announcement of finalists in book prizes

[Richard Plant]

Hello All on Candrama:

Here's an announcement of the finalists in the HSSFC book prizes. There's
actually some theatre material in the lists.

Richard Plant
Dept of Drama, Queen's University
and
Graduate Centre for Study of Drama, 
University of Toronto

From: Fedcan <fedcan at hssfc.ca>
Subject:

8 October 1998

	press release  -  For immediate distribution


	HSSFC Announces Book Prize Finalists


The Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada is pleased to
announce the finalists for the Harold Adams Innis, Jean-Charles-Falardeau
and Raymond Klibansky Scholarly Book Prizes.

These prizes, worth $1,000 each, are designed to recognize excellence in
research and writing in the humanities and social sciences, and to
acknowledge the significant contribution that Canadian scholarly books make
towards the advancement of knowledge.

A distinguished cross-Canada jury selected the finalists among all books
subsidized by the Aid to Scholarly Publication Programme* in 1997-1998.

The Book Prize winners will be announced at the Humanities and Social
Sciences Federation of Canada's General Assembly meeting which will be held
in Ottawa at the end of November. An official ceremony will take place at
the 1999 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities hosted by the
Université de Sherbrooke and Bishop's University from 2 to 12 June 1999.




The finalists for the Harold Adams Innis Book Prize are:

André Bélanger (Dép. de science politique, Université de Montréal). The
Ethics of Catholicism and the Consecration of the Intellectual.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. 

A. A. den Otter (Dept of History, Memorial University of Newfoundland). The
Philosophy of Railways: The Transcontinental Railway Idea in British North
America. University of Toronto Press, 1997.

Gerhard J. Ens (Dept of History, Brandon University). Homeland to
Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth
Century. University of Toronto Press, 1997. 

Bob Hesketh (Dept of History, University of Alberta). Major Douglas and
Alberta Social Credit. University of Toronto Press, 1997. 

J. I. Little (Dept of History, Simon Fraser University). State and Society
in Transition: The Politics of Institutional Reform in the Eastern
Townships, 1838-1852. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997.

Thomas F. McIlwraith (Dept of Geography, University of Toronto). Looking for
Old Ontario: Two Centuries of Landscape Change. University of Toronto Press,
1997.

Martin S. Staum (Dept of History, University of Calgary). Minerva's Message:
Stabilizing the French Revolution. McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996.

Paul Wilkinson (Saskatchewan Department of Social Services), and Jack
Quarter (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education). Building a
Community-Controlled Economy: The Evangeline Co-operative Experience.
University of Toronto Press, 1997.	


The finalists for the Jean-Charles-Falardeau Book Prize are:

Nadia Fahmy-Eid (Dép. d'histoire, Université du Québec à Montréal) et al.
Femmes, santé et professions: histoire des diététistes et des
physiothérapeutes au Québec et en Ontario, 1930-1980. L'affirmation d'un
statut professionnel. Éditions Fides, 1997.

Danielle Juteau (Dép. de sociologie, Université de Montréal) et Nicole
Laurin (Dép. de sociologie, Université de Montréal). Un métier et une
vocation: le travail des religieuses au Québec de 1901 à 1971. Presses de
l'Université de Montréal, 1997.

Michel Morin (Faculté de droit, Université d'Ottawa). L'Usurpation de la
souveraineté autochtone: le cas des peuples de la Nouvelle-France et des
colonies anglaises de l'Amérique du Nord. Éditions du Boréal, 1997.

Pierre Saint-Arnaud (Dép. de sociologie, Université Laval). Park - Dos
Passos - Metropolis: regards croisés sur la modernité urbaine aux
États-Unis. Presses de l'Université Laval, 1997.


The finalists for the Raymond Klibansky Book Prize (French) are:

Rachel Bouvet (Dép. de littérature comparée, Université de Montréal).
Étranges récits, étranges lectures: essai sur le fantastique dans la
littérature. L'Univers des discours, 1998.

Marie-Andrée Charbonneau. Science et métaphore: enquête philosophique sur la
pensée du premier Lacan (1926-1953). Presses de l'Université Laval, 1997. 

Marie-Pascale Huglo. Métamorphoses de l'insignifiant: essai sur l'anecdote
dans la modernité. Balzac-Le Griot Éditeur, 1997.

Marcel Olscamp (Dép. d'études françaises, Queen's University). Le Fils du
notaire: Jacques Ferron, 1921- 1949. Genèse intellectuelle d'un écrivain.
Éditions Fides, 1997.

Jacques Paquin (Department of French, University of Regina). L'Écriture de
Jacques Brault: de la coexistence des contraires à la pluralité des voix.
Presses de l'Université Laval, 1997. 


The finalists for the Raymond Klibansky Book Prize (English) are:

Patricia Carr Brückmann (Dept of English, University of Toronto). A Manner
of Correspondence: A Study of the Scriblerus Club. McGill-Queen's University
Press, 1997.

Viviana Comensoli (Dept of English, Wilfrid Laurier University). ‘Household
Business': Domestic Plays of Early Modern England. University of Toronto
Press, 1996. 

Alexander Dalzell (Dept of Classics, University of Manitoba). The Criticism
of Didactic Poetry: Essays on Lucretius, Virgil, and Ovid. University of
Toronto Press, 1996. 

Reinhold Kramer (Faculty of Arts, Brandon University). Scatology and
Civility in the English-Canadian Novel. University of Toronto Press, 1997. 

Alan McNairn (Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre). Behold the Hero:
General Wolfe and the Arts in the Eighteenth Century. McGill-Queen's
University Press, 1998.

Stephen Scobie (Dept of English, University of Victoria). Earthquakes and
Explorations: Language and Painting from Cubism to Concrete Poetry.
University of Toronto Press, 1997. 

David Williams (Dept of English, McGill University). Deformed Discourse: The
Function of the Monster in Mediaeval Thought and Literature. McGill-Queen's
University Press, 1996. 


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*The Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme is administered by the
Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada (HSSFC) and funded by
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC).

We would like to thank D. W. Friesen Printers (Manitoba), McGill-Queen's
University Press (Montréal & Kingston), les Éditions Fides (Saint-Laurent,
Québec) and the University of Toronto Press (Toronto) for their generous
contributions.

For further information, please contact: Michelle Legault, Publications
Officer, Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, 151 Slater Street, suite
410, Ottawa, Ontario, K1P 5H3 (tel.: (613) 238-6112, extension 352; fax.:
(613) 236-4853; Email: mlegault at aspp.hssfc.ca; URL: http://www.hssfc.ca).

Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada
Federation canadienne des sciences humaines et sociales
151 Slater Street, Suite 415, Ottawa, Ontario K1P 5H3
Tel:  (613) 238-6112; Fax:  (613) 238-6114
Email/Courrier electronique:  fedcan at hssfc.ca