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English 2150 : Modern Canadian fiction. Lecture 25. Robin Mathews
No full textDr. T. Goldie interviews Professor Robin Mathews, discussing the course readings and Canadian Literature in general.This item may be incomplete. Lacks closing credits. Minor distortion throughout
Robin Mathews and the Canadian dialectic: Forms of nationalist thought in Canada.
No full textRobin Mathews' vision of a Canadian dialectic is a valuable practical concept because it works within a moral framework, inviting discussion at the same time as it creates a specific positive Canadian nationalism. This Canadian dialectic does not presuppose a single, unifying view of Canadian identity, nor does it produce claims to finality. In espousing a view that results in a dialogue between two competing visions, the dialectic fleshes out historic debates which increase their cultural and historical significance and promotes difference. What Mathews argues is that what is important to Canada and Canadian identity is the fact of an ongoing dialectic that is a valid counterpoint to traditionally dominant views of Canadian literature and culture.The original print copy of this thesis may be available here: http://wizard.unbc.ca/record=b160052
We stand on guard for thee?"
No full text Two things must be said at the outset of a discussion on what Professors Robin Mathews and James Steele call the "de-Canadianization" of our universities: first, that it is extremely difficult to discuss this matter at all and, second, it is impossible to discuss it impersonally. As Hugh MacLennan says, "Our conscience, our sensibilities, our notion of courtesy are deeply strained by this issue" I have always regarded Canada and its people as characterized by an openness, a tolerance and a generosity that I have found nowhere else. </jats:p
The Dossier as Hornet's Nest
No full text THREE REVIEWS OF MATHEWS AND STEELE The Struggle for Canadian Universities. Professors Robin Mathews and James Steele of Carleton University have compiled a dossier of material relating to the recent controversy they precipitated when they raised the question of the increasing number of non-Canadians teaching at Canadian universities. This material is conveniently assembled in this volume under the rather dramatic and certainly value-laden title, The Struggle for Canadian Universities, but the title should not deter any reader, for within these pages is expounded a problem which is of fundamental importance to the future of Canadian higher education. Professors Mathews and Steele have assembled those documents which they feel present both sides of the story, and thus they include letters and statements which in many cases are violently opposed to their own views. For this they are to be commended; however, the authors' viewpoint is stated over and over until the reader knows beforehand what their answer will be to a particular dissenting viewpoint. If this was an intentional ploy used to refute opposing views, the authors have succeeded in making their own views seem the stronger. Still, the authors have put together a book that enables the individual reader to come to his own conclusions. </jats:p
Phonygammus yorki Mathews
No full textPhonygammus yorki Mathews Phonygammus yorki Mathews, 1924: 17 (Black Gin Creek, Cape York). Now Phonygammus keraudrenii gouldii (Gray, 1859). See Hartert, 1929a: 58; Mayr, 1962d: 180; Nunn and Cracraft, 1996; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 523–526. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 677370, male adult, collected at Black Gin (Black Jin, as on label) Creek, 10.55S, 142.22E (USBGN, 1957), Cape York, Queensland, Australia, on 23 December 1912, by Robin Kemp (no. 2180). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews said that the type was in the Rothschild Collection (indicating that his collection had already been purchased by Rothschild) and was collected at Black Gin Creek, Cape York, on 23 December 1912. It bears, in addition to Robin Kemp’s original label, a Rothschild Collection label printed ‘‘Ex. Coll. G.M. Mathews,’’ a Rothschild type label, and a ‘‘Figured’’ label. This last label indicates that it was the model for Mathews (1926: pl. 593, lower fig., opp. p. 384, text p. 384) where the correct data are listed, but it is not said to be the type of yorki. However, this is the only specimen that was collected on Black Gin Creek by Kemp and is thus the holotype. No other locality or specimen was mentioned in the original description. I did not find it listed in Mathews’ catalog. According to Hartert (1929a: 58), this type is an individual variant.Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 95, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/462995
Cracticus mentalis subsp. kempi Mathews 1912
No full textCracticus mentalis kempi Mathews Cracticus mentalis kempi Mathews, 1912c: 95 (Cape York). Now Cracticus mentalis kempi Mathews, 1912. See Mathews, 1923b: 398–400; Amadon, 1951: 4; 1962b: 166; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 542; Dickinson, 2003: 463; and Russell and Rowley, 2009: 338. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 673566, adult male, collected at Skull Creek, 20 miles south of Cape York (as on label), Queensland, Australia, in June 1912, by Robin Kemp (no. 1048). From the Mathews Collection (no. 13154) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: In the original description, Mathews gave his catalog number of the holotype and noted that he ‘‘had now received a series of birds from [Cape York].’’ Mathews (1923b: 400) added that Robin Kemp collected the series for him. C. m. kempi was published on 18 September 1912, and only those specimens collected before that date can be included in the type series. It appears that Mathews had a series of two! All specimens in AMNH that Kemp collected on Cape York, other than the holotype and paratype, were collected after the publication of the name. The paratype is: AMNH 673564 (Mathews no. 13153), adult male, collected at Skull Creek in June 1912 by Kemp (no. 1047).Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on page 68, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/462995
Entomyzon cyanotis subsp. hedleyi Mathews
No full textEntomyzon cyanotis hedleyi Mathews Entomyzon cyanotis hedleyi Mathews, 1912d: 101 (Cape York, Queensland). Now Entomyzon cyanotis griseigularis van Oort, 1909. See Salomonsen, 1967: 400, Schodde and Mason, 1999: 274–275, Christidis and Boles, 2008: 185–191, and Higgins et al., 2008: 676. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 691787, adult male, collected at Skull Creek, 20 miles south of Cape York, 10.43S, 142.28E (USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, in June 1912, by Robin Kemp (no. 1049). From the Mathews Collection (no. 13214) via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: Mathews cited his catalog number of the holotype in the original description and gave the range of the form as ‘‘Cape York.’’ The holotype bears Kemp’s original label and Mathews and Rothschild type labels. AMNH 691798 (Mathews no. 13213), female, Utingu, 8 June 1912, by Kemp, is a paratype. AMNH 691782, female, Jardine River, 12 March 1911, by W.R. McLennan, is a possible paratype, but I did not find it listed in Mathews’ catalog. Other Cape York specimens in AMNH from the Mathews Collection were collected too late to have been in Mathews hand when hedleyi was published on 18 September 1912. See Schodde and Mason (1999: 275) for use of the subspecific name griseigularis.Published as part of Mary, 2011, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 9. Passeriformes: Zosteropidae And Meliphagidae, pp. 1-193 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2011 (348) on page 11
Austrartamus melanops Normani Mathews 2014
No full textAustrartamus melanops Normani Mathews Austrartamus melanops Normani Mathews, 1923b: 255 (Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria). Now Artamus cinereus normani (Mathews, 1923). See Mathews, 1930: 637; Mayr, 1962b: 164–165; Mees, 1982: 160–165; Storr, 1984: 170; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 565–567; Dickinson, 2003: 464; and Rowley and Russell, 2009b: 307. HOLOTYPE: AMNH 665020, adult male, collected at Normanton, 17.40S, 141.05E (Times Atlas), Queensland, Australia, on 29 November 1913, by Robin Kemp (no. 3542). From the Mathews Collection via the Rothschild Collection. COMMENTS: The original description reads: ‘‘The bird figured and described on p. 246, from Normanton, Gulf of Carpentaria, can be called Austrartamus melanops Normani, subsp. n. ’’ AMNH 665020, in addition to Kemp’s label, a Rothschild Museum label printed ‘‘Ex. Coll. G.M. Mathews,’’ and a Rothschild type label, also bears a Mathews’ ‘‘Figured’’ label. The specimen appears as the middle figure in Mathews (1923b: pl. 477, opp. p. 244), labeled Austrartamus cinereus. Kemp’s label data and the measurements written by Mathews on the reverse of Kemp’s label agree with those published for the type by Mathews (1923b: 246). Specimens collected in 1913 and 1914 by Kemp were only partly cataloged by Mathews; this specimen was not. See Mees (1982: 160–165) and Schodde and Mason (1999: 565–567) for a review of the complicated history of the nomenclature of A. cinereus and the latter for use of normani as the valid name for the northeast Queensland population.Published as part of Lecroy, Mary, 2014, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 12. Passeriformes: Ploceidae, Sturnidae, Buphagidae, Oriolidae, Dicruridae, Callaeidae, Grallinidae, Corcoracidae, Artamidae, Cracticidae, Ptilonorhynchidae, Cnemophilidae, Paradisaeidae, And Corvidae, pp. 1-165 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2014 (393) on pages 66-67, DOI: 10.1206/885.1, http://zenodo.org/record/462995
