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University of Toronto Quarterly - reviewed by Volume 84, Number 3, Summer 2015
Letters in Canada 2013
This annual bi-lingual ‘Letters in Canada’ issue contains reviews of the previous year’s work in Canadian fiction, poetry, drama, translations and works in the humanities. This year’s issue contains over 550 pages of the year's work in creative writing and scholarship!
ARTICLES
Emergent Fiction
Reinhold Kramer
Established Fiction
David Staines
Poetry
Brent Wood
Drama
Ann Wilson
Translations/Traductions
Agnes Whitfield
Roman 2013
Pierre Karch
Nouvelle 2013
Michel Lord
Poésie 2013
Daniel Gagnon
Théâtre 2013
Mariel O'Neill-Karch
BOOK REVIEWS
The Public Intellectual in Canada - reviewed by Peter V. Krats
The Undiscovered Country: Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture - reviewed by Jon Sufrin
Canadians and Their Pasts - reviewed by Michiel Horn
The Edge of the Precipice: Why Read Literature in the Digital Age? - reviewed by Sara Humphreys
Keepers of the Code: English-Canadian Literary Anthologies and the Representation of Nation - reviewed by Tim McIntyre
Sanctioned Ignorance: The Politics of Knowledge Production and the Teaching of Literatures in Canada - reviewed by Robert Lecker
The Metaphor of Celebrity: Canadian Poetry and the Public, 1955–1980 - reviewed by Len Early
Transcultural Imaginaries: History and Globalization in Contemporary Canadian Literature - reviewed by Elaine Chang
Writings on the Sober Life: The Art and Grace of Living Long - reviewed by Theodore J. Cachey
Roman Slavery and Roman Material Culture - reviewed by K.R. Bradley
This Is Our Life: Haida Material Heritage and Changing Museum Practice - reviewed by Simon Brascoupé
A Sea of Languages: Rethinking the Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History - reviewed by Michael G. Carter
Village among Nations: “Canadian” Mennonites in a Transnational World, 1916–2006 - reviewed by Harvey L. Dyck
Objects of Culture in the Literature of Imperial Spain - reviewed by Ana M. Gómez-Bravo
Masculindians: Conversations about Indigenous Manhood - reviewed by Danielle Jeancart
The Treacherous Imagination: Intimacy, Ethics and Autobiographical Fiction - reviewed by Ioana Luca
Dispersed but Not Destroyed: A History of the Seventeenth-Century Wendat People - reviewed by Don McIntyre
The Remarkable Chester Ronning: Proud Son of China - reviewed by Vivienne Poy
Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867–1916 - reviewed by Mark G. Spencer
Spenser's Ruins and the Art of Recollection - reviewed by Kenneth Borris
Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England - reviewed by Dorothy Ann Bray
The Forgotten: Canadian POWs, Escapers and Evaders in Europe, 1939–45 - reviewed by Allan English
Transatlantic Methodists: British Wesleyanism and the Formation of an Evangelical Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ontario and Quebec - reviewed by Christopher Evans
The Emblems of James Reaney: Magnetically Drawn - reviewed by Donald Hair
Irish Canadian Conflict and the Struggle for Irish Independence, 1912–1925 - reviewed by William Jenkins
Jeremiah Bancroft at Fort Beauséjour and Grand Pré - reviewed by Edward MacDonald
Federico Fellini: Painting in Film, Painting on Film - reviewed by Faye McIntyre
Canada between Vichy and Free France, 1940–1945 - reviewed by Karen Priestman
Defining the Modern Museum: A Case Study of the Challenges of Exchange - reviewed by Alison Syme
The Mirage of America in Contemporary Italian Literature and Film - reviewed by Eugenio Bolognaro
The Fierce Urgency of Now: Improvisation, Rights, and the Ethics of Cocreation - reviewed by Michael Cain
The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures - reviewed by Tyler Evans-Tokaryk
