Book Reviews

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Roughing It in the Bush or Life of Canada by Carl Ballstadt

Multiple Mirrors (p. 130-132)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Relations de Jacques Cartier by Michel Bideaux
  • Le Survenant by Germaine Guèvremont and Yvan G. Lepage

Confessions (p. 132-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Innocent Bystander by H. R. Percy
  • The Way The Angel Spreads Her Wings by Barry Callaghan

Female Families (p. 133-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shinny's Girls by Mary Burns
  • South of an Unnamed Creek by Anne Cameron

Cohen’s Countries (p. 135-136)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Emotional Arithmetic by Matt Cohen

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Missing Child by Sandra Birdsell
  • To All Appearances a Lady by Marilyn Bowering

Rites of Passage (p. 138-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Whiteout by James Houston
  • Last One Home by Fred Stenson
  • Coming of Age by Michèle Mailhot and David Lobdell

Academic Detective (p. 139-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • John Glassco's Richer World: 'Memoirs of Montparnasse' by Philip Kokotailo

Facsimiles (p. 141-142)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Purdy-Woodcock Letters: Selected Correspondence 1964-1984 by George Galt

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tales from Gold Mountain: Stories of the Chinese in the New World by Paul Yee and Simon Ng

Ficto-Theory (p. 144-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Best Kept Secrets by Pat Krause
  • Ink and Strawberries, An Anthology of Quebec Women's Writing by Beverley Daurio and Luise Von Flotow

Celebration (p. 145-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Crossing the Snow Line by Elizabeth Hay
  • The New Room by Jan Zwicky
  • The Girls in the Last Seat Waving by Maureen McCarthy

Black & White Moods (p. 147-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Story of Noire by Michael Bullock
  • Vancouver Moods: Poems, Photographs by Michael Bullock and Norman Rich

Impressions (p. 149-150)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Orange Fish by Carol Shields

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Silly Tillie by Jeanine Wine
  • Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling and Safaya Satler
  • Cowboy Dreams by Dayal Kaur Khalsa

Feminisms (p. 153-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Feminist Research—Prospect and Retrospect by Peta Tancred-Sheriff
  • Demande de travail sur le nébuleuses by Jovette Marchessault
  • Femmes de Soleil by Dominique Blondeau

Manifestoes (p. 154-156)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Enjeu du Manifeste: Le Manifeste en jeu by Jeanne Demers and Line MC Murray
  • L'Oeil du délire by Danielle Roger
  • Clichés by Monique Bosco

Epistolary Voices (p. 156-159)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Writing the Female Voice: Essays on Epistolary Literature by Elizabeth C. Goldsmith
  • Discourses of Desire: Gender, Genre and Epistolary Fictions by Linda S. Kauffman
  • Herself Beheld: The Literature of the Looking Glass by Jenijoy La Belle

Book(s) Reviewed

  • What Stories Are: Narrative Theory and Interpretation by Thomas M. Leitch
  • Before Reading: Narrative Conventions and the Politics of Interpretation by Peter J. Rabinowitz
  • Protocols of Reading by Robert Scholes
  • Narrative in Culture: The Use of Storytelling in the Sciences, Philosophy, and Literature by Christopher Nash and Roger Seamon

Ironic Stances (p. 161-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Poetics of Post-Modernism: History, Theory, Fiction by Linda Hutcheon
  • Paul de Man: Deconstruction and the Critique of Aesthetic Ideology by Christopher Norris
  • Saints and Scholars by Terry Eagleton

Female Mosaic (p. 162-164)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Transcending Gender: The Male/Female Double in Women's Fiction by Joanne Blum
  • Changing Patterns: Women in Canada by Sandra Burt, Lorraine Code and Lindsay Dorney
  • The Stairway by Alice A. Chown

Freedom & Openness (p. 164-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Feminist Literary History by Janet Todd
  • Women's Utopias in British and American Fiction by Nan Bowman Albinski
  • Speaking of Gender by Elaine Showalter

Dynamic Energy (p. 166-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Regression and Apocalypse. Studies in North American Literary Expressionism by Sherrill Grace

Survival Stories (p. 168-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Moo by Sally Clark
  • Toronto, Mississippi & Jewel by Joan MacLeod

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Rez Sisters by Tomson Highway
  • On Double Tracks by Leslie Hall Pinder

Early Stages (p. 171-172)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sacred Hearts by Colleen Curran
  • Scientific Americans by John Mighton
  • See Bob Run & Wild Abandon by Daniel Mcivor

Diversions (p. 172-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Diversions by Seymour Mayne
  • Mirrors on Uncertain Mornings by Grant Johnston
  • A Season of Mourning by Frances Itani

Absence & Presence (p. 173-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Creating the Country by Rhona McAdam
  • Carnival of Longing by Kristjana Gunnars
  • The Look-Out Tower by Geoffrey Ursell

Literal Translation (p. 175-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Anne Hébert: Selected Poems by A. Poulin, Jr.

A Stand of Poets (p. 177-181)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Stand of Jackpine by Milton Acorn and James Deahl
  • The Uncollected Acorn by Milton Acorn and James Deahl
  • In a Small House on the Outskirts of Heaven by Tom Wayman
  • Unmarked Doorways by Peter Trower
  • Split Shift: Songs and Poems of the Workplace by

Variety (p. 181-183)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Angels of Flesh, Angels of Silence by Lorna Crozier
  • Old Enemy Juice by Phil Hall
  • Animal Walk by John O'Neill
  • Asking for More by Raymond Souster
  • Sayings for the Invisible by Rod Willmot

Conjunctions (p. 184-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In the Beginning Was the Word by David Andrus
  • Arcana for a Silent Voice by Peter Baltensperger
  • The Invisible World Is in Decline by Bruce Whiteman
  • The Invisible World Is in Decline, Books II - IV by Bruce Whiteman

Unmapped Territory (p. 185-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Ex Perimeter by Tom Konyves
  • The End of Innocence by Gail Fox and Tom Marshall

Indestructible Core (p. 187-188)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Northrop Frye, Myth and Metaphor: Selected Essays, 1974-1988 by Robert D. Denham

Immigration (p. 188-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vers L'Amérique by Tiziana Beccarelli Saad

Ascèse et action (p. 189-190)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Correspondance 1894-1967—1894-1906: Le Prêtre Éducateur by Lionel Groulx, Giselle Huot, Juliette Lalonde-Rémillard and Pierre Trepanier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Qui a peur de?…... by Hélène Pedneault and et al.
  • Les rendez-vous par correspondance suivi des prenoms by Louise Cotnoir
  • La norme et les deviantes by Andrée Lévesque