Revisiting Rockbound: The Evolution of a Novel
Abstract: In Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity (2001), Lynda Jessup introduces antimodernism as a “broad, international reaction to the ...
Rewriting “The Imperialist”: Duncan’s Revisions
Abstract: S,RA JEANNETTE DUNCAN’S NOVEL The Imperialist (1904) has a central place in Canadian literary history. Alfred G. Bailey considers it ...
Richard Outram and Barbara Howard’s Gauntlet Press: Expanding into the World
Abstract: This paper looks at the output of the Gauntlet Press, a poetic and artistic collaboration between Canadian poet Richard Outram and Canadian artist Barbara Howard. The paper outlines the history of the press, highlighting key publications in both its handpress and electronic phases. It looks at Gauntlet Press works in the context of both Outram’s trade publications and the Canadian publishing scene of the time. It examines the role the Gauntlet Press played in sustaining Outram’s career, arguing that this self-publishing venture of primarily artistic impetus took on the secondary task of cultivating an influential readership for his poetry.
Richardson’s Indians
Abstract: NO WRITER OF NINETEENTH-CENTURYCANADA ????? fully explored the literary potential of the Indian than Major John Richardson. In novels such ...
Riding a Rolling Wave: A Conversation with Joan Clark
Abstract: Joan Clark is the only writer in Canada to have been awarded both the Marian Engel Award for a body ...
Rig Talk and Disidentification in Peter Christensen’s Rig Talk and Mathew Henderson’s The Lease
Abstract: Rig Talk seems to be a controversial book. Basically seems the academics don’t understand what the book is about and ...
Rina Lasnier et la Connivence des Signes
Abstract: “Passé un certain point, il est sûrement un moment où l’extase n’est plus un tour- billon ou une folie des ...
River of Now and Then: Margaret Laurence’s Narratives
Abstract: THE DIVINERS, Margaret Laurence’s most recent novel, is overflowing with idea?s ?ab?out life, about life in Canada, and about life ...
Robert Finch and the Temptations of Form
Abstract: IT WAS CONSCIOUS CHOICE rather than the “naked non- chalance of chance” which determined the form of the poems in ...
Robert Hayman’s “Quodlibets”
Abstract: ROBERT HAYMAN’S Quodlibets—the first English poetry written in Canada •—is part of a tiny but significant corpus of literature written ...