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#111 (Winter 1986)
Nature, Natural, Naturalists

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Editorial

W. H. New

• Yuppie Time (p. 3 - 6)
• Subjects: Politics
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Articles

Tracy Ware

• D. C. Scott's "The Height of Land" and the Greater Romantic Lyric (p. 10 - 25)
• Subjects: Nineteenth Century, Poetry
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L. P. Weis

• D. C. Scott's View of History & the Indians (p. 27 - 40)
• Subjects: Native Studies, Nineteenth Century
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Mary Lu MacDonald

• The Natural World in Early Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature (p. 48 - 65)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism, Nature Writing
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Patricia Koster

• "Promptings Stronger" than "Strict Prohibitions": New Forms of Natural Religion in the Novels of Robertson Davies (p. 68 - 82)
• Subjects: Novel, Religion
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Jacqueline Viswanathan

• "Cette Danse au Fond des Coeurs": Transparence des Consciences dans "Le Sourd dans la Ville" et "Visions d'Anna" de M.-C. Blaire (p. 86 - 99)
• Subjects: Francophone, Literary Criticism
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Evelyn J. Hinz and John J. Teunissen

• Who's the Father of Mrs. Bentley's Child?: "As For Me and My House" and the Conventions of Dramatic Monologue (p. 101 - 113)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel
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Robert Lecker

• "The Other Side of Things": Notes on Clark Blaise's "Notes Beyond a History" (p. 117 - 127)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism
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Margaret Stobie

• Grove in Simcoe (p. 130 - 142)
• Subjects: Biography
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Poems

Andrew Wreggitt

• Southeasterly (p. 7 - 9)

Antonino Mazza

• Ars Poetica (p. 25)

Antonino Mazza

• Forest (p. 25)

Antonino Mazza

• Doors (p. 26)

Antonino Mazza

• Night (p. 26)

Antonino Mazza

• Psychoanalysis (p. 26)

Dorothy Corbett Gentleman

• Freezing Rain (p. 26)

J. D. Carpenter

• Our Northern Tour (p. 40 - 47)

Marlene Cookshaw

• The Blind Leading (p. 47)

Marlene Cookshaw

• Intricate Play (p. 66)

Andrew Parkin

• The Fall of Paris (p. 67)

Harold Rhenisch

• The Confessional Poets (p. 82 - 85)

Ann J. West

• Belief (p. 85)

Miriam Waddington

• Mechanics for Women (p. 99 - 100)

Ricardo Sternberg

• Oriole Weather (p. 100)

Larry Towell

• White Rags (p. 114 - 115)

Terrance Cox

• Roll Over McFadden (78) (p. 115 - 116)

Stephen Scobie

• The Baroness Elsa (p. 127 - 129)

Alexandre L. Amprimoz

• Like April in Paris (p. 129)

Book Reviews

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Dystopia (p. 143 - 144)

by Barbara Hill Rigney

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Subjects: Feminism, Novel, Politics, Women's Literature

Old & New (p. 145 - 147)

by Jonathan Hart

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Coming Attractions: Stories by Sheila Delany, Frances Itani and Judith Pond by Sandra Martin
2. The Lost and Found Stories of Morley Callaghan by Morley Callaghan

Subjects: Anthologies, Short Fiction

Picking a Bone With R.D. (p. 147 - 154)

by Anthony Dawson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. What's Bred in the Bone by Robertson Davies

Subjects: Novel

From a Balloon (p. 154 - 156)

by Peter Buitenhuis

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Overhead in a Balloon: Stories of Paris by Mavis Gallant

Subjects: Short Fiction

Regles du jeu (p. 156 - 157)

by Michel Fabre

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Circus Performers' Bar by David Arnason

Subjects: Short Fiction

D'un autre oeil (p. 157 - 159)

by Estelle Dansereau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Contes pour un autre oeil by Bernard Noël
2. L'épuisement du soleil by Esther Rochon

Subjects: Francophone, Science Fiction

Takahashi Hash (p. 159 - 161)

by Laurel Boone

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Certain Mr. Takahashi by Ann Ireland

Subjects: Novel

Walls of India (p. 161 - 164)

by Janette Turner Hospital

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Walls of India by George Woodcock and Toni Onley

Subjects: Art, Travel Writing

Typographic Man (p. 164 - 166)

by Paul Hjartarson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Beginnings of the Book Trade in Canada by George Parker

Subjects: History

Reassuring Teens (p. 166 - 169)

by Frances Frazer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Camels Can Make You Homesick and Other Stories by Nazneen Sadiq
2. I Was a 15-Year-Old Blimp by Patti Stren
3. Sandy by Nancy Freeman
4. Storm Child by Brenda Bellingham

Subjects: Novel, Young Adult

Wordsworthian Wilde (p. 169 - 170)

by Perry Nodelman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. White Mist by Barbara Smucker

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Children's Literature

Triple Tuning (p. 170 - 172)

by Mike Doyle

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Double Tuning by Robert Finch
2. So Still Houses by Michael O. Nowlan
3. These People by Ron Miles

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Richardson's Revenge (p. 173 - 175)

by Mary Lu MacDonald

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Wacousta Syndrome by Gaile McGregor

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Criticism

Real Riel (p. 176 - 178)

by Karl Jirgens

Book(s) reviewed:

1. No Feather, No Ink by
2. The Louis Riel Organ & Piano Co. by Frank Davey

Subjects: Anthologies, Poetry

Word Games (p. 178 - 180)

by Adrienne Kertzer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Auntie's Knitting a Baby by Lois Simmie
2. L'Alphabet by Roger Pare
3. Tick Bird: Poems for Children by George Swede
4. Time is Flies by George Swede

Subjects: Children's Literature, Language/Linguistics, Poetry

Ground of Being (p. 180 - 182)

by M. Travis Lane

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Instar, Poems and Stories by Anne Szumigalski
2. The Night Workers of Ragnarok by Kristjana Gunnars

Subjects: Poetry

Bogart's FLQ (p. 182 - 183)

by Louis K. MacKendrick

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Cartier Street by Wayne Tefs

Subjects: Novel, Quebec

Professor T (p. 183 - 185)

by Francis Mansbridge

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Glass Houses by Tom Marshall

Subjects: Short Fiction

Whales & Crowns (p. 185 - 186)

by Kevin McCabe

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Apple Staff and Silver Crown: A Fairy Tale by Nancy-Lou Patterson
2. The Summer the Whales Sang by Gloria Montero

Subjects: First Nations, Immigrant, Novel, Ontario

Montreal's Forgotten (p. 186 - 188)

by Larry MacDonald

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Blue Mondays by Daniel Adams
2. The Promoters' City: Building the Industrial Town of Maisonneuve, 1883-1918 by Paul-Andre Linteau and Robert Chodos

Subjects: History, Quebec

Roman À Key (p. 189 - 190)

by Catherine McLay

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Hidden Agenda by Anna Porter

Subjects: Novel

Aquiniana (p. 190 - 195)

by Patricia Merivale

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bibliographie analytique d'Hubert Aquin 1947-1982 by Jacinthe Martel
2. Éditer Hubert Aquin by Jacques Allard
3. L'Infini, côté coeur by Leila Chellabi
4. Signé Hubert Aquin: Enquête sur le suicide d'un écrivain by Gordon Sheppard and Andrée Yanacopoulo

Subjects: Bibliography, Journals

Derridatives (p. 195 - 198)

by Ellen Quigley

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Nimrod's Tongue by Rafael Barreto-Rivera
2. The Structure of Obscurity: Gertrude Stein, Language, and Cubism by Randa Dubnick

Angelic Voices (p. 198 - 199)

by R. H. Ramsey

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Angels in the Rain by R. H. Ramsey

Subjects: Life Writing, Novel, War

Wagging Dogs (p. 199 - 201)

by P. Matthew St. Pierre

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Matinee Idol by Ron Base
2. Midnight Matinees by Jay Scott

Subjects: Film, Journals

Descent of Light (p. 201 - 202)

by Warren Stevenson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Distances by Robin Skelton
2. The Collected Longer Poems 1947-1977 by Robin Skelton

Subjects: Poetry

Overdue and Underdone (p. 202 - 205)

by Eric Thompson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Portrait of War, 1939-1943 by Richard S. Malone
2. A World in Flames, 1944-1945 by Richard S. Malone
3. Back the Attack!: Canadian Women During the Second World War—at Home and Abroad by Jean Bruce
4. Beyond Courage: The Canadians at the Second Battle of Ypres by George Cassar
5. We Stand on Guard: Poems and Songs of Canadians in Battle by John Robert Colombo and Michael Richardson

Subjects: History, Oral , Poetry, War , Women's Studies

Role-Maker (p. 205 - 206)

by Hilary Thompson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Selected Journals of L. M. Montgomery, Volume I: 1889-1910 by Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterston

Subjects: Journals

Irish Bishops (p. 206 - 207)

by Terrence M. Punch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Gentlemen-Bishops and Faction Fighters: The Letters of Bishops O Donel, Lambert, Scallan and Other Irish Missionaries by Cyril J. Byrne

Subjects: Correspondence, Irish-Canadian , Religion

ɉcritures trompeuses (p. 208 - 210)

by Marie Vautier

Book(s) reviewed:

1. L'Amateur d'art by Carmen Marois
2. La Rose des temps by Claire de Lamirande

Subjects: Novel, Postmodernism, Short Fiction

Sans prétention (p. 210)

by T. Vuong-Riddick

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le Paradis à la fin de vos jours by Jean Daigle

Subjects: Drama

Opinions & Notes

J. D. Rabb

• Herbert L. Stewart, Thomas Carlyle, & Canadian Idealism (p. 211 - 214)
• Subjects: Philosophy

Axel Knoenagel

• Greve's First Translation (p. 214 - 220)
• Subjects: History, Language/Linguistics

Ingrid Joubert

• Quoi de neuf dans l'ouest canadien-français? (p. 220 - 228)
• Subjects: Francophone, Literary Criticism, Western

Bruce Whiteman

• Raymond Knister's Hand in W. R. Dent's "Show Me Death!" (p. 228 - 232)
• Subjects: History, Novel, Publishing

George Woodcock

• Timothey Findley's Gnostic Parable (p. 232 - 237)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism, Religion

Lorraine McMullen

• Elizabeth Smart 1913-1985 (p. 238 - 240)
• Subjects: Biography

George Woodcock

• Hubert Evans (p. 240 - 241)
• Subjects: Biography

W. H. New

• Untitled (p. 241)
• Subjects: Bibliography

W. H. New, Laurie Ricou, and George Woodcock

• On the Verge (p. 242 - 246)

W. H. New

• Now in Paper (p. 246 - 247)

Last Pages

W. H. New

• Last Page (p. 247 - 248)
• Subjects: Bibliography