Articles



Réjean Ducharme, le tiers inclus: Relecture de L’avalée des avalés
Abstract: On a abondamment commenté—geste paradoxal s’il en est—le silence de Réjean Ducharme, cette troublante absence qui ne cesse encore aujourd’hui ...

Religion, Place & Self in Early Twentieth-Century Canada: Robert Norwood’s Poetry
Abstract: IN ROBERT NORWOOD’S DEVOTIONAL VERSE-TEXTS of the first decades of the century, a cleavage between priestly service and poetic practice ...

Remapping Vancouver: Composing Urban Spaces in Contemporary Asian Canadian Writing
Abstract: The New Wave of Urban Space   How is the phenomenology of Vancouver’s urban spaces represented by contemporary Asian Canadian ...

Remodeling An Old-Fashioned Girl: Troubling Girlhood in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Fall on Your Knees
Abstract: In L.M. Montgomery’s Anne of Green Gables (1908), Marilla asks the orphan Anne to tell her story, wanting to know, ...

Representing Chinatown: Dr. Fu-Manchu at the Disappearing Moon Cafe
Abstract: In Rush Hour (1998), Brett Ratner’s Hollywood interpretation of ethnic bonding, the black Los Angeles detective Carter takes his Hong ...

Representing the Other Body: Frame Narratives in Margaret Atwood’s “Giving Birth” and Alice Munro’s “Meneseteung”
Abstract: lAf hen I think of the framed depiction of women’s bodies, I cannot help thinking of the nineteenth-century nude, those ...

Repression: The Poetry of Alden Nowlan
Abstract: IAM A PRODUCT of a culture that fears any display of emo- 1 tion and attempts to repress any true ...

Reprints and the Reading Public
Abstract: IDON’T THINK Jack McClelland has ever quite forgiven me for a review I wrote and published in Canadian Literature thirteen ...

Rescaling Robert Kroetsch: A Reading across Communities, Borders, and Practices
Abstract: A lot has been written on Robert Kroetsch in Canada and in Europe, throughout the past half a century, but curiously not in the United States. Reflecting on the possible reasons why Kroetsch is not better-known, more famous and influential in American literature is of import in this essay, since so much of Kroetsch’s poetry organically aligns with the movements and poetic practices across the border. This paper will look at three communities deemed essential to understand Kroetsch’s poetry: the first steps of a postmodern community in North America as a cross-border community, given to the exploration of new forms of thinking art and activism in the Vietnam War years and coalescing around the journal Boundary 2; the Canadian Prairies and the network of writers with whom Kroetsch was in constant dialogue throughout his career; and the “transgeographic network” (Beach) of North American postmodern poets, influenced by the lesson of Charles Olson, that offers a new way of reading Kroetsch today by situating him within a wider intellectual ensemble.

Rescued by Postmodernism: The Escalating Value of James De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
Abstract: Is James De Mille’s A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinders serious novel of ideas in the Utopian tradition, ...