Karl Jirgens

January 29, 2015


Works by Karl Jirgens

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Book Reviews by Karl Jirgens

Our Permanent Revolution
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Feminist Critique Here and Now Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 254 (2023): 184-189.
  • Permanent Revolution by Gail Scott
Of Time and Trouble
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Meanwhile, Home. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 232 (Spring 2017): 153-155.
  • Goosestep: Fictions and Docufictions by Harold Jaffe
  • Swinging Through Dixie by Leon Rooke
  • Conjugation by Phil Hall
Digital Innovation
By Karl Jirgens
  • Digital Diversity by E. Dianne Looker and Ted D. Naylor
  • The Technological Imperative in Canada by R. Douglas Francis
  • Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage by Sarah Kenderdine and Fiona Cameron
Studying Canadian Studies in a Trans-Cultural Age
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Spectres of Modernism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 209 (Summer 2011): 162-163.
  • To Know Our Many Selves: From the Study of Canada to Canadian Studies by Dirk Hoerder
Art Language/Linguistics Literary Theory Media & Communications Multimedia Politics Postmodernism Twenty-First Century
Remembrances of Things Past
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Mordecai Richler. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 207 (Winter 2010): 158-159.
  • Obituary of Light by Susan Musgrave
  • Too Bad by Robert Kroetsch
  • Memory's Daughter by Alice Major
Canadian Studies History
Three Directions: One Terrain
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Disappearance and Mobility. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 201 (Summer 2009): 197-199.
  • Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets by Zachariah Wells (Editor)
  • Looking for Lucy by Wanda Campbell
  • South of North: Images of Canada by Richard Outram (Author), Anne Corkett (Editor), Rosemary Kilbourn (Editor) and Thoreau MacDonald (Illustrator)
Poetry
Two Takes, Different Worlds
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Canada and Its Discontents. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 198 (Autumn 2008): 114-115.
  • The Gum Thief by Douglas Coupland
  • Dead Man in the Orchestra Pit by Tom Osborne
Bissettiad
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Diasporic Women’s Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 196 (Spring 2008): 120-121.
  • narrativ enigma / rumours uv hurricane by bill bissett
  • northern wild roses / deth interrupts th dansing by bill bissett
  • radiant danse uv being: a poetic portrait of bill bissett by Jeff Pew (Editor) and Stephen Roxborough (Editor)
Novel
Iron Keys
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Canada Reads. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 193 (Summer 2007): 156-157.
  • The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting by Darren Wershler-Henry
Poetry
The Poetics of Other Media
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Littérature francophone hors-Québec / Francophone Writing Outside Quebec. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 187 (Winter 2005): 136-137.
  • The Wardrobe Mistress by Beatriz Hausner
  • Trains of Winnipeg by Clive Holden
  • Smoke/Screen: Poems on Cigarettes and Movies by Don Kerr
  • Girls and Handsome Dogs by Norm Sibum
  • Crowd of Sounds by Adam Sol
Media & Communications
Two by Four
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Littérature francophone hors-Québec / Francophone Writing Outside Quebec. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 187 (Winter 2005): 108-109.
  • Ground Works: Avant-Garde for Thee by Christian Bök (Editor)
  • Exact Fare Only 2: Good Bad & Ugly Rides on Public Transit by Ian Cockfield (Editor)
  • Stevenson Under the Palm Trees by Alberto Manguel
  • With Borges by Alberto Manguel
Multimedia Poetry
Open Meditations
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Anne Carson. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 176 (Spring 2003): 195-196.
  • The Tapeworm Foundry by Darren Werschler-Henry
  • Burn by Paul Vermeersch
  • Chess Pieces by David Solway
  • Light-crossing by Michael Redhill
Anthologies Crime & Detective Travel Writing Twentieth Century
Lying True North
By Karl Jirgens
Published in What the Archives Reveal. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 121 (Summer 1989): 144-145.
  • North of Intention by Steve McCaffery
Poetry
Sch/Merz
By Karl Jirgens
Published in What the Archives Reveal. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 121 (Summer 1989): 137-138.
  • The Merzbook: Kurt Schwitters Poems by Colin Morton
Literary Criticism
Prairie Locus
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Slavic and East-European Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 120 (Spring 1989): 216-217.
  • Saskatchewan Writing by E. F. Dyck
Poetry
Zendmark
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Literature & the Visual Arts. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 113-114 (Summer/Autumn 1987): 217-219.
  • Oab One by Robert Zend
  • Oab Two by Robert Zend
Essays Prairie Writing
Landscapes & Eyes
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Atwood, Carrier, Grandbois, Lowry. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 112 (Spring 1987): 192-193.
  • Twelve Landscapes by Ralph Gustafson (Author)
  • The Prismatic Eye by Doris Hillis
  • One Night by Ken Norris
  • Clouds Flying Before the Eye by Harry Thurston
Novel
Real Riel
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Nature, Natural, Naturalists. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 111 (Winter 1986): 176-178.
  • The Louis Riel Organ & Piano Co. by Frank Davey
  • No Feather, No Ink by Karl Jirgens
Slight of Hand
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Mothers & Daughters. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 109 (Summer 1986): 147-148.
  • Bloody Jack by Dennis Cooley
Anthologies Poetry
Digital Innovation
By Karl Jirgens
Published in Canadian Literature 214 (Autumn 2012): 142-45.
  • Theorizing Digital Cultural Heritage: A Critical Discourse by Sarah Kenderdine (Editor) and Fiona Cameron (Editor)
  • The Technological Imperative in Canada: An Intellectual History by R. Douglas Francis (Author)
  • Digital Diversity: Youth, Equity, and Information Technology by Ted D. Naylor (Author) and E. Dianne Looker (Author)
Language/Linguistics

Articles by Karl Jirgens

Neo-Baroque Configurations in Contemporary Canadian Digital Poetics
By Karl Jirgens
Published in 21st-Century Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 210-211 (Autumn/Winter 2011): 135-151.
Cultural Studies

Book Reviews of Karl Jirgens's Works

Children of the Outer Darkness: The Poetry of Christopher Dewdney
By Christopher Dewdney and Karl Jirgens
Reviewed in Three Readers Writing by Adam Dickinson
A Measure of Time
By Karl Jirgens
Reviewed in Embracing Truths, Lies by Brett Josef Grubisic
Strappado
By Karl Jirgens
Reviewed in Palimpsests & Pataphysics by David Ingham
Novel
No Feather, No Ink
By Karl Jirgens
Reviewed in Real Riel by Karl Jirgens