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#146 (Autumn 1995)
Women / the City / the Wilderness

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Editorial

Laurie Ricou

• Re New Editorials (p. 4 - 6)
• Subjects: Journals
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Articles

Blanche Gelfant

• Ethel Wilson's Absent City: A Personal View of Vancouver (p. 9 - 27)
• Subjects: British Columbia, Novel
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Glenn Willmott

• The Nature of Modernism in Deep Hollow Creek (p. 30 - 48)
• Subjects: Modernism, Novel
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David Crouse

• Resisting Reduction: Closure in Richard Ford's Rock Springs and Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth (p. 51 - 64)
• Subjects: Short Fiction
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Michelle Gadpaille

• If the Dress Fits: Female Stereotyping in Rosanna Leprohon's "Alice Sydenham's First Ball" (p. 68 - 83)
• Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender, Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century, Women's Studies
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Matthew Manera

• The Act of Being Read: Fictional Process in Places Far from Ellesmere (p. 87 - 94)
• Subjects: Landscape/Space, Memory & Identity, Novel
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Shannon Hengen

• Towards a Feminist Comedy (p. 97 - 109)
• Subjects: Drama, Feminism, Women's Studies
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Poems

Eva Tihanyi

• A Windfall Light (p. 7 - 8)

Stephanie Bolster

• hydrangea (p. 28)

Stephanie Bolster

• iris (p. 29)

Ken Rivard

• Nat King Cole (p. 49)

Ken Rivard

• Notes of Mother Song (p. 50)

Barbara Schott

• Memoirs of An Almost Expedition (p. 65 - 66)

Cornelia C. Hornosty

• socks (p. 67)

Sarah Klassen

• Dangerous elements (p. 84)

Sarah Klassen

• Tea Cosy (p. 85)

Diane L. Tucker

• Louise, lost to Alzheimer's (p. 86)

Zöe Landale

• Oatmeal Cookies (p. 95 - 96)

Gail Johnston

• Good Fences (p. 110)

Book Reviews

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Psychanalyse (p. 111 - 112)

by Doug Aoki

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Between Feminism & Psychoanalysis by Teresa Brennan
2. Jacques Lacan & Co.: A History of Psychoanalysis in France, 1925-1985 by Elisabeth Roudinesco
3. Thinking Fragments: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, & Postmodernism in the Contemporary West by Jane Flax

Subjects: Feminism, Literary Theory, Postmodernism

Core Samples (p. 112 - 114)

by Christopher Brayshaw

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Secular Grail: Paradigms of Perception by Christopher Dewdney

Subjects: Poetry

Romances of the North (p. 114 - 115)

by Kathy K. Y. Chung

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Vision of Canada: Herman Voaden's Dramatic Works 1928-1945 by Anton Wagner

Subjects: Drama, Theatre History

Power Relations (p. 115 - 116)

by Susanne Goodison

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Firing the Heather: The Life and Times of Nellie McClung by Marilyn Davis and Mary Hallett
2. Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists by Deborah Cherry

Subjects: Art, Biography, Feminism, Nineteenth Century, Women's Studies

Metafiction (p. 117 - 119)

by Rosemary J. Jolly

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Decolonizing Tradition: New Views of Twentieth-Century "British" Literary Canons by Karen R. Lawrence
2. Moral Metafiction: Counterdiscourse in the Novels of Timothy Findlay by Donna Palmateer Pennee

Subjects: British, Novel, Twentieth Century

Maintenance & Meditation (p. 119 - 121)

by Heather Murray

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Challenges, Projects, Texts: Canadian Editing: Twenty-fifth Conference on Editorial Problems, November 17-18, 1989. Défis, projets et textes dans l'Édition critique au Canada: Vingt-cinquième Congrès sur l'édition critique 17-18 novembre 1990 by Janet M. Paterson
2. Literature and Society in the Canadas 1817-1850 by Mary Lu MacDonald

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Nineteenth Century, Publishing

Six Reaches After Verse (p. 121 - 123)

by Anthony Raspa

Book(s) reviewed:

1. À l'ɉcoute de l'Écoumène by Gilles Hénault
2. Andromède Attendra by Gilles Cyr
3. Les fleurs du siècle à venir by Michel Muir
4. Nuclear Seasons by Ramabai Espinet
5. The New Pagans by Patricia Keeney

