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Current Issue: #214 (Autumn 2012)

Canadian Literature's Issue 214 (Autumn 2012) is now available. The issue features articles by Germaine Warkentin, Susan Gingell, Deanna Reder, Allison Hargreaves, Daniel Heath Justice, Kristina Fagan Bidwell, Jo-Ann Episkenew, Andrea King, Joanne Leow, and Ana María Fraile, and new Canadian poetry & book reviews.

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#120 (Spring 1989)
Slavic and East-European Connections

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Editorial

W. H. New

Articles

Janice Kulyk Keefer

Robert Harlow

Jacqueline D'Amboise

Négovan Rajic

Sam Solecki

Miriam Waddington

Sherrill Grace

Andrew Busza

George Woodcock

Mark Mealing

Ann Munton

Poems

Rhea Tregebov

Florian Smieja

Rudiger Krause

Miriam Waddington and Rohel Korn

Andrew Suknaski

Margaret Avison and Gyula Illyés

Rhea Tregebov

Irving Layton

Charles Rea

Marya Fiamengo

Seymour Mayne

Seymour Mayne

Charles Mányokynémeth

Yar Slavutych

Dave Margoshes

Dave Margoshes

Carolyn Zonailo

Jars Balan

Yar Slavutych

Oleh Zujewskyj

Carolyn Zonailo

Rudiger Krause

Harold Rhenisch

John Donlan

Book Reviews

Reviews section PDF available

Russian Riddles (p. 145 - 147)

by R. L. Busch

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Another Winter, Another Spring: Love Remebered by Louise DeKiriline Lawrence
  2. Moscow Despatches: Inside Cold War Russia by John Watkins, Dean Beeby, and William Kaplan
  3. The Russian Album by Michael Ignatieff

Subjects: Eastern European, Life Writing, Politics

Images of Poland (p. 147 - 150)

by E. Mozejko

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Color of Blood by Brian Moore

Subjects: Novel, Politics

Heroic Artists (p. 150 - 153)

by Glenn Deer

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Emily Carr by Ruth Gowers
  2. Margaret Atwood by Barbara Hill Rigney
  3. Memoirs of a Book Molesting Childhood and Other Essays by Adele Wiseman

Subjects: Life Writing, Women's Studies

War Within War (p. 153 - 154)

by Joseph I. Donohoe, Jr.

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Les Enfants de Sophie by Patrick Coppens and Teddy Kutscher

Subjects: Immigrant, Jewish-Canadian

McFadden's World (p. 154 - 155)

by James Doyle

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Gypsy Guitar: One Hundred Poems of Romance and Betrayal by David McFadden

Subjects: Poetry

Testimony Time (p. 155 - 156)

by Ed Friesen

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Why I am a Mennonite: Essays on Mennonite Identity by Harry Loewen

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Mennonite

Overviews (p. 156 - 159)

by Sherrill Grace

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Canadian Drama and the Critics by L. W. Conolly
  2. German Expressionist Prose: Theory and Practice by Augustinus P. Dierick

Subjects: Drama, Literary Theory

Grove/Greve (p. 159 - 161)

by Ed Jewinski

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Stranger in My Time: Essays by and about Frederick Philip Grove by Paul Hjartarson

Subjects: Authorship, Life Writing

(Dis)continuity (p. 160 - 161)

by Joy Kuropatwa

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Life, Love & Unions by Helen Potrebenko and Brian Burke
  2. Word-House of a Grandchild by Liliane Welch

Subjects: Home & Family, Poetry

Eye & Ear (p. 162 - 165)

by Marcia Macaulay

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Vernacular Muse by

Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Poetry

(Dis)Illusions (p. 165 - 167)

by Barbara Pell

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Seeds by Bryan Moon
  2. Some Kind of Hero by Max Layton
  3. the half-finished christ by James Misfeldt

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Novel

Caves & Stories (p. 167 - 168)

by Harry Prest

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Naked Croquet by Doug Melnyk
  2. The Cost of Living by Augustinus P. Dierick

Subjects: Short Fiction

Cultivating Race (p. 168 - 170)

by K. P. Stich

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Racial Attitudes in English Canadian Fiction, 1905-1980 by Terrence Craig

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Multiculturalism

Crazy Cramer (p. 170 - 171)

by Alice Van Wart

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Basket of Apples and Other Stories by Shirley Faessler

