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Behind the “Powderworks”: Hannah Josephson and the Tin Flute
192CanLitSpring2007-6 3/22/07 3:29 PM Page 111 Agnes Whitfield Behind the “Powderworks”: Hannah Josephson and The Tin Flute Some time in the fall of 1946, when she was working on the English translation of Bonheur d’occasion for the New York publisher Reynal and Hitchcock, the version which would also be published in Toronto by McClelland & Stewart, the American translator Hannah Josephson com- mitted an unfortunate mistake. She was almost halfway through the book. The young heroine, Florentine, her thoughts full of Jean Lévesque, has just heard Emmanuel Létourneau’s declaration of love and wiped his kiss off her lips. Eugène, her brother, has enrolled in the army; her father, Azarius, is out of work. Her little brother Daniel’s illness is quickly worsening. Fore- shadowing the increasingly dramatic tensions of the novel, the start of the next chapter is marked by the fierce squalls of the close of winter: La fin de l’hiver s’entourait de nuages et de soudaines rafales. Tôt cet après-midi, des nuées basses s’étaient amassées sur le versant sud de la montagne et les vents avaient chargé le bas quartier. Vers huit heures du soir, la poudrerie se déchaîna. Les volets disjoints battaient; on entendait parfois comme une déchirure de zinc au toit des maisons; les arbres noirs se tordaient avec des craquements secs au coeur de leur tronc noueux; les vents crépitaient sous des poignées de grenade. Et la neige continuait à tourbil- lonner . (Roy 1945 197, my emphasis) Guided by European French usage, or simply unaware that “poudrerie” is the Quebec word for snowstorm, Josephson translated the portentous phrase, “la poudrerie se déchaîna” by “the powderworks exploded”: Canadian Literature / Spring 192CanLitSpring2007-6 3/22/07 3:29 PM Page 112 Hannah Josephson The winter was coming to an end in overcast skies and sudden squalls. -
DOCUMENT RESUME BD 055 010 SO 001 939 Project Canada West
DOCUMENT RESUME BD 055 010 SO 001 939 TITLE Project Canada West. Urbanization as Seen Through Canadian Writings. INSTITUTION Western Curriculum Project on Canada Studies, Edmonton (Alberta). PUB DATE Jun 71 NOTE 105p. EDRS PRICE 1F-$0.65 HC-$6.58 DESCRIPTORS Curriculum Development; *Environmental Education; Interdisciplinary Approach; Literature; *Literature Programs; Projects; Self Concept; Senior High Schools; Social Problems; *Social Studies; Urban Culture; Urban Environment; *Urbanization; *Urban Studies IDENTIFIERS Canada; *Project Canada West ABSTRACT Facing the reality that students have become very aware of their environment and the problems we face merely to survive, and being aware of the alienation of a person as urbanization increases, the project staff decided to develop a curriculum to examine the urban environment through the works of Canadian writers, poets, novelists, etc. IR this way, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth grade students could confront some of the major concerns; become involved personally, though vicariously, in the lives and situations of individuals; and, learn about himself, his place, his role in urban society, and his Canadian literary heritage. The content selection and coMpilation of the writings was from a national point of view related to all parts of Canadian urbanization. The materials accumulated or referred to them during six months are included here in various categories taking into consideration the physical and human elements of each work:1) Faces of the City: descriptions, rejection of and attraction to the city; 2) Faces in the City: dwellers life styles, reactions, age, ef'-nic groups, city natives; 3) Poverty; 4) Handicapped; 5)So-. Tres; and, 6) Pollution. The material discussed is very co allow for survey studies city or local studies, or intensive area studies of urban regions; and, may be used as supplementary material or as primary content. -
The Language of the Incontinent Body in Margaret Laurence's the Stone