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Places Re-known (p. 124 - 126)

by Gwen Raymond

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Orientalism and the Postcolonialism Predicament: Perspectives on South Asia by Carol A. Breckenridge and Peter vander Veer
2. Place/Culture/Representation by James S. Duncan and David Ley

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Indian/South Asian, Postcolonialism

Old Habits Die Hard (p. 126 - 128)

by J. R. Snyder

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Fine Grammar of Bones by Méira Cook
2. Black Cup by Theresa Kishkan
3. Grasping Men's Metaphors by Sharon H. Nelson
4. no visual scars by Angela Hryniuk
5. Old Habits by Rhona McAdam

Subjects: Poetry

Montreal as Centre (p. 128 - 131)

by Paul Tiessen

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Letters of Conrad Aiken and Malcolm Lowry, 1929-1954 by Cynthia Sugars
2. The Letters of John Sutherland, 1942-1956 by Bruce Whiteman

Subjects: Correspondence

Reading the "Body" (p. 131 - 133)

by Amy Gogarty

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Arresting Images: Impolitic Art and Uncivil Actions by Steven C. Dubin
2. Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic by Elisabeth Bronfen
3. The Female Nude: Art, Obscenity and Sexuality by Lynda Nead

Subjects: Art, Body & Health, Feminism, Politics, Sexuality, Women's Studies

Taking Grant for Granted (p. 133 - 135)

by E. D. Blodgett

Book(s) reviewed:

1. George Grant: A Biography by William Christian

Subjects: Biography

Scopophobia (p. 135 - 136)

by Richard Cavell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Downcast Eyes: The Denigration of Vision in Twentieth-Century French Thought by Martin Jay
2. The Optical Unconscious by Rosalind E. Krauss

Subjects: Modernism, Twentieth Century

Des plumes de l'ouest (p. 136 - 138)

by Estelle Dansereau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le cycle manitobain de Gabrielle Roy by Carol J. Harvey
2. Marie-Anna Roy, une voix solitaire by Monique Genuist and Paul Genuist

Subjects: Biography, Francophone, Prairie Writing

Inquisitive Travellers (p. 138 - 140)

by Maria Noëlle Ng

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Tiger on Dragon Mountain by Helen Fraser MacRae
2. Learning from Mount Hua. A Chinese Physician's Illustrated Travel Record and Painting Theory by Kathlyn Maurean Liscomb

Subjects: Art, Asian Culture, History, Travel Writing

Pizza Pizza (p. 140 - 141)

by Laurie Ricou

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Puppeteer by Robert Kroetsch

Subjects: Novel

Courage de femme (p. 141 - 143)

by Anne Scott

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Léonise Valois, femme de lettres by Louise Warren

Subjects: Biography, Poetry, Quebec

New Talent (p. 143 - 144)

by Rosemary L. Smith

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Circle of Birds by Hayden Trenholm
2. Stories From Blood & Aphorisms by Timothy Paleczny
3. Visible Light by Carol Windley

Subjects: Novel, Short Fiction

Romance Frontiers (p. 144 - 146)

by Sandra Tomc

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Becoming a Woman Through Romance by Linda K. Christian-Smith
2. The Feminization of Quest-Romance by Dana A. Heller

Subjects: Twentieth Century, Women's Literature, Women's Studies

Myth and Multi-Culturalism (p. 146 - 147)

by Gernot R. Wieland

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Revenge of Ishtar by Ludmila Zeman
2. The Secret of the White Buffalo by C.J. Taylor

Subjects: First Nations, Mythology

Conte, récit, nouvelle (p. 147 - 149)

by Claire Wilkshire

Book(s) reviewed:

1. La nouvelle: écriture(s) et lecture(s) by Agnès Whitfield and Jacques Cotnam

Subjects: Essays, Francophone, Short Fiction

Looking South (p. 149 - 150)

by Patricia Whitney

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Homing Instinct by S. L. Sparling
2. The Dixon Cornbelt League and Other Baseball Stories by W. P. Kinsella

Subjects: Novel, Short Fiction, Sports Writing

Feminisms? (p. 151 - 153)

by Lesley Ziegler

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Feminisms, A Reader by Maggie Humm

Subjects: Feminism, Women's Literature, Women's Studies

Images & Echoes (p. 151 - 153)

by Jutta Zimmermann

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Echoes in Silence by W. J. Keith
2. Literary Images of Ontario by W. J. Keith

