The Canadian Little Magazine Past and Present: Can Digitizing a Literary Subculture Make a Movement?
Abstract: This essay investigates the literary subculture of Canada's little magazines as a pretext to asking a timely question about media and reception: namely, whether the cultivation of voice, readership, and literary ethos in the relatively closed, high-modern "nationalist" world of the printed little magazines of mid century is transferable to the more open, polysemous post-modern spheres of today's digitized online magazines. It asks, in other words, if spatial conventions associated with print and digital form and distribution alter the characteristics and engagements of the author/reader that produces/receives little-magazine text, the most important of those characteristics in any subculture being the ability to use language with ideological intent. In short, to paraphrase Ezra Pound, can on-line little magazines create a literary subculture in ways that print magazines did?
The Canadian Poet: Part I. To Confederation
Abstract: BEFORE CONFEDERATION there could have been no poet to reflect a national identity because there was as yet no political ...
The Canadian Poet: Part II. After Confederation
Abstract: WHEN WE TURN from the poetry of the generations just before and just after Confederation to that of the present ...
The Canadian Publishers: All 217 of them
Abstract: Ν THE SPRING when I was reading some of my recentfiction to a Conference at the University of Calgary, I ...
The Canadian Writer & the Iowa Experience
Abstract: ΤHE PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER IS TWO-FOLD: to try to piece lHE together from interviews and correspondence I have had ...
The CANLIT Project (1973-1981): In Search of the National Reader
Abstract: CANLIT was a nationalist action-research collective, initiated at York University, that undertook a number of studies and publications (more than twenty-five) during the eight-year lifespan of the project. Commencing in 1972—the same year as the publication of the pivotal manifesto Read Canadia—the group attempted to provide concrete support to Canadian authors and publishers by surveying the CANLIT "literary field"—the functions of authoring, publishing, distribution, book-selling, and reading—and by providing hard data as well as hard-hitting critical analysis. Using CANLIT's publications as well as their archives at the University of Calgary, this essay reconstructs the history of the group, provides an overview of (and bibliography of) their publications, and assesses (in particular) their innovative readership surveys.
The Circle Game
Abstract: … landscapes in poems are often interior landscapes; they are maps of a state of mind —Margaret Atwood, Survival wΕ ...
The Collected Photographs of Billy the Kid
Abstract: WHILE THE INCLUSION of photographs in The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is an interesting experiment, Ondaatje’s choice of ...
The Colonial Heroine: The Novels of Sara Jeannette Duncan & Mrs. Campbell Praed
Abstract: ALLTHOUGH THE AMERICAN GIRL in James and Howells has attracted extensive critical attention, the portrayal of the colonial heroine in ...
The Colours of War: Matt Cohen’s Ironic Parable
Abstract: EDGAR Z. FRIEDENBERG, in his controversial study of the Canadian political psyche, Deference to Authority: The Case of Canada, attempts ...