Articles



The Commonwealth in Print
Abstract: 1F VIRGINIA WOOLF’S COMMON READER has not been seduced by the television set and is still, in fact, reading, then ...

The Construction of Masculinity in Martin Allerdale Grainger’s Woodsmen of the West

Abstract: Ivl artin Allerdale Grainger’s Woodsmen of the West (1908) is often cited as a historically accurate account of the culture ...


The Consul’s Murder

Abstract: ?IHE MAJORITY of Under the Volcano’s critics have directed their attention away?f?ro?m any interpretation of the work’s psychological or “literal” ...


The Cost of Story: Ideology and Ambivalence in the Verse Narratives of E. J. Pratt

Abstract: loSAY THATTHEESSENTIALPRATTisthenarrativeshasbe- come almost a truism.?A?ssearly as 1923 R. S. Knox, in a Canadian Forum review of Newfoundland Verse wrote ...


The Countries of Invention

Abstract: MOST WRITERS WRITE from a private place: a nation or a country in the mind, whose landscape and whose climate ...


The Creation of Fantasy: The fiction of Catherine Anthony Clark

Abstract: M,LODERN FANTASY for children is the culmination of a long literary tradition. Time and setting may be as new as ...


The Crime of Poetry: George Elliott Clarke in Conversation with Wayde Compton and Kevin McNeilly

Abstract: In the summer of 2002, George Elliott Clarke taught a graduate seminar as part of the University of British Columbia’s Noted Scholar program. This interview consists of excerpts from a conversation, sponsored by Canadian Literature, in front of an audience at Green College, UBC, in late July 2002.


The Critic in the Attic: Religious Doubt, Mind, and Heart in the Fiction of Robert E. Knowles

Abstract: Between 1905 and 1911,the Gait clergyman Robert E. Knowles (1868-1946) wrote seven novels that were very successful in their day, ...


The Critic’s Task: Frye’s Latest Work

Abstract: NORTHROP FRYE’S The Well-Tempered Critic was ori- ginally delivered as a series of lectures at the University of Virginia in ...


The Cruising Auk and the World Below

Abstract: GORGE JOHNSTON is surely an anomaly among the present generation of Canadian poets. His work defies classification, refuses to fit ...