Technologies of Identity: The Language of the Incontinent Body in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel DONNA PALMATEER PENNEE N AN ESSAY ENTITLED “Identity, Genealogy, History” Nikolas Rose explains the Foucauldian sense of “technology” that is signalled I in this paper: Technology, here, refers to any assembly structured by a practical rationality governed by a more or less conscious goal. Human tech- nologies are hybrid assemblages of knowledges, instruments, persons, systems of judgement, buildings and spaces, underpinned at the pro- grammatic level by certain presuppositions about, and objectives for, human beings.… Perhaps the insistence upon an analytic of human technologies is one of the most distinctive features of the approach, … an analysis which does not start from the view that the technologizing of human conduct is malign, but rather examines the ways in which human beings have been simultaneously capacitated and governed by their organization within a technological field. (132; emphasis added) Rose’s terms help to clarify something of what is meant by the “produc- tivity” of “power,” and, while “not start[ing] from the view that the technologizing of human conduct is malign” can permit a more complex view of the historical field than is usually available through cause-effect lenses, I want nevertheless to address the malignancy of technologies of the self. This hurtfulness of history is represented in the literal and figu- rative workings of the incontinent body in Margaret Laurence’s The Stone Angel, a novel that displays the armature of a self simultaneously capaci- tated and governed by the force fields of negative difference. -
The Canadian Writer & the Iowa Experience
THE CANADIAN WRITER & THE IOWA EXPERIENCE Anthony Bukoski Τ PURPOSE OF THIS PAPER IS TWO-FOLD: to try to piece together from interviewlHsE and correspondence I have had with a number of Canadian authors — twenty-seven to be exact — a sort of general history, a chronological overview of their involvement in the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and to try to assess the significance of that involvement not only to the writers them- selves but to Canadian literature in general. I intend hedging a bit by including some writers who became Canadians only after leaving Iowa.1 Could so many writers have studied at the same institution in the United States without its having left some mark? What attitudes about teaching creative writing or the commitment to the writer's life and craft did they form? Given the method of Workshop investigation, the fragile egos of most young writers, and the fact that the Workshop is in another country, not all of them profited from the experi- ence of studying at Iowa. Speaking of her experiences there in the late 1950's, for instance, Carol Johnson, who teaches at the University of Victoria, noted, "Writ- ers on the whole seem notorious for their unhappiness. Legends of particularly unhappy types prevailed [though not necessarily Canadians]. Since writers are apparently predisposed to neurosis, it would be safe to assume that most of them would be unhappy anywhere."2 Those who were satisfied found the programme valuable, the atmosphere con- ducive to work — though perhaps neither so attractive nor congenial as the main character finds Iowa in W. -
Canadian Books for Schools: a Centennial Listing. INSTITUTION Alberta Teachers Association, Edmonton., PUB DATE Feb 68 NOTE 68P
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 044 397 TE 000 626 AUTHOR Snow, Kathleen M., Ed. TITLE Canadian Books for Schools: A Centennial Listing. INSTITUTION Alberta Teachers Association, Edmonton., PUB DATE Feb 68 NOTE 68p. AVAILABLE FROM National Council of Teachers of English, 508 South Sixth Street, Champaign, Illinois 61820 (Stock No. 42457R, $1.50) EDRS PRICE EDRS Price MF-$0.50 HC Not Available from EDRS. DESCRIPTORS *Annotated Bibliographies, Art, *Childrens Books, Cultural Background, *Cultural Education, Drama, Elementary Education, Folklore Books, History, *Literature, Mathematics, Poetry, Sciences, Secondary Education, Social Studies; I_ENTIFIERS *Canada ABSTRACT This annotated bibliography, prepared by the English Council and School Library Council of the Alberta Teachers' Association, lists approximately 320 works -- including novels, biographies, plays, nofiction and historical books, children's books, and books of short stories--written by Canadian authors abou'. Canada. For each entry, the information provided includes grade level (pre-K to High School), subject relevance (Art, Mathematics, Social Studies, Science, or English), Dewey classification number, and price. (3M) U.S. 01104491 OF MIK MVO & WEIF/11 OFFI(fOf IDU01)01 IIIIS DIXUSIIII P KR 191000(11 flICtlf AS IMMO 11011SME 111S011 01 010410111101 0141111116 It.P0I, ItS Of filfW 01 MIMS SIAM 00 NO SECISS11111 11111S1111 OffICIII U110, Of IDOCA11011 OS 10111101 01 POSKI. re\ CanadianBooks for Schools A CentennialListing of Published by The English Counciland School library Council The Alberta Teacher? Association,Edmonton, Alberta February, 1968 Como deep by John Snow INTRODUCTION in the effort to bring children and books together, the teacher of English and the librarian are partners.This partnership Is reflected In this listing of Canadian books for schools, the production of which has been a joint effort of the English Council and the School Library Council of The Alberta Teachers' Association. -
Women's Literature and Gender Studies
Revised Spring 2019 WESTERN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH PhD QUALIFYING EXAMINATION READING LIST English 9920 (SF)/ 9940 (PF) WOMEN’S LITERATURE AND GENDER STUDIES RUBRIC Candidates writing the secondary exam should select three sub-fields, including gender studies, on which to focus. From these fields, candidates should select 80 texts, divided roughly equally among the three fields. (Often several texts are listed per author; you may choose as few or many texts listed per author as you wish to make up your totals.) If the candidate wishes, they may add up to 5 texts not represented on this list to their final roster. These additions must be made in consultation with the committee. Candidates writing the primary exam should select four sub-fields, including gender studies, on which to focus. From these fields, candidates should select 100 texts, divided roughly equally among the four fields. (Often several texts are listed per author; you may choose as few or many texts listed per author as you wish to make up your totals.) If the candidate wishes, they may add up to 10 texts not represented on this list to their final roster. These additions must be made in consultation with the committee. Note that in subfields 1-5, texts are listed broadly chronologically, from earliest to latest; in subfield 6, texts are listed alphabetically. Subfield 1: Literature by Women pre-1850 Angela of Foligno, Angela of Foligno’s Memorial, trans. John Cirignano (Boydell and Brewer, 2000) St. Bridget of Sweden, Life and Selected Revelations of Birgitta of Sweden, trans. Albert Ryle Kezel (Ed. -
Sheila Watson Fonds Finding Guide
SHEILA WATSON FONDS FINDING GUIDE SPECIAL COLLECTIONS JOHN M. KELLY LIBRARY | UNIVERSITY OF ST. MICHAEL’S COLLEGE 113 ST. JOSEPH STREET TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA M5S 1J4 ARRANGED AND DESCRIBED BY ANNA ST.ONGE CONTRACT ARCHIVIST JUNE 2007 (LAST UPDATED SEPTEMBER 2012) TABLE OF CONTENTS TAB Part I : Fonds – level description…………………………………………………………A Biographical Sketch HiStory of the Sheila WatSon fondS Extent of fondS DeScription of PaperS AcceSS, copyright and publiShing reStrictionS Note on Arrangement of materialS Related materialS from other fondS and Special collectionS Part II : Series – level descriptions………………………………………………………..B SerieS 1.0. DiarieS, reading journalS and day plannerS………………………………………...1 FileS 2006 01 01 – 2006 01 29 SerieS 2.0 ManuScriptS and draftS……………………………………………………………2 Sub-SerieS 2.1. NovelS Sub-SerieS 2.2. Short StorieS Sub-SerieS 2.3. Poetry Sub-SerieS 2.4. Non-fiction SerieS 3.0 General correSpondence…………………………………………………………..3 Sub-SerieS 3.1. Outgoing correSpondence Sub-SerieS 3.2. Incoming correSpondence SerieS 4.0 PubliShing records and buSineSS correSpondence………………………………….4 SerieS 5.0 ProfeSSional activitieS materialS……………………………………………………5 Sub-SerieS 5.1. Editorial, collaborative and contributive materialS Sub-SerieS 5.2. Canada Council paperS Sub-SerieS 5.3. Public readingS, interviewS and conference material SerieS 6.0 Student material…………………………………………………………………...6 SerieS 7.0 Teaching material………………………………………………………………….7 Sub-SerieS 7.1. Elementary and secondary school teaching material Sub-SerieS 7.2. UniverSity of BritiSh Columbia teaching material Sub-SerieS 7.3. UniverSity of Toronto teaching material Sub-SerieS 7.4. UniverSity of Alberta teaching material Sub-SerieS 7.5. PoSt-retirement teaching material SerieS 8.0 Research and reference materialS…………………………………………………..8 Sub-serieS 8.1. -
