Book Reviews

Psychanalyse (p. 209-210)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Le père vaincu, la Méduse et les fils castrés by Andre Vanasse
  • Oedipe à  l'université ou les liaisons dangereuses entre professeurs d'université et étudiantes by Monique Lafortune

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Quest of the Folk: Antimodernism and Cultural Selection in Twentieth-Century Nova Scotia by Ian McKay

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Ethnology of Reading by Jonathan Boyarin
  • Realism and Representation: Essays on the Problem of Realism in Relation to Science, Literature, and Culture by George Levine

Realism Revisited (p. 214-216)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Love Minus One & Other Stories by Norma Harrs
  • Under Glass by Grant Buday

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen by Ira Bruce Nadel

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Beyond the Provinces: Literary Canada at Century's End by David Staines
  • The Fin de Siècle Spirit: Walter Blackburn Hare and the American/Canadian Literary Milieu of the 1890s by James Doyle

Dramatic Depression (p. 219-221)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Three in the Back, Two in the Head by Jason Sherman
  • Claudius by Ken Gass
  • Colonial Tongues by Mansel Robinson

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Classical Hollywood Comedy by Kristine Brunovska Karnick and Henry Jenkins
  • Acting Male: Masculinities in the Films of James Stewart, Jack Nicholson, and Clint Eastwood by Dennis Bingham
  • Male Impersonators: Men Performing Masculinity by Mark Simpson

Star Apprentices (p. 222-224)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Morley Callaghan: Literary Anarchist by Gary A. Boire
  • Hemingway: The Toronto Years, 1920-1924 by William Burrill

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Cunning Man by Robertson Davies

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Various Atwoods: Essays on the Later Poems, Short Fiction, and Novels by Lorraine York
  • Margaret Atwood’s Novels: A Study of Narrative Discourse by Hilde Staels

Heavy Haliburton (p. 228-229)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Clockmaker. Series One, Two and Three by George Parker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Singular Voices: Plays in Monologue Form by Tony Hamill
  • Shared Anxiety: Selected Plays by George F. Walker
  • Serpent Kills by Jim Millan and Blake Brooker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Il n'y a plus de chemin avec cinq dessins de l'auteur by Jacques Brault

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Death of Socialism and Other Poems by Robin Mathews
  • Treason of the Intellectuals by Robin Mathews

Time to Break Glass (p. 234-235)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Making It Real: The Canonization of English-Canadian Literature by Robert Lecker

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Casino and Other Stories by Bonnie Burnard
  • Breathing Each Other's Air by Florence McNeil

Two for the Record (p. 237-239)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Dear Marian, Dear Hugh by Christl Verduyn
  • Pursuits Amateur and Academic: The Selected Prose of E.J. Pratt by Susan Gingell

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Radical Artifice: Writing Poetry in the Age of Media by Majorie Perloff
  • Cultural Artifacts and the Production of Meaning: The Page, the Image, and the Body by Margaret J. M. Ezell and Katherine O'Brien O'Keefe

Enormous Verbs (p. 241-242)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • North Spirit: Travels Among the Cree and Ojibway Nations and Their Star Maps by Paulette Jiles

Two Futures (p. 242-244)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Age of Improv by Rick Salutin
  • Popular Anatomy by Keath Fraser

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Shadow Maker: The Life of Gwendolyn MacEwen by Rosemary Sullivan
  • The Poetry of Gwendolyn MacEwen: The Later Years by Margaret Atwood and Barry Callaghan

Book(s) Reviewed

  • Erzählungen by Karl Wilhelm Loggen

Performing Selves (p. 249-250)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • River of Stone by Rudy Wiebe
  • Notebooks 1960-1994 by Louis Dudek

Book(s) Reviewed

  • The Face at the Window by Vivien Alcock
  • Torn Away by James Heneghan

Intersections (p. 251-253)

Book(s) Reviewed

  • National Culture and the New Global System by Frederick Buell
  • Thinking Through: Essays on Feminism, Marxism, and Anti-Racism by Himani Bannerji