What Stories Do
Abstract: The title of Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits, as a verb-based phrase, emphasizes the working assumption that this book makes ...
What Stories Do: A Response to Episkenew
Abstract: Part 3 of "Thinking Together: A Forum on Jo-Ann Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing."
The original live forum on Jo-Ann Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing brought together the author of only the second monograph by an Indigenous literary critic in Canada with three critics, who discussed her recently published work in front of members of the Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS) and the Association of Bibliotherapy and Applied Literatures (IABAL). Following the live event, the panelists submitted written versions of their contributions to the convenors of the forum, allowing all centrally involved to reflect further on the thoughts of the other panelists and of those in the audience who offered further ideas.
The original live forum on Jo-Ann Episkenew’s Taking Back Our Spirits: Indigenous Literature, Public Policy, and Healing brought together the author of only the second monograph by an Indigenous literary critic in Canada with three critics, who discussed her recently published work in front of members of the Canadian Association of Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (CACLALS) and the Association of Bibliotherapy and Applied Literatures (IABAL). Following the live event, the panelists submitted written versions of their contributions to the convenors of the forum, allowing all centrally involved to reflect further on the thoughts of the other panelists and of those in the audience who offered further ideas.
What Would Sam Waters Do? Guy Vanderhaeghe and Søren Kierkegaard
Abstract: He takes a step towards me [Ed]. I find myself thinking very hard. The inevitable question arises. What would Sam ...
What’s the Matter? Authors in Carol Shields’ Short Fiction
Abstract: In all her fiction − long and short − Carol Shields returns repeatedly to the figure of the writer, usually ...
Wheels on Fire: The Train of Thought in George Ryga’s The Ecstasy of Rita Joe
Abstract: FROM CASEY JONES то SIGMUND FREUD the train is an ambigu- ous and powerful icon. It has been used to ...
Where Are You, Mother? Alice Munro’s Save the Reaper
Abstract: In an interview with Geoff Hancock nearly twenty years ago, Alice Munro recognized her lifelong “obsession” with the relationship of ...
Whiteoak Chronicles: A Reassessment
Abstract: DOROTHY LivESAY recently suggested that “the time has come when we must cease being literary snobs in Canada and look ...
Who Is He? The Missing Persons Behind the Pronoun in Atwood’s Surfacing
Abstract: One need not be a Chamber—to be Haunted— One need not be a House— The Brain has Corridors—surpassing Material Place—….Emily ...
Who’s the Father of Mrs. Bentley’s Child?: “As For Me and My House: and the Conventions of Dramatic Monologue
Abstract: СIRITICISM OF As For Me and My House has come a long way since Roy Daniells was “taken in” by ...
Wholly Drunk or Wholly Sober?
Abstract: IN ALDEN NOWLAN’S early poetry (before 1969) the self is essentially a single, homogeneous entity. Although it is never “wholly ...