New Releases: May

Happy May! MQUP is excited to announce our 13 new May titles. An exciting new addition to our Queer Film Classics series, the biography of Gaelic poet Mary MacLeod, a few philosophy titles, and many more!

Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude

On the Genius of the Mass in B Minor

By James Crooks

Every lover of music finds themselves, at privileged moments, in ecstasy – certain that what they are hearing has captured, somehow, an incontrovertible truth. Bach’s Architecture of Gratitude explores this profound aesthetic experience in a case study of J.S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor and its capacity to inspire gratitude.

The Children’s Hour

By Julia Erhart

The Children’s Hour (1961) was the first mainstream US film to feature a lesbian character in a leading role. Julia Erhart explores how the film’s conception, production, and reception reveal deep insights into the politics of sexuality and censorship in midcentury America and into social and political tensions around gender and sexuality today.

Fate and Life

Who’s Really in Charge?

By Michael Allen Fox

A fascinating account of fate’s meanings across time and world cultures that examines its role in understanding and shaping our lives.

Fichte in Berlin

The 1804 Wissenschaftslehre

By Matthew Nini

Fichte in Berlin offers a new reading of Johann Gottlieb Fichte’s philosophical output during his time in Berlin from 1804 to 1806. The study focuses on the philosopher’s second set of lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre from 1804, one of the most exemplary versions of Fichte’s philosophical project.

Logic in the Wild

By Patrick Girard

In Logic in the Wild Patrick Girard presents logic as the guardian of coherence. Logic, Girard argues, finds coherence in the patterns of reasoning shared across science, religion, and everyday decision making – logic provides neutral ground for the healthy pursuit of common goals and interests.

Metromorphoses

By John Reibetanz

Poems that explore the changes that have affected Toronto’s people and places from the first Indigenous settlements to the present.

Migration Governance in North America

Policy, Politics, and Community

Edited by Kiran Banerjee and Craig Damian Smith

Migration Governance in North America engages the complex dynamics of mobilities across the continent. Situating North America within the global migration landscape, it unpacks such issues as temporary labour mobility, border security, asylum governance, refugee resettlement, and the role of local actors in coping with changing policies and politics.

More Richly in Earth

A Poet’s Search for Mary MacLeod

By Marilyn Bowering

Mary MacLeod was a rarity: a female bard in seventeenth-century Scotland. A chronicle of travel through the Scottish Hebrides, More Richly in Earth explores MacLeod’s life and legacy, preserved within landscape and memory. Marilyn Bowering forms an unlikely connection with MacLeod despite differences of culture and language, time and place.

Nietzsche as Stylist

Aesthetics and Philosophy

By Martine Béland

Friedrich Nietzsche was a prolific writer, publishing seventeen books in seventeen years. Nietzsche as Stylist traces the emergence of his idiosyncratic writing style as he experimented with various rhetorical tactics. With a historical sensibility, the book highlights how Nietzsche’s style evolved in the context of his life and world.

Restless in Sleep Country

Imagination and the Cultural Politics of Sleep

By Paul Huebener

Cultural visions of sleep circulate through such diverse forms as mattress ads, billboards, comic books, memoirs, experimental poetry, and bedtime story phone apps. Guiding us through the imaginative landscape of slumber, Restless in Sleep Country illuminates the figure of sleep as a site of inequity, struggle, and gratification.

The Pause

By Julian Jason Haladyn

When COVID-19 spread across the globe, protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine were experienced as life on hold. A cultural inquiry into the moment of pausing and its social, political, and personal manifestations, The Pause captures the experience of being inside the pandemic even as that experience continues to unfold.

What the World Might Look Like

Decolonial Stories of Resilience and Refusal

By Susie O’Brien

What the World Might Look Like examines the way resilience stories have come to dominate the settler-colonial imagination and explores alternative approaches to resilience writing that instead offer decolonial models of thought.

What Women Represent

The Impact of Women in Parliament

By Erica Rayment

What Women Represent is the first large-scale analysis of the substantive representation of women in Canadian politics, adding depth and nuance to our understanding of issues of gender in parliamentary institutions.