Subjects: Ontario, Regionalism

Deeper into the Forest (p. 154 - 156)

by Douglas Barbour

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Holy Forest by Robin Blaser
2. The Moustache: Memories of Greg Curnoe by George Bowering

Subjects: Life Writing, Northern Canada, Poetry

Place, Politics, & Culture (p. 156 - 158)

by Alison Blunt

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Place and the Politics of Identity by Michael Keith and Steve Pile
2. The Cultural Studies Reader by Simon During

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Landscape/Space, Memory & Identity

Joined Worlds (p. 158 - 160)

by Stephanie Bolster

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Egyptian Jukebox by Nick Bantock
2. The Golden Mean: In Which the Extraordinary Correspondence of Griffin & Sabine Concludes by Nick Bantock

Subjects: Correspondence, Novel

(M)others' Voices (p. 160 - 162)

by Christopher Brayshaw

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Frog Moon by Lola Lemire Tostevin
2. Wild Mother Dancing : Maternal Narrative in Canadian Literature by Di Brandt

Subjects: Feminism, Home & Family, Novel, Women's Studies

Passages (p. 162 - 164)

by Alexander M. Forbes

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Drowning in Darkness by Peter Oliva
2. Sex and Character by F. G. Paci
3. To Scatter Stones by F. G. Paci

Subjects: Novel

Same Old Deal (p. 164 - 166)

by Thomas M. F. Gerry

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Black Light by Ron Shaw
2. Visions of Kerouac by Ken McGoogan

Subjects: Novel, Short Fiction

Growing up in Canada (p. 166 - 169)

by Ron Jenkins

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Blow up the Trumpet in the New Moon by Douglas How
2. Summer's Idyll by Don Gutteridge

Subjects: Novel, Young Adult

Illusions of Not Alone (p. 169 - 170)

by Sonya Reiss

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Conceptions by Jane Dick
2. Emma's Dead by Carol Malyon

Subjects: Poetry

Native Women's Writing (p. 170 - 172)

by Dorothy Seaton

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Ravensongs by Lee Maracle
2. Thresholds of Difference: Feminist Critique, Native Women's Writings, Postcolonial Theory by Julia Emberley

Subjects: Feminism, First Nations, Postcolonialism, Women's Literature

Cultural Policies (p. 173 - 175)

by John Thurston

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Is Literary History Possible? by David Perkins
2. Meaning Over Memory: Recasting the Teaching of Culture and History by Peter N. Stearns
3. Relocating Cultural Studies: Developments in Theory and Research by Valda Blundell, John Shepherd, and Ian Taylor

Subjects: Cultural Studies, History, Literary Theory

Re-Presenting the War (p. 176 - 177)

by Lorraine M. York

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Intimate Enemies: English and German Literary Reactions to the Great War 1914-1918 by Franz K. Stanzel and Martin Loschnigg
2. Representing War : Form and Ideology in First World War Narratives by Evelyn Cobley
3. When Your Number's Up: The Canadian Solider in the First World War by Desmond Morton

Subjects: British, Canadian Studies, War , World War I

Exploration Documents (p. 178 - 179)

by Iain Higgins

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Canadian Exploration Literature: An Anthology by Germaine Warkentin

Subjects: Anthologies, Exploration

Authentic Lodging? (p. 179 - 181)

by Janice Kulyk Keefer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Myth & Milieu: Atlantic Literature and Culture 1918-1939 by Gwendolyn Davies

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Cultural Studies, Multiculturalism, Twentieth Century

Memoirs (p. 181 - 182)

by Eva-Marie Kröller

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bloodlines: A Journey into Eastern Europe by Myrna Kostash
2. Travels by Night: A Memoir of the Sixties by Douglas Fetherling

Subjects: Autobiography, Canadian Studies, Eastern European, Life Writing, Travel Writing, Twentieth Century

About Canadian Writers (p. 183 - 185)

by Christine Somerville

Book(s) reviewed:

1. George: George Woodcock's Introduction to Canadian Fiction by George Woodcock
2. Sounding Differences: Conversations with Seventeen Canadian Women Writers by Janice Williamson

Subjects: Authorship, Women's Literature

Opinions & Notes

Alain-Michel Rocheleau

• Parole d'un homme engagé (p. 186 - 187)
• Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Eva-Marie Kröller

• [Omnibus Review] (p. 187 - 188)
• Subjects: Environment, Ethnic History, Ontario, Women's Literature