Criticism & Essays

Impossible Nation: The Longing for Homeland in Canada and Quebec

Ray Conlogue’s four-year tenure as The Globe and Mail’s Montreal arts correspondent has been notable for two qualities in his work. The first, unsurprising for those familiar with his earlier position as the newspaper’s theatre ... Read More »

March 9, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries

By Di Brandt

By the standards of everyday discourse, feminist, Mennonite poet Di Brandt appears to be a bundle of paradoxes – if not an absolute oxymoron. But the Manitoba writer’s collection of essays, Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler Decision

By Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell, Becki Ross eds.

Canadian feminists are consistently boxed into two opposing corners when it comes to the pornography debate, a.k.a. The Sex Wars. In the first, devoted to smut, licentious behaviour, and the pursuit of pleasure, we have ... Read More »

March 5, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ Symbolization and Its Discontents

By Dr. Jeanne Randolph, ed. Steve Reinke

Forget logic for a moment. Think about two words: “Technological Ethos.” Imagine what that might mean. Here’s a clue: It penetrates every contemporary theory going, from modernism to postmodernism to anti-postmodernism and the future which, ... Read More »

March 3, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ Ripostes

By Philip Marchand

Recent responses to Philip Marchand’s essays have included a Globe and Mail Arts Argument piece, a column by that paper’s books editor, and letters to the editors of Saturday Night and Gravitas. But truly exquisite ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

★ Worth Repeating: A Literary Resurrection 1948-1994

By Pierre Berton

Pierre Berton, Geoff Pevere argues in his foreword to Worth Repeating: A Literary Resurrection 1948-1994, “made us pay attention to him. With every media means possible, he held this country by the strings of its ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

By Stephen Pinker

Irregular verbs! The very thought is enough to give anyone who has struggled with them a headache. In Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language, MIT professor and evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker has taken that ... Read More »

February 25, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

Peregrinations: Conversations with Contemporary Artists

By Robert Enright

Winnipeg art critic Robert Enright has been a fixture on the Canadian art scene for years and best known as editor at large of the art quarterly, Border Crossings. His preferred writing format is the ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture

By Robert Fulford

What are stories for? For inspiring and instructing, for explaining and illuminating the world. With stories we argue, entertain, remember, and learn how to live our lives. “The stories people tell have a way of ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies

By Dominick LaCapra

Dominick LaCapra’s collection of essays about history and reading is based on a series of popular lectures that he recently gave at the University of British Columbia. The book’s cover is appropriately adorned with Vermeer’s ... Read More »

February 23, 2004 | Filed under: Criticism & Essays

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Impossible Nation: The Longing for Homeland in Canada and Quebec

Dancing Naked: Narrative Strategies for Writing Across Centuries

Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler Decision

★ Symbolization and Its Discontents

★ Ripostes

★ Worth Repeating: A Literary Resurrection 1948-1994

Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language

Peregrinations: Conversations with Contemporary Artists

The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture

History and Reading: Tocqueville, Foucault, French Studies

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