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#150 (Autumn 1996)
Urquhart and Munro

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Editorial

Laurie Ricou

• So Unwise About Green (p. 4 - 6)
• Subjects: Ecocriticism, Landscape/Space, Nature Writing
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Articles

Anne Compton

• Meditations on the House: The Poetics of Space in Jane Urquhart's Changing Heaven and The Whirlpool (p. 10 - 21)
• Subjects: Landscape/Space, Novel
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Marlene Goldman

• Translating the Sublime: Jane Urquhart's The Whirlpool (p. 23 - 42)
• Subjects: Novel, Philosophy
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Marjorie Garson

• I Would Try to Make Lists: The Catalogue in Lives of Girls and Women (p. 45 - 63)
• Subjects: Language/Linguistics, Novel
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A. E. Christa Canitz and Roger Seamon

• The Rhetoric of Fictional Realism in the Stories of Alice Munro (p. 67 - 80)
• Subjects: Novel, Short Fiction
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Laura Killian

• Poetry and the Modern Woman: P.K. Page and the Gender of Impersonality (p. 86 - 105)
• Subjects: Feminism, Gender, Poetry, Women's Studies
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Poems

Harold Rhenisch

• Trees (p. 7 - 8)

Anne Le Dressay

• Weed Flowers (p. 9)

Cornelia C. Hornosty

• Animal molecules (p. 22)

Tanya Cora

• Others Aren't Personal (p. 43)

Deirdre Dwyer

• Ultrasound (p. 44)

Sasenarine Persaud

• Por Favor Muy Bonita Saraswattie Señorita, Por Favor (p. 64 - 65)

Michael Londry

• What Makes You Feel You Are Suited To This Type Of Employment? (p. 66)

A. F. Moritz

• Early Machines (p. 81 - 83)

Crystal Hurdle

• Schizophrenic (p. 84 - 85)

Cyril Dabydeen

• Emblems (p. 106)

Book Reviews

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Boundaries of the Self (p. 107 - 109)

by Laurie Aikman

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Adèle Hugo: La Misérable by Leslie Smith Dow
2. Perils of the Night: A Feminist Study of Nineteenth-Century Gothic by Eugenia C. DeLamotte

Subjects: Feminism, Gothic, Life Writing, Nineteenth Century

Logics of Destruction (p. 109 - 111)

by Doug Aoki

Book(s) reviewed:

1. History After Lacan by Teresa Brennan
2. Walter Benjamin's Philosophy: Destruction and Experience by Andrew Benjamin and Peter Osborne

Subjects: History, Literary Theory, Philosophy

Life and Friendship (p. 111 - 113)

by John Clement Ball

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Passage Back Home: A Personal Reminiscence of Samuel Selvon by Austin Clarke
2. Austin C. Clarke: A Biography by Stella Algoo-Baksh

Subjects: Biography, Caribbean-Canadian , Life Writing

Making Bread out of Stone (p. 113 - 114)

by Guy Beauregard

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bread out of Stone by Dionne Brand
2. Grammar of Dissent by Carol Morrell

Subjects: Anthologies, Caribbean-Canadian , Poetry, Politics

Bishop's Many Arts (p. 115 - 117)

by Neil K Besner

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Elizabeth Bishop: Questions of Mastery by Bonnie Costello
2. Elizabeth Bishop: Life and the Memory of It. by Brett Millier
3. Elizabeth Bishop and Marianne Moore: the Psychodynamics of Creativity by Joanne Feit-Diehl
4. Elizabeth Bishop's Poetics of Intimacy by Victoria Harrison

Subjects: Biography, Life Writing, Literary Criticism, Poetry

Anciens & modernes (p. 117 - 119)

by Neil B. Bishop

Book(s) reviewed:

1. La lecture et ses traditions by Nicole Fortin, Georges Desmeules, and Joseph Melançon
2. Littérature québécoise: les nouvelles voix de la recherche by Jean Morency and Nicole Fortin

Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, Francophone, Quebec

Amour trans-outaouais (p. 119 - 120)

by Neil B. Bishop

Book(s) reviewed:

1. O cher Émile je t'aime ou l'heureuse mort d'une Gorgone anglaise racontée par sa fille by Agnès Whitfield

Subjects: Francophone, Poetry

Worlds and Words Apart (p. 120 - 122)

by Deborah Blenkhorn

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Outside the Pale: Cultural Exclusion Gender Difference, and the Victorian Woman Writer by Elsie B. Michie
2. Separate Spheres: Women's Worlds in the 19th Century Maritimes by Janet Guildord and Suzanne Morton

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Cultural Studies, Gender, Nineteenth Century, Women's Studies

Economy and Excess (p. 122 - 124)

by Stephanie Bolster

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Kilmarnock by Tony Cosier
2. Skinny Girls by Lesley-Anne Bourne

Subjects: Poetry

Writerly Musings (p. 124 - 125)

by Brenda Carr

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A New World: Essays on Poetry & Poetics by Ken Norris
2. Musgrave Landings: Musings on the Writing Life by Susan Musgrave

Subjects: Authorship

Cultural (Inter)Texts (p. 125 - 128)

by C. Jodey Castricano

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Body Work: Objects of Desire in Modern Narrative by Peter Brooks
2. Reading Rembrandt: Beyond the Word--Image Opposition by Mieke Bal

Subjects: Art, Body & Health, Literary Theory

Subversive Frontiers (p. 128 - 130)

by Amaryll Chanady

Book(s) reviewed:

1. New World Regionalism: Literature in the Americas by David M. Jordan

Subjects: Comparative, Regionalism, United States

Veteran & Novices (p. 130 - 132)

by Lesley D. Clement

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Brother Frank's Gospel Hour and Other Stories by W. P. Kinsella
2. The Journey Prize Anthology: Short Ficiton from the Best of Canada's New Writers by

Subjects: First Nations, Short Fiction

Existence & Life (p. 132 - 134)

by Peter Cumming

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Invisible Man at the Window by Matt Cohen and Monique Proulx
2. Shelby by Pete McCormack

Subjects: Novel

Diamonds and Shit (p. 134 - 136)

by Peter Cumming

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Leonard Cohen: A Life in Art by Ira Bruce Nadel
2. Take This Waltz: A Celebration of Leonard Cohen by Ken Norris and Michael Fournier

Subjects: Art, Biography, Life Writing, Music, Photography

Bad Companions (p. 136 - 138)

by Caroline Desbeins-Magalios

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Chronique de la dérive douce by Dany Laferrière
2. Dining with the Dictator by David Toby Homel and Dany Laferrière
3. Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex by David Toby Homel and Dany Laferrière

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

Poetic Agents (p. 138 - 140)

by Peter Dickinson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Selected Poems by Douglas Fetherling
2. Tender Agencies by Dennis Denisoff

Subjects: Poetry

Wanting Undecidability (p. 140 - 142)

by Susan Rudy Dorscht

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Old Dualities: Deconstructing Robert Kroetsch and His Critics by Dianne Tiefensee

Subjects: Feminism, Literary Criticism, Poetry, Postmodernism

Historical Recovery (p. 142 - 144)

by Debra Dudek

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Letters from a Lady Rancher by Monica Hopkins
2. The Indomitable Lady Doctors by Carlotta Hacker

Subjects: Body & Health, Correspondence, Life Writing, Women's Studies

Alienation and Sunshine (p. 144 - 145)

by Jill Franks

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Best Canadian Stories 94 by David Helwig and Maggie Helwig
2. Reverberations: Explorations in the Canadian Short Story by Simone Vauthier

Subjects: Short Fiction, Twentieth Century

Libraries & Literacy (p. 145 - 147)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Free Books for All: The Public Library Movement in Ontario, 1850-1930 by Lorne Bruce
2. Harmonious Perfection: The Development of English Studies in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Canadian Colleges by Henry Hubert

