Frances Brooke’s Chequered Gardens
Abstract: ?.wo-THiRDS OFTHEWAY through Voltaire’s Candide, the naive Candide and h?iswceynical but ostensibly realistic companion Martin learn about the Parisian stage ...
François Hertel: The Unprecedented Voice
Abstract: FRANÇOIS HERTEL as a poet reveals the evolution of Quebec thought in this century. His poetry, published between 1934 and ...
Frank Oliver Call, Eastern Townships Poetry, and the Modernist Movement
Abstract: ?HE EASTERN TOWNSHIPS are situated in southern Québec and are bounded on ?thHeEsouth by the American border, the states of ...
Frederick Philip Grove: A Group of Letters
Abstract: IHAVE IN MY possession two sets of letters from Frederick Philip Grove ( 1871-1948). One set consists of the letters ...
Frederick Philip Grove: An Impression
Abstract: ONE DAY IN THE FALL of 1939 I was wandering among the book stacks in Eaton’s Toronto store. A novel, ...
From “Hunky” to Don Juan: The Canadian Hungarian Identity in Canadian Fiction
Abstract: ?ÍANADA’S MULTICULTURALISM is vividly reflected in Can- adian immigrant novels, many of which are about the characters’ difficulties in a ...
From Alienation to Transcendence: The Quest for Selfhood in Michel Tremblay’s Plays
Abstract: IN SLIGHTLY MORE THAN A DECADE of sustained productivity, Michel Tremblay created no less than eleven plays set in the ...
From Complicity to Subversion: The Female Subject in Adele Wiseman’s Novels
Abstract: AN EXAMINATION OF THE FEMALE SUBJECT in Adele Wiseman’s novels charts the radical shift from complicity with the patriarchy of ...
From Floods to Encounters: Habitat Studies and Reading This River
Abstract: I set out to learn everything I could about the North Saskatchewan River. I read broadly, looking to websites and science articles, historical photographs and travel writing, poetry and drama—but found myself overwhelmed, overcome by endless information. I had drawn a slip of paper from a bag, as had my classmates in a graduate English course; each paper named one integral component of the ecologies of the place in which we live. In this way I had “met” my more-than-human guide, the North Saskatchewan River; my task was to learn about and with my guide, following a Habitat Studies methodology suggested by Laurie Ricou. I realized that while information about the North Saskatchewan River does not have a discrete starting or end point, I can encounter this river, from here. This article outlines my approach to Habitat Studies and, through prose and formal experimentation with “ice pancakes,” stories my journey with the North Saskatchewan River, kisiskâciwani-sîpiy.
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From Manuscript to Print: Stephen Leacock’s “The Transit of Venus”
Abstract: A. L.S LEACOCK s ONLY PUBLISHED ATTEMPT at a serious short story, “The Transit of Venus” stands apart from the ...