Uncovering the Grotesque in Fiction by Alice Munro and Gabrielle Roy
Uncovering the Grotesque in Fiction by Alice Munro and Gabrielle Roy Lorna Hutchison he grotesque aesthetic is at play in a diversity of fiction of the last two hundred years, including Jeremias Gotthelf’s The Black Spider (1842), Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of TDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915), and numerous works by Flannery O’Connor in the mid-twentieth century, to name only a few. Today, the grotesque is a part of the art of many of Canada’s authors and has burgeoned over the last forty years into such an important aesthetic — and strategy, as I will describe it here — in this country’s body of works that the literary theory that helps read- ers, critics, and teachers to explore the many concerns, processes, and, most importantly here, effects of the literature has not kept up with its developments. The prominence of the grotesque and the doors it opens to questions of spirituality, ethics, ways of knowing, and so much more, prompts the research question What does and does not “qualify” as literature of the grotesque? Consider two quintessential characteristics of the grotesque: dual- ity and deformity. In the Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, for example, the divided nature and deformity of Stevenson’s Jekyll-Hyde character clearly fulfills these criteria, right down to the contradiction of Jekyll-Hyde’s ominous smile: “Mr. Hyde was pale and dwarfish, he gave an impression of deformity without any nameable malformation, he had a displeasing smile” (17). One of the authors under study here, Alice Munro, creates the aesthetic through depicting contradictory states of life and death, or life and terminal illness. -
Index to the Tamarack Review
The Tamarack Review ROBERT WEAVER, IVON M. OWEN, WILLIAM TOYE WILLIAM KILBOURNE, JOHN ROBERT COLOMBO, KILDARE DOBBS AND JANIS RAPOPORT Issue 1 Issue 21 Issue 41 Issue 62 Issue 2 Issue 22 Issue 42 Issue 63 Issue 3 Issue 23 Issue 43 Issue 64 Issue 4 Issue 24 Issue 44 Issue 65 Issue 5 Issue 25 Issue 45 Issue 66 Issue 6 Issue 26 Issue 46 Issue 67 Issue 7 Issue 27 Issue 47 Issue 68 Issue 8 Issue 28 Issue 48 Issue 69 Issue 9 Issue 29 Issue 49 Issue 70 Issue 10 Issue 30 Issue 50-1 Issue 71 Issue 11 Issue 31 Issue 52 Issue 72 Issue 12 Issue 32 Issue 53 Issue 73 Issue 13 Issue 33 Issue 54 Issue 74 Issue 14 Issue 34 Issue 55 Issue 75 Issue 15 Issue 35 Issue 56 Issue 76 Issue 16 Issue 36 Issue 57 Issue 77-8 Issue 17 Issue 37 Issue 58 Issue 79 Issue 18 Issue 38 Issue 59 Issue 80 Issue 19 Issue 39 Issue 60 Issue 81-2 Issue 20 Issue 40 Issue 61 Issue 83-4 ISBN 978-1-55246-804-3 The Tamarack Review Index Volume 81-84 “109 Poets.” Rosemary Aubert article 81- Bickerstaff 83-84:40 82:94-99 “Concerning a Certain Thing Called “A Deposition” J.D. Carpenter poem 81- Houths” Robert Priest poem 81- 82:8-9 82:68-69 “A Mansion in Winter” Daniel David “Control Data” Chris Dewdney, poem, Moses poem 81-82:30-31 81-82:21 “Above an Excavation” Al Moritz poem “Croquet” Al Moritz poem 83-84:98 83-84:99 “Daybook” Ken Cathers poem 81-82:10- “Again” Al Moritz poem 83-84:101 11 “Air Show” J.D. -
The Novelist and the Nun: Two Sisters, One Bond
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works All Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects 5-2019 The Novelist and the Nun: Two Sisters, One Bond Kathleen J. Gaffney The Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3113 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] THE NOVELIST AND THE NUN: TWO SISTERS, ONE BOND by KATHLEEN J. GAFFNEY A master’s thesis submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Liberal Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, The City University of New York 2019 © 2019 KATHLEEN J. GAFFNEY All Rights Reserved ii The Novelist and the Nun: Two Sisters, One Bond by Kathleen J. Gaffney This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Liberal Studies in satisfaction of the thesis requirement for the degree of Master of Arts. Date Blanche Wiesen Cook Thesis Advisor Date Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis Executive Officer THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii ABSTRACT The Novelist and the Nun: Two Sisters, One Bond by Kathleen J. Gaffney Advisor: Blanche Wiesen Cook Gabrielle Roy (1909 - 1983) was a French-Canadian author, journalist and teacher. She was also my third cousin, first cousin of my grandfather, Stephen McEachran. She wrote fiction and nonfiction in the latter part of the twentieth century and her work spotlighted Canada’s poor, immigrants, and marginalized women. -
