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Canadian Literature's Spring 2010 issue (CL#204), "50th Anniversary Interventions", looks back on Canadian Literature's 50th Anniversary Gala, and celebrates Canadian culture with papers about Duncan Campbell Scott, book policies, copyright, civil war poetry, and new Québecois literature.

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#104 (Spring 1985)
Paradigms of Doubleness

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Editorial

W. H. New

Articles

Sherrill E. Grace

Michael Darling

Chantal Zabus

Geert Lernout

Brian L. Ross

Francoise Maccabee Iqbal

Andre J. Senecal

Terry Goldie

Poems

Susan Glickman

Michael O. Nowlan

John Newlove

Lesley Choyce

Kevin Irie

Richard Hornsey

John Ditsky

Cyril Dabydeen

John V. Hicks

John Marshall

Books in Review

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A Dog's Life (p. 109 - 111)

by Antony B. Dawson

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Shakespeare's Dog by Leon Rooke (Stoddart Press)

Sleepy Trio (p. 111 - 112)

by Dennis Duffy

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Loyalists by Christopher Moore (Macmillan of Canada)

Davey's Aggressive Art (p. 112 - 113)

by Susan Gingell

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Surviving the Paraphrase by Frank Davey (Turnstone Press)

Oxford Companions (p. 113 - 115)

by Sherrill E. Grace

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature by William Toye (Oxford University Press)

Out of Agony (p. 117 - 120)

by Linda Shohet

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Art Out of Agony by Stephen Lewis (CBC Enterprises)
  2. Beyond Sambation by A. M. Klein (University of Toronto Press)

Lost Cultures (p. 120 - 122)

by Margery Fee

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Singing at the Whirpool by Barry Callaghan and Miodrag Pavlovic (Exile Editions)
  2. Mount Royal by Robert Marteau and David Homel (Exile Editions)
  3. Interlude by Barry Callaghan and Robert Marteau (Exile Editions)
  4. Uncle Mike's Edenbridge: Memoirs of a Jewish Pioneer Farmer by Michael Usiskin and Marcia Usiskin Basman (Peguis Publishers)

Creative Spirits (p. 122 - 124)

by Joel H. Kaplan

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Contemporary Canadian Art by David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff (Hurtig Publishers)
  2. Contemporary Canadian Art by David Burnett and Marilyn Schiff (Art Gallery of Ontario)
  3. Glenn Gould: Variations, By Himself and His Friends by John McGreevy (Doubleday Canada Limited)

Les Voix de Montréal (p. 124 - 128)

by Robert Giroux

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Une certain fin de siècle by Claude Beausoleil (Éditions du Noroît)
  2. Essaime by Jean Chapdelaine Gagnon (Éditions du Noroît)
  3. Mahler et autres matières by Pierre Nepveu (Éditions du Noroît)
  4. Ille by Richard Phaneuf (Éditions du Noroît)

Reading Plays (p. 128 - 130)

by Neil Besner

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Quiet in the Land by Anne Chislett (Coach House Books)
  2. What Is To Be Done? by Mavis Gallant (Quadrant Editions)

Tristes mensonges et roman gai (p. 130 - 132)

by Rejean Beaudoin

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. L'Accent Aigu by Guy Menard (Éditions Leméac)
  2. Les Mensonges d'Isabelle by Gabrielle Poulin (Québec Amérique)

Plaisirs & coleres (p. 132 - 133)

by Neil Bishop

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Sur le Damier des tombes by Alexandre Amprimoz (Éditions du Blé)
  2. Moments fragiles by Jacques Brault (Éditions du Noroît)
  3. L'Heure exacte by Guy Cloutier (Éditions du Noroît)
  4. L'Ombre de cibles by Celyne Fortin (Éditions du Noroît)
  5. La Déchirure du (corps) texte et autres brèches by Jean Jonassaint (Nouvelle optique)
  6. La Déchirure du (corps) texte et autres brèches by Jean Jonassaint (Dérives)
  7. Plein Soleil by Louis Leriche (Prise de Parole)

Plaisirs & colères (p. 132 - 133)

by Neil Bishop

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Sur le Damier des tombes by Alexandre Amprimoz (Éditions du Blé)
  2. Moments fragiles by Jacques Brault (Éditions du Noroît)
  3. L'Heure exacte by Guy Cloutier (Éditions du Noroît)
  4. L'Ombre de cibles by Celyne Fortin (Éditions du Noroît)
  5. La Déchirure du (corps) texte et autres brèches by Jean Jonassaint (Nouvelle optique)
  6. La Déchirure du (corps) texte et autres brèches by Jean Jonassaint (Dérives)
  7. Plein Soleil by Louis Leriche (Prise de Parole)

Museum & World (p. 134 - 136)

by Lola Lemire-Tostevin

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Better Part of Heaven by Ken Norris (Coach House Books)
  2. The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan by Jane Urquhart (Porcupine's Quill)
  3. Insel by Michael J. Yates (Penumbra Press)

