American, British and Canadian Studies

Volume 23
Contents

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“De interpretatione recta...”: Early Modern Theories of Translation 5

OANA-ALIS ZAHARIA

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

CAMELIA RAGHINARU

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

PAULA ANCA FARCA

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

IRINA I. SIMONOVA STROUT

Performing Arabness in Arab American Stand-up Comedy 77

YASSER FOUAD SELIM

American Art Criticism between the Cultural and the Ideological (I) 93

GABRIEL C. GHERASIM

Canada’s Evolving Crown: From a British Crown to a “Crown of Maples” 108

SCOTT NICHOLAS ROMANIUK and JOSHUA K. WASYLCIW

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