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256 Canadian Literature
(2024)
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255 Canadian Literature
(2023)
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254 Feminist Critique Here and Now
(2023)
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253 Poetics and Extraction 2
(2023)
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252 Canadian Literature
(2023)
251
251 Poetics and Extraction
(2022)
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250 Canadian Literature
(2022)
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249 Pasts, Presents, and Futures of Canadian Comics
(2022)
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248 Canadian Literature
(2022)
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247 Canadian Literature
(2021)
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246 Refugee Worldmaking: Canada and the Afterlives of the Vietnam War
(2021)
244
244 Sensing Different Worlds
(2021)
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242 Emerging Scholars, Redux
(2020)
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241 Reading, Writing, Listening
(2020)
240
240 Decolonial (Re)Visions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror
(2020)
239
239 60th Anniversary
(2019)
238
238 Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings
(2019)
237
237 House, Home, Hospitality
(2019)
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236 Lost and Found
(2018)
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235 Concepts of Vancouver: Poetics, Art, Media
(2017 Winter)
234
234 Eclectic Mix
(2017 Autumn)
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233 Literary History
(2017 Summer)
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232 Meanwhile, Home
(2017 Spring)
230
230-231 Indigenous Literature and the Arts of Community
(2016 Autumn/Winter)
228
228-229 Emerging Scholars 2
(2016 Spring/Summer)
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227 Asian Canadian Critique Beyond the Nation
(2015 Winter)
226
226 Emerging Scholars
(2015 Autumn)
225
225 Radio, Film, and Fiction
(2015 Summer)
224
224 Queer Frontiers
(2015 Spring)
223
223 Agency & Affect
(2014 Winter)
222
222 Recursive Time
(2014 Autumn)
221
221 Science & Canadian Literature
(2014 Summer)
220
220 Tracking CanLit
(2014 Spring)
219
219 Contested Migrations
(2013 Winter)
218
218 Of Borders and Bioregions
(2013 Autumn)
217
217 Gendering the Archive
(2013 Summer)
216
216 Canadian Literature
(2013 Spring)
215
215 Indigenous Focus
(2012 Winter)
214
214 Canadian Literature
(2012 Autumn)
213
213 New Work on Early Canadian Literature
(2012 Summer)
212
212 Canadian Literature
(2012 Spring)
210
210-211 21st-Century Poetics
(2011 Autumn/Winter)
209
209 Spectres of Modernism
(2011 Summer)
208
208 Prison Writing
(2011 Spring)
207
207 Mordecai Richler
(2010 Winter)
206
206 Canadian Literature
(2010 Autumn)
205
205 Queerly Canadian
(2010 Summer)
204
204 50th Anniversary Interventions
(2010 Spring)
203
203 Home, Memory, Self
(2009 Winter)
202
202 Sport and the Athletic Body
(2009 Autumn)
201
201 Disappearance and Mobility
(2009 Summer)
200
200 Strategic Nationalisms
(2009 Spring)
199
199 Asian Canadian Studies
(2008 Winter)
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198 Canada and Its Discontents
(2008 Autumn)
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197 Predators and Gardens
(2008 Summer)
196
196 Diasporic Women’s Writing
(2008 Spring)
195
195 Context(e)s
(2007 Winter)
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194 Visual/Textual Intersections
(2007 Autumn)
193
193 Canada Reads
(2007 Summer)
192
192 Gabrielle Roy contemporaine/The Contemporary Gabrielle Roy
(2007 Spring)
191
191 Canadian Literature
(2006 Winter)
190
190 South Asian Diaspora
(2006 Autumn)
189
189 The Literature of Atlantic Canada
(2006 Summer)
188
188 Canadian Literature
(2006 Spring)
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187 Littérature francophone hors-Québec / Francophone Writing Outside Quebec
(2005 Winter)
186
186 Women & the Politics of Memory
(2005 Autumn)
185
185 Canadian Literature
(2005 Summer)
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184 Canadian Literature
(2005 Spring)
183
183 Writers Talking
(2004 Winter)
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182 Black Writing in Canada
(2004 Autumn)
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181 Canadian Literature
(2004 Summer)
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180 Canadian Literature
(2004 Spring)
179
179 Literature & War
(2003 Winter)
178
178 Archives and History
(2003 Autumn)
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177 Canadian Literature
(2003 Summer)
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176 Anne Carson
(2003 Spring)
175
175 francophone / anglophone
(2002 Winter)
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173 Canadian Literature
(2002 Summer)
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172 Auto/biography
(2002 Spring)
170
170-171 Nature/Culture
(2001 Autumn/Winter)
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169 Canadian Literature
(2001 Summer)
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168 Mostly Drama
(2001 Spring)
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167 First Nations Writing
(2000 Winter)
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166 Women & Poetry
(2000 Autumn)
165
165 Canadian Literature
(2000 Summer)
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164 Canadian Literature
(2000 Spring)
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163 Asian Canadian Writing
(1999 Winter)
161
161-162 On Thomas King
(1999 Summer/Autumn)
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160 Canadian Literature
(1999 Spring)
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159 Gay and Lesbian Writing in Canadian Literature
(1998 Winter)
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158 New Directions
(1998 Autumn)
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157 Canadian Literature
(1998 Summer)
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156 Canadian Literature
(1998 Spring)
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155 Contemporary Poetics
(1997 Winter)
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154 Canadian Literature
(1997 Autumn)
152
152-153 Remembering the Sixties
(1997 Spring/Summer)
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151 Women and War
(1996 Winter)
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150 Urquhart and Munro
(1996 Autumn)
149
