The Edge of Eternity
Abstract: MALCOLM LOWRY’S “Forest Path to the Spring”1 is a story without a plot but rich in detail. Thirty thousand words ...
The Elements Transcended
Abstract: ?.HE UNIVERSE which Sheila Watson creates in The Double ?HE Hook is one of dust and rock, rutted roads and ...
The Elephant in the Next Room: Anatomy of a Long Work
Abstract: IHAVE OFTEN REPLIED in humorous terms to inquiries about how it feels to live with a literary conception of great ...
The Enchanted Houses: Leacock’s Irony
Abstract: ?I?RITICAL DISCUSSIONS of Stephen Leacock’s Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town revolve about two central questions, upon each of which ...
The End of Emma
Abstract: (for Louis Dudek) LlKE EVERY OTHER FORM OF ACTION, narration finds its sources in the structure of being-as-such, and cannot ...
The End of Poetry
Abstract: Our native Muse, heaven knows and heaven be praised, is not exclusive. Whether out of the innocence of a childlike ...
The Expanding Spectrum: Literary Magazines
Abstract: AFEW YEARS AGO it was still possible to group Canada’s literary magazines into loose categories labelled university quarterlies, small inde- ...
The Explorer as Hero: Mackenzie and Fraser
Abstract: ALEXANDER MACKENZIE and Simon Fraser are the Cana- dian examples, par excellence, of the kind of explorer who knows where ...
The Expressionist Legacy in the Canadian Theatre: George Ryga and Robert Gurik
Abstract: Anyone in this day and age . . . who does not “openly and honestly declare war on naturalism in ...
The Fabular Fiction of Robert Kroetsch
Abstract: ‘The fiction makes us real.” ROBERT KROETSCH IN SPEAKING TO DONALD CAMERON of his now-completed Out West trilogy Robert Kroetsch ...