1997
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() "A Blue Rose Perfume" 1974From: The Quebec Anthology |
"Un parfum bleu-rose," translated here as "A Blue Rose Perfume" by Basil Kingstone, first appeared in 1974 in the Montreal magazine Liberté. It is a simple story—a … | André Langevin | 14 | 1997 | $0.84 Add |
From ![]() "A Case of Sorcery" 1963From: The Quebec Anthology |
"L’Enchantement," translated here as "A Case of Sorcery" by David Homel, is from Ceux du Chemin-Taché (1963). "It took me many years to realize just how much … | Adrien Thério | 9 | 1997 | $0.54 Add |
From ![]() A Sketch of Ingarden’s Life, Career, and Works |
A Chronological Overview of Ingarden’s Life and Major Publications | Jeff Mitsecherling | 32 | 1997 | $3.52 Add |
From ![]() "Back on April Eleventh" 1969From: The Quebec Anthology |
"De retour le 11 avril," translated by Alan Brown as "Back on April Eleventh," first appeared in Liberté in the March-April 1969 issue, and was later reprinted in Point … | Hubert Aquin | 13 | 1997 | $0.78 Add |
From ![]() "Beach Blues" 1983From: The Quebec Anthology |
"Beach Blues," translated here by Sheila Fischman, is another of the linked stories that make up Sans coeur et sans reproche, which follows the lives of two young people from childhood … | Monique Proulx | 28 | 1997 | $1.68 Add |
From ![]() ConclusionHistory in an Age of Anxiety From: National Dreams |
Many Canadians are afflicted by perseveration of memory. They repeat the familiar myths of our history even as they must know that they no longer explain much about us. History is a … | Daniel Frances | 29 | 1997 | $0.58 Add |
From ![]() "Consuming Love" 1990From: The Quebec Anthology |
"Un amour devorant," translated here as "Consuming Love" by Matt Cohen, first appeared in the Montreal literary magazine XYZ in 1990. It is a sly tale with a delicious twist … | Claire Dé | 4 | 1997 | $0.24 Add |
From ![]() Controversy Over the Existence of the World |
An examination of several of Controversy’s central existential-ontological and formal-ontological investigations. | Jeff Mitsecherling | 43 | 1997 | $4.73 Add |
From ![]() Divided We StandThe Myth of Heroism From: National Dreams |
It has often been observed that English Canada has not produced many heroes. The overwhelming influence of American culture on Canadian lives has inhibited the emergence of homegrown greatness. … | Daniel Frances | 42 | 1997 | $1.68 Add |
From ![]() "Fleur-de-Mai" 1945From: The Quebec Anthology |
Long considered one of Quebec’s most important poets—a special issue of the literary magazine Liberté was devoted to his work in 1960—Grandbois also distinguished himself … | Alain Grandbois | 11 | 1997 | $0.66 Add |
From ![]() "Foreign Souls" 1934From: The Quebec Anthology |
From 1930 until her death in 1964, Marie le Franc also contributed stories and essays to many international journals, including Mercure de France, Liaison, and Garnets victoriens. Most of her … | Marie le Franc | 17 | 1997 | $1.02 Add |
From ![]() Great White HopeThe Myth of North From: National Dreams |
There have been writers, politicians, intellectuals who believed that it was its northernness which made Canada distinct. The "cult of the North" gained coherent expression for the … | Daniel Frances | 46 | 1997 | $1.84 Add |
From ![]() "Happiness" 1946From: The Quebec Anthology |
"Le bonheur," translated here as "Happiness" by Wayne Grady, is a tale of urban despair, taken from Ringuet’s only book of short stories, L’Heritage (1946). The … | Ringuet | 11 | 1997 | $0.66 Add |
From ![]() "Hay Fever" 1917From: The Quebec Anthology |
"La fièvre des foins," translated by Wayne Grady as "Hay Fever," was first published in 1917, and is taken here from Clapin’s Contes et nouvelles, a collection of … | Sylva Clapin | 20 | 1997 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() "How I Learned to Speak English" 1900From: The Quebec Anthology |
Fréchette was in love with language. His Originaux et détraqués is full of wild descriptions and untranslatable puns, and his later work also explores the limits of conventional … | Louis Fréchette | 5 | 1997 | $0.30 Add |
From ![]() "In My Condition" 1989From: The Quebec Anthology |
"Dans mon état," the story translated here by Matt Cohen as "In My Condition," first appeared in XYZ in 1989. Like the stories of Claire Dé, Pellerin’s blend … | Gilles Pellerin | