Essays about: "Canadian Literature"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 27 essays containing the words Canadian Literature.

  1. 1. Spillover effects following recreationallegalization of marijuana in borderingregions. : Analysis of spillover effect from legislation of marijuana in Washington using synthetic control.

    University essay from Jönköping University/IHH, Nationalekonomi

    Author : Ashor Youeel Eshoo; [2023]
    Keywords : Synthetic Control; Spillover Effects; Marijuana; Crime;

    Abstract : Legalizing marijuana for recreational use has been a hot political topic in recent years. Different conclusions have been drawn from the literature on this subject, but one conclusion is that the tactic is an effective instrument in combating the black market. READ MORE

  3. 2. Do CSR pillars have an effect on credit risk? An empirical comparison between Canadian and Mexican firms

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : German Portugal Valenzuela; Lourdes Angelica Garcia Braulio; [2022]
    Keywords : CSR; Corporate Social Responsibility; CSR Pillars; ESG; Credit Risk; Probability of Default; Credit Default Swap Spreads; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This paper aims to empirically examine the effect, if any, of each Corporate Social Responsibility dimension (i.e., Environmental, Social, and Governance activities) on firms’ credit risk for two countries with a different CSR culture, Canada and Mexico. READ MORE

  4. 3. Sublime Transactions. The Gestures of Poetry and Criticism with Anne Carson, the Scholar-Poet

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Edda Ahrent; [2021]
    Keywords : Anne Carson; hermeneutics; Massumi; Kristeva; Greenblatt; literary criticism; poetry; affect; play; intertextuality; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The 20th century, as well as the 21st, is ripe with hermeneutic anxiety concerning the survival of the object of interpretation and the right way to study literature. In this thesis, the Canadian scholar-poet Anne Carson is studied as a framework to an understanding of how poetry and literary criticism – the event of hermeneutics – co-occur, converge, and diverge. READ MORE

  5. 4. Homarus Corporatus: Investigating the state-firm-resource nexus in the Canadian offshore lobster fishery

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Naima Kraushaar-Friesen; [2021]
    Keywords : Marxian political economy; critical resource geography; capture fisheries; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Lobster production in Nova Scotia has been expanding for three decades, and a single firm, the vertically integrated, Canadian-based seafood company Clearwater Seafoods Inc., has gained exclusive control over the offshore lobster fishery. READ MORE

  6. 5. "Words Hide Truth": National belonging in Marian Engel’s Bear and Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

    Author : Edda Ahrent; [2021]
    Keywords : National identity; national belonging; Marian Engel; Bear; Tessa McWatt; Out of My Skin; Canadian Literature; CanLit; Discourse theory; Discourse analysis; post-colonialism; gender; bodies; pioneer; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : The famous problem of Canadian Literature in the contemporary critical landscape is how it, as an institution, denies all but certain kinds of identities. Alexander Beecroft suggests that a national literature, through its attempts to locate and articulate a communal identity and a notion of fellow-feeling, curates characteristics among members of previously numerous groups which can function to denote nationalistic identity. READ MORE