Allan Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3616332 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Allan Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Allan |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1961 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Metaphor and Nationality in North America
Case-Control Study of Arsenic in Drinking Water and Lung Cancer in California and Nevada
Millions of people are exposed to arsenic in drinking water, which at high concentrations is known to cause lung cancer in humans. At lower concentrations, the risks are unknown. We enrolled 196 lung cancer cases and 359 controls matched on age and gender from western Nevada and Kings County, California in 2002-2005. After adjusting for age, sex, education, smoking and occupational exposures, odds ratios for arsenic concentrations ≥85 μg/L (media…
Gothic Terms, Themes, Concepts and Contexts
Just as THE UNCANNY offers a connection to the structure of the unconscious, the abject offers a sensation of horror that connects us viscerally to the experience of repression and the process of subject formation. For Julia Kristeva, in Powers of Horror, abjection disturbs ‘identity, system, order’ and is characterised by ‘the in-between, the ambiguous, the composite’.
Writers of Gothic
Ainsworth made his first venture into sensational fiction with ‘The Test of Affection’ (European Magazine, 1822), a tale that relies heavily on artificial ‘SUPERNATURAL’ devices in the ANN RADCLIFFE mode for its effect. It was followed by ‘The Spectre Bride’ (Arliss’s Pocket Magazine, 1822) and his early Gothic tales were collected in his first book, the anonymous December Tales (1823). All of this youthful work — which displays more enthusiasm t…
Gothic Locations
In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), Leslie Fiedler describes AMERICAN LITERATURE as ‘bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction’ that wrestles with moral/psychological questions and exposes the American soul’s hidden ‘blackness’. Attentive to the dark side of America’s socio-political legacy and ‘the sins of the fathers’, American Gothic wrestles with that nation’s two ‘special guilts’ — ‘the slaughter of the Indians’ and ‘the…
Le Canada une nation américaine?
Les Canadiens sont-ils trop américanisés pour avoir une identité qui leur est propre? Au Canada, cette question préoccupe la population et les chercheurs depuis des années. Dans ce recueil d'articles publiés entre 1970 et 2000, Alan Smith étudie l'influence de la société américaine sur l'identité canadienne. En partant de la prémisse que la meilleure façon de comprendre le Canada est de mettre en relation avec les États-Unis, Smith explore les di…
Le Canada une nation américaine?: Réflexions sur le continentalisme, l’identité eet la mentalité canadienne
Historians and theory: A comment
This comment summarizes the papers delivered by Oliver Daddow, Patrick Finney, Charles Johnson, and Alan Munslow at the session ‘The Politics of History’ sponsored by the Theory and Historiography Network, European Social Science History Conference, Berlin, March 2004. It notes the papers' emphasis on historians' lack of theoretical self-consciousness, accepts their attribution of much of the responsibility for this to the institutional environme…
Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia
Seeing Things: Race, Image, and National Identity in Canadian and American Movies and Television
There is, on the face of it, much to warrant post-national theory's claim that European-created forms of racial hierarchy and exclusion are--even in the heart of the western nation-state--being challenged and in some measure overcome. Certainly European-descended majorities in Canada and the United States are changing their view of 'society' and 'nation' in ways which appear little short of revolutionary. Once able to operate in terms of a virtua…
A Word Kept Back in The Turn of the Screw
A World Remembered 1925-1950
Canada: An American Nation? Essays on Continentalism, Identity, and the Canadian Frame of Mind
Are Canadians so influenced by the United States that they lack a distinct identity? This question has preoccupied Canadians and Canadianists for years. Canada - An American Nation? is a compilation of Allan Smith's essays on the influence of American society on Canadian identity. Based on the notion that Canada can best be understood if viewed in relation to the United States, the book explores the ways in which American influences have challeng…
GothicK: Origins and Innovations
Gothic: Origins and Innovations brings together nineteen papers from an international group of scholars currently researching in the field of the Gothic which take a fresh, contemporary look at the tradition from its eighteenth-century inception to the twentieth century. Topics and authors include the current usage and definition of the term 'Gothic'; the eighteenth-century rise of the genre; the Sublime; Victorian sensation fiction, and authors …
The Phantoms of Drood and Rebecca: "The Uncanny Reencountered through Abraham and Torok's "Cryptonymy
