A Maritime Myth
Abstract: IT IS AMAZING, though not surprising, what Bliss Carman means to a majority of Canadians. They think back to school ...
A Mirror of Moore
Abstract: ‘RÍAN MOORE’S FICTIONAL WORLD is largely a matter of mirrors: a recurrent scene in each of his novels has a ...
A Nation’s Odyssey: The Novels of Hugh MacLennan
Abstract: HUGH MACLENNAN’S FIRST NOVEL·, Barometer Rising, appeared in 1941. During the two decades since then he has reached a position ...
A Neglected Theme in Two Solitudes
Abstract: IT HAS BECOME almost a commonplace of criticism of Hugh MacLennan’s Two Solitudes to say that the novel succeeds brilliantly ...
A Newfoundland Diaspora? Moving through Ethnicity and Whiteness
Abstract: In her narrative Memoirs from Away: A New Found Land Girlhood, published as part of Wilfrid Laurier University Press’ Life ...
A Note—Doing the Work with Metonymy: Three Insights from Canadian Theatre
Abstract: Building on Alicia Elliott’s exhortation to “do the work” in “CanLit is a Raging Dumpster Fire,” I pursue the metonymic after the metaphoric. In metaphor, one thing substitutes for another: the dumpster fire takes the place of the field of relations that creates the conditions for controversies and crises. In contrast, metonymy is contiguous: its readability depends on showing the conventional, assumed, or actual relationships between one thing and another. Metaphor conceals connections; metonymy works by virtue of them. Three recent Canadian plays help me think about what metonymy can add to discourse about doing the work: Daniel MacIvor’s Who Killed Spalding Gray? (2017), Jess Dobkin’s The Magic Hour (2017), and Marcus Youssef and James Long’s Winners and Losers (2015). My strategy is metonymical like “CanLit” is: I read each play for an insight it might offer within the signifying field of Canadian literature, culture, and nation.
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A Poet of the Middle Slopes
Abstract: A A TIME WHEN frenetic symbolism and rhetorical ges- ticulation are running neck and neck with pseudo-imagist reportage and structure- ...
A Poet Past and Future
Abstract: BY JUNE 1971 I had been away from Canada for twenty- one years. For ten of these years I had ...
A Problem of Meaning
Abstract: BEFORE EVEN LOOKING AT the plays of James Reaney it might be good to remind ourselves that there is something ...
A Reading of Anne Wilkinson
Abstract: WHEN I HEARD last spring of the death of Anne Wilkin son I read once again,YandTHaEt !a single sitting, all ...