Editorial


Book Reviews

Put in Her Place (p. 124-126)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Listeners by George McWhirter
  • Two Tickets to Paradise by Jake McDonald
  • Snow by Hélène Holder

What is Truth? (p. 126-127)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Journey with My Selves: A Memoir, 1909-1963 by Dorothy Livesay

Sociocritiques (p. 127-129)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Sociocritique de la traduction by Annie Brisset
  • André Brassard by Claude Lapointe

In Paris (p. 129-130)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Roses are Difficult Here by W. O. Mitchell

Poet’s Dilemma (p. 130-131)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • NELLIGAN: livret d'opéra by Michel Tremblay

Theatre History (p. 132-133)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Up the Mainstream: The Rise of Toronto's Alternative Theatres, 1968-1975 by Denis W. Johnston
  • Early Stages: Theatre in Ontario 1800-1914 by Ann Saddlemyer

Canon or Not (p. 133-135)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Bliss Carman: A Reappraisal by Gerald Lynch
  • A Poetics of Place: The Poetry of Ralph Gustafson by Dermot McCarthy

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Our Bit of Truth: An Anthology of Canadian Native Literature by Agnes Grant
  • The Invention of Canada: Literary Text and the Immigrant Imagination by Arnold Harrichand Itwaru

Introspection (p. 137-139)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Spring Again Poems by Elizabeth Brewster
  • The Word, The Voice, The Text by Anne Szumigalski
  • Woman Talking Woman by Anne Rayner and Maxine Tynes

Word Work (p. 139-140)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Wild Blue Yonder by Audrey Thomas

Liminal Voices (p. 140-141)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Invisible Immigrants: The Adaptation of English and Scottish Immigrants in Nineteenth-Century America by William Scheick and Charlotte Erickson
  • From the Margin: Writings in Italian Americana by Anthony Julian Tamburri, Paolo A. Giordana and Fred L. Gardaphé
  • Unspeakable Images: Ethnicity and the American Cinema by Lester D. Friedman

We Wait (p. 142-144)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Odyssey of John Anderson by Patrick Brode
  • Guns and Magnolias by Elfrieda Read

Commentary (p. 144-145)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Doing Things with Texts: Essays in Criticism and Critical Theory by M. H. Abrams and Michael Fisher
  • Literary Theory's Future(s) by Joseph Natoli
  • Schiller to Derrida: Idealism in Aesthetics by Juliet Sychrava

Translation Images (p. 146-147)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Mapping Literature: The Art and Politics of Translation by David Homel and Sherry Simon
  • I Dreamed Myself Into Being: Collected Works by John Thompson and James Polk

Seven Voices (p. 147-149)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Raking Zen Furrows by Inge Israel
  • Dog Star by Harold Enrico
  • Lights like a Summons by J. Michael Yates

Newly Felt (p. 149-151)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Vanity Shades by Mary Howes
  • The Story of Pears by Lesley-Anne Bourne

Theory & Practice (p. 151-152)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Telling it: Women and Language Across Cultures by The Telling It Book Collective
  • The Woman in Question: m/f by Parveen Adams and Elizabeth Cowie

Romantics & Us (p. 152-154)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Romantics and Us: Essays on Literature and Culture by Gene W. Ruoff
  • The Critical Romance: The Critic as Reader, Writer, Hero by Jean-Pierre Mileur

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Canadian Film by David Clandfield
  • The Art of Being Ruled by Reed Way Dasenbrock and Wyndham Lewis
  • Nonindifferent Nature by Sergei Eisenstein and Herbert Marshall
  • Image and Identity: Reflections on Canadian Film and Culture by R. Bruce Elder

Contemplation (p. 157-157)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Family News by Joan Barfoot

Cold War (p. 157-158)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Prowler by Kristjana Gunnars

Installations (p. 158-160)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Installations by Nicole Brossard
  • Corps de gloire by Juan Garcia

Women & Love (p. 160-162)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Bluestocking Circle: Women, Friendship, and the Life of the Mind in Eighteenth-Century England by Sylvia Myers
  • Courtship, Love, and Marriage in Nineteenth-Century English Canada by Peter Ward

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nest Egg by S. L. Sparling
  • Changelings by Tom Marshall

New Women (p. 163-165)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Voyages: Short Narratives of Susanna Moodie by John Thurston
  • New Women: Short Stories by Canadian Women by Sandra Campbell and Lorraine McMullen