canny, when inner contradiction and semantic slippage create a sense of something not said, the non-presence of the story to itself. But the eruption of the uncanny depends on more than simply formal considerations. Although certain kinds of narrative transgression will produce it, the effect is linked both psychologically and politically to wider issues. Male and female interactions involving power and sexual desire are determinants; so also may…
Stephen Crane, Impressionism and William James
« Stephen Crane, William James et l'impressionisme ». Smith s'oppose aux tendances actuelles de la critique littéraire qui situent l'origine de l'esthétique de Crane dans l'impressionisme. D'une part, on ne trouve pas chez Crane des témoignages qui corroboreraient cette idée (plutôt le contraire) et, d'autre part, l'origine des caractéristiques « impressionistes » de son écriture peuvent être discernées plus facilement dans la psychologie expérim…
The Analysis of Motives: Early American Psychology and Fiction
The Occultism of the Text
Literature, and sometimes other art, lays claim to a form of knowledge which is other than and transcends the given of the non-art world, but has affinities with religious and magical systems; the perennial philosophy.' We might substitute art for in the following quotation from Paracelsus's De Occulta Philosophia without exaggerating the claims made on behalf of literary work: Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessibl…
National Images and National Maintenance: The Ascendancy of the Ethnic Idea in North America
Partant de l'idée bien connue que les concepts relatifs à la nation ont développé la solidarité nationale en encourageant les citoyens à s'identifier au tout que ces concepts représentent, cet article montre que les changements récents dans le caractère et le statut des idées définissant la nation au Canada et aux Etats-Unis sont très reliés au besoin de maintenir la capacité d'intégrer les citoyens aux défis posés par l'émergence de tendances pa…
The Myth of the Self‐made Man in English Canada, 1850–1914
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP concerning society and values in English Canada has placed much emphasis on the extent to which their evolution demonstrates a continuing Canadian attachment to conservative principle. Strongly concerned to establish the ways in which the Canadian nation may be distinguished from the American, scholars have drawn particular attention to the role played in its growth by deference, a belief in the rights of the community over tho…
The Continental Dimension in the Evolution of the English-Canadian Mind
Of those societies which have felt the cultural, economic, and military might of the American republic over the past two hundred years, Canada was the earliest and remains the most profoundly affected. There is still, of course, a good deal of disagreement about the implications of the American economic presence in Canada. Canadians also continue to be divided over their country's capacity to devise foreign and defence policies truly independent …
Consensus Revisited
Major L. Wilson, Space, Time and Freedom: The Quest for Nationality and the Irrepressible Conflict, 1815-1861. Westport, Conri.: Greenwood Press, 1974. 309 pp. Ruch Welter, The Mind of America 1820-1860. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. 603 pp. Consensus historians have faced two sets of particularly burdensome difficulties in the course of their efforts to unify the elements of the American experience. In the face of much - sectional d…
American Culture and the English Canadian Mind at the end of the Nineteenth Century
Metaphor and Nationality in North America
perience in a way that will provide a rationale for its continued existence. Lacking such a rationale and the mental picture of itself which that rationale helps to provide, no society can stay together. Language thus becomes an instrument o be employed in the fashioning of a nationalist ideology which itself becomes a tool designed for a particular purpose, the integrating of the human elements in a given geographical rea into a coherent, self-c…
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The Phantoms of Drood and Rebecca: "The Uncanny Reencountered through Abraham and Torok's "Cryptonymy
canny, when inner contradiction and semantic slippage create a sense of something not said, the non-presence of the story to itself. But the eruption of the uncanny depends on more than simply formal considerations. Although certain kinds of narrative transgression will produce it, the effect is linked both psychologically and politically to wider issues. Male and female interactions involving power and sexual desire are determinants; so also may…
National Images and National Maintenance: The Ascendancy of the Ethnic Idea in North America
Partant de l'idée bien connue que les concepts relatifs à la nation ont développé la solidarité nationale en encourageant les citoyens à s'identifier au tout que ces concepts représentent, cet article montre que les changements récents dans le caractère et le statut des idées définissant la nation au Canada et aux Etats-Unis sont très reliés au besoin de maintenir la capacité d'intégrer les citoyens aux défis posés par l'émergence de tendances pa…
The Continental Dimension in the Evolution of the English-Canadian Mind