149 Postcolonial Identities
(1996 Summer)
148
148 Community Values
(1996 Spring)
147
147 Marx & Later Dialectics
(1995 Winter)
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146 Women, City, Wilderness
(1995 Autumn)
145
145 DeMille's Utopian Fantasy
(1995 Summer)
144
144 Native, Individual, State
(1995 Spring)
142
142-143 Hispanic-Canadian Connections
(1994 Autumn/Winter)
141
141 Strangers & Strange Voices
(1994 Summer )
140
140 East Asian-Canadian Connections
(1994 Spring)
138
138-139 Past, Present, Future
(1993 Autumn/Winter)
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137 Female Subjects & Male Plots
(1993 Summer)
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136 Nature, Politics, Poetics
(1993 Spring)
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135 Transcreations
(1992 Winter)
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134 Letters & Other Connections
(1992 Autumn)
133
133 George Woodcock: An 80th Birthday Collection
(1992 Summer)
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132 South Asian Connections
(1992 Spring)
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131 Discourse in Early Canada
(1991 Winter)
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130 Writing & Cultural Values
(1991 Autumn)
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129 The Languages of Poetry
(1991 Summer)
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128 Systems of Value, Structures of Belief
(1991 Spring)
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127 Background, Foreground
(1990 Winter)
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126 Forms of the Modern
(1990 Autumn)
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124-125 Native Writers & Canadian Writing
(1990 Spring/Summer)
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122-123 The Long Poem / Remembering bp Nichol
(1989 Autumn/Winter)
121
121 What the Archives Reveal
(1989 Summer)
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120 Slavic and East-European Connections
(1989 Spring)
119
119 Shaping Texts
(1988 Winter)
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118 Contemporary Drama
(1988 Autumn)
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117 Translation
(1988 Summer)
116
116 Magic & Other Realisms
(1988 Spring)
115
115 Poets' Words
(1987 Winter)
113
113-114 Literature & the Visual Arts
(1987 Summer/Autumn)
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112 Atwood, Carrier, Grandbois, Lowry
(1987 Spring)
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111 Nature, Natural, Naturalists
(1986 Winter)
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110 Literature & Ideology
(1986 Autumn)
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109 Mothers & Daughters
(1986 Summer)
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108 Popular Culture
(1986 Spring)
107
107 The Times Between
(1985 Winter)
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106 Italian-Canadian Connections
(1985 Autumn)
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105 Poets & Politics
(1985 Summer)
104
104 Paradigms of Doubleness
(1985 Spring)
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103 Documenting the Landscape / Notes on Sinclair Ross
(1984 Winter)
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102 B.C. Writers / Reviews Issue
(1984 Autumn)
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101 Personal Experience & the Creative Writer
(1984 Summer)
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100 25th Anniversary Issue
(1984 Spring)
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99 Fictional Patterns
(1983 Winter)
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98 On Dennis Lee
(1983 Autumn)
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97 Poetic Form
(1983 Summer)
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96 Science & Literature
(1983 Spring)
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95 Caribbean Connections
(1982 Winter)
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94 Stories, Tales & Sketches from Life
(1982 Autumn)
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93 Wilson, Laurence, Gallant, Glasco
(1982 Summer)
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92 Fiction in the Seventies
(1982 Spring)
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91 Timothy Findley & the War Novel
(1981 Winter)
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90 The Art of Autobiography
(1981 Autumn)
89
89 Faces of Realism / Facing Reality
(1981 Summer)
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88 Contemporary Quebec Fiction
(1981 Spring)
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87 The Making of Modern Poetry
(1980 Winter)
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86 The Structure of Fiction
(1980 Autumn)
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85 Contemporary Dramatists & the Art of the Theatre
(1980 Summer)
84
84 Psychological Fictions: Myth, Carr, Lowry
(1980 Spring)
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83 Intellectual History
(1979 Winter)
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82 Journals: Self & Society
(1979 Autumn)
81
81 The Nineteenth Century
(1979 Summer)
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80 The Moral Novel
(1979 Spring)
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79 A Poetry Miscellany
(1978 Winter)
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78 Writing for Children
(1978 Autumn)
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77 Alberta Writers
(1978 Summer)
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75 Nationalism
(1977 Winter)
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74 Women and Literature
(1977 Autumn)
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73 Exiles and Expatriates
(1977 Summer)
72
72 The Psychology of Literature
(1977 Spring)
71
71 Remembering Roderick Haig-Brown
(1976 Winter)
70
70 Themes and Variations in Criticism
(1976 Autumn)
68
68-69 Special Issue on the Maritimes
(1976 Spring/Summer)
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67 Manners of Criticism
(1976 Winter)
66
66 Jalna Revisited
(1975 Autumn)
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65 Links with the Great Tradition
(1975 Summer)
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64 Ultramarine - Hail and Farewell
(1975 Spring)
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63 Wilderness and Utopia
(1975 Winter)
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62 Canadians - Conscious or Self-Conscious?