Fackenheim's Jewish Philosophy: An Introduction - reviewed by Graham Forst
Patrician Liberal: The Public and Private Life of Sir Henry-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, 1829–1908 - reviewed by Louis-Georges Harvey
Theatres of Opposition: Empire, Revolution, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan - reviewed by Robert W. Jones
A Small Price to Pay: Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front, 1939–45 - reviewed by Dan Malleck
Disraeli: The Romance of Politics - reviewed by John McLeod
Structures of Feeling in Seventeenth-Century Cultural Expression - reviewed by Margaret Reeves
Dada, Surrealism and the Cinematic Effect - reviewed by Bart Testa
Dire Straits: The Perils of Writing the Early Modern Coastline from Leland to Milton - reviewed by William Barker
The Left in British Columbia: A History of Struggle - reviewed by Peter Campbell
The Ends of the Body: Identity and Community in Medieval Culture - reviewed by David K. Coley
Dominion of Capital: The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914–1947 - reviewed by Benjamin Forster
Creating Women: Representation, Self-Representation, and Agency in the Renaissance - reviewed by Sally Hickson
Consuming Modernity: Gendered Behaviour and Consumerism before the Baby Boom - reviewed by Berkeley Kaite
Unlikely Diplomats: The Canadian Brigade in Germany, 1951–1964 - reviewed by Steve Marti
Parlour Games and the Public Life of Women in Renaissance Italy - reviewed by Bella Mirabella
Ecologies of the Moving Image: Cinema, Affect, Nature - reviewed by Stephen Rust
Parallel Encounters: Culture at the Canada-US Border - reviewed by Robert Thacker
From Little London to Little Bengal: Religion, Print and Modernity in Early British India, 1793–1835 - reviewed by Sandeep Banerjee
Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life - reviewed by Sandra Campbell
Wilde Discoveries: Traditions, Histories, Archives - reviewed by Joseph Donohue
Civilising the Wilderness: Culture and Nature in Pre-Confederation Canada and Rupert's Land - reviewed by Jean Friesen
Map Worlds: A History of Women in Cartography - reviewed by Janell Hobson
Sorrow's Rigging: The Novels of Cormac McCarthy, Don DeLillo, and Robert Stone - reviewed by Christopher Kocela
Milton and Questions of History: Essays by Canadians Past and Present - reviewed by Catherine Gimelli Martin
To Forget It All and Begin Anew: Reconciliation in Occupied Germany, 1944–1954 - reviewed by Eli Nathans
Stalinist City Planning: Professionals Performance, and Power - reviewed by Charles A. Ruud
Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World - reviewed by Dorothy J. Thompson
The Mystery Shopping Cart: Essays on Poetry and Culture - reviewed by Nicholas Bradley
Pascal the Philosopher: An Introduction - reviewed by Tyler Chamberlain
Austin Clarke: Essays on His Works - reviewed by Terrence Craig
The Constructed Mennonite: History, Memory, and the Second World War - reviewed by Brian Froese
Nietzsche, Freud, Benn, and the Azure Spell of Liguria - reviewed by Tove Holmes
Novel Minds: Philosophers and Romance Readers, 1680–1740 - reviewed by Gary Kelly
The World beyond Europe in the Romance Epics of Boiardo and Ariosto - reviewed by Guiseppe Mazzotta
Benjamin Disraeli Letters, 1865–1867 - reviewed by Robert O'Kell
Provincial Solidarities: A History of the New Brunswick Federation of Labour - reviewed by Eric Sager
Remodelling Communication: From WWII to the WWW - reviewed by Aaron Tucker
Arts and Science at Toronto: A History, 1827–1990 - reviewed by Paul Axelrod
Sex, Lies and Cigarettes: Canadian Women, Smoking and Visual Culture, 1880–2000 - reviewed by Nancy Christie
Haunted Narratives: Life Writing in an Age of Trauma - reviewed by Kate Douglas
