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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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#128 (Spring 1991)
Systems of Value, Structures of Belief

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Editorial

W. H. New

Articles

Paul Comeau

Elisabeth Potvin

Barbara Pell

Basil H. Johnston

JoAnn McCaig

Dorothy Seaton

Kathleen Wall

Michael Hurley

Bruce F. MacDonald

Poems

Mona Elaine Adilman

Ellen Drennan

Ralph Gustafson

Fred Cogswell

John Marshall

John Marshall

Tom Wayman

Tom Wayman

Sonja A. Skarstedt

Roger Nash

Ricardo Sternberg

Greg Simison

Cornelia C. Hornosty

Book Reviews

Reviews section PDF available

Possible Storms (p. 141 - 143)

by Gary Boire

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Small Place by Jamaica Kinkaid
  2. Michel Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, Culture: Interviews and other Writings 1977-1984 by Lawrence D. Kritzman
  3. Resistance Literature by Barbara Harlow

Subjects: Literary Theory, Postcolonialism

Sun, Rum & Romance (p. 143 - 145)

by Vivien Bosley

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. La Reine Soleil levée by Gérard Etienne
  2. Noëlle à Cuba by Pierre Karch

Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian , Novel

D'un pays l'autre (p. 145 - 147)

by Claude Bouygues

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. L'Obomsawin by Daniel Poliquin
  2. Le Repos et l'oubli by Naïm Kattan

Subjects: Essays, Francophone

"Deux solitudes" apprivoiséss (p. 147 - 148)

by Anne Brown

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Bibliography of Critcism on English and French Literary Translations in Canada/Bibliographie de la Critique des Traductions Littéraires Anglaises et Françaises au Canada by Kathy Mezei
  2. Voyage to Vendée by David Homel and Robert Marteau

Subjects: Bibliography, Francophone

Cultural Memory (p. 148 - 149)

by Richard Cavell

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Way I Remember It by Antonio Mazza

Subjects: Culture, Music

Image/Text (p. 149 - 151)

by Richard Cavell

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Art, Sight, and Language: A Reading/Writing of Some Contemporary Canadian Art by Asheleigh Moorhouse
  2. One Summer in Quebec: A. Y. Jackson in 1925: A Family View by Naomi Jackson Groves

Subjects: Art

Opacity vs. Accessibility (p. 151 - 153)

by Lesley D. Clement

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Hard Travel by Lesley Krueger
  2. Telling Differences: New English Fiction from Quebec by Linda Leith
  3. Torpor: Collected Fiction, 1960-1978, Volume 2 by J. Michael Yates

Subjects: Anthologies, Twentieth Century

Environmental Theatre (p. 153 - 154)

by Viviana Comensoli

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Tamara by John Krizanc

Subjects: Drama

Structure of Belief (p. 154 - 155)

by Gwladys Downes

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Ou Le langage des Sources: Essais by Rina Lasnier

Subjects: Poetry, Quebec

Ambition (p. 155 - 157)

by Cecelia Frey

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Along the Shore: Tales by the Sea by L. M. Montgomery and Rea Wilmhurst

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Short Fiction

Un pays inconnu (p. 157 - 159)

by Mary Jane Edwards

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Du sommet d'un arbre by Yves Beauchemin
  2. La Visée critique by André Brochu

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Quebec

Difficult Passage (p. 159 - 161)

by Jo-Anne Elder

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Like a Child of the Earth by Jovette Marchessault
  2. The Cycle by Gerard Bessette and A. D. Martin-Sperry
  3. Translation: An Interpretive Approach by Jean Delisle, P. Logan, and M. Creery

Subjects: Language/Linguistics

Prairie Women (p. 161 - 162)

by Carol Fairbanks

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Gift of Sky by Linda Ghan
  2. Rites by Brenda Riches

Subjects: Prairie Writing, Women's Literature

Maudits (p. 162 - 164)

by Jean-Paul Gabilliet

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Actes. Premier colloque de bande dessinée de Montréal by André Carpentier and Jacques Samson
  2. La guerre des langues dans l'affichage by Jacques Leclerc
  3. Maudits Anglais! Lettre ouverte aux Quebecois d'un Franco-Ontarien indigné by Jean-Paul Marchand

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Francophone

Fixed Smile (p. 164 - 165)

by Blanche Gelfant

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Other Side of Silence: A Life of Ethel Wilson by Mary McAlpine

Subjects: Biography

Mysteries (p. 166 - 169)

by Ellen Godfrey

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Question of Murder by Eric Wright
  2. A Victim Must be Found by Howard Engel
  3. Dance of Shiva by William Deverell
  4. Field Work by Maureen Moore
  5. Platinum Blues by William Deverell

Subjects: Novel

Backtracking (p. 169 - 171)

by Kristjana Gunnars

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Making Movies by Andrew Wreggitt
  2. Red Earth, Yellow Stone by Anne Campbell

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Poetry

Landscape or Language (p. 171 - 174)

by Dick Harrison

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Great Prairie Fact and Literary Imagination by Robert Thacker
  2. Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays by Kenneth G. Robert

Subjects: Landscape/Space, Prairie Writing

"Other" (p. 174 - 176)

by Thomas Hastings

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Born to Lose by Trevor Clark
  2. Buddy's: Meditations on Desire by Stan Persky
  3. Electrical Storms by David Homel

Subjects: Gay/Lesbian, Urban Novel

L'Apres - "matou" (p. 176 - 177)

by Pierre Herbert

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Juliette Pomerleau by Yves Beauchemin

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

Silences (p. 177 - 178)

by Iain Higgins

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Movement in Slow Time by Ann Rosenberg
  2. Musical Offering by E. D. Blodgett

