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From:Canadian Literature (Issue 199) Peer-ReviewedI was relieved that I wasn't being slotted into yet another panel of women writers or multicultural writers struggling to say something about their multiculturalism when for some of them it made little impact on their...
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From:ARIEL (Vol. 38, Issue 2-3) Peer-ReviewedIn the opening chapter of James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses (1922), Stephen Dedalus speaks with Haines, that "ponderous Saxon," who is an ethnologist of the Irish language studying at Oxford (4). While standing atop...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 33, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedI Twenty-six letterforms--the alphabet--part of poetry's visual dimension. One-hundred-plus sounds, derived from forty-plus phonemes--spoken English--part of poetry's sonic dimension. On Discreteness: Event and Sound...
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From:Resources for Feminist Research (Vol. 31, Issue 3-4) Peer-ReviewedAgnant, Marie-Celie. "Ecrire pour tuer le vide du silence." Canadian Woman Studies/ les cahiers de la femme. Special Issue: Women and the Black Diaspora, vol. 23, no. 2 (Winter 2004), pp. 86-91. The author traces her...
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From:Notes and Queries (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAlan Strout's bibliography of Blackwood's Magazine leaves two articles as anonymous because, though there was evidence that John Galt wrote one of the two, no concrete evidence revealed which one. A letter from Galt to...
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From:Queen's Quarterly (Vol. 103, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe year is 1919. Phyllis Halliday, a plain, quiet girl from Portsmouth Village, discovers a note from Joseph Cleroux, a.k.a. convict G852 in the notorious Kingston Penitentiary. For ten months, Phyllis, using the name...
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From:Canadian Literature (Issue 226) Peer-ReviewedWilliam Arthur Deacon was Canada's first full-time book reviewer, the book editor of the Globe and Mail from 1928 to 1960, and an important member of the Canadian Authors Association (CAA). In 1935, Albert Robson,...
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From:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)At the heart of James Reaney's writing is some good old-fashioned message making. This rural Ontario poet who found himself wowed by the critical ideas of Northrop Frye and the poetry of William Blake has always been...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSA Hidden Place (New York: Bantam, 1986; London: Orbit, 1990).Memory Wire (New York: Bantam, 1987; London: Orbit, 1990).Gypsies (New York: Doubleday, 1989; London: Orbit, 1990).The Divide...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersFarley Mowat has become Canada's best-known defender of nature. In his books, Mowat makes clear that unless humankind stops its overexploitation of natural resources, wild species, and indigenous peoples, it faces...
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From:Contemporary Poets (6th ed.)Irving Layton's expanded Selected Poems 1945-1989 is appropriately entitled A Wild Peculiar Joy. The title reflects the passionate nature of Layton's poetry: his work is provocative, prophetic, and extravagant, by turns...
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From:Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: International Review of English Studies (Vol. 55, Issue S2) Peer-ReviewedThe aim of this paper is to look at the recent publications by writers of Polish extraction living in Canada and writing in English in order to examine these texts in the context of their treatment of the concept of...
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From:Antigonish Review (Issue 149) Peer-ReviewedMcIlwraith has made a valuable contribution to the discussion of the psychological effects of television. The study should be of great service to his own discipline. It is certainly a great service to nonpsychologists...
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From:Feminist WritersSince publishing her first novel in 1959, when she was barely 20, Marie-Claire Blais has enjoyed a long and productive literary career. Although her works include some early poems and theatrical writing, she is known...
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From:Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBouchard, David. Qu'Appelle. Illus. Michael Lonechild. Saint-Boniface, MB: Plaines, 2008. 30 pp. 21,95$ relie. ISBN 978-2-89611-041-4. Imprime. Delaunois, Angele. Les enfants de l'eau. Illus. Gerard Frischeteau....
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 29, Issue 1-2) Peer-ReviewedEXCLUDED FROM PLATO'S REPUBLIC and from J.L. Austin's theory of performative speech acts, fictionality has been seen as a threat for as long as there have been critical debates about literature. Trends in recent...
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From:Theory and Practice in Language Studies (Vol. 5, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedAlice Munro is a Canadian author writing in English. Her stories explore human complexities in an uncomplicated prose style. Munro's work has been described as having revolutionized the architecture of short stories for...
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From:English Studies in Canada (Vol. 39, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedLONG BEFORE THE RECOMMENDATIONS of the Massey Report (1948-49), the introduction of the New Canadian Library (1958), and the proliferation of university courses on Canadian literature, a long forgotten schoolteacher...
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From:Canadian Fantasy and Science-Fiction WritersWRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR: BOOKSSnowbrother (New York & Scarborough, Ontario: New American Library, 1985; revised and enlarged edition, Riverdale, N.Y.: Baen, 1992).The Sharpest Edge, by Stirling and Shirley Meier (New...
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From:Contemporary Popular WritersBest-known for his much-spoofed but wildly popular novel Airport (1968), Canadian Arthur Hailey was an originator of one of the most successful formulas ever devised for tapping the huge bestseller market. Combining...