Sifting the Dross (p. 136 - 137)

by Barbara Pell

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Un Dozen: Thirteen Canadian Poets by Judith Fitzgerald (Black Moss Press)
  2. The Inner Ear: An Anthology of New Poets by Gary Geddes (Quadrant Editions)
  3. The Third Taboo: A Collection of Poems on Jealousy by Heather Cadsby and Maria Jacobs (Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd)

MacLennon & Richler (p. 138 - 139)

by F. W. Watt

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Hugh MacLennan by T. D. MacLulich (Twayne World Authors Series)
  2. Mordecai Richler by Victor J. Ramraj (Twayne World Authors Series)

The Dimming of Innocence (p. 140 - 141)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Dinner Along the Amazon by Timothy Findley (Penguin Books)

Fleming (p. 141 - 143)

by J. A. McSherry

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Alexander Fleming: The Man and the Myth by Gwyn MacFarlane (Academic Press)

The Myth of the Major (p. 143 - 145)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Major Canadian Authors: A Critical Introduction by David Stouck (University of Nebraska Press)

Ut Pictura Poesis (p. 145 - 146)

by Lorraine York

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Seagull on Yonge Street by Bill Bissett (Talon Books)
  2. Catchpenny Poems by David Helwig (Oberon Press)
  3. Queen City by Raymond Souster (Oberon Press)

Alternatives (p. 146 - 148)

by Cynthia Zimmerman

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Second Stage: The Alternate Theatre Movement in Canada by Renate Usmiani (University of British Columbia Press)

Process & Stasis (p. 148 - 149)

by Richard Stevenson

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Circada Voices: Selecte Haiku of Eric Amann (1966-1979) by George Swede (High/Coo)
  2. Night Tides by George Swede (South Western Ontario Poetry)
  3. Jack and Jill in Toronto by (Unfinished Monument Press)
  4. Movies: Left to Right by Robert Sward (S.W.O.P.)

Shadowland (p. 150 - 151)

by Clement Wyke

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Paradise Siding by Allan Donaldson (The Fiddlehead)
  2. Paradise Siding by Allan Donaldson (Goose Lane Editions)

Lyric Memory (p. 151 - 153)

by Myron Turner

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Going the Distance by Raymond Souster (Oberon Press)
  2. Orts and Scantlings by H. C. Dillow (Thistledown Press)

Extravaganza (p. 153 - 155)

by Kathleen Tudor

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Perdue, or How the West was Lost by Geoffrey Ursell (Macmillan of Canada)

Prayers (p. 155 - 156)

by Rowland Smith

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Book of Mercy by Leonard Cohen (McClelland & Stewart Ltd.)

Early Nowlan (p. 156 - 157)

by Bruce Serafin

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Early Poems by Alden Nowlan (The Fiddlehead)

Poet as Historian (p. 157 - 159)

by Allan Pritchard

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Convergences by Lionel Kearns (Coach House Books)

Images du recit (p. 159 - 160)

by Janet M. Paterson

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Plage by J. R. Leveille (Éditions du Blé)
  2. Le Train sauvage by Raymond Plante (Québec Amérique)

Memorabilia (p. 161 - 162)

by Andrew Parkin

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Barkerville by Florence McNeil (Thistledown Press)

Understanding (p. 162 - 163)

by Leslie Monkman

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Poet and the Critic: A Literary Correspondence between D. C. Scott and E. K. Brown by Robert L. McDougall (Carleton University Press)

Songs of Life (p. 164 - 165)

by Sandra Hutchison

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Beneath the Skin of Paradise: The Piaf Poems by Judith Fitzgerald (Black Moss Press)
  2. Invocations: The Poetry and Prose of Gwendolyn MacEwen by Jan Bartley (University of British Columbia Press)

Political Judgments (p. 165 - 167)

by Terry Goldie

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Engineer of Human Souls by Josef Skvorecky (Lester & Orpen Dennys)

South & North (p. 167 - 170)

by Peter Buitenhuis

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. The Salt Line by Elizabeth Spencer (Doubleday Canada Limited)
  2. North of America: Images of Canada in the Literature of the United States by James Doyle (ECW Press)

Education & Compromise (p. 170 - 171)

by Marilyn Bowering

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. As Long as the Sun Shines and Water Flows by Ian A. L. Getty and Antoine S. Lussier (University of British Columbia Press)

Theatral (p. 171 - 174)

by Renate Benson

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Madame Jocaste by Alain Pontaut (Éditions Leméac)
  2. Syncope by Rene Gingras (Éditions Leméac)
  3. La passion de Juliette by Michelle Allen (Éditions Leméac)

West Coast Publishers (p. 174 - 175)

by George Woodcock

Book(s) Reviewed:
  1. Ocean/Paper/Stone by Robert Bringhurst (William Hoffer/Tanks)

Opinions and Notes

W. J. Keith

Antoine Sirois


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