Canadianization, Colonialism, and Decolonization: Investigating the Legacy of “Seventies Nationalism” in the Robin Mathews Fonds
No full textThe opening of the Robin Mathews Fonds at Library and Archives Canada in 2014 provides an opportunity to revisit Mathews’s role in the struggle to make Canadian literature a legitimate area of study in English departments. Mathews was instrumental in the founding of the Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures; he advocated for more courses and graduate programs, as well as expanded scholarship in the field -- goals which he argued could not be reached unless more Canadians were hired in university English departments. Inspired by the anti-colonial nationalisms of the sixties and seventies, Mathews saw Canadian nationalism as anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist, and he argued that Canadian literature, rightly read, offered the materials for a collectivist counter-narrative to neoliberal capitalism. His work argued for the centrality of authors like Irene Baird, Earle Birney, Milton Acorn, and Dorothy Livesay to what he called “the tradition” of Canadian writing. While he was often accused of anti-Americanism, a more salient critique of his ideas targets his failure to grow beyond an “old left” view of race as a way to divide the working class. Mathews’s struggle to “Canadianize” English departments was a failure; Canadian literature consistently makes up just 8-10% of the course offerings in Canadian English departments, and in Canada the “English degree” is still a degree in English literature, instead of a degree in literatures in English
Poephila gouldiae subsp. kempi Mathews
No full text<i>Poephila gouldiae kempi</i> Mathews <p> <i>Poephila gouldiae kempi</i> Mathews, 1915: 132 (Normanton, Queensland).</p> <p> Now <i>Erythrura gouldiae</i> (Gould, 1844). See Mayr, et al., 1968: 367; Schodde and Mason, 1999: 767; Dickinson, 2003: 734; and Payne, 2010: 345.</p> <p> LECTOTYPE: <b>AMNH 721704</b>, adult male, collected at Normanton, 17.40S, 141.05E (USBGN, 1957), Queensland, Australia, on 12 April 1914, by Robin Kemp (no. 4337). From the Mathews Collection (no. 18503) via the Rothschild Collection.</p> <p> COMMENTS: Mathews, in the original description, said only that <i>kempi</i> differed from nominate <i>gouldiae</i> ‘‘in having a richer coloured under-surface’’ and that the type was from Normanton, Queensland. Mathews had four specimens from Normanton, two of which were immature specimens. The other two are both adult males, one with a red face (AMNH 721705) and one with a black face (AMNH 721704). Neither adult specimen is figured in Mathews (1926, pl. 573, opp. p. 238). AMNH 721704 bears a Kemp field label and both a Mathews and a Rothschild type label, with Mathews’ catalog number written on both. It is apparently the only one of the four specimens that he cataloged, although he did not mention the number in the description. Many of the specimens that Mathews entered at the end of his catalog were type specimens, but that was not indicated in the catalog. Because the presence of Mathews’ type label indicates that AMNH 721704 is his chosen type and because it was cataloged as such when it came to AMNH with the Rothschild Collection and has subsequently been regarded as the type, I hereby designate it the lectotype of <i>Poephila gouldiae kempi</i> to remove any ambiguity. The other three specimens, all collected by Robin Kemp, are considered paralectotypes: Normanton, <b>AMNH 721705</b> (Kemp no. 4516), adult male, 10 May 1914; <b>AMNH 721706</b> (3291), immature male, 9 October 1913; <b>AMNH 721707</b> (3301), immature female, 11 October 1913. This last specimen was the one described as ‘‘Immature,’’ but not illustrated, in Mathews (1926: 240). The Kemp label is marked ‘‘ <i>C. gouldiae</i> ’’ and the Rothschild label is marked ‘‘descri’’ by Mathews.</p>Published as part of <i>LeCroy, Mary, 2013, Type Specimens Of Birds In The American Museum Of Natural History Part 11. Passeriformes: Parulidae, Drepanididae, Vireonidae, Icteridae, Fringillinae, Carduelinae, Estrildidae, And Viduinae, pp. 1-155 in Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 2013 (381)</i> on page 113, DOI: 10.1206/832.1, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/4611863">http://zenodo.org/record/4611863</a>
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