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Still Here, But Still English: R. E. W. Goodridge and the Performance of Nationality in English Canadian Emigrant Writings
by Carter F. Hanson
Abstract: For middle-class English gentlemen who emigrated to Manitoba and the Northwest from 1880 to 1900, performing one’s nationality became central ...
Canadian Literature 180 (Spring 2004): 73-89.
Immigrant

Stories to Live In: Discursive Regimes and Indigenous Canadian Australian Historiography
by Penny Van Toorn
Abstract: One “fictions” history starting from a political reality that renders it true, one “fictions” a politics that doesn’t as yet ...
New Directions. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 158 (Autumn 1998): 42-63.
Canadian Studies First Nations Historiography Native Studies

Strachan & Ryerson: Guardians of the Future
by Douglas Owram
Abstract: THE TWO CAREERS OF Egerton Ryerson, the “Pope of Methodism,” and John Strachan, first Anglican Bishop of Toronto, span much ...
Intellectual History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 83 (Winter 1979): 21-29.

Straight or Bent: Textual/Sexual T(ri)angles in As for Me and My House
by Valerie Raoul
Abstract: Sinclair Ross’s As For Me and My House (1941) has long been considered an icon of English-Canadian fiction, as numerous ...
Canadian Literature 156 (Spring 1998): 13-28.
Gender Novel Prairie Writing Sexuality

Strange to Strangers Only
by M. G. Parks
Abstract: JÂMES DE MILLE’S intriguing romance of a strange and macabre civilization near the South Pole, A Strange Manuscript found in ...
Themes and Variations in Criticism. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 70 (Autumn 1976): 61-78.
Literary Criticism Nineteenth Century
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Strategic Abjection: Windigo Psychosis and the “Postindian’ Subject in Eden Robinson’s “Dogs in Winter”
by Cynthia Sugars
Abstract: In The Postcolonial Aura, Arif Dirlik takes issue with postcolonialism’s “denial of authenticity” at a time when claims to cultural ...
Canadian Literature 181 (Summer 2004): 78-91.
First Nations Native Studies Short Fiction

Structural Patterns of Alienation & Disjunction: Mavis Gallant’s Firmly-Structured Stories
by Danielle Schaub
Abstract: GALLANT ONCE REMARKED THAT “style is inseparable from structure” (“What is Style?” 6), so that both the expression and presentation ...
Nature, Politics, Poetics. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 136 (Spring 1993): 45-57.

Structure in Ethel Wilson’s The Innocent Traveller
by Mary-Ann Stouck
Abstract: IΝ THE FOURTEENTH chapter of Ethel Wilson’s novel The Innocent Traveller, its central character, Topaz Edgeworth, prepares to take a ...
Mothers & Daughters. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 109 (Summer 1986): 17-31.
Literary Criticism Novel

Structure of Loss
by Helen W. Sonthoff
Abstract: IΝ SEARCH OF VALUES she cannot clearly see and will not live without, Phyllis Webb writes poems which reveal both ...
Canadian Literature 9 (Summer 1961): 15-22.
Poetry

Structuring Violence: “The Ethics of Linguistics” in “The Temptations of Big Bear”
by Sherrill Grace
Abstract: Murder, death, and unchanging society represent precisely the inability to hear and understand the signifier as such — as cipher- ...
Paradigms of Doubleness. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 104 (Spring 1985): 7-22.
Literary Criticism Novel