The Girl in the Drug Store
Abstract: 1MUST HAVE BEEN about ten or eleven when my parents arranged for my sister and me to spend the summer ...
The Grail Is a Rum Thing: Robertson Davies’ Cornish Trilogy
Abstract: The word “rum” occurs so frequently in the Cornish novels that it calls attention to itself. Its dictionary meanings include ...
The Grammar of Silence: Narrative Patterns in Ethnic Writing
Abstract: WHAT I AM SETTING OUT ?? DO here is simply this: I want to ask if there is•a characteristic narrative ...
The Habits of Language: Uniform(ity), Transgression and Magaret Atwood
Abstract: “Profanation in a world which no longer recognizes any positive meaning in the sacred — is this not more or ...
The Hidden Mines in Ethel Wilson’s Landscape: (or, An American Cat among Canadian Falcons)
Abstract: I HAD HANDLED DYNAMITE,” Frankie Burnaby thinks at the end of Ethel Wilson’s novel Hetty Dorval: “I had handled dynamite, ...
The Hotel
Abstract: Q4JR ENFORCED STAY in Canada was brought about by newly imposed war regulations which prohibited women from travelling to Eng- ...
The House on the Prairies
Abstract: G1IVEN THE RELATIVELY RAPID SETTLEMENT of Canada’s prairie region and the opportunities open to individual enterprise during the formative years ...
The Hunters Twain
Abstract: An examination of the narrative back- ground to Isabella Valancy Crawford’s poems, The Dark Stag, The Lily Bed and The ...
The Hybrid Comic: Origins of Sam Slick
Abstract: ?I HE SPEECH of Haliburton’s clockmaker, Sam Slick, far from being the “genuineI HYEankee” it has often been held to ...
The I of the Observer: The Poetry of F. R. Scott
Abstract: BOTH EYES AND I’S ARE IMPORTANT in the poetry of F. R. Scott. The eye sometimes seems remarkably detached, the ...