(1974 Autumn)
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61 Fifteenth Anniversary Issue
(1974 Summer)
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60 Contemporary Canadian Poets
(1974 Spring)
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59 Lovers and Losers
(1974 Winter)
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58 A Forest of Symbols
(1973 Autumn)
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57 Publish Canadian
(1973 Summer)
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56 Poets Past and Future
(1973 Spring)
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55 Discoveries and Rediscoveries
(1973 Winter)
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54 Poetic Occasions
(1972 Autumn)
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53 Of Heavenly Hounds and Earthly Men
(1972 Summer)
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52 National Origins
(1972 Spring)
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51 Anna, Susanna, and Catharine
(1972 Winter)
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50 Poetry of P. K. Page
(1971 Autumn)
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49 Views of Novelists
(1971 Summer)
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48 Aspects of Layton
(1971 Spring)
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47 Dorothy Livesay - Poetry of Politics and Love
(1971 Winter)
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46 The Frontiers of Literature
(1970 Autumn)
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45 Confrontations, Correspondences, Comparisons
(1970 Summer)
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44 Lowry's Reading
(1970 Spring)
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43 Arts in the Politician's Eye
(1970 Winter)
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42 The Living Mosaic
(1969 Autumn)
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41 Tenth Anniversary Issue
(1969 Summer)
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40 Colonialism and Post-Colonialism
(1969 Spring)
39
39 The Relevance of Humour
(1969 Winter)
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38 Explorers and Poets
(1968 Autumn)
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37 Federation of Letters
(1968 Summer)
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36 Books of the Year
(1968 Spring)
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35 Wyndham Lewis in Canada
(1968 Winter)
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34 Views of Leonard Cohen
(1967 Autumn)
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33 Publishing in Canada
(1967 Summer)
32
32 New Wave in Canadian Poetry
(1967 Spring)
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31 A Salute to F. R. Scott
(1967 Winter)
30
30 A Salute to Earle Birney
(1966 Autumn)
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29 Apprenticeships in Discovery
(1966 Summer)
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28 Poets Past and Present
(1966 Spring)
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27 Time and Fiction
(1966 Winter)
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26 The Sleeping Giant
(1965 Autumn)
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25 A Symposium on A. M. Klein
(1965 Summer)
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24 Literary History in Canada
(1965 Spring)
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23 Modern Canadian Poets
(1965 Winter)
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22 Louis Dudek as Man of Letters
(1964 Autumn)
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21 Recollections of E. J. Pratt
(1964 Summer)
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20 The Critic's Task
(1964 Spring)
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19 Salute to E. J. Pratt
(1964 Winter)
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18 The Writer's World
(1963 Autumn)
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17 Writers on the Prairies
(1963 Summer)
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16 Plays and Folk Songs
(1963 Spring)
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15 Salute to A. J. M. Smith
(1963 Winter)
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14 Jacobean Poets in Newfoundland
(1962 Autumn)
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13 The Year in French Canada
(1962 Summer)
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12 Poetry Off the Page
(1962 Spring)
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11 Canadian Literature
(1962 Winter)
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10 Canadian Literature
(1961 Autumn)
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9 Canadian Literature
(1961 Summer)
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8 A Special Malcolm Lowry Issue
(1961 Spring)
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7 Canadian Literature
(1961 Winter)
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6 Canadian Literature
(1960 Autumn)
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5 Canadian Literature
(1960 Summer)
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4 Canadian Literature
(1960 Spring)
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3 Canadian Literature
(1960 Winter)
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2 Canadian Literature
(1959 Autumn)
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1 Canadian Literature
(1959 Summer)