Penny Van Toorn


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More Than Passing Thoughts
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Diasporic Women’s Writing. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 196 (Spring 2008): 183-185.
  • The Politics and Poetics of Passage in Canadian and Australian Culture and Fiction by Charlotte Sturgess and Penny Van Toorn
Not There Yet
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Canadian Literature 188 (Spring 2006): 120-121.
  • Is Canada Postcolonial? Unsettling Canadian Literature by Laura Moss (Editor)
Orature Captured in Print
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Canadian Literature 184 (Spring 2005): 106-107.
  • Indian Myths and Legends from the North Pacific Coast of America by Randy Bouchard and Dorothy Kennedy
Accountable Readings
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Literature & War. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 179 (Winter 2003): 151-153.
  • How Should I Read These?: Native Women Writers in Canada by Helen Hoy
The Work of Theory
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Canadian Literature 154 (Autumn 1997): 134-136.
  • Changing Subjects: The Making of Feminist Literary Criticism by Gayle Greene (Editor) and Coppélia Kahn (Editor)
  • Motherhood and Representation: The Mother in Popular Culture and Melodrama by E. Ann Kaplan
Late Debates
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Postcolonial Identities. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 149 (Summer 1996): 185-187.
  • A Dialogue of Voices: Feminist Literary Theory and Bakhtin by Karen Hohne and Helen Wussow (Editor)
  • An Ethics of Sexual Difference by Luce Irigaray, Carolyn Burke and Gillian C. Gill
Bakhtinian Ideas
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Transcreations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 135 (Winter 1992): 180-182.
  • Subversive Pleasure: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film by Robert Stam
  • Bakhtin and Cultural Theory by Ken Hirschkop (Editor), Ken Shepherd (Editor) and David Shepherd (Editor)
Dialectical Tennis
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Transcreations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 135 (Winter 1992): 182-184.
  • Volleys by Sam Solecki, John Metcalf and W. J. Keith
  • Four Canadian One-act Plays by Joan Mason Hurley
Dreams & Visions
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Transcreations. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 135 (Winter 1992): 179-180.
  • Daymares by Robert Zend
  • Duets by Per Brask and George Szanto
Re-Mediating Bakhtin
By Penny Van Toorn
Published in Letters & Other Connections. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 134 (Autumn 1992): 130-132.
  • Mikhail Bakhtin: Creation of a Prosaics by Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson
  • Rethinking Bakhtin: Extensions and Challenges by Gary Saul Morson (Editor) and Caryl Emerson (Editor)

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