Articles



One Generation From Extinction
Abstract: V V”ITHIN THE PAST FEW YEARS Gregor Keeshig, Henry Johnston, Resime Akiwenzie, Norman McLeod, and Belva Pitwaniquot died. They all ...

Ontario Culture and—What?

Abstract: S??? YEARS AGO, I started teaching a graduate course called Ontario Literature and Culture. The usual response to this at ...


Ordeal by Fire: The Genesis of MacLennan’s The Precipice

Abstract: IN 1946, ON A TRIP with his wife, Dorothy Duncan, to New York, Hugh MacLennan saw the American Ballet Theatre’s ...


Ordinary People: Reading the TransCanadian Terry Fox

Abstract: Sally Chivers Ordinary People: Reading the TransCanadian Terry Fox In 1980 Canada’s economy and political future were both on rocky ...


Orientalism Reconfirmed?: Stereotypes of East-West Encounter in Janette Turner Hospital’s “The Ivory Swing” and Yvon Rivard’s “Les Silences du corbeau”

Abstract: Orient : Pour que ce nom produise à l’esprit de quelqu’un son plein et entier effet, il faut, sur toute ...


Original Relations

Abstract: The substance of this paper was originally prepared as a lecture given during a tour of Australian universities made possible ...


Origins of Maria Chapdelaine

Abstract: 1192I, when Louis Hémon’s pioneer epic of the Lake St. John country first appeared in English, its heroine, Maria Chapdelaine, ...


Othello, Darwin, and the Evolution of Race in Ann-Marie MacDonald’s Work

Abstract: Identity is a recurring obsession amongst Canadian and other postcolonial writers, and for several decades Shakespeare’s The Tempest has been ...


Outcast No Longer: B. W. A. Sleigh’s “The Outcast Prophet”

Abstract: SET IN THE WILDS of Canada and America, and densely populated by army officers, bandits, escaped slaves, plucky damsels, Yankee ...


Outside Spain

Abstract: W h e n Charles Dickens went to America, adoring crowds lined up outside his hotel hoping for an autograph. ...