Of those societies which have felt the cultural, economic, and military might of the American republic over the past two hundred years, Canada was the earliest and remains the most profoundly affected. There is still, of course, a good deal of disagreement about the implications of the American economic presence in Canada. Canadians also continue to be divided over their country's capacity to devise foreign and defence policies truly independent …
Canada: An American Nation? Essays on Continentalism, Identity, and the Canadian Frame of Mind
Are Canadians so influenced by the United States that they lack a distinct identity? This question has preoccupied Canadians and Canadianists for years. Canada - An American Nation? is a compilation of Allan Smith's essays on the influence of American society on Canadian identity. Based on the notion that Canada can best be understood if viewed in relation to the United States, the book explores the ways in which American influences have challeng…
American Culture and the English Canadian Mind at the end of the Nineteenth Century
Ethnology: Yam Cultivation in the Trust Territory . John E. deYoung (Ed.): The Oyabun‐Kobun in Palau . Robert K. McKnight.: Taro Cultivation Practices and Beliefs. Part I. The Western Carolines. Part …
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An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Metaphor and Nationality in North America
perience in a way that will provide a rationale for its continued existence. Lacking such a rationale and the mental picture of itself which that rationale helps to provide, no society can stay together. Language thus becomes an instrument o be employed in the fashioning of a nationalist ideology which itself becomes a tool designed for a particular purpose, the integrating of the human elements in a given geographical rea into a coherent, self-c…
American Culture and the English Canadian Mind at the end of the Nineteenth Century
The Continental Dimension in the Evolution of the English-Canadian Mind
Of those societies which have felt the cultural, economic, and military might of the American republic over the past two hundred years, Canada was the earliest and remains the most profoundly affected. There is still, of course, a good deal of disagreement about the implications of the American economic presence in Canada. Canadians also continue to be divided over their country's capacity to devise foreign and defence policies truly independent …
Consensus Revisited
Major L. Wilson, Space, Time and Freedom: The Quest for Nationality and the Irrepressible Conflict, 1815-1861. Westport, Conri.: Greenwood Press, 1974. 309 pp. Ruch Welter, The Mind of America 1820-1860. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. 603 pp. Consensus historians have faced two sets of particularly burdensome difficulties in the course of their efforts to unify the elements of the American experience. In the face of much - sectional d…
The Myth of the Self‐made Man in English Canada, 1850–1914
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP concerning society and values in English Canada has placed much emphasis on the extent to which their evolution demonstrates a continuing Canadian attachment to conservative principle. Strongly concerned to establish the ways in which the Canadian nation may be distinguished from the American, scholars have drawn particular attention to the role played in its growth by deference, a belief in the rights of the community over tho…
National Images and National Maintenance: The Ascendancy of the Ethnic Idea in North America
Partant de l'idée bien connue que les concepts relatifs à la nation ont développé la solidarité nationale en encourageant les citoyens à s'identifier au tout que ces concepts représentent, cet article montre que les changements récents dans le caractère et le statut des idées définissant la nation au Canada et aux Etats-Unis sont très reliés au besoin de maintenir la capacité d'intégrer les citoyens aux défis posés par l'émergence de tendances pa…
The Analysis of Motives: Early American Psychology and Fiction
The Occultism of the Text
Literature, and sometimes other art, lays claim to a form of knowledge which is other than and transcends the given of the non-art world, but has affinities with religious and magical systems; the perennial philosophy.' We might substitute art for in the following quotation from Paracelsus's De Occulta Philosophia without exaggerating the claims made on behalf of literary work: Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessibl…
Stephen Crane, Impressionism and William James
« Stephen Crane, William James et l'impressionisme ». Smith s'oppose aux tendances actuelles de la critique littéraire qui situent l'origine de l'esthétique de Crane dans l'impressionisme. D'une part, on ne trouve pas chez Crane des témoignages qui corroboreraient cette idée (plutôt le contraire) et, d'autre part, l'origine des caractéristiques « impressionistes » de son écriture peuvent être discernées plus facilement dans la psychologie expérim…
The Phantoms of Drood and Rebecca: "The Uncanny Reencountered through Abraham and Torok's "Cryptonymy
