Articles



Ethel Wilson, Wary Mythologist
Abstract: WHEN MRS. SEVERANCE in Ethel Wilson’s Swamp Angel has her vision “with words” — “symbol symbol symbol . . . ...

Ethel Wilson: Innocent Traveller

Abstract: “DO WE ALWAYS LIVE ON A BRINK, then, said Nora to herself, lying there in the dark. Yes, I believe ...


Ethel Wilson’s Absent City: A Personal View of Vancouver

Abstract: one wonder[s] if. . . Moscow . . . London and Washington when . . . reduced to actual people ...


Ethel Wilson’s Novels

Abstract: ETHEL WILSON’S FICTION is remarkable for a mannered simplicity which hides both artful invention and philosophical complexities. The characteristic grain ...


Ethel Wilson’s First Novel

Abstract: Hvetty Dorval is the kind of first novel we might have ex- pected its characteristically modest author to write. It ...


Ethos and Epic: Aspects of Contemporary Canadian Poetry

Abstract: AN OUTSIDER who has read no Canadian poets might justifiably expect them to supply something rather American : the frontier ...


Eulogy for Canada’s Unknown Soldier / Eloge funebre au soldat canadien inconnu

Abstract: Wars are as old as history. Over two thousand years ago, Herodotus wrote, “In peace, sons bury their fathers; in ...


Every Man is an Island: Isolation in “A Jest of God”

Abstract: N? MANis AN iLAND, intire of itselfe,” quotes Ethel Wilson in Hetty Dorval, for Wilson like Donne believes in human ...


Every Now and Then: Voice and Language in Lawrence’s “The Stone Angel”

Abstract: MARGARET LAURENCES MAIN CHARACTERS Seem to spend most of their waking hours seeking the right words to tell the story ...


Exile’s Letters

Abstract: What is the use of talking, and there is no end of talking, There is no end of things in ...