertation, in describing the little known repertory of nineteenth-century suites and serenades, proves that the influence of eighteenth-century classicism had thrived in the Post-Romantic era. The point is that neo-classicism is not solely a phenomenon of the twentieth century, but was an important artistic current in nineteenth-century music.
Science and social context, the regulation of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH) in the United States and Canada, 1982-1998
Keywords: Recombinant bovine somatotropin
Government policy
Recombinant bovine somatotropin
Government policy
Science and state
Case studies
Science and state
Case studies
Somatotrophine bovine recombinante
Politique gouvernementale
Somatotrophine bovine recombinante
Politique gouvernmentale
Politique scientifique et technique
Cas, Études de
Politique scientifique et technique
Cas, Études de

This dissertation explores the relationship between science and public policy in the case of recombinant bovine growth hormone (rbGH), a genetically-engineered drug which increases milk yield in cows. The product was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 1993; it has not been approved in Canada. In both countries, the debate over the product's safety has been intensely controversial. The dissertation argues that problems in the relationship between science and policy arise at the point when judgements are made about the scientific evidence. Although there was agreement about the scientific evidence across institutions, the interpretation of that evidence diverged depending on the context from which it was viewed. The dissertation uses Helen Longino's concept of contextual empiricism to explain the varying outcomes in different settings. Scientists' conception of the kind of evidence required to make a judgement about product safety, and their interpretation of that evidence, was guided by the background assumptions they brought to it. These assumptions were context-dependent, however, with the result that policy responses differed between the U.S. and Canada, and the assumptions themselves were the subject of conflict in both countries. The difference in the U.S./Canadian response is the most obvious example of a contrast in the assessment of the drug's introduction. The dissertation also examines differing interpretations between the academic, corporate, and regulatory settings in order to elucidate the science and policy relationship. The dissertation contributes to the literature on science and public policy by examining the process by which scientists make sense of empirical evidence. It argues for the relevance of the concept of contextual empiricism for understanding the science-policy relationship. It has attempted a theoretical synthesis, drawing on concepts from the history and philosophy of science and political economy to better understand this relationship. The concept of contextual empiricism accounts for both the degree of consensus about the evidence, and the degree of divergence in its interpretation, between institutions and jurisdictions.
La dualité dans l'oeuvre de Jacques Poulin
Keywords: Androgynie dans la littérature
Androgyny in literature

Ancrée sur le concept de la dualité, cette étude a pour objectif de mettre en lumière les divers mécanismes textuels des romans de Jacques Poulin qui remettent en cause le binarisme cognitif et établissent une structure des deux dans l'un. La dualité poulinienne se présente sous diverses formes, la principale étant celle de l'androgénéité des personnages. Cette caractéristique sert donc comme point de départ pour l'étude de l'oeuvre. Après une mise au point de l'androgénéité, une analyse synchronique et diachronique des romans trace l'évolution de ce phénomène et démontre comment les personnages pouliniens dépassent l'antithèse essentielle du masculin/féminin. L'étude des autres romans révèle que la dualité déborde le niveau des personnages pour s'inscrire dans d'autres lieux signifiants. À partir des travaux de Ricoeur et de Jakobson, certaines métaphores filées des quatre premiers romans de Poulin (' Mon cheval pour un royaume', 'Le coeur de la baleine bleue ', 'Jimmy' et 'Faites de beaux rêves') sont considérées comme lieux de dialectique (symbiotique, synthétique ou conflictuelle) entre l' "être" et le "ne pas être" Ensuite, les quatre derniers romans sont analysés dans des chapitres individuels. Dans 'Les grandes marées', la traduction (interlinguale et intralinguale) se prête comme structure de rencontre entre deux langues ou deux langages. L'étude de 'Volkswagen blues' combine les théories de Lotman sur l'espace avec des perspectives sociocritiques de Languirand et de Ricard pour démontrer comment le voyage américain constitue une ouverture à l'Autre et une perte de l'homogénéité culturelle des personnages québécois. Dans 'Le vieux Chagrin', la dualité se manifeste par le truchement du brouillage, dans un premier temps sur le plan de l'identité des personnages et, dans un deuxième temps, à travers le dépassement de frontières diégétiques. Et enfin, dans 'La tournée d'automne', les intertextes et les intratextes sont considérés en tant que structures dialectiques. La conclusion aborde de nouveau le concept de la dualité, et surtout son évolution dans les romans de Poulin. Est discutée aussi la pertinence de cette dualité dans une oeuvre marquée par certains mouvements esthétiques et sociaux contemporains tels que le féminisme, le postmodernisme et les changements culturels de la révolution tranquille au Québec.
999 Queen Street West: Patient Life at the Toronto Hospital for the Insane, 1870-1940
Keywords: Mentally ill
Institutional care
History
Malades mentaux
Soins et institutions
Histoire