Dover Thrift Editions Page 1
Dover Thrift Editions An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge and Other Stories Ambrose Bierce $3.50 The Adventure of the Dancing Men and Other Sherlock Holmes Stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle $1.50 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Mark Twain $2.00 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Mark Twain $3.50 The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton $3.00 Agnes Grey Anne Bronte $4.50 Alexander's Bridge Willa Cather $2.00 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll $2.00 Almayer's Folly Joseph Conrad $2.50 The Ambassadors Henry James $3.50 Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy, Louise and Aylmer Maude $5.00 Around the World in Eighty Days Jules Verne $3.50 The Aspern Papers Henry James $1.50 At Fault Kate Chopin $4.00 The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man James Weldon Johnson $2.50 The Awakening Kate Chopin $2.00 Babbitt Sinclair Lewis $3.50 Bartleby and Benito Cereno Herman Melville $2.00 The Beast in the Jungle and Other Stories Henry James $3.50 Beowulf R. K. Gordon $2.50 The Blithedale Romance Nathaniel Hawthorne $3.00 The Body Snatcher and Other Tales Robert Louis Stevenson $1.50 A Bottomless Grave: and Other Victorian Tales of Terror Hugh Lamb ed. $3.50 The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Constance Garnett $5.00 Bulfinch’s Greek and Roman Mythology: The Age of Fable Thomas Bulfinch $3.50 The Call of the Wild Jack London $2.00 Candide Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet $1.50 The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories Oscar Wilde $2.50 The Castle of Otranto Horace Walpole $2.50 A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens $1.00 Civil War Stories Ambrose Bierce $3.00 Classic Ghost Stories by Wilkie Collins, M. -
The Protagonists' Initiatory Experiences in the Canadian
THE PROTAGONISTS' INITIATORY EXPERIENCES IN THE CANADIAN J3ILDUNGSROMAN: 1908--1971 by GORDON PHILIP TURNER B. A'., M. A., University of Saskatchewan, 1973 A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF -' DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY . in THE FACULTY OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Department of English) We accept this dissertation as conforming to the required standard THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA April, 1979 © Gordon Philip Turner, 1979 In presenting this thesis in partial fulfilment of the requirements for an advanced degree at the University of British Columbia, I agree that the Library' shall make it freely available for reference and study. I further agree that permission for extensive copying of this thesis for scholarly purposes may be granted by the Head of my Department or by his representatives. It is understood that copying or publication of this thesis for financial gain shall not be allowed without my written permission. Department of The University of Britis Columbia 2075 Wesbrook Place Vancouver, Canada V6T 1W5 Date Research Supervisor Dr. Donald G. Stephens ABSTRACT This study examines several aspects of the 20th century Canadian Bildungsroman, most particularly the protagonists' initiatory experiences and their effect upon ultimate life- choices. The growing up novels being explored range across the entire period from Anne of Green Gables (1908) to Lives of Girls and Women (1971). The kind of novel analyzed is comparable in many ways to what the Germans call the Entwick1ungsroman, the novel-of-devel- opment, which in English has come under the all-encompassing term, the Bildungsroman. Each novel investigated begins some• where in the protagonist's childhood, passes into and through the troubled stage of adolescence, and concludes with some con• nection to adulthood.