Subjects: Eastern European, Home & Family, Short Fiction

Grand Tour (p. 171 - 173)

by Germaine Warkentin

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Canadian Travellers in Europe 1851-1900 by Eva-Marie Kröller

Subjects: Nineteenth Century, Travel Writing

War Words (p. 173 - 175)

by John Ferns

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Great War of Words: British, American And Canadian Propaganda And Fiction, 1914-1933 by Peter Buitenhuis

Subjects: Politics, World War I

Forger & Parrot (p. 175 - 177)

by Gary Boire

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Medieval Hour in the Author's Mind by Ernest Hekkanen
  2. The Parrot Who Could by Robin Skelton

Subjects: Short Fiction

Women & Les Mots (p. 177 - 179)

by Coral Ann Howell

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Mazing Space: Writing Canadian Women Writing by Smaro Kamboureli and Shirley Neuman

Subjects: Feminism, Language/Linguistics

War, Sex, Sentiment (p. 179 - 181)

by W. J. Keith

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Unknown Soldier by George Payerle

Subjects: Historical Fiction, World War II

Implied Others (p. 181 - 183)

by Lydia Wevers

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Counterpoint by Marie Moser
  2. The Invisible Women of Washington by Diana G. Collier

Subjects: Novel, Women's Studies

Milosz (p. 183 - 184)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Between Anxiety and Hope: The Poetry and Writing of Czeslaw Milosz by Edward Mozejko

Subjects: Authorship, Literary Criticism

A€ Propos de rien (p. 184 - 185)

by Evelyn Cobley

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Beaux Draps by Jean-Marie Poupart

Subjects: Novel, Postmodernism

Vicereines (p. 185 - 187)

by Bruce F. MacDonald

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Below the Peacock Fan: First Ladies of the Raj by Marian Fowler

Subjects: Colonialism, Indian/South Asian

En Quête de tendresse (p. 187 - 189)

by James P. Gilroy

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Au beau fixe by Marthe Jalbert
  2. Clara by Jacqueline Déry Mochon
  3. L'Amant gris by Louise Warren
  4. La Terre émue by Pierre-Yves Pépin
  5. Lettres urbaines by Robert Berrouet-Oriol

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Chez Him (p. 189 - 191)

by Elaine F. Nardocchio

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Being at home with Claude by René-Daniel Dubois and Linda Gaboriau

Subjects: Drama, Quebec

Les Guerres (p. 191 - 193)

by Dennis F. Essar

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. La Trouble-Fête by Bernard J. Andrès
  2. Les Trains d'exils by Réjean Bonenfant and Louis Jacob

Subjects: Novel, Quebec, Trauma

Pays & Paysage (p. 193 - 196)

by Jeanne Harrison

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Mariaagelas/Maria, daughter of Gélas by Antonine Maillet and Ben-Z. Shek
  2. Steven Le Hereault by Ray Chamberlain and Victor-Lévy Beaulieu
  3. The March to Love by D. G. Jones and Gaston Miron

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Novel, Poetry, Quebec

Essentially Ironic (p. 196 - 200)

by I. MacLaren

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Perspectives on Mordecai Richler by Michael Darling
  2. The Bumper Book by John Metcalf

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Publishing

Entendre vibrer (p. 200 - 202)

by Cedric May

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Choisir la poésie by
  2. comme un lexique des abîmes by Gilbert Langevin
  3. Dans l'attente d'une aube by Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon
  4. Depuis l'amour by Jean Royer
  5. Du fond redouté (1982-1985) by Robert Giroux
  6. Verbe Silence by Guy Gervais

Subjects: Poetry, Quebec

Territory (p. 202 - 204)

by Judith McCombs

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Stealing the Language: The Emergence of Women's Poetry in America by Alicia Suskin Ostriker
  2. The Imaginary Lover by Alicia Ostriker
  3. Undressing the Dark by Barbara Carey

Subjects: Poetry, United States, Women's Literature

Penser la mort (p. 204 - 206)

by Phillipe Haeck

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Nekuia ou le chant des morts by Michel Clément
  2. Travail au noir by France Lachaine
  3. Un livre de Kafka a la main suivi de la Blessure by Denise Desautels

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Dirty/Beautiful (p. 206 - 208)

by David O'Rourke

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Broken Ghosts by Roger Moore
  2. Killing the Swan by Mark Anthony Jarman
  3. The Natural History of Water by David Donnell
  4. Troubles in Paradise by James Whittall