This study examines the individual experiences of people who were admitted to the Toronto Hospital for the Insane between 1870-1940 within the context of institutional practices and relationships. The purpose is to contribute to our understanding of psychiatric history by placing patients' perspectives and experiences at the forefront of historical inquiry instead of having them come second to the administrators who ran the hospitals. Clinical files are the main primary source used for this work. Letters written by patients during and after confinement form an essential part of this thesis. Observations left by third party observers such as family, friends and hospital staff also illustrate patient culture. This thesis is structured around themes that highlight the various stages of the lives of the men and women who populated 999 Queen Street West: diagnosis and admission; daily routine and daily relationships; patients' leisure and personal space; patients' labour; family and community responses to mental hospital patients; discharge and death. Above all else, the people whose voices and experiences make up this study show later generations that psychiatric patients have a great deal to teach us about what it was like to be confined in a mental institution and to live with the psychological troubles that brought them to 999 Queen Street West.
The experience of the second generation of women students at Ontario universities, 1900-1930
Keywords: Women
Education (Higher)
History
Women college students
History
Femmes
Enseignement supérieur
Histoire
Étudiantes
Histoire

This thesis examines the history and experience of women students at four Ontario universities, the University of Toronto, the University of Western Ontario, Queen's University, and McMaster University, between 1900 and 1930. By 1901, Canadian women's enrolment in Faculties of Arts and Science numbered 740; by 1930 this number had increased to 5633. During this period, a number of changes occurred which profoundly affected the character of education and academic life for women students. From the physical setting of the new women's buildings to the offering of courses designed for women, the opportunities for women students seemed to increase dramatically. The vast majority of women students sought out an arts education. In doing so, these women perpetuated the fear that this area of academe was becoming feminized. Reactions to the increased number of women in the Faculty of Arts varied, as did the women students' strategies to create a space for themselves within the traditionally male university. This thesis provides an analysis of the experience of women university students in the first part of the twentieth century. The focus moves beyond the early debates around the admission of women students to look at the activities and life of what might be called the second generation of women university students. It specifically looks at the backgrounds of the students, what they studied, the fight to establish residences and other women's buildings, residential life, women students' extracurricular and social activities, and the importance of religion in student life. Although women's place in institutions of higher learning was still far from completely secure, women were becoming much more comfortable. The changing social norms are clearly reflected in the extracurricular activities of the women. While many women students took seriously their studies and "plugged," others perpetuated the stereotype of the fun-seeking flapper and pushed at the boundaries of societal expectations. Using letters, diaries, student newspapers and other archival documents, this thesis provides insights into the experience of women students in the male-oriented university at the beginning of the twentieth century.
Bridging the ocean, thematic aspects of Italian literature of migration to Canada
Keywords: Emigration and immigration in literature
Italian literature
History and criticism
Canada dans la littérature
Émigration et immigration dans la littérature
Littérature italienne
Histoire et critique

