Articles



Notes on the Canadian Imagination
Abstract: WHILE IT IS THE SPECIAL FUNCTION of the imagination to make us more fully aware of life’s potentialities, the Canadian ...

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction
Abstract: IWAS BORN IN INDIA at the end of World War II. My mother had come to Calcutta in the hope ...

Notes Towards a Reconsideration of Paul Kane’s Art and Prose
Abstract: In Memoriam: Charles R. Steele, 1944-1987 ΤHE ILLUSTRATED TRAVEL NARRATIVE represents one of pre-Confedcration Canada’s most frequently practised literary genres. ...

Nothing Sacred: Humour in Canadian drama in English
Abstract: I MAY WELL BE that the drama is the most difficult literary form to master, but in Canada it is ...

Nouveau Roman Canadien
Abstract: “LIFE WRITES LOUSY PLOTS!” Humphrey Bogart once ob- served, indicating an awareness of the role of the artist and the ...

Novel and Romance
Abstract: RECENT THEMATIC STUDIES have brought a considerable degree of order into discussions of the main intellectual concerns of Canadian literature. ...