The L.M. Montgomery Reader. Volume 1: A Life in Print - reviewed by Anne Furlong
Paul-Émile Borduas: A Critical Biography - reviewed by Patrick Howlett
Building Sanctuary: The Movement to Support Vietnam War Resisters in Canada, 1965–1973 - reviewed by Mark Atwood Lawrence
Place and Replace: Essays on Western Canada - reviewed by Robert McDonald
Reconciling Canada: Critical Perspectives on the Culture of Redress - reviewed by Forrest D. Pass
Canadian Cinema since the 1980s: At the Heart of the World - reviewed by Tim Schwab
Hijacking History: American Culture and the War on Terror - reviewed by John Turner
The Legends of the Saints in Old Norse-Icelandic Prose - reviewed by Geraldine Barnes
The English Boccaccio: A History in Books - reviewed by Paul Budra
Stubborn Poetries: Poetic Facticity and the Avant-Garde - reviewed by Andrew DuBois
Facing Eugenics: Reproduction, Sterilization, and the Politics of Choice - reviewed by Mark Galt
Margaret Atwood and the Labour of Literary Celebrity - reviewed by Renée Hulan
Garden Plots: Canadian Women Writers and Their Literary Gardens - reviewed by Valerie Legge
Creative Margins: Cultural Production in Canadian Suburbs - reviewed by Brandon McFarlane
Inheriting a Canoe Paddle: The Canoe in Discourses of English-Canadian Nationalism - reviewed by Thomas Peace
Germany's Western Front: Translations from the German Official History of the Great War, 1914. Part 1: The Battle of the Frontiers and Pursuit to the Marne - reviewed by Matthew S. Seligmann
Performing Autobiography: Contemporary Canadian Drama - reviewed by Kailin Wright
Mapping Canada's Music: Selected Writings of Helmut Kallmann - reviewed by Liselyn Adams
Jane Austen and Animals - reviewed by Lorraine Clark
Prayers, Petitions, and Protests: The Catholic Church and the Ontario Schools Crisis in the Windsor Border Region, 1910–1928 - reviewed by Indre Cuplinskas
Two Bicycles: The Work of Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville - reviewed by Noreen Golfman
Unfinished Business: Screening the Mafia in the New Millennium - reviewed by Pasquale Iannone
Queerly Canadian: An Introductory Reader in Sexuality Studies - reviewed by Andrew Lesk
Reel Time: Movie Exhibitors and Movie Audiences in Prairie Canada, 1896–1986 - reviewed by Brian McIlroy
Early Modern Women in Conversation - reviewed by Tara Pedersen
French and Indians in the Heart of North America, 1630–1815 - reviewed by R. Scott Sheffield
Writing Unemployment: Worklessness, Mobility, and Citizenship in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literatures - reviewed by Herb Wyile
Joe Salsberg: A Life of Commitment - reviewed by Irving Abella
Merry Hell: The Story of the 25th Battalion (Nova Scotia Regiment), Canadian Expeditionary Force, 1914–1919 - reviewed by Patrick Brennan
Philippe de Commynes: Memory, Betrayal, Text - reviewed by Paul Cohen
Producing Canadian Literature: Authors Speak on the Literary Marketplace - reviewed by Marina Endicott
Paths of Thorns: Soviet Mennonite Life under Communist and Nazi Rule - reviewed by Royden Loewen
Sporting Gender: Women Athletes and Celebrity-Making during China's National Crisis, 1931–45 - reviewed by Hui Faye Xiao
Manufacturing Mennonites: Work and Religion in Post-War Manitoba - reviewed by Robert Zacharias
“A Justifiable Obsession”: Conservative Ontario's Relations with Ottawa, 1943–1985 - reviewed by Keith Fleming
Sciences Humaines
Au cœur du sujet. Imaginaire du gène - Jean-Pierre Thomas
Attention écrivains méchants - Hugues Corriveau
Les marges de l'œuvre - Hugues Corriveau
Après tout, la littérature. Parcours d'espaces interdisciplinaires - François Paré
Le nouveau récit des frontières dans les Amériques - Marie-Élaine Bourgeois
La révélation inachevée. Le personnage à l'épreuve de la vérité romanesque - Roland Le Huenen
