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Queen's Quarterly is a Canadian quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of cultural studies that was established in 1893 by, among others, George Munro Grant, Sanford Fleming, and John Watson, all of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario. The journal publishes articles, essays, reviews, short stories and poetry. It is abstracted and indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Current Contents, MLA International Bibliography, and Abstracts of English Studies. Editors The following persons have been editor-in-chief of the journal: Duncan McArthur Malcolm Ross Glen Shortliffe Kerry McSweeney Boris Castel (1990–present) References External links Official website . Discover the Queen S Quarterly popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Queen S Quarterly books.

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  • Umberto Eco Interviewed by Eleanor Wachtel. synopsis, comments

    Umberto Eco Interviewed by Eleanor Wachtel.

    Queen's Quarterly

    "... So the first time I read the word `freedom' in this context, I learned that several parties could exist at once within a society. I soon realized that these groups had not spr...

  • Strangers No More. synopsis, comments

    Strangers No More.

    Queen's Quarterly

    A man is born three times in his life. He is born of his mother, he is born of his father, and finally he is born of his own deep self. Guy Corneau(1)

  • Sergiu Celibidache and the Eternal Moment. synopsis, comments

    Sergiu Celibidache and the Eternal Moment.

    Queen's Quarterly

    When Sergiu Celibidache died on 14 August 1996, there were few notices of his passing in the North American press and certainly nothing like the fanfare accorded Sir Georg Solti's ...

  • How Hitchcock Cured Me. synopsis, comments

    How Hitchcock Cured Me.

    Queen's Quarterly

    Parents often complain about the amount of time their children spend gazing at whatever happens to be on television. All over the world, deadeyed youngsters are asked: "Do you even...

  • Canoeing and Canadian Art. synopsis, comments

    Canoeing and Canadian Art.

    Queen's Quarterly

    LIKE the looping curve of the central channel through a beaver swamp, the theme of canoes and canoeing is one that meanders through Canadian culture and art from prehistoric times ...

  • Pentecost. synopsis, comments

    Pentecost.

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    It is the sixth anniversary of the largest funeral in the world. The day when ten million vessels of sadness soothed the parched streets with their tears. Beating their fists to th...

  • Tale of 2,000 Cities. synopsis, comments

    Tale of 2,000 Cities.

    Queen's Quarterly

    The very first city mentioned in the Bible represents both the best and worst of the urban world, the best and worst of humankind. In one of the most arresting passages in scriptur...

  • Discipline and Parole. synopsis, comments

    Discipline and Parole.

    Queen's Quarterly

    EDWARD L. GREENSPAN, QC, is one of Canada's foremost criminal lawyers. ANDREW MATHESON practises criminal law with Mr Greenspan in Toronto.

  • Last Norwegian Restaurant in Bay Ridge. synopsis, comments

    Last Norwegian Restaurant in Bay Ridge.

    Queen's Quarterly

    I RETURNED to Brooklyn recently after a long absence, and took my wife to see the last Norwegian restaurant in Bay Ridge. I say "Bay Ridge" deliberately, aware that not everyone fa...

  • Idols of the Tribe. synopsis, comments

    Idols of the Tribe.

    Queen's Quarterly

    The Idols of the Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself.... And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolour...

  • Umberto Eco. synopsis, comments

    Umberto Eco.

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    ELEANOR WACHTEL is the host of CBC Radio's Writers & Company and The Arts Today. This interview was initially prepared in collaboration with Mary Stinson and broadcast on Write...

  • Besieged - Not a Love Story. synopsis, comments

    Besieged - Not a Love Story.

    Queen's Quarterly

    Bernardo Bertolucci's seventeenth film, Besieged, masterfully exposes the selfinterest behind the illusion of generosity and the insularity beneath the illusion of internationaliza...

  • Strange Case of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers. synopsis, comments

    Strange Case of Alger Hiss and Whittaker Chambers.

    Queen's Quarterly

    THE HissChambers case has haunted American liberalism for over fifty years now. The known facts are as follows. In 1948 Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss (then head of the Carn...

  • Mystery of Aldrich Ames. synopsis, comments

    Mystery of Aldrich Ames.

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    Motivation is the central mystery of espionage. Why do people spy? What compels them to trade in the currency of secrets? How are they able to court trust and seduce confidences wh...

  • Hypnotic Clarity Versus Conscious Citizen. synopsis, comments

    Hypnotic Clarity Versus Conscious Citizen.

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    Human history can be seen as a long series of experiments although most often we are unaware that we have been conducting them. The collapse of the Soviet Bloc has been recognized...

  • Sex and Heaven in Upstate New York. synopsis, comments

    Sex and Heaven in Upstate New York.

    Queen's Quarterly

    Jesus said: those who go to heaven "... do not marry, for they are not subject to death any longer. They are like angels." This tantalizingly brief description of heaven has prompt...

  • Reflections on the Public Good in the New Gilded Age. synopsis, comments

    Reflections on the Public Good in the New Gilded Age.

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    In the early decades of this century, productivity gains in such industries as steel making and automobile manufacturing took place at a breathtaking pace. The outline of an afflue...

  • Globalization and the Future of Canada. synopsis, comments

    Globalization and the Future of Canada.

    Queen's Quarterly

    CHARLES TAYLOR is Professor of Philosophy and of Political Science at McGill University. He held the Chichele Chair at Oxford University (197678), returning to Canada to participat...

  • Decline and Fall of the Public Intellectual. synopsis, comments

    Decline and Fall of the Public Intellectual.

    Queen's Quarterly

    HE wrote his people's dictionaries and their first national epics; he composed their protests against injustice and their demands for freedom. A Grub Street hack, a threadbare pamp...

  • Jennifer Johnston Interviewed by Eleanor Wachtel. synopsis, comments

    Jennifer Johnston Interviewed by Eleanor Wachtel.

    Queen's Quarterly

    ELEANOR WACHTEL hosts CBC Radio's weekly literary program Writers & Company on Sunday afternoons. Two selections of her interviews, Writers & Company and More Writers &...

  • War Without Hatred. synopsis, comments

    War Without Hatred.

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    AT various times throughout its long history, war has taken many forms. One feature, however, has remained unchanged: violence perpetrated against people and destruction of things ...