Subjects: Education/Pedagogy, Nineteenth Century, Ontario

Necessary Passion (p. 147 - 149)

by Kristjana Gunnars

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Passion for Narrative : A Guide for Writing Fiction by Jack Hodgins

Subjects: Authorship

Babel from the Tower (p. 150 - 152)

by Marilyn Iwama

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Colour. An Issue. by Fred Wah and Roy Miki
2. The Japanese Woman: Traditional Image and Changing Reality by Sumiko Iwao
3. Writing Diaspora: Tactics of Intervention in Contemporary Cultural Studies by Rey Chow

Subjects: Asian Culture, Cultural Studies, Diaspora, Poetry, Women's Studies

Revisit Agassiz (p. 153 - 154)

by Beth Janzen

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Agassiz: A Novel in Stories by Sandra Birdsell

Subjects: Novel, Short Fiction

Teasing Birney (p. 154 - 156)

by Jon Kertzer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Earle Birney: A Life by Elspeth Cameron

Subjects: Biography

Le goût du voyage (p. 156 - 158)

by Catherine Khordoc

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Deux semaines en septembre by André Girard
2. La Fondue by Vincent Nadeau

Subjects: Novel, Travel Writing

Strategies of Othering (p. 158 - 159)

by Martin Kuester

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Discoveries of the Other: Alterity in the Work of Leonard Cohen, Hubert Aquin, Michael Ondaatje, and Nicole Brossard by Winfried Siemerling

Subjects: Comparative, Literary Theory

Intersecting Lives (p. 159 - 161)

by Dorothy F. Lane

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Even At This Distance by Ann Knight and W. P. Kinsella
2. In War with Time by Leila Pepper
3. Rising About Us by Edith Van Beek

Subjects: Poetry

Word Wars (p. 161 - 163)

by Susan MacFarlane

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Mêmewars by Adeena Karasick
2. The Paper Wife by Linda Spalding

Subjects: Memory & Identity, Novel

Reimag(in)ing Women (p. 163 - 164)

by Lynne Masland

Book(s) reviewed:

1. ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture by Shirley Neuman and Glennis Stephenson
2. Wedding Cakes, Rats and Rodeo Queens by Anne Cameron

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Novel, Women's Studies

Paysages & paroles (p. 164 - 166)

by Kenneth W. Meadwell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Paysages de Réjean Ducharme by Pierre-Louis Vaillancourt

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

Poems in the First Person (p. 166 - 168)

by Cythnia Messenger

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Preludes & Fugues by Fred Candelario
2. Red Centre Journal: A journey in two parts by Kevin Roberts
3. Sudden Proclamations by Jerry Newman
4. The Proving Grounds by Rhea Tregebov

Subjects: Poetry

Faith, Mysticism, Exile (p. 168 - 170)

by Cythnia Messenger

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Homage to Henry Alline & Other Poems by Douglas Lochhead
2. Poetic Asylum: Poems Written in Canada by Jesús López Pacheco
3. Smoking Mirror by Brian Henderson

Subjects: Poetry

Unpretentious Writers (p. 170 - 171)

by Kathleen O'Donnell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Forest and Other Gleanings: The Fugitive Writings of Catharine Parr Traill by Carl Ballstadt and Michael Peterman
2. Isabella Valancy Crawford: We Scarcely Knew Her by Elizabeth McNeill Galvin

Subjects: Life Writing, Poetry, Settler Writing

The Pains of Belonging (p. 172 - 173)

by Gloria Nne Onyeoziri

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Joys of Exile by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Subjects: Short Fiction

The Traffic in Children (p. 173 - 175)

by Donna Palmateer Pennee

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Headhunter by Timothy Findley

Subjects: Novel

Compte-rendu (p. 175 - 177)

by Dominique Perron

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le proche et le lointain by Claude Lévesque
2. Parcours d'un écrivain by Marie-Claire Blais