The aim of this thesis is to present an examination of texts forming the Italian literature of migration to Canada, a corpus of writings which comprehends narrative works by writers of Italian background, and in Italian language, but have never been analyzed as a self-contained body. All the authors came to Canada at least for a period in their lives, and have left a varied written record of their experiences in Canada, for the most part either in an autobiographical work or in texts of a more creative nature. Thanks to these texts we were able to observe in literary form the evolution of the Italian migration process to Canada from the l7th-century up to the present-time. Among the authors dealt with are Bressani, Moroni Parken, Duliani, Randaccio, Ardizzi, Rimanelli and Grohovaz. The investigation highlights those thematic aspects which most distinguish this production, showing both the continuity of inspiration and motifs as well as the diversity of approaches and genres. These narrative works can provide an important contribution to the comprehension of the mental, emotional and more intimate dimensions of the immigrant experience, and hence complement the store of historical and socio-scientific studies now readily at hand. The fundamental motif underlining this literature is the impossibility for the immigrant of disregarding the impact the discovery of the new world and of the 'other' had on one's psyche and the need to span the ocean of his or her inquietude by the act of writing. On the individual level, each of these works contributes to the immigrant writer's creation of a personal bridge which can join and unite the two shores of his or her experience, thus relieving angst and coherently merging old and new worlds, past and present, Italian background and Canadian experience. In the representation of the life of Italians in Canada these texts also acquire an important cultural function at the collective level, because they allow Italian-Canadians of all generations to recognize the continuity between their cultural past and their present life in Canada, as well as further a knowledge of the immigrant experience "from the inside."
King's College, purpose and accountability in higher education, the dilemma of King's College, 1827-1853
Keywords: Universities and colleges
History
Universités
Histoire

The first university in Upper Canada to receive a royal charter was King's College at York. Although petitions for a university in the colony are recorded in the late eighteenth century, it was not until 1827 that a charter was actually acquired and it was only in 1843 that the university opened its doors to students for the first time. In the meantime, three other universities had opened in the province: Victoria, sponsored by the Methodists, in Cobourg (1842); Queen's sponsored by the Church of Scotland (1842) and Regiopolis by the Roman Catholics (1837) both in Kingston. The story of King's College has been told in part and in varying ways by a number of writers and historians. W. J. Alexander and Stewart Wallace have provided brief, objective, chronological outlines of the major developments in their histories of the University of Toronto in 1906 and 1915 respectively. More recently, historians such as John Moir, Gerald Craig, William Westfall, and Brian McKillop have dealt with the history of King's College in connection with denominational history, the economic, social and political development of Upper Canada, and the transition from constitutional to responsible government. No one, however, has written a full book or dissertation with a primary focus on the history of King's College. This paper is presented in an attempt to provide an account of the founding of King's College and the quandary surrounding its development and ultimate transformation into the University of Toronto. The chronicle is focussed primarily on the political and denominational context and on legislative attempts to resolve the university dilemma. It also examines the roles played by leading political, religious and provincial administrators touching on the university question. The paper traces the history of King's College through the adoption of three university models: John Strachan's pedagogical model, Robert Baldwin's political model and Francis Hincks' compromise model. The discussion encompasses the rationale for the adoption of each and the rejection of the Strachan and Baldwin options.
Postmodern feminist readings of identity in selected works of Judith Thompson, Margaret Hollingsworth and Patricia Gruben
Keywords: Canadian drama (English)
History and criticism
Feminism and the arts
Théâtre canadien-anglais
Histoire et critique
Féminisme et arts

This dissertation uses a strain of postmodernist thought, informed by discourse theory and inflected by feminism, to explore the articulation of identity in selected plays of Judith Thompson and Margaret Hollingsworth and selected films of Patricia Gruben. In these works, identity is configured as a process, an accumulation of temporary points of coherence. This dissertation demonstrates how identity is contingent on fluctuating relations of power. The notion of mastery in the relations of power is critiqued through the serialization of identity, through images of the body, and through the interruption and destabilization of narrative structure. As a result of the conflictual representation of identity, the spectator experiences a destabilized subject position; identification is both engaged and thwarted as several different possibilities for seeing the action are activated. 'Chapter One' discusses the theoretical parameters of this dissertation. The work of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler and Stuart Hall is important in the development of a model of 'subject'/' identity' which is applied in later chapters. In 'Chapter Two ', selected plays by Judith Thompson are considered with particular attention to the dynamic of subject/identity and its inscription on the body. Here Julia Kristeva's notion of the abject is applied, for example, to illuminate the instability of identity. Margaret Hollingsworth's plays are remarkable for the foregrounding and destabilizing of narrative structure. In ' Chapter Three', Catherine Belsey's definition of classic realism is used to focus the discussion of Hollingsworth's plays. In 'Chapter Four', Gruben's work is considered with attention to both body and narrative. Audre Lorde's term "bio-mythography" is applicable, particularly when Gruben takes herself as her own object of inquiry. The results of these analyses are considered in 'Chapter Five'. In conclusion, identity as a site of ambiguity involves a relinquishment of a subject/object positioning and of binaries such as right/wrong, self/'other'. Given the destabilized subject position which is afforded the spectator, a different kind of viewing pleasure must be imagined. Temporary moments of intelligibility and mastery are activated, accompanied by an interrogation of the singularity and imperialism of these positions.
Poetry is not made of words, a study of aesthetics of the borderlands in Gloria Anzaldúa and Marlene Nourbese Philip
Keywords: Boundaries in literature
Poetry, Modern
History and criticism
Frontières dans la littérature
Poésie moderne
Histoire et critique

