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Folklore, Popular Culture & Individuation in “Surfacing” and “The Diviners”
Abstract: СIONTEMPORARY CANADIAN FICTION includes a number of works which reject modern technology and turn to some form of knowledge which ...

Fonctions de l’art dans la culture québécoise
Abstract: C’est un projet ambitieux que d’évoquer la scène artis- tique du Québec pendant les années 60, soit cette période que ...

Fonctions et Statut Discursif de “l’Appel à la Justice de l’État”
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Abstract: DANS LA PRÉPARATION DE l’histoire littéraire du Canada français et du Québec1 dont Hélène Marcotte et Pierre Rajotte traitent aussi ...

For Sure the Kittiwake: Naming, Nature, and P. K. Page
Abstract: Who am I, then, that language can so change me? . . . Where could wordlessness lead? —PAGE, “Questions and ...

Forgetting Loss in Madeleine Thien’s Certainty
Abstract: This essay considers the place of forgetting in the context of the debate about the ethics of representing trauma in the aftermath of mass historical atrocity, asking if there is a space left for forgetting in our endeavours to develop a politics of loss? The political stakes of remembering collective loss have been well articulate by scholars of melancholia theory over the past two decades; however, this essay argues that this approach has not been balanced with a consideration of the psychic costs of remembering for the individual traumatized subject. Madeleine Thien’s first novel, Certainty, calls attention to these costs through an emphasis on the theme of return to trauma and on the necessity, sometimes, of forgetting.

Four Characters in Search of An Author-Function: Foucault, Ondaatje, and the “Eternally Dying” Author in The English Patient
Abstract: What does it matter who speaks?” asks Samuel Beckett via Michel Foucault ’s essay. “What is an Author?” “… Am ...

Framed Voices: The Polyphonic Elegies in Hébert and Kogawa
Abstract: С(ANADiAN WRITING IN THE ig8o’s — by Ondaatje, Munro, Bowering, Findley — seems to be characterized by an elegiac tone ...

Framing the American Abroad: A Comparative Study of Robert Kroetsch’s Gone Indian and Janet Frame’s The Carpathians
Abstract: It is the paradox of Columbus’ perceptual moment that it cannot end. The moment of the discovery of America continues. ...

Frances Brooke’s Early Fiction
Abstract: FINDING HERSELF AT QUEBEC in 1763, Frances Brooke (1723- 1789) made the most of the opportunity to transmute some of ...

Frances Brooke’s Chequered Gardens
Abstract: Τ.wo-THiRDS OFTHEWAY through Voltaire’s Candide, the naive Candide and hЖiswceynical but ostensibly realistic companion Martin learn about the Parisian stage ...