La transmisson narrative. Modalités du pacte romanesque contemporain - Audrey Camus
Du personnage romanesque au sujet moral. La littérature comme autre de la philosophie / Philosophie sans frontières / Philosopher au Québec. Deuxièmes entretiens - Eric Chevrette
Espagnes imaginaires du Québec - Sophie Beaulé
Imaginaires de la filiation. Héritage et mélancolie dans la littérature contemporaine des femmes - Maïté Snauwert
Le bonheur au féminin. Stratégies narratives des romancières des Lumières - Daniel Vaillancourt
Écrire au féminin au Canada français - Joëlle Papillon
Les femmes en politiques changent-elles le monde? - Liliana Rizzuto
Femmes et exils. Formes et figures - Evguénia Timoshenkova
La mélancolie des Misérables. Essai de sociocritique - Roland Le Huenen
La création cannibale. Lautréamont, Švankmajer, Kemper - Patrick Bergeron
Décadence et mort chez Barrès et Hofmannsthal. Le point doré de périr - Sébastien Côté
Foucault anonymat. Essai - David Dorais
L'Amérique selon Sartre. Littérature, philosophie, politique - Patrick Bergeron
Entre plaisir et pouvoir. Lectures contemporaines de l'érotisme - Gaëtan Brulotte
Cioran ou les vestiges du sacré dans l'écriture - Patrick Bergeron
Habiter le défaut des langues. L'analyste, l'analyse, l'écrivain: Wilfred R. Bion - ans Jürgen-Greif
Dialogue sur l'essai et la culture - Pascal Riendeau
Images et représentations de la sexualité au Québec - Adrien Rannaud
La Gazette littéraire de Montréal (1778-1779) - Sébastien Drouin
L'improbable victoire des Patriotes en 1837. Clans familiaux, alliances politiques et pouvoir « féodal » entre 1830 et 1837 dans la vallée du Richelieu - Marilyn Randall
Philippe Aubert de Gaspé mémorialiste - Renald Bérubé
Les Cahiers Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, no 1 - Jimmy Thibeault
Les Cahiers Victor-Lévy Beaulieu, no 3 - Jimmy Thibeault
Les Cahiers des Dix, no 66 - Sébastien Côté
Prendre acte. Mémoires - Renald Bérubé
Digressions - Eric Chevrette
D'un royaume à l'autre. Essai sur Pierre Vadeboncœur - Serge Fournier
Dans la nuit blanche et noire. Essais - Claude Grégoire
Le poème en recueil - Sébastien Dulude
Le sursis littéraire. Politique de Gauvreau, Miron, Aquin - Sébastien Dulude
Artaud-Gauvreau - Nicolas Tremblay
Le Ring de Robert Lepage. Une aventure scénique au Metropolitan Opera. Essai documentaire - Mariel O'neill-Karch
Le romancier portatif. 52 chroniques à emporter - Timo Obergöker
Anthologie Liberté 1959-2009. L'écrivain dans la cité. 50 ans d'essais - Gaëtan Brulotte
Perspectives sur la littérature franco-ontarienne - David Bélanger
Acadie 1972. Naissance de la modernité acadienne - Chantal Richard
Paroles et images - Daniel Long
Deleuze au cinéma. Une introduction à l'empirisme supérieur de l'image-temps - Julie Beaulieu
Imaginer le posthumain. Sociologie de l'art et archéologie d'un vertige - François-Marc Gagnon
L'art vivant. Autour de Paul-Émile Borduas - Mathilde Savard-Corbeil
Incertitude, pouvoir et résistance: les enjeux du politique dans la modernité - Sylvie Lacombe
Légendes pédagogiques. L'autodéfense intellectuelle en éducation - Marie-Élaine Lebel
Urgel-Eugène Archambault. Une vie au service de l'instruction publique - Sarah-Émile Plante
Hétérogénéité et homogénéité dans les pratiques langagières - Luc Ostiguy
Les politiques culturelles provinciales et territoriales du Canada. Origines, évolutions et mises en œuvre - Sarah-Émile Plante
Vivre sur la route. Les nouveaux nomades nord-américains - Hans Jürgen-Greif
Les autochtones ne sont pas des pandas. Histoire, autochtonie et citoyenneté québécoise - Marie-Élaine Bourgeois
Le cinéma de répertoire et ses mises en scène. Essai - Gabriel Laverdière
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