canny, when inner contradiction and semantic slippage create a sense of something not said, the non-presence of the story to itself. But the eruption of the uncanny depends on more than simply formal considerations. Although certain kinds of narrative transgression will produce it, the effect is linked both psychologically and politically to wider issues. Male and female interactions involving power and sexual desire are determinants; so also may…
GothicK: Origins and Innovations
Gothic: Origins and Innovations brings together nineteen papers from an international group of scholars currently researching in the field of the Gothic which take a fresh, contemporary look at the tradition from its eighteenth-century inception to the twentieth century. Topics and authors include the current usage and definition of the term 'Gothic'; the eighteenth-century rise of the genre; the Sublime; Victorian sensation fiction, and authors …
Canada: An American Nation? Essays on Continentalism, Identity, and the Canadian Frame of Mind
Are Canadians so influenced by the United States that they lack a distinct identity? This question has preoccupied Canadians and Canadianists for years. Canada - An American Nation? is a compilation of Allan Smith's essays on the influence of American society on Canadian identity. Based on the notion that Canada can best be understood if viewed in relation to the United States, the book explores the ways in which American influences have challeng…
Seeing Things: Race, Image, and National Identity in Canadian and American Movies and Television
There is, on the face of it, much to warrant post-national theory's claim that European-created forms of racial hierarchy and exclusion are--even in the heart of the western nation-state--being challenged and in some measure overcome. Certainly European-descended majorities in Canada and the United States are changing their view of 'society' and 'nation' in ways which appear little short of revolutionary. Once able to operate in terms of a virtua…
A Word Kept Back in The Turn of the Screw
A World Remembered 1925-1950
Icon and Devotion: Sacred Spaces in Imperial Russia
Le Canada une nation américaine?
Les Canadiens sont-ils trop américanisés pour avoir une identité qui leur est propre? Au Canada, cette question préoccupe la population et les chercheurs depuis des années. Dans ce recueil d'articles publiés entre 1970 et 2000, Alan Smith étudie l'influence de la société américaine sur l'identité canadienne. En partant de la prémisse que la meilleure façon de comprendre le Canada est de mettre en relation avec les États-Unis, Smith explore les di…
Le Canada une nation américaine?: Réflexions sur le continentalisme, l’identité eet la mentalité canadienne
Historians and theory: A comment
This comment summarizes the papers delivered by Oliver Daddow, Patrick Finney, Charles Johnson, and Alan Munslow at the session ‘The Politics of History’ sponsored by the Theory and Historiography Network, European Social Science History Conference, Berlin, March 2004. It notes the papers' emphasis on historians' lack of theoretical self-consciousness, accepts their attribution of much of the responsibility for this to the institutional environme…
Gothic Terms, Themes, Concepts and Contexts
Just as THE UNCANNY offers a connection to the structure of the unconscious, the abject offers a sensation of horror that connects us viscerally to the experience of repression and the process of subject formation. For Julia Kristeva, in Powers of Horror, abjection disturbs ‘identity, system, order’ and is characterised by ‘the in-between, the ambiguous, the composite’.
Writers of Gothic
Ainsworth made his first venture into sensational fiction with ‘The Test of Affection’ (European Magazine, 1822), a tale that relies heavily on artificial ‘SUPERNATURAL’ devices in the ANN RADCLIFFE mode for its effect. It was followed by ‘The Spectre Bride’ (Arliss’s Pocket Magazine, 1822) and his early Gothic tales were collected in his first book, the anonymous December Tales (1823). All of this youthful work — which displays more enthusiasm t…
Gothic Locations
In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), Leslie Fiedler describes AMERICAN LITERATURE as ‘bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction’ that wrestles with moral/psychological questions and exposes the American soul’s hidden ‘blackness’. Attentive to the dark side of America’s socio-political legacy and ‘the sins of the fathers’, American Gothic wrestles with that nation’s two ‘special guilts’ — ‘the slaughter of the Indians’ and ‘the…
Case-Control Study of Arsenic in Drinking Water and Lung Cancer in California and Nevada
Millions of people are exposed to arsenic in drinking water, which at high concentrations is known to cause lung cancer in humans. At lower concentrations, the risks are unknown. We enrolled 196 lung cancer cases and 359 controls matched on age and gender from western Nevada and Kings County, California in 2002-2005. After adjusting for age, sex, education, smoking and occupational exposures, odds ratios for arsenic concentrations ≥85 μg/L (media…
Philosophy (12 works) · History (11 works) · Art (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Canadian Identity and History (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Psychology (7 works)