Subjects: Poetry, Urban Novel

L'agonie (p. 208 - 210)

by Tamara J. Palmer

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Death-Watch by Jacques Brault and David Lobdell
  2. Wide Load by Fred Bonnie

Subjects: Novel, Quebec

Elephant & Delirium (p. 210 - 212)

by Paul St. Pierre

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Hinge of Spring by Patience Wheatley
  2. Candy from Strangers by Diana Hartog
  3. Cloud Gate by Claudia Lapp
  4. Everything Happens at Once by Yvonne Trainer
  5. Some Talk Magic by Penny Kemp
  6. What We Bring Home by Judith Krause

Subjects: Poetry

Cape Breton (p. 212 - 213)

by Michael Thorpe

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Impressions of Cape Breton by Brian Tennyson
  2. Tales Until Dawn: the World of a Cape Breton Gaelic Story-Teller by Joe Neil MacNeil and John Shaw

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Irish-Canadian

Radio Days (p. 213 - 215)

by Jill Tomasson Goodwin

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. All the Bright Company: Radio Drama Produced by Andrew Allan by Howard Fink and John Jackson

Subjects: Media & Communications, Theatre History

Antiquity & Language (p. 215 - 216)

by Shelagh Lindsey

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Archaeology and Language: The Puzzle of Indo-European Origins by Colin Renfrew
  2. The Restoration: the referendum years by Keith Henderson

Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Politics, Quebec

Prairie Locus (p. 216 - 217)

by Karl Jirgens

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Saskatchewan Writing by Ed Dyck

Subjects: Essays, Prairie Writing

Feminist (p. 217 - 218)

by Gillian Creese

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. In Other Words: Writing as a Feminist by Gail Chester and Sigrid Nielsen
  2. The Opening Eye by Nancy Bauer

Subjects: Feminism, Gender

Poésie-manifeste (p. 218 - 220)

by Marie Naudin

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Chambres by Louise Dupré
  2. Plaie rouillée by Eddy Garnier
  3. Voyante by Louise Larose

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

La Territoire (p. 220 - 221)

by Danielle Trudel

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. C'était l'hiver by Jean Provencher
  2. Le Roman du territoire by John Glassco and Bernard Proulx

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Quebec

Roman du coeur (p. 221 - 223)

by Irène Oore

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Le coeur découvert, roman d'amours by Michel Tremblay

Subjects: Francophone, Home & Family

Child Magic (p. 223 - 225)

by Jean-Pierre Durix

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Everday Magic: Child Language in Canadian Literature by Laurie Ricou

Subjects: Children's Literature, Language/Linguistics

Postmodernism (p. 225 - 227)

by Michael H. Keefer

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Life After Postmodernism: Essays on Value and Culture by C. J. Dixon and John Fekete
  2. The Postmodern Scene: Excremental Culture and Hyper-Aesthetics by Hallvard Dahlie, David Cook, and Arthur Kroker
  3. The Postmodern University: Essays on the Deconstruction of the Humanities by Keith Alldritt and Stanley Fogel

Subjects: Literary Theory, Postmodernism

Tradition (p. 227 - 230)

by Axel Knoenagel

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Between Europe and America: The Canadian Tradition in Fiction by T. D. MacLulich

Subjects: Literary Theory, Novel

Hébert Sonore (p. 230 - 233)

by Grazia Merler

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Le premier jardin by Anne Hébert

Subjects: Historical Fiction, Women's Studies

Carr's Anger (p. 233 - 234)

by Emily-Jane Orford

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Life of Emily Carr by Paula Blanchard

Subjects: Art, Biography

L'Hiver du pays (p. 235 - 236)

by Joseph I. Donohoe, Jr.

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. L'Ecrit-Vent by Benoit Fradette

Subjects: Novel, Quebec

Versions of Vulgar (p. 236 - 238)

by Daniel Lenoski

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. How to make love to a Negro by Dany Laferrière and David Homel
  2. Married Love: A Vulgar Entertainment by Kent Thompson

Subjects: Novel, Postmodernism

Opinions & Notes

Anna Jakabfi

Klara Wix

Leslie Armour

Eva-Marie Kröller, W. H. New, Laurie Ricou, and George Woodcock

Last Pages

W. H. New



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