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Current Issue: 50th Anniversary Interventions (#204)
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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"Other Times, Other Places": Narrative Displacement in Ray Smith's Writing by Colin Nicholson
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Théatre des femmes su Québec, 1975-1985 by Ghislaine Boyer
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"Things Happened" by Ray Wilton
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The Natural World in Early 19th-Century Canadian Literature by Mary Lu MacDonald
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The Poetry of Margaret Atwood by John Wilson Foster
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Letters & Reflections
Canada - Land of Longing by Thomas Kraft
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Non-Fiction, Non-Fame, Non-Fortune by Heather Pringle
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Munich Spring Book Fair: Gastland Kanada by Peter Stenberg
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CanLit Tuition Award by Laura Potter
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Canadian Biography: Theory, Practice, Form by Ira B. Nadel
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New Book Review
A Couple Pairs of Shorts
Andrew Hood (Author)
Pardon our Monsters. Véhicule Press
Rebecca Rosenblum (Author)
Once. Biblioasis
A.S. Penne (Author)
Reckoning. Turnstone Press
Betsy Trumpener (Author)
The Butcher of Penetang. Caitlin Press
Reviewed by Owen Percy
The significant stink raised by John Metcalf in reaction to Jane Urquhart’s editorial choices for 2007’s Penguin Book of Canadian Short Stories must be read, I think, as oddly reassuring to the world of Canadian letters. The importance of the short story to CanLit can hardly be overestimated and so stink-raising on its behalf is, by now, old hat for Metcalf who remains—like it or not—one of the finest and most assiduous editors and guardians of the genre in Ca [...]
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