Vol. 23, 2014

Contents

“De interpretatione recta…”: Early Modern Theories of Translation
OANA-ALIS ZAHARIA                                                                                                   5

“Talk of contracts”: Gift-giving vs. Reciprocity in James Joyce’s “A Mother”
CAMELIA RAGHINARU                                                                                             25

Lacan Frames Scorsese’s Paintings in The Age of Innocence
PAULA ANCA FARCA                                                                                                  40

Seeing the Novel, Reading the Film: Unveiling Masculinity, Englishness and Power Struggle in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles
IRINA I. SIMONOVA STROUT                                                                                60

Performing Arabness in Arab American Stand-up Comedy
YASSER FOUAD SELIM                                                                                              77

American Art Criticism between the Cultural and the Ideological (I)
GABRIEL C. GHERASIM                                                                                            93

Canada’s Evolving Crown: From a British Crown to a “Crown of Maples”
SCOTT NICHOLAS ROMANIUK and JOSHUA K. WASYLCIW      108

Book Reviews 126
Tina Managhan, Gender, Agency and War: The Maternalized Body in US Foreign Policy 127
SCOTT NICHOLAS ROMANIUK
Amin Ghaziani, There Goes the Gayborhood? 131
ADRIANA NEAGU
Dennis Gruending, Pulpit and Politics: Competing Religious Ideologies in Canadian Public Life 136
SCOTT NICHOLAS ROMANIUK
Notes on Contributors 140
Call for Submissions, ABC 24: Changing Screen Cultures: New Archaeologies, Ecologies, Topologies 144
Call for Membership 148
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