Articles



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 ...

Why and How and Why Not and What Is This, About Starting Another Novel . . .
Abstract: W.AT BEGAN AS AN IDEA many years ago, and must be written because it has not been forgotten, has begun ...

Why I Am an Expatriate
Abstract: OΝ A HOT JUNE DAY in 1949 I sailed from Montreal. I stood by the rails on the deck of ...

Why James Reaney is a Better Poet
Abstract: BY NOW IT is APPARENT that the mainstream of today’s Canadian poetry (in English) flows in the same river-system as ...

Why Profess What is Abhorred: The Rescue of Poetry
Abstract: i As I gathered up my papers at the end of class, a young man approached my desk. I was ...

Wiebe & Religious Struggle
Abstract: W. j . KEITH HAS CLAIMED that Rudy Wiebe’s The Blue Mountains of China is “among the finest novels written ...