The Vital Pretense: McDougall’s Execution
Abstract: BEFORE PUBLISHING the novel Execution, Colin McDougall allowed himself fourteen years to ponder his experience of World War II. During ...
The War at Home: Writing Influenza in Alice Munro’s “Carried Away” and Kevin Kerr’s Unity (1918)
Abstract: Alice Munro’s short story “Carried Away” and Kevin Kerr’s play Unity (1918) are among the relatively few twentieth-century Canadian depictions of the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, a devastating global pandemic that produced the same kind of public health measures and social upheaval as the recent coronavirus COVID-19. While Unity (1918) explores how caregiving responsibilities were thrust upon women because the nation’s medical resources were overwhelmed, “Carried Away” considers how the transmission of romantic passion can parallel both influenza’s contagion and the dissemination of subversive political ideas. Drawing on the work of literary scholars and medical historians, this essay aims to assess how Spanish flu has been used in Canadian fiction and drama. While it has been alleged that World War I’s “soldiers have been remembered while the sick have been forgotten” (Davis 61), Munro’s and Kerr’s portrayals suggest a more nuanced use of influenza history.
The Waxing and Waning of Susanna Moodie’s “Enthusiasm”
Abstract: A,к.т MY HEART’S CORE” by Robertson Davies is a Shavian discussion play starring the three Otonabee pioneers who are best ...
The Way it Was: Ernest Buckler
Abstract: СfANADIAN LITERATURE seems to have come into existence at an opportune time for the student of English-Canadian prose. Two articles ...
The Wild Land: A Celebration of Globalism
Abstract: wHEN WYNDHAM LEWIS came to North America in a set of intellectual premises that could readily accommodate 1939, he brought ...
The Woman on the Treadmill: A Recollective Pastiche on Cambodia, 1964
Abstract: Introductory Note The Woman on the Treadmill: A Recollective Pastiche on Cambodia, 1964 When I was invited to write a ...
The Word and the Stone
Abstract: A ROBERT SCHOLES COMMENTS in Textual Power, de- veloping a theme we now associate with Russian Formalism but which is ...
The Word is Colander: Language Loss and Narrative Voice in Fictional Canadian Alzheimer’s Narratives
Abstract: The Word is Colander: Language Loss and Narrative Voice in Fictional Canadian Alzheimer’s Narratives Wendy Roy I must begin this ...
The Writer as Translator: A Personal View
Abstract: 1ONCE READ THAT ALL WRITERS should in the course of their careers write at least one book for children and ...
The Writer in Isolation
Abstract: ΤHERE CANNOT BE, for a writer or for any other man, complete isolation. He will not find it in a ...