This thesis explores an alternative critical approach as a way to overcome the limitations of North American cultural criticism in dealing with literature from the borderlands. Literatures that are in between two or more cultures are not well served by one established cultural context. Therefore, the parameters drawn from geopolitics, history, ethnicity, and gender of one culture are insufficient. The aesthetics of the borderlands creates a metaphorical space in which to explore the writings that emerge from the experiences of women who embody multiple cultural backgrounds. The poetry written by Marlene Nourbese Philip and Gloria Anzaldúa finds alternative forms to writing for reaching out to difference. Difference and writing are here recontextualized through the concept of the borderlands, which involves the language of myth and mythic consciousness once it transcends its territorial limitations. Anzaldúa and Philip's work is circumscribed by the sociopolitical realities being women, and a lesbian in the case of Anzaldúa, being ' mestiza' or Black, and being writers. These three paradigms are juxtaposed in the borderlands of a collective historico-poetic consciousness. Within the framework of "exile," from a mainstream audience, language proceeds by consciously remembering and defying a white culture and history that attempt to forget by violent erasure. The rearticulation of poetry, then, even transcends the displaced borderlands created between the lines, in the gaps, in the clusters of words that obstruct like rocks, and in the silences of awe and recognition that written forms conceal.
The facts of life, the sex instruction of Ontario public school children, 1900-1950
Keywords: Sex instruction for children
History
Sex instruction for teenagers
History
Sex instruction
History
Éducation sexuelle des enfants
History
Éducation sexuelle des adolescents
Histoire
Éducation sexuelle
Histoire

During 1900 to 1950 a broad and uneasy coalition of sex reformers--educators, physicians, feminists, sexologists, social workers and public health officials--who identified themselves with the social purity movement prior to the First World War and then with the social hygiene movement after 1918 raised their voices in favour of incorporating sex instruction into Ontario public elementary and secondary schools. The impetus for children's school-based sex instruction was the moral and medical threat posed by what was perceived to be the dreaded corollary of prostitution and the double standard of sexual morality: venereal disease. Sex reformers' discourse on incorporating sex instruction into Ontario public elementary and secondary schools would peak in intensity as venereal disease rates in the civilian and military populations rose co-incident with the First and Second World Wars. This study argues that first, children's sex instruction--variously labelled purity education, sex hygiene, social hygiene, sex education, eugenical instruction and family life education--was heavily influenced by the paternalism, classism and racism of the social purity movement as it came to be constituted after 1885. Second, even when supervised by the social hygiene movement after the Great War, children's sex instruction was predicated upon the post-1885 social purity movement's emphasis on the moral approach to sex reform. This moral approach involved a two-fold undertaking: training the child's will in favour of sexual self-control and imparting rudimentary information on sexual physiology. Third, children's sex instruction was rationalized by the post-1885 social purity movements invoking of three spectres of child-life familiar to middle-class child savers: the child ignorant of sexual matters, the feeble-minded child and the juvenile delinquent. Classed, gendered, racialized and sexualized, these spectres served as "poison containers" or receptacles into which sex reformers poured their anxieties over venereal disease, thus allowing them to conveniently ignore the societal inequalities which contributed to the spread of the malady. As such, between 1900 and 1950, sex instruction, or what British sexologist Havelock Ellis termed "the instruction of children in the essential facts of life," had less to do with teaching children about sexual anatomy, biology, physiology and psychology and much more to do with channelling Canadians toward compulsory heterosexuality, reproducing the patriarchal nuclear family, maintaining the hegemony of the Anglo-Saxon race, building a healthy, patriotic citizenry and protecting the nation state from harm.