Book Reviews

Postmodern Ironies (p. 169-170)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Splitting Images: Contemporary Canadian Ironies by Linda Hutcheon

Coherent Context (p. 170-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Promoters, Patriots, and Partisans: Historiography in Nineteenth-Century English Canada by M. Brook Taylor

Pioneering Poems (p. 172-173)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Rising Village by Oliver Goldsmith and Gerald Lynch
  • Acadia by M. G. Parks and Joseph Howe
  • The Emigrant by Standish O'Grady and Brian Trehearne

Revisions (p. 173-174)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Gilded Beaver. An Introduction to the Life and Work of James de Mille by Patricia Monk
  • Recovering Canada's First Novelist. Proceedings from the John Richardson Conference by Catherine Sheldrick Ross

Ghosts Come Back (p. 175-177)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Collected Letters of Charles G. D. Roberts by Laurel Boone

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Imperial Challenge: Quebec and Britain in the Age of the American Revolution by Philip Lawson
  • The Glass Treehouse by Jacqueline Nugent

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A History of Canadian Literature by W. H. New

Climate of Change (p. 181-183)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Literary History of Canada: Canadian Literature in English by W. H. New

Girls and Women (p. 183-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • No Place Like Home: Diaries and Letters of Nova Scotia Women, 1771-1938 by Margaret Conrad, Toni Laidlaw and Donna Smyth
  • Mazo de la Roche: The Hidden Life by Joan Givner
  • Antoinette de Mirecourt, or, Secret Marrying and Secret Sorrowing by Rosanna Leprohon and John C. Stockdale

Meditation (p. 187-188)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Apartment Seven: Essays Selected and New by Miriam Waddington

Conspicuous Display (p. 188-190)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Onley's Artic: Diaries and Paintings of the High Artic by Toni Onley
  • Dykelands by Thaddeus Holownia and Douglas Lochead

Miscellanies (p. 190-192)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Whispers from the Past by Elizabeth W. Mcgahan
  • Fit to Print by B. J. Grant
  • A Literary and Linguistic History of New Brunswick by Reavley Gair

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Comparaison et raison: Essais sur l'histoire et l'institution des littératures canadienne et québécoise by Clément Moisan
  • La camera obscura du postmodernisme: essais by Pierre Milot
  • Le risque de lire by Hans-Jürgen Greif

Polyphony (p. 197-198)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon by Arnold Krupat

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nietzschean Philosophy in the Works of Frederick Philip Grove by Axel Knönagel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • One Hundred Years of Homosexuality and Other Essays on Greek Love by David M. Halperin
  • Masculine Desire: The Sexual Politics of Victorian Aestheticism by Richard Dellamora
  • Double Talk: The Erotics of Male Literary Collaboration by Wayne Koestenbaum

Textual Replacing (p. 202-204)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-colonial Literatures by Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin and Bill Ashcroft

Beautiful Books (p. 204-205)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Childhoods by May Cutler
  • Julian by Dayal Kaur Khalsa
  • Houses of Snow, Skin and Bones by Bonnie Shemie

Nosce Te Ipsum (p. 206-207)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Lux by Pierre Filion

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nights Below Station Street by David Adams Richards

A Deux Niveaux (p. 208-210)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • La couronne d'oubli by Gabrielle Poulin
  • Sire Gaby du Lac by Francine Ouellette

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tay John and the Cyclical Quest: The Shape of Art and Vision in Howard O'Hagan by Ella Tanner
  • Phoebs: A Picaresque Novel by Alice Story

Temporal Interplay (p. 212-213)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Medicine River by Thomas King
  • Of Desire by David Helwig

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Juillet by Marie Laberge
  • La Fête du désir by Madeleine Ouellette-Michalska
  • Le grand théâtre by Madeleine Ferron

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Kafka Kalmar: une crucifiction by Billy Bob Dutrisac
  • La vie réelle by Gilles Marcotte
  • Le souffle de l'harmattan by Sylvain Trudel

Rising Stars (p. 217-219)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Homesick by Guy Vanderhaeghe
  • Tall Lives by Bill Gaston

Book(s) Reviewed

  • VAVA by Yolande Villemaire
  • CETTE FOIS, JEANNE by Louise Anne Bouchard

Coming to Terms (p. 220-222)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Appetite for Poetry by Frank Kermode
  • The Politics of Modernism: Against the New Conformists by Raymond Williams and Tony Pinkney

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Édition du livre populaire by Jacques Michon
  • L'Édition de poésie by Richard Giguère and André Marquis

Book(s) Reviewed

  • An Early Day by Judith Pond
  • A Nun's Diary by Ann Diamond
  • WSW (West South West) by Erín Mouré

Private & Public (p. 226-228)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Luminous Emergencies by Mary di Michele
  • Time in a Green country by Elizabeth Philips
  • Grassland: The Private Hearings by Thelma Poirier

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A bout portant by Gaston Miron and Claude Haeffely
  • Ils ne demandaient qu'à brûler by Gerald Godin
  • Mais la menace est une belle extravagance by Denise Desautels and Ariane Thézé

Tripped Out (p. 231-233)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Trip Around Lake Ontario by David McFadden

A Gift (p. 233-235)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Selected Organs: Parts of an Autobiography by BP Nicol

Home & Abroad (p. 235-237)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • In Transit by Mavis Gallant
  • Writing Home by Barry Dempster

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Night Cries by Irena Friedman Karafilly
  • Was That You at the Guggenheim? by Ellen Stafford

Genre Distinctions (p. 238-240)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Swimming Toward the Light by Joan Clark
  • The Husband: A Novella by Dorothy Livesay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Land of Graws by Robert Stelmach
  • Moon Tales by Nan Gregory, Melanie Ray and Huang Ji Rong
  • Mud and Gold by Sarah Ellis and Bill Richardson
  • Pobbles & Porridge Pots by Sarah Ellis and Bill Richardson

Short-Long (p. 241-244)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Story for a Saskatchewan Night by Douglas Barbour

Writing & Power (p. 244-246)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Portrait of My Father by Robin Skelton
  • Hastings and Main: Stories from an Inner City Neighbourhood by Jo-Ann Canning-Dew and James K. Stewart
  • Small Rain by John Harris

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Hey Waitress and Other Stories by Helen Potrebenko
  • Frictions: Stories by Women by Rhea Tregebov

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Coming Up for Air by Lesley Choyce
  • Deep Cove Stories by Bill Gaston

Videocrit (p. 249-250)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Apprenticeship of Mordecai Richler by Alan Handel
  • Margaret Atwood: Once in August by Michael Rubbo