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#94 (Autumn 1982)
Stories, Tales & Sketches from Life

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Editorial

W. H. New

• Telling Tales (p. 2 - 8)
• Subjects: Short Fiction
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Articles

John F. Tinkler

• Canadian Cultural Norms & Australian Social Rules: Susanna Moodie's "Roughing it in the Bush" and Marcus Clarke's "His Natural Life" (p. 10 - 22)
• Subjects: Culture, Nineteenth Century
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Darlene Kelly

• Thomas Haliburton & Travel Books About America (p. 25 - 38)
• Subjects: Travel Writing
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Laurel Boone

• Wilfred Campbell Reconsidered (p. 67 - 82)
• Subjects: Biography
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Anthony John Harding

• Field of Vision: Hugh Hood and the Tradition of Wordsworth (p. 85 - 94)
• Subjects: Literary Theory
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Allan Pritchard

• West of the Great Divide: A View of the Literaure of British Columbia (p. 96 - 112)
• Subjects: British Columbia, Literary Theory
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Poems

Judith Harway

• Bats (p. 8 - 9)

Len Gasparini

• On Dostoevsky's "Notes from the Underground" (p. 9)

bpNichol

• Hour 17 (p. 22 - 24)

Milton Acorn

• The Crackle (p. 64)

Milton Acorn

• The Conceit of a Raven (p. 65)

Milton Acorn

• Parkdale (p. 65 - 66)

Len Gasparini

• Hometown (p. 66)

Mary Razzell

• Leaving Home (p. 83 - 84)

Michael Mirolla

• I'm in No Way (p. 84)

Judith Harway

• Chiaroscuro (p. 94 - 95)

Gwladys Downes

• The Fool in Winter (p. 95)

Gwladys Downes

• Flotsam at Rose Point (p. 113)

Book Reviews

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Redeeming Reality (p. 114 - 117)

by Michael E. Darling

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Real Good Goosin': Talking Poetics by Véhicule Poets and Louis Dudek
2. Continuation 1 by Louis Dudek
3. Texts and Essays by Louis Dudek

Subjects: Modernism, Poetry, Postmodernism

The Will To Be (p. 117 - 122)

by John F. Hulcoop

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley

Subjects: Literary Criticism

Nutgalls & Sunbursts (p. 122 - 124)

by Peter Mitcham

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Europe and Other Bad News by Irving Layton
2. The Stone Bird by Al Purdy

Subjects: Literary Criticism

Across Broken Globes (p. 125 - 127)

by Neil Besner

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Almost Meeting and Other Stories by Henry Kreisel

Subjects: Short Fiction

A Perfect Five (p. 127 - 128)

by Michelle Gadpaille

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Lunatic Villas by Marian Engel

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

Shock: Recognition (p. 128 - 130)

by James Doyle

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Lives of Short Duration by David Adams Richards

Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

Unreconciled Opposites (p. 130 - 131)

by R. H. Ramsey

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Knife in My Hands by Keith Maillard

Subjects: Novel

Sound & Voice (p. 131 - 133)

by Bryan N. S. Gooch

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Epic Fiction: The Art of Rudy Wiebe by W. J. Keith

Subjects: Literary Criticism

Looking North (p. 134 - 136)

by Richard C. Davis

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The River Horsemen by David Williams
2. The Trapper and the Fur-Faced Spirits by Jim Tallosi
3. Trapper by Thomas York

Subjects: Northern Canada

Original Ancestors (p. 136 - 138)

by Carole Gerson

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Native Heritage: Images of the Indian in English-Canadian Literature by Leslie Monkman

Subjects: First Nations

In Draft (p. 138 - 139)

by Andrew Brooks

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Draft: An Anthology of Prairie Poetry by

Subjects: Anthologies, Poetry, Prairie Writing

Between Cultures (p. 139 - 141)

by Bruce Pirie

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Coyote's Running Here by Mark Mealing
2. Summer of the Hungry Pup by Byrna Barclay

Subjects: First Nations, Novel

Mothers & Others (p. 141 - 143)

by Robert Lecker

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Nightmare Tales by Stanley K. Freiberg
2. Real Mothers by Audrey Thomas
3. The Lure of the Wild by Charles G. D. Roberts