Subjects: Poetry

Postmodern Paradoxes (p. 179 - 180)

by Paul Hjartarson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Canadian Postmodern: A Study of Contemporary English-Canadian Fiction by Linda Hutcheon

Subjects: Essays, Postmodernism

New Fiction (p. 180 - 181)

by Boyd Holmes

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Blind Date by Susan Kerslake
  2. Truth of Lies by Frances Itani

Subjects: Short Fiction

Dynamics of Memory (p. 182 - 183)

by Coral Ann Howells

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Light of Imagination by Neil K Besner

Subjects: Memory & Identity

Mid-Victorian Concerns (p. 183 - 184)

by Henry Hubert

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Two Worlds: Studies in the Protestant Culture of Ontario, 1820-1870 by William Westfall

Subjects: Nineteenth Century, Religion

Alternative Theatre (p. 185 - 186)

by Heather Jones

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Dangerous Graces: Women's Poetry on Stage from "Fire Works!" by Susan McMaster
  2. McClure: A Play in two acts by Scott Munroe

Subjects: Drama, Film, Women's Studies

Déjà  vu (p. 186 - 187)

by W. J. Keith

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Distant Relations by Kenneth Radu

Subjects: Eastern European, Settler Writing

Costume Parade (p. 187 - 189)

by Eberhard Kreutzer

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. 88 Best Canadian Short Stories by David Helwig and Maggie Helwig
  2. Coming Attractions by David Helwig and Maggie Helwig
  3. The Canadian Short Story by Michelle Gadpaille

Subjects: Short Fiction

Artificial Paradise? (p. 189 - 191)

by Darrell Laird

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Delicate Fire by Harold Rhenisch
  2. Amanuensis by Phil Hall
  3. Planet Harbour by Brian Bartlett

Subjects: Poetry

(Un)Frank: Davey (p. 191 - 192)

by Robert Lecker

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Reading Canadian Reading by Frank Davey

Subjects: Essays, Literary Criticism

Lecker's Blaise (p. 192 - 193)

by Linda Leith

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. An Other I: The Fictions of Clark Blaise by Robert Lecker

Subjects: Literary Criticism

Approach (p. 193 - 194)

by Charles Lillard

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Robert Brown and the Vancouver Island Exploring Expedition by John Hayman

Subjects: British Columbia, Exploration

Loyalist (p. 195 - 196)

by Mary Lu MacDonald

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Jonathan Odell: Loyalist Poet of the American Revolution by Cynthia Dubin Edelberg

Subjects: Poetry, United States

Niagara (p. 196 - 197)

by Mark Madoff

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Voices on the Brink by Tom Marshall

Subjects: Novel, Ontario

Postcolonial Anguish (p. 197 - 199)

by Amin Malak

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Casual Brutality by Neil Bissoondath

Subjects: Caribbean-Canadian , Novel

Explorations (p. 199 - 200)

by Cedric May

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Amanita Muscaria; Carnet, 1980-1988 by Nicholas Catanoy
  2. Beau Lieu by Guy Cloutier
  3. Connaissance de la Mort by Yves Gosselin
  4. D'elle en elles by Célyne Fortin
  5. Le Simple Geste d'Exister avec six tableaux by Joël Pourbaix
  6. Les Chroniques d'une Seconde à l'Autre by Marie Savard

Subjects: Novel, Quebec

Antitheses (p. 201 - 202)

by C. D. Mazoff

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Five Stories by W. P. Kinsella
  2. Nora by the Sea by Cary Fagan
  3. The Fiction of W. P. Kinsella: Tall Tales in Various Voices by Don Murray
  4. The Machine Minders by Marius Kociejowski

Subjects: Novel, Short Fiction

Hidden Powers (p. 202 - 204)

by Judit M. Molnár

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Daughter of Copper Woman by Anne Cameron
  2. Snakebite by Ann Diamond

Subjects: Quebec, Short Fiction

Craft & Friendship (p. 204 - 205)

by Patricia Morley

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. With WK in the Workshop. A Memoir of William Kurelek by Brian Dedora

Subjects: Art, Life Writing

Quebec Drama (p. 205 - 207)

by Jane Moss

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. En scène depuis 25 ans by La Nouvelle Compagnie Théatrale
  2. La grande opération ou quand les rêves refusent de mourir by Jean-Raymond Marcoux
  3. Les enfants n'ont pas de sexe? by Le Théatre de Carton

Subjects: Drama, Quebec

Maelstrom (p. 207 - 209)

by Dorothy Parker

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Particular Class of Women by Janet Feindel
  2. Lucky Strike by Hrant Alianak

Subjects: Drama, Women's Studies

Human Neglect (p. 209 - 210)

by Elizabeth Parkinson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Constallations by Janice Kulyk Keefer

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Novel

Messianisme (p. 210 - 211)

by Antoine Sirois

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Naissance d'une littérature by Réjean Beaudoin

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Quebec

Unpalatable Truths (p. 211 - 213)

by Aruna Srivastava

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. The Ensphering Mind: History, Myth, and Fictions in the Poetry of Allen Curnow, Nissim Ezekiel, A. D. Hope, A. M. Klein, Christopher Okigbo, and Derek Walcott by James Wieland
  2. Towards an Aesthetic of Opposition: Essays On Literature, Criticism, and Cultural Imperialism by Arun Mukherjee

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Struggle (p. 213 - 215)

by C. D. Mazoff

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Plague Year Journal by Michael Estok
  2. Landsinger by Tony Cosier
  3. Troubling a Star by Deborah Godin

Subjects: Poetry

Best of Intentions (p. 215 - 216)

by Robert Attridge

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Intent, or The Weight of the World by Roo Borson

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Poetry

Opinions & Notes

W. J. Keith and George Payerle

George Woodcock

L. T. Cornelius, W. H. New, and George Woodcock

Last Pages

W.H. New



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