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#82 (Autumn 1979)
Journals: Self & Society

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Editorial

W. H. New

Articles

Judith Kendle

M. W. Steinberg

Elspeth Cameron

Zailig Pollock

Gilles Dorion and François Iqbal

Poems

Anne Szumigalski

G. Ripley

J. D. Carpenter

Susan Leslie

Tom Wayman

Lorne Daniel

Book Reviews

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Short Fiction's Fabulous Realities (p. 79 - 82)

by W. H. New

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Dancers at Night by David Adams Richards
  2. Dark Must Yield by Dave Godfrey
  3. Night Flights: Stories New and Selected by Matt Cohen
  4. Selected Stories of Ernest Thompson Seton by Patricia Morley and E. T. Seton
  5. The Story, She Said by Daphne Marlatt

Subjects: Short Fiction

No Futility (p. 83 - 84)

by Linda Hutcheon

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Mrs. Dukes' Million by Wyndham Lewis

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

Mostly Middle (p. 84 - 86)

by Leon Surette

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Short Sad Book by George Bowering

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

Mystery & Manner (p. 86 - 89)

by Catherine Ross

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. 77: Best Canadian Stories by John Metcalf and Joan Harcourt
  2. Personal Fictions by Michael Ondaatje
  3. Stories from Alberta by David Carpenter

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Short Fiction

Strategies (p. 89 - 91)

by Eric P. Levy

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Criss-Cross by John Riddell
  2. Mad About the Crazy Lady by Monica Holden-Lawrence
  3. Zócalo by Daphne Marlatt

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

West Coast Seen (p. 91 - 93)

by Michael E. Darling

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Northern Light by Jim Brown
  2. One Who Became Lost by Marilyn Bowering
  3. The Killing Room by Marilyn Bowering
  4. The Sausage Master of Minsk by August Kleinzahler
  5. West Coast Works by Penny Kemp

Subjects: Poetry

Ceremonial Houses (p. 93 - 95)

by Helen Sonthoff

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Early Indian Village Churches by John Veillette and Gary White
  2. Peoples of the Coast by George Woodcock

Subjects: Culture, First Nations

The Mixture as Before (p. 95 - 97)

by Ann P. Messenger

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Baldoon by C. H. Gervais and James Reaney

Subjects: Drama, Literary Criticism

Survivors of the Margins (p. 97 - 99)

by Wendy Robbins Keitner

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Anthology of Slovenian American Literature by Giles Edward Gobetz and Adele Donchenko
  2. Goan Tales by Lino Leito
  3. Modern Romanian Poetry by Nicholas Catanoy
  4. The Left-Handed One by Lyubomir Levchev

Subjects: Anthologies, Culture, Immigrant, Poetry, Short Fiction

Dusted Inside (p. 99 - 101)

by Alexandre L. Amprimoz

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Multiple Choices: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1976 by Harry Howith
  2. Saladmaker by David McFadden
  3. Top Soil by Joe Rosenblatt

Subjects: Poetry

German Translations (p. 101 - 102)

by Uta Williams

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Moderne Erzähler der Welt—Kanada by Walter Riedel

Subjects: Anthologies, Short Fiction

Disconnecting (p. 102 - 106)

by Graham Good

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Bachelard, ou le concept contre l'image by Jean-Pierre Roy
  2. Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews by Donald F. Bouchard, Sherry Simon, and Michel Foucault
  3. Le Lieu Commun (Études françaises, 13, 1-2, April 1977) by Robert Melançon
  4. Le Texte Automatiste: Essai de théorie/pratique de sémiotique textuelle by Jean Fisette
  5. Pour une Poétique de la Science-Fiction by Darko Suvin

Subjects: Essays, Philosophy, Science Fiction

Island Romance (p. 106 - 108)

by Rod Willmot

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. High Water Chants by Trevor Ferguson

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

Motley Magic Carpet (p. 108 - 110)

by Jerry Wasserman

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Izzy Manheim's Reunion by Martin Myers

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

Art in Quest of Craft? (p. 110 - 113)

by John Ripley

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. "Rites of Passage," Room of One's Own, Vol. III, No. 2 (1977) by Cam Hubert
  2. Cruel Tears by Ken Mitchell and Humphrey & the Dumptrucks
  3. Have by Peter Hay and Julius Hay
  4. The Great Wave of Civilization by Herschel Hardin

Subjects: Drama, Literary Criticism

Striking Imagery (p. 113 - 115)

by Pegeen Brennan

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Becky Swan's Book by Susan Musgrave
  2. Daydream Daughter by Catherine Firestone
  3. Snowmelt by Fran Stafford

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Poetry

Three Faces of French Canada (p. 115 - 118)

by Carole Gerson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Garden in the Wind by Alan Brown and Gabrielle Roy
  2. Quince Jam by Ray Ellenwood and Jacques Ferron
  3. Social Realism in the French-Canadian Novel by Ben-Zion Shek

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Short Fiction

Ferron & Fiction (p. 118 - 120)

by Linda Shohet

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Escarmouches by Jacques Ferron
  2. Wild Roses by Betty Bednarski and Jacques Ferron

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

A Taste of Earth (p. 120 - 122)

by Linda Leith

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Bitter Bread by Albert Laberge and Conrad Dion
  2. The Princes by David Lobdell and Jacques Benoit

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel, Quebec

Playgoer (p. 122 - 124)

by Jean Wilson

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Nathan Cohen: The Making of a Critic by Wayne E. Edmonstone

Subjects: Biography, Drama, Literary Criticism

In Performance (p. 124 - 125)

by R. W. Ingram

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. A Fiddler's World by Harry Adaskin

Subjects: Music

Comic Variations (p. 125 - 126)

by Catherine McLay

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Aunty High Over the Barley Mow by Dennis T. Patrick Sears
  2. Sidehill Gouger or What's So Deadly About Caterpillars by Shane Dennison
  3. The Abramsky Variations by Morley Torgov

Subjects: Jewish-Canadian , Novel

On Merton (p. 126 - 127)

by Ross Labrie

Book(s) reviewed:
  1. Thomas Merton: Monk and Poet by

Subjects: Poetry

Opinions & Notes

Louise Vanhee Nelson

Michael Benazon

Leonard W. Sugden

Henry Makow

George Woodcock



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