University of Toronto Quarterly 

Volume 81, Number 2, Spring 2012 

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This issue contains: 

Eighteenth-Century Literary Precursors of Mrs Warren’s Profession

Brad Kent            

Bernard Shaw’s Mrs Warren’s Profession is almost solely discussed in terms
of its portrayal of prostitution in relation to the theatre of its day. In
this light, his work is defined as a decisive break with what came before
it. But Shaw warned against this tendency to label literature that
challenges contemporary norms as necessarily original. Instead, he called on
his audience to recognize the cyclical nature of literature, noting that
what is new to one generation is most often merely that which was discarded
by the previous one. By adopting the longer view, this essay examines Mrs
Warren’s Profession alongside some well-known prostitute narratives of the
eighteenth century to argue that while Shaw might have overturned one
tradition, there is much to suggest that he concurrently tapped into
another.

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DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.187

 

Le motif du loup chez Rachilde: la règle de l’interdit

François Ouellet               

Cet article propose une lecture d’un roman de Rachilde, Le meneur de louves
(1905), où le motif du loup sert à mettre en valeur la prédominance d’un
imaginaire régulé par l’interdit de l’inceste. À l’encontre de la critique
féministe pour laquelle Rachilde est une auteure qui prescrit un discours
amoureux qui pervertit les rapports traditionnels entre l’homme et la femme,
il s’agit ici de faire voir comment la volonté de « refaire l’amour » des
personnages est imposée par un interdit qui dicte au texte sa lettre. Ce qui
écrit le texte, c’est la règle de l’interdit, le discours féministe n’étant
alors que le reflet idéologique d’un effet de texte que Rachilde n’a jamais
voulu ni cautionné. 

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DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.208

 

Impossible Alternatives to Tom Sawyer’s Delusions in Twain and Adorno

Christopher D. Morris    

Theodor Adorno’s adaptation of Tom Sawyer depicts it as a precursor to his
negative dialectic, which Derrida saw as resembling deconstruction in
attempting to articulate the ‘possibility of the impossible.’ The lack of
any authentic alternative to Tom, the epitome of America’s delusion, is
allegorized when Joe is first posited as ‘wholly other,’ then contained by
the hegemonic, referential discourses of St Petersburg. Adorno similarly
makes clear that Huck, like Joe, can’t resist such assimilation. This
reading of Tom Sawyer is consistent with Twain’s tall tales and travel
writings. Unsuccessful efforts to imagine an alternative to Tom’s world also
characterize the collusive voice of Twain the narrator of Tom Sawyer.

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DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.219

 

Pure Persuasion: Metarhetorical Motives in Kenneth Burke’s Towards a Better
Life

Jonathan Butler                

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DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.246

On Judging with Care and the Responsibility of an Heir: Reading Eden
Robinson’s Monkey Beach

Lydia Efthymia Roupakia               

How easy is it for Western readers of contemporary Native literature to
suspend their goal-oriented consciousness when approaching Native
‘otherness’? Existing critical interpretations of Eden Robinson’s novel
Monkey Beach attest to the ways in which cultural difference elicits
politicized reading practices and romanticizing hermeneutical gestures. Yet
Monkey Beach alerts the attentive reader against the pitfalls of approaching
difference through inherited interpretative templates. Eden Robinson refuses
to enlist her protagonist as a player in the politicized ‘games’ of cultural
authenticity, postcolonial resistance, or cultural hybridity. Rather, the
novel invites the reader to reflect on the complexities of ‘judging with
care,’ a term Selma Sevenhuijsen uses to describe a situated form of
postmodern feminist ethics in her study Citizenship and the Ethics of Care.
More precisely, Monkey Beach asks the reader to do justice to the novel’s
formal elaboration of responsible judgement as a process that involves both
‘an active engagement’ with the other and ‘a letting-go’ in the face of
‘Otherness’ (Attridge 130).

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DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.279

 

Mending the Acadian Diaspora: Strategies of Remediation in Nicolas Dickner’s
Nikolski (2005)

Laurence M. Porter         

Dickner’s brilliant, witty first novel finds inspiration in the parody and
paradox of the OULIPO writers, Jorge Luís Borges, and Michel Tournier –
particularly the latter’s ingenious exploitation of the archetype of
inversion. Nikolski’s thematic deep structure, however, derives from Herman
Melville’s Moby-Dick and from the stories of Jonah (Jonas, in French) and
Noah in the Book of Genesis. Through the mediation of these intertexts,
Dickner reflects on the tragic diaspora of the Acadians starting with their
violent deportation from the Maritime Provinces in 1755. Three contemporary
Acadian protagonists (one may be descended from Caribbean pirates, one is
half Native American, and one half Québécois) separately attempt to
reconstitute their lost culture. They transcend their initial failures,
forsaking paralyzing nostalgia to join new, multiethnic communities of
marginalized peoples. Thus Dickner updates the reparative efforts of
Longfellow’s Evangeline and Antonine Maillet’s folk epic Pélagie la
charrette, with his thoroughly urban, postmodern sensibility.

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DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.297

 

Photographie et récit de filiation: L’Africain de J. M. G. Le Clézio

Béatrice Vernier-Larochette       

Dans le court récit intitulé L’Africain, J. M. G. Le Clézio évoque son père
en alliant souvenirs personnels et photos prises par ce médecin en Afrique
dans les années 1930. Le Clézio a cependant délibérément soustrait au public
l’image paternelle puisqu’elle n’apparaît pas sur les clichés insérés au
récit. Cette étude vise à saisir le rôle de la photographie dans cet écrit
en tant que « récit de filiation » où l’auteur retrace la vie d’un ascendant
décédé resté énigmatique. Nous montrons que les photos commentées et
exposées soutiennent l’entreprise de (re)découverte du père, le réhabilitent
par rapport à son travail de médecin pionnier durant la colonisation.
L’absence de représentation paternelle a pour objectif d’insister sur
l’importance de l’Afrique dans la vie de cet homme et dans celle de Le
Clézio puisque ce dernier découvre que c’est ce continent qui le relie à cet
homme.

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DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.265

 

Israel in Early Modern England

Paul Stevens      

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DOI: 10.3138/UTQ.81.2.313

 

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