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 ...
The Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets: Chapbooks, Archives, and Sara Ahmed’s Feminist Affects
Abstract: This essay uses concepts developed by feminist theorist Sara Ahmed to explore the Living Archives poetry chapbook series, which is published by the Feminist Caucus of the League of Canadian Poets. Focusing on the two inaugural chapbooks (Stats Memos & Memory 1982 and Illegitimate Positions: Women & Language 1987), this essay investigates affective links between the Feminist Caucus meetings and their ensuing publications. Ahmed’s descriptions of feminist hope offer a productive lens through which to imagine the poets’ drive to archive their encounters through annual publication. Additionally, Ahmed’s writings on feminist hope and the “particular encounter” enable a reframing of textual moments that might otherwise be read as failure or absence. Ultimately, this essay suggests a partial methodology for reading this rarely-discussed series and performs a literary critical engagement with Ahmed’s feminist theory.