Issue 14.2
Overview
Special Issue: Beyond Nationalism: The Canadian Literary Scene in Global Perspective
Published: April 1981
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12 essays, totalling 200 pages
$15.00 CAD
With essays on Robert Kroetsch, Sinclair Ross, W.O. Mitchell, Michael Ondaatje, Susanna Moodie, and others, the twelve critical pieces in this special issue of Mosaic query and posit different narratives of and about Canada. This issue features a prologue by Robert Kroetsch, as well as a transcription of Robertson Davies’s Sidney Memorial Warhaft Lecture, “A Rake at Reading,” delivered at the University of Manitoba on October 16, 1980.
A Rake at ReadingRobertson Davies | |
Wastelands and Badlands: The Legacies of Pynchon and KroetschSherill E. Grace | |
Canada in Lowry's FictionR. D. MacDonald | |
El Greco in Canada: Sinclair Ross's As for Me and My HouseBarbara Godard | |
The Leacock Persona and the Canadian CharacterBeverly J. Rasporich | |
"The Good Game": The Charm of Willa Cather's My Antonia and W. O. Mitchell's Who Has Seen the WindMichael Peterman | |
Ondaatje's Mechanical Boy: Portrait of the Artist as PhotographerT. D. MacLulich | |
Beyond the Ghetto and the Garrison: Jewish-Canadian BoundariesMichael Greenstein | |
"Painful Experience in a Distant Land": Mrs. Moodie in Canada and Mrs. Trollope in AmericaJanet Giltrow | |
Fraternal Twins: The Impact of Jacques Maritain on Callaghan and CharbonneauJohn J. O'Connor | |
The 49th Parallel and the 98th Meridian: Some Lines for ThoughtFrances W. Kaye | |
Picaro as Messiah: Backstrom's Election in The Words of My RoaringKenneth W. Graham |