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Abstract: T h e pages of The Literary Garland (1838-1859), one of Canada’s early literary periodicals, echoed with romance, sentiment, melo- ...

Abstract: In a house I do not own In a country of isolation In a land that belongs to others I ...

Abstract: MloRTHROP FRYE, Desmond Pacey, and John Sutherland, three important Canadian critics, suggest in their comments on E. J. Pratt that ...

Abstract: ?IHREE REGENT COLLECTIONS attest to the current creative IHR: efflorescence of Michael Bullock, who has been called “one of the ...

Abstract: In the beginning (he said) God created me and you and put us in a second Eng- lish garden Victoria ...

Abstract: Despite the cautions of Frantz Fanon (and others), Afrocentrists have continued to mine the African past to find and assert proof of Black Genius and achievement to refute the Negrophobic propaganda of White Supremacy. African-Canadian Fantasy-genre novelist Charles R. Saunders follows an African-American precursor—Frank Yerby—in limning a pre-Transatlantic Slave Trade Africa that is magical—either in authorial imagination or in actual history. While these approaches to writing Africa may instill greater pride and self-awareness in, presumably, black readers, both Saunders and Yerby also simply "blacken," as it were, the racialist imaginings of white authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs, whose strictures would have found support from Euro-American occult beliefs. In a sense, though striving to author a literature of Black Pride, both Saunders and Yerby integrate themselves with Euro-American occult fantasies. Yet, such may be the contradictory conceptualization of "Afrocentrism."

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This essay explores the relationship between commercial publicity and poetic production in a series of advertisements devised by the head of publicity for The Hudson’s Bay Company, Mrs. Barbara Kilvert, between 1966 and 1972. Featured poets included Al Purdy, John Newlove, Alden Nowlan, Phyllis Gotlieb, A.J.M. Smith, Miriam Waddington, Joan Finnegan, James Reaney, Louis Dudek, Gwendolyn MacEwen, DG Jones, Raymond Souster, Ralph Gustafson, Gustave Lamarche, Fernand Ouellette and Jean-Guy Pilon. The advertisements were to appear in such respected periodicals as Quarry, The Tamarack Review, Queen’s Quarterly, Canadian Literature, The Malahat Review, Cité Libre, and Liberté. We examine how this campaign fitted into the history of HBC’s cultivation of its company image, and particularly its desire to identify itself with the nation it served. Did the initiative extend those accustomed patterns, or did it represent a radical new departure? And—equally important—how might such a use of poetry for promotional purposes mediate readers’ responses to the poems thus used?

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Abstract: ” I V I y hunch was,” writes Robert E. Carter in sketching the hypothesis of Becoming Bamboo: Western and ...

Abstract: ?HOMAS CHANDLER HALIBURTON was the most famous writer in nineteenth-century British North America. In spite of his renown the book ...

Abstract: I, IN 1978, WITH VERY LITTLE EXPERIENCE in the use of archival resources, I began a sabbatical project — to ...