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#118 (Autumn 1988)
Contemporary Drama

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Editorial

W. H. New

• If Anyone Knows . . . (p. 2 - 6)
• Subjects: Culture, Politics
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Articles

Diane Bessai

• Discovering the Popular Audience (p. 7 - 28)
• Subjects: Cultural Studies, Theatre History
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Jane Moss

• "Still Crazy After All These Years": The Uses of Madness in Recent Quebec Drama (p. 35 - 45)
• Subjects: Drama, Quebec
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Sherrill Grace

• The Expressionist Legacy in the Canadian Theatre: George Ryga and Robert Gurik (p. 47 - 58)
• Subjects: Drama, Literary Theory, Theatre History
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Ghislaine Boyer

• Théâtre des femmes au Québec, 1975-1985 (p. 61 - 80)
• Subjects: Quebec, Theatre History, Women's Studies
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Ron Birmingham and Josette Féral

• Performance and Media: The Use of Image (p. 83 - 95)
• Subjects: Media & Communications
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Dorothy Parker

• Alienation and Identity: The Plays of Margaret Hollingsworth (p. 97 - 113)
• Subjects: Drama, Feminism
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George Toles

• "Cause You're the Only One I Want": The Anatomy of Love in the Plays of Judith Thompson (p. 116 - 135)
• Subjects: Authorship, Drama, Literary Criticism
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Poems

Ron Miles

• Keaton (p. 28 - 34)

Robert Hilles

• The Problem of Seeing (After a day at the beach) (p. 45 - 46)

David Carpenter

• Brown's Pond (p. 58 - 59)

Deborah Eibel

• Later (p. 59 - 60)

Zöe Landale

• Birth (p. 80 - 81)

Brian Burke

• She Reads You a Poem About Rape (p. 82)

Deborah Eibel

• Divorce (p. 95 - 96)

Eric Trethewey

• The Man in the Boot (p. 96)

Anne Swannell

• The Diamond (p. 114)

Anne Swannell

• Obfuscation with Mirrors (p. 115)

Christopher Wiseman

• Against the Dying of the Light (p. 184)

Book Reviews

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Playmaking (p. 136 - 138)

by Viviana Comensoli

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Jitters by David French
2. Prague by John Krizanc
3. Quebec Voices: Three Plays by Robert Wallace

Subjects: Drama, Eastern European, Quebec

Lowry's Noxon (p. 138 - 139)

by Chris Ackerley

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Teresina Maria by Gerald Noxon

Subjects: Italo-Canadian , Novel

Vers mirage (p. 140 - 141)

by Alexandre L. Amprimoz

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Catégoriques un deux et trois by
2. Dans les plis de l'écriture by Joël Pourbaix
3. Effets personnels by Pierre Morency
4. La Main au feu by Roland Giguere
5. Orchidée nègre by Anthony Phelps

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Kroetsch (p. 141 - 143)

by Anne Hicks

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Robert Kroetsch by Robert Lecker

Subjects: Authorship, Literary Criticism

Feelings (p. 143 - 144)

by Robert Attridge

Book(s) reviewed:

1. 4722 Rue Berri by Mona Fertig
2. Hour of the Pearl by Rhona McAdam

Subjects: Life Writing, Poetry

First Novels (p. 144 - 145)

by H. W. Connor

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Promised Land by Martin Waxman
2. Under the House by Leslie Hall Pinder

Subjects: Home & Family, Novel

Thriller (p. 145 - 147)

by R. W. Ingram

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Foreign Object by Ron Base
2. The Last Hunter by Fred Cederberg

Subjects: Crime & Detective, Novel

Voice Problems (p. 147 - 150)

by Reginald Berry

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Heat Lightning by Robert Hogg
2. The Dance of the Intellect: Studies in the Poetry of the Pound Tradition by Marjorie Perloff
3. The Night the Dog Smiled by John Newlove
4. The Poem as Utterance by R. A. York
5. The Revels by Robert Billings
6. Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism by Albert Gelpi

Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Poetry

Long Light (p. 150 - 152)

by Patricia Keeney

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Afterworlds by Gwendolyn MacEwen
2. Selected Poems of Elizabeth Brewster (2 vols.) 1944-1977 by Elizabeth Brewster

Subjects: Poetry, Women's Literature

Counterpoint (p. 152 - 154)

by A. R. Kizuk

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Collected Poems of George Whalley by George Johnson
2. The Night the Dog Smiled by John Newlove
3. Zembla's Rocks by Louis Dudek

Subjects: Life Writing, Poetry

Choice of Lens (p. 154 - 155)

by Charles Lillard

Book(s) reviewed:

1. British Columbia: Visions of the Promised Land by Brenda Lea White
2. Malcolm Lowry: Vancouver Days by Sheryl Salloum
3. The Moccasin Maker by E. Pauline Johnson

Subjects: British Columbia, Short Fiction

Dummies & Children (p. 156 - 158)

by Adrienne Kertzer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Candle for Christmas by Ann Blades and Jean Speare
2. I'll Make You Small by Tim Wynne-Jones and Maryann Kovalski
3. Mischief City by Tim Wynne-Jones and VictoR GAD
4. Sing a Song of Sixpence: The English Picture Book Tradition and Randolph Caldecott by Brian Alderson
5. Sophie et Pierrot by Ginette Anfousse
6. Two Stupid Dummies by Mark Thurman

Subjects: Art, Children's Literature

Story & Mores (p. 158 - 161)

by Robert James Merrett

Book(s) reviewed:

1. An Arch for the King & Other Stories by Michael Hennessey
2. Frogs & Other Stories by Diane Schoemperlen
3. The Devil is Innocent by H. Gordon Green

Subjects: Short Fiction, Women's Studies

Page's Brazil (p. 161 - 163)

by Cynthia Messenger

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Brazilian Journal by P. K. Page

Subjects: Journals, Travel Writing

L'inquietante absence (p. 163 - 164)

by Robert Morency

Book(s) reviewed:

1. L'Oeuvre Romanesque de Marie Claire Blais by François Laurent

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

Pick of the Crop (p. 164 - 166)

by Patricia Morley

Book(s) reviewed:

1. 86 Best Canadian Stories by David Helwig and Sandra Martin
2. Coming Attractions 4 by David Helwig and Sandra Martin

Subjects: Anthologies, Short Fiction

Magic Decade (p. 166 - 167)

by S. G. Mullins

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Remembering Summer by Harold Horwood

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Novel

Les Compagnons (p. 167 - 168)

by Elaine F. Nardocchio

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le père Emile Legault et ses compagnons de saint Laurent: Une petite histoire by Hélène Jasmin-Bélisle

Subjects: Quebec, Theatre History

Voix Universitaires (p. 168 - 169)

by Irène Oore

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Littérature québécoise, voix d'un peuple, voies d'une autonomie by Gilles Dorion and Marcel Voisin

Subjects: Anthologies, Quebec

Cameo & Conflict (p. 169 - 171)

by Barbara Pell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. As Birds Bring Forth the Sun and Other Stories by Alistair Macleod
2. Visitations by Elizabeth Brewster

Subjects: Short Fiction

Quests & Journals (p. 171 - 173)

by Barbara Pell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Sacrifice of Fire: Expeditions into the Interior by Gregory Grace
2. Psalms from the Suburbs by Roger Nash
3. Rip Current by Harold Enrico

Subjects: Life Writing, Poetry

Braces & Freckles (p. 173 - 175)

by Lynn Kettler Penrod

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Atterrissage forcé by Joceline Sanschagrin and Pierre Pratt
2. La Patte dans le sac by Sylvie Desrosiers and Pierre Huet
3. Le Journal intime d'Ani Croche by Bertrand Gauthier and Gérard Frischeteau
4. Les Catastrophes de Rosalie by Ginette Anfousse

Subjects: Childhood, Young Adult

Presence/Absence (p. 175 - 179)

by Ellen Quigley

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Martyrology: Book 6 Books 1978-1985 by

Subjects: Poetry

King Arthur (p. 180 - 182)

by Muriel Whitaker

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Arthurian Encyclopedia by Norris J. Lacey
2. The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe

Subjects: British, Mythology

Story & Book (p. 182 - 184)

by Keith Wilson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Farewell Tour by Virgil Burnett
2. The Woman Who Is The Midnight Wind by Terrence M. Green

Subjects: Short Fiction

Untitled (p. 184)

by W. H. New

Book(s) reviewed:

1. If You Love This Country: Facts and Feelings on Free Trade by Laurier Lapierre

Subjects: Politics

Opinions & Notes

D. O. Spettigue

• Woodcock's Northern Spring (p. 185 - 189)
• Subjects: Life Writing, Literary Criticism

Gary Boire

• George Ryga: A Tribute (p. 189 - 190)
• Subjects: Life Writing

Robert Bringhurst

• Nootka Rag: Funeral Music for George Clutesi, 1905-1988 (p. 190 - 192)
• Subjects: First Nations, Life Writing

George Woodcock

• On the Verge (p. 193)
• Subjects: Bibliography

Last Pages

W. H. New

• Last Page (p. 194 - 196)
• Subjects: Bibliography