Subjects: Essays

After the Saints (p. 177 - 178)

by Joseph Pivato

Book(s) reviewed:

1. In A Glass House by Nino Ricci

Subjects: Italo-Canadian , Novel

Troubled Quest (p. 178 - 180)

by Anthony Purdy

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Myths of the Lost Paradise in the Novels of Jacques Poulin by Paul Socken
2. Yves Thériault, Master Storyteller by M. G. Hesse

Subjects: Biography, Literary Criticism, Mythology, Novel

Journeyworks (p. 180 - 182)

by Neil Querengesser

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Shadowing by Paul Savoie and Jerry Silverberg
2. Surviving Words by Endre Farkas
3. The Walled Garden: A Fantasia by Michael Bullock

Subjects: Poetry

Wood Speaks, Stone Dances (p. 182 - 183)

by Catherine Rainwater

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Eagle Transforming : The Art of Robert Davidson by Ulli Steltzer and Robert Davidson
2. Inuit Women Artists: Voices from Cape Dorset by Odette Leroux and et al.
3. Spirit Faces: Contemporary Masks of the Northwest Coast by Gary Wyatt

Subjects: Art, First Nations

Critical Vantage (p. 183 - 186)

by Beverly J. Rasporich

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Crafting of Chaos: Narrative Structure in Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel and The Diviners by Hildegard Kuester
2. The Tumble of Reason: Alice Munro's Discourse of Absence by Ajay Heble

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

Partial Selves (p. 186 - 187)

by Norman Ravvin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Mina's Story: A Doctor's Memoir of the Holocaust by Mina Deutsch
2. The Imaginary Jew by Alain Finkielkraut

Subjects: Autobiography, History, Holocaust, Jewish-Canadian

The Masculine Face to Face (p. 187 - 190)

by Sheila Ross

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Evil Eye by Ann Diamond
2. Man Without Face by Frances Itani
3. Stupid Crimes by Denis E. Bolen

Subjects: Short Fiction

The Spirit of Place (p. 190 - 191)

by William J. Scheick

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Death Feast in Dimlahamid by Terry Glavin
2. Khot-La-Cha: The Autobiography of Chief Simon Baker by Verna J. Kirkness

Subjects: Autobiography, First Nations

Postmodern Paralepsis (p. 191 - 193)

by Winfried Siemerling

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Postmodern Canadian Fiction and the Rhetoric of Authority by

Subjects: Postmodernism

Exiled Artist (p. 193 - 194)

by Rosemary L. Smith

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Achievement of Josef Skvorecky by Sam Solecki

Subjects: Eastern European, Literary Criticism

The Art of Clothing (p. 195 - 196)

by Patricia Vervoort

Book(s) reviewed:

1. From the Land: Two Hundred Years of Dene Clothing by Judy Thompson

Subjects: Cultural Studies, First Nations

Origins (p. 196 - 197)

by Gernot R. Wieland

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bones in the Basket by C.J. Taylor
2. Five Heavenly Emperors: Chinese Myths of Creation by Song Nan Zhang

Subjects: Asian Culture, First Nations, Mythology

Magical Word Collage (p. 197 - 198)

by Sharon R. Wilson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. In the Language of Love by Diane Schoemperlen

Subjects: Novel

Re/appraisals (p. 199 - 200)

by Herb Wyile

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Context North America: Canadian/U.S. Literary Relations by Camille La Bossiere
2. Hugh MacLennan by Frank M. Tierney

Subjects: Biography, Canadian Studies, Comparative, Literary Criticism, United States

Multiple Selves (p. 200 - 202)

by Michael Zeitlin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Double Reading: Postmodernism after Deconstruction by Jeffrey T. Nealon
2. Shattered Selves: Multiple Personality in a Postmodern World by James M. Glass

Subjects: Body & Health, Literary Theory, Postmodernism

Opinions & Notes

David Stouck

• James Sinclair Ross (1908-1996) (p. 204 - 205)
• Subjects: Biography