Texts & Subtexts (p. 165-166)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Taking Care of My Cold by Joan Buchanan and Katherine Helmer
  • The Elephant's Child by Rudyard Kipling and Jan Mogensen
  • The Magic Paintbrush by Robin Muller

Pioneering Women (p. 166-168)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • A Different Point of View: Sara Jeannette Duncan by Misao Dean
  • The Pioneer Woman: A Canadian Character Type by Elizabeth Thompson

Family History (p. 168-169)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Letters of James and Ellen Robb by James Robb, Ellen Robb and Alfred G. Bailey
  • The Danger Tree: Memory, War, and the Search for a Family's Past by David Macfarlane

Issuing (p. 169-171)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Virginia Woolf & Postmodernism: Literature in Quest and Question of Itself by Pamela L. Caughie

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Adult Language Warning by William Robertson
  • Love in the Wintertime by Don Gutteridge
  • Diary of a Glass Blower in Solitude by Ronn Silverstein

Test of Time (p. 173-175)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace by David Adams Richards
  • Becoming Tania by Ian Adams

Book(s) Reviewed

  • After Bakhtin: Essays on Fiction and Criticism by David Lodge
  • In Defense of Realism by Raymond Tallis
  • What I Came Here to Say by Raymond Williams

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shadows in the Grass by Ralph Gustafson
  • Continuation II by Louis Dudek
  • Night Field by Don McKay
  • The Invention of Honey by Ricardo Sternberg
  • Rue Sainte Famille by Charlotte Hussey
  • Miner's Pond by Anne Michaels
  • Once Out of Nature by Jeffery Donaldson
  • Popular Narratives by Frank Davey
  • Azure Blues by Gerry Gilbert

Dreams & Visions (p. 179-180)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Daymares by Robert Zend
  • Duets by Per Brask and George Szanto

Bakhtinian Ideas (p. 180-182)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Subversive Pleasure: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film by Robert Stam
  • Bakhtin and Cultural Theory by Ken Hirschkop, Ken Shepherd and David Shepherd

Dialectical Tennis (p. 182-184)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Volleys by Sam Solecki, John Metcalf and W. J. Keith
  • Four Canadian One-act Plays by Joan Mason Hurley

Atonement (p. 184-185)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Nouvelles londoniennes by Louis Hémon

Secrets (p. 185-186)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Americans Are Coming by Herb Curtis
  • Benito by François Gravel
  • Telling the Bees and Other Stories by Roger Burford Mason

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Those Who Eat the Cascadura by Samuel Selvon
  • A Planet of Eccentrics by Ven Begamudré
  • Hanky-Panky by Robert Skelton

Inuit Stories (p. 188-189)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Tikkatoo's Journey: An Inuit Folktale by Amanda Loverseed
  • Atuk by Mischa Damjan

Brain Over Brawn (p. 189-190)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Terrible Finn MacCoul by Tom Harpur and Linda Hendry
  • Grandma and the Pirates by Phoebe Gilman
  • The Eleventh Hour: A Curious Mystery by Graeme Base

Picture Books (p. 190-191)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • See You Later, Alligator by Norma M. Charles and Yvonne Cathcart
  • Alice and the Birthday Giant by John. F. Green and Maryann Kovalski
  • The Underbed by Cathryn Clinton Hoellwarth and Sibyl Graber Gerig
  • Farmer Joe Goes to the City by Nancy Wilcox Richards and Werner Zimmermann
  • How Two-Feather Was Saved from Loneliness by C.J. Taylor
  • Orchestranimals by Vlasta Van Kampen and Irene C. Eugen

Child Reader (p. 191-192)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Princesses Don't Wear Jeans by Brenda Bellingham
  • Taking Sides by Sylvia Gunnery
  • A Place for Margaret, Margaret in the Middle, Margaret on Her Way by Bernice Thurman Hunter
  • Fast Times with Fred by Paul Kropp
  • The Stepfather Game by Norah Mcclintock

Maillet (p. 192-194)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • L'Oursiade by Antonine Maillet

Away from Zero (p. 194-196)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Zero Hour by Kristjana Gunnars

Mesure & Demesure (p. 196-198)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Les territoires de l'excès by Francine Dery
  • Desiderata by France Lachaine
  • Le temps mutilé by Jocelyne Levesque
  • Le goût de l'eau by Michel Lemaire
  • Une certaine fin de siècle by Claude Beausoleil