Signs on a White Field: Klein’s Second Scroll
Abstract: It is a fabled city that I seek; It stands in Space’s vapours and Time’s haze; (“Autobiographical”. The Second Scroll.] ...
Silencing the Word in Howard O’Hagan’s Tay John
Abstract: THE LANGUAGE OF LEGEND As the naming of its three parts (“Legend,” “Hearsay,” “Evidence— without a finding”) well might suggest, ...
Simulacra and Stimulations: Cocksure, Postmodernism, and Richler’s Phallic Hero
Abstract: Whether or not Mordecai Richler’s Cocksure (1968) can still be regarded as “one of the most embarrassing books in Canadian ...
Sinclair Ross’s Ambivalent World
Abstract: QNE OF THE MOST HAUNTING phrases in all of Canadian fiction has to me always been the last line of ...
Singing with the Frogs
Abstract: In September 1996, a small group of poets, students and scholars met at Trent University, in Peterborough, Ontario, for what ...
Skaay on the Cosmos
Abstract: 1Since its translation by Robert Bringhurst, the work of Skaay of Qquuna (?1827-?1905) has acquired a following among non-Haida readers, ...
Skinned: Taxidermy and Pedophilia in Alice Munro’s ‘Vandals’
Abstract: “Nature hides.” –HeraclitusTaxidermy is a narrative art. Whether the animal’s body is part of a diorama containing an overabundance of ...
Sober Colouring: The Ontology of Super-Realism
Abstract: SUPER-REALISM, yes, because that is how I think of my fiction, quite deliberately and consciously, very likely unconsciously too. When ...
Soccer and the City: The Unwieldy National in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For
Abstract: Michael Buma Soccer and the City: The Unwieldy National in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For ...
Something Fishy at Boundary Bay: Frances Herring and the Literary Construction of British Columbia
Abstract: British Columbia’s relationship to Canada has always been marked by ambivalence; from the province’s frustration over the slow pace of ...