Subjects: Short Fiction

De la persecution (p. 143 - 144)

by Estelle Dansereau

Book(s) reviewed:

1. La Céleste Bicyclette by Roch Carrier
2. Les Fleurs vivent-elles ailleurs que sur la terre? by Roch Carrier

Subjects: Drama, Quebec

Deathtrap (p. 144 - 146)

by Hans R. Runte

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Bernadette Dupuis ou La Mort apprivoisée by Huguette Le Blanc
2. La Vengeance de l'orignal by Doric Germain
3. Tranches de néant by Claude Boisvert

Subjects: Novel, Quebec

Great Plainness of Speech (p. 146 - 148)

by K. P. Stich

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Voice in the Land by W. J. Keith

Subjects: Essays

Sincere, Alive (p. 149 - 151)

by David O'Rourke

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Neons In the Night by Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood and Lucien Francoeur
2. Reflections and Preoccupations by Jaroslav Havelka
3. Suns of Darkness by Filippo Salvatore
4. Upstairs Over the Ice Cream by Marianne Micros

Subjects: Poetry

Writers & Critics (p. 151 - 153)

by Lorraine McMullen

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Human Elements. Second Series by David Helwig
2. Twelve Voices by Jon Pearce

Subjects: Anthologies, Essays, Literary Criticism

Local Histories (p. 153 - 155)

by Carl Berger

Book(s) reviewed:

1. A Picture History of British Columbia by George Woodcock
2. Kluane. Pinnacle of the Yukon by John Theberge
3. Little Paradise. The Saga of the German Canadians of Waterloo Country, Ontario, 1800-1975 by Gottlieb Leibbrandt
4. Ottawa: The Capital of Canada by Shirley E. Woods
5. Vancouver. An Illustrated History by Patricia E. Roy

Subjects: British Columbia, Canadian Studies, History, Ontario

Five Poets (p. 155 - 158)

by Peggy Nightingale

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Dirt Hills Mirage by Barbara Sapergia
2. Dry Media by Brenda Riches
3. Not Tonight by Sherry Deming
4. While You Were Out by Kate Bitney
5. Words For My Weeping by Dorothy Farmiloe

Subjects: Poetry

Choix de metaphores (p. 158 - 161)

by Lise Rochette

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Greenwich by Michel Belil
2. Le Déluge by Normand Rousseau

Subjects: Novel, Quebec

On Dispossession (p. 161 - 162)

by Linda Shohet

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Spice Box, An Anthology of Jewish Canadian Writing by Morris Wolfe and Gerri Sinclair

Subjects: Anthologies, Jewish-Canadian

Candid Account (p. 162 - 164)

by David Watmough

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Lily Briscoe: A Self Portrait by Mary Meigs

Subjects: Autobiography

Philosophers Not Kings (p. 164 - 165)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) reviewed:

1. The Faces of Reason: An Essay on Philosophy and Culture in English Canada, 1850-1950 by Leslie Armour and Elizabeth Trott

Subjects: Culture, Essays, Philosophy

Scared? (p. 165 - 167)

by Linda Rogers

Book(s) reviewed:

1. Not To Be Taken At Night, Thirteen Classic Canadian Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural by John Robert Colombo and Michael Richardson

Subjects: Short Fiction

Untitled (p. 167)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) reviewed:

Subjects: Bibliography

Opinions & Notes

F. H. Whitman

• The Case of Ross's Mysterious Barn (p. 168 - 169)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism

Eva-Marie Kröller

• Jacobites in Canadian Literature (p. 169 - 172)
• Subjects: Quebec

D. W. Russell

• Quatre Versions d'une légende canadienne (p. 172 - 178)
• Subjects: Drama, Literary Criticism

Alexandre L. Amprimoz

• "La Dame" de Roch Carrier (p. 178 - 180)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism, Novel

Keith Harrison

• Lowry's Allusions to Melville in "Lunar Caustic" (p. 180 - 184)
• Subjects: Literary Criticism

W. H. New and George Woodcock

• On the Verge (p. 184 - 187)
• Subjects: Bibliography

Last Pages

W. H. New

• Last Page (p. 188)
• Subjects: Bibliography