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#165 (Summer 2000)
(Brochu, Buckler, Davies, Lowry, Ondaatje)

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Editorial

Eva-Marie Kröller

• Anne Hébert 1916-2000 (p. 5 - 8)
• Subjects: Authorship, Francophone, Quebec
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Articles

Sherrill Grace

• My dear Anton Myrer: A Late Lowry Letter (p. 11 - 22)
• Subjects: Authorship, Correspondence, Life Writing
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Henrik Gustafsson

• On the Pastoral Challenge in Lowry’s The Forest Path to the Spring (p. 26 - 41)
• Subjects: Landscape/Space, Short Fiction
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David Lucking

• A Will and Two Ways: The Ambivalence of Evil in Robertson Davies's The Deptford Trilogy (p. 44 - 56)
• Subjects: Novel, Religion
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Stephen Ross

• Authenticity and its Discontents: The Mountain and the Valley (p. 59 - 75)
• Subjects: Novel
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Tom Penner

• Four Characters in Search of An Author-Function: Foucault, Ondaatje, and the "Eternally Dying" Author in The English Patient¹ (p. 78 - 93)
• Subjects: Authorship, Novel
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Paul Raymond Côté

• Oedipus and Menaud: The Self-Affirmative Complex in André Brochu's Le Maître rêveur (p. 94 - 111)
• Subjects: Francophone, Novel
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Poems

Greg Button

• Keynote Address (p. 9)

Grell V. Grant

• Walking Backwards (p. 10)

Susan L. Helwig

• Art (p. 23 - 24)

Cyril Dabydeen

• Play-Acting (p. 25)

Dave Margoshes

• The satisfaction of knowing (p. 42)

John Donlan

• Soil Building (p. 43)

Andrea McKenzie

• A Lesson In Love (p. 57)

Carmine Starnino

• Rope Husbandry (p. 58)

Elana Wolff

• Embouchure (p. 76)

Paul Tyler

• Power Outage, Baltimore (p. 77)

Book Reviews

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Auspicious Beginnings (p. 112 - 115)

by Marilyn J. Rose

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Cure for Death by Lightning by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
2. The Lusty Man by Terry Griggs

Subjects: Novel, Twentieth Century

Courtepointe dramatique (p. 115 - 117)

by Sylvie Bérard

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le théâtre à Québec au début du XXe siècle: Une époque flamboyante by Christian Beaucage
2. Théàtre, multidisciplinarité et multiculturalisme by Chantal Hébert and Irène Perelli-Contos

Subjects: Drama, Multiculturalism, Quebec, Twentieth Century

Saisons fictives (p. 117 - 118)

by Bertille Beaulieu

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Les mémoires de Christine Marshall by Estelle Beauchamp
2. Saisons I: La neige by Pierre Gélinas

Subjects: Francophone, Novel

The Point of the Story (p. 119 - 120)

by Gloria Nne Onyeoziri

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Aphorism in the Francophone Novel of the Twentieth Century by Mark Bell

Subjects: Francophone, Gender, Language/Linguistics, Novel

Tracking the White Rabbit (p. 120 - 122)

by Méira Cook

Book(s) reviewed:

1. White Stone: The Alice Poems by Stephanie Bolster

Subjects: Poetry

Trusting in Movement (p. 122 - 125)

by Susan Drodge

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Autobiography by Marilyn Bowering
2. Debriefing the Rose by Mary di Michele
3. Dream Museum by Liliane Welch
4. Garden of Sculpture by Elizabeth Brewster
5. Wading the Trout River by Carolyn Zonailo

Subjects: Poetry

Girl Guide's Honour (p. 125 - 126)

by Colin Nicholson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Margaret Atwood: A Biography by Nathalie Cooke

Subjects: Biography

The Garrulous Twenties (p. 126 - 128)

by Lawrence Mathews

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Boardwalk by Joseph Kertes
2. Doggone by Tamas Dobozy

Subjects: Novel

An Ultraliterary Life (p. 128 - 130)

by L. M. Findlay

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Gentle Anarchist: A Life of George Woodcock by Douglas Fetherling

Subjects: Biography

Paths within the Onion (p. 130 - 133)

by Uzoma Esonwanne

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Place Called Heaven: The Meaning of Being Black in Canada by Cecil Foster
2. Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature by George Elliott Clarke
3. North: New African Canadian Writing, a Special Issue of West Coast Line: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Criticism 22 (Spring/Summer 1997) by Peter Hudson

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Diaspora, Journals, Multiculturalism, Poetry, Short Fiction

Northrop Frye: A Double Vision (p. 133 - 135)

by Heather Murray

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Mythologizing Canada: Essays on the Canadian Literary Imagination by Northrop Frye and Branko Gorjup
2. Northrop Frye's Student Essays 1932-1938: Collected Works of Northrop Frye Vol.3 by Northrop Frye and Robert D. Denham

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Theory

Regards sur la nation (p. 135 - 137)

by Kenneth W. Meadwell

Book(s) reviewed:

1. François-Xavier Garneau: Une figure nationale by Denis Saint-Jacques, Giles Gallichan, and Kenneth Landry
2. La Nation dans tous ses états: Le Québec en comparaison by Yvan Lamonde and Gérard Bouchard

Subjects: Biography, Canadian Studies, Francophone, Quebec, Regionalism

Indirections (p. 137 - 139)

by Stephen Guy-Bray

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Contra/Diction by Brett Josef Grubisic
2. Written in the Skin by rob mclennan

Subjects: Body & Health, Gay/Lesbian, Poetry, Short Fiction

Another Great Thing (p. 139 - 140)

by George Elliott Clarke

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Any Known Blood by Lawrence Hill

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Novel, Twentieth Century

Regeneration on Broken Ground (p. 141 - 143)

by Waldemar Zacharasiewicz

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Broken Ground by Jack Hodgins

Subjects: Novel, War

Orphans and Ghost-towns (p. 143 - 145)

by Gernot R. Wieland

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Accidental Orphan by Constance Horne
2. The Brideship by Joan Weir
3. The Doctor's Apprentice by Ann Walsh

Subjects: Immigrant, Novel, Young Adult

Carrefours discursifs (p. 145 - 147)

by Carlo Lavoie

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le roman québécois et ses (inter)discours by Jósef Kwaterko
2. Les ruelles de Caresso by Jacques Savoie

Subjects: Francophone, Novel, Quebec

Glancing Back, Fondly (p. 147 - 148)

by I. MacLaren

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Early Views of British North America from the Collection of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery by Ian G. Lumsden
2. Paul Kane's Great Nor-West by Diane Eaton and Sheila Urbanek

Subjects: Art, Canadian Studies

Renaissances historiques (p. 148 - 150)

by Marilyn Randall

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Les feux de Yamachiche by René Boulanger
2. Marie Carduner, Fille du Roy by Nicole Macé

Subjects: Historical Fiction, Novel

Travaux de recherche (p. 150 - 152)

by Réjean Beaudoin

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Le Métier d'écrivain au Québec (1840-1900) Pionniers, nègres ou épiciers des lettres? by Daniel Mativat
2. Lectures contemporaines de Gabrielle Roy Bibliographie analytique des études critiques (1978-1997) by Lori Saint-Martin

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century, Quebec

Rough Passages (p. 152 - 154)

by Eric Henderson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Great Lake Suite by David McFadden

Subjects: Nature Writing, Ontario, Travel Writing

Reflections of the Rock (p. 154 - 155)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Gaff Topsails by Patrick Kavanagh
2. Rare Birds by Edward Riche
3. Submariner's moon by Don McNeill

Subjects: Atlantic Canada, Novel, Short Fiction

The Gut of Fiction (p. 155 - 157)

by Kerry McSweeney

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Brian Moore: The Chameleon Novelist by Denis Sampson
2. The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore

Subjects: Biography, Historical Fiction, Novel, Twentieth Century

Hearing Voices (p. 157 - 159)

by Klay Dyer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. I Bless You in My Heart: Selected Correspondence of Catharine Parr Traill by Carl Ballstadt, Elizabeth Hopkins, and Michael Peterman
2. Public Men and Virtuous Women: The Gendered Languages of Religion and Politics in Upper Canada, 1791-1850 by Cecilia Morgan

Subjects: Correspondence, Gender, Politics, Religion

Artful Pros (p. 159 - 161)

by Shannon Bagg

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Nationalism and the Nordic Imagination: Swedish Art of the 1890s by Michelle Facos
2. The Art of Mary Pratt: The Substance of Light by Tom Smart
3. Tom Thomson: The Last Spring by Joan Murray

Subjects: Art, Biography, Nationalism

Shake, Rattle, and Roll (p. 161 - 163)

by Jon Kertzer

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Borderlands: How we talk about Canada by W. H. New
2. Scatology and Civility in the English-Canadian Novel by Reinhold Kramer
3. Symptoms of Canada: An Essay on the Canadian Identity by Kieran Keohane

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Literary Theory, Memory & Identity, Novel

The Give and Take of Theory (p. 163 - 165)

by Gloria Nne Oneyeoziri

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Gender in African Women's Writing: Identity Sexuality and Difference by Juliana Makuchi nfah-Abbenyi

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, Gender, Sexuality, Women's Literature

Writing Traditions (p. 165 - 167)

by Robert Alvin Miller

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Strategic Transformations in Nigerian Writing: Orality and History in the Work of Rev. Samuel Johnson, Amos Tutuola and Ben Okri by Ato Quayson

Subjects: Afro-Canadian, History, Oral

The Changing Shapes of Postcolonial Theory (p. 167 - 169)

by Laura Moss

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Beyond Postcolonial Theory by E. San Juan, Jr.
2. Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts: Theory and Criticism by Gita Rajan and Radhika Mohnamram

Subjects: Literary Theory, Postcolonialism

"Lecture et création" (p. 169 - 171)

by Janine Gallant

Book(s) reviewed:

1. En forme de trajet by Fernand Ouellette
2. L'Acte de lecture by Denis Saint-Jacques

Subjects: Literary Criticism

German Critics on Canadian Women Writers (p. 171 - 173)

by Rosmarin Heidenreich

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Erscheinungsformen der Macht in den Romanen Margaret Atwoods by Hannelore Zimmermann
2. Selbst und Andere/s by Doris Eibl and Christina Strobel

Subjects: Canadian Studies, Feminism, Gender, Literary Theory, Novel

Romantic Colonies (p. 173 - 175)

by Miranda Burgess

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bardic Nationalism by Katie Trumpener
2. Romanticism, Race, and Imperial Culture, 1780-1835 by Sonia Hofkosh and Alan Richardson

Subjects: Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Novel

Opinions & Notes

Kevin McNeilly

• Word Jazz 2 (p. 176 - 181)
• Subjects: Drama, Multiculturalism, Music, Poetry

Stan Dragland

• Transit (p. 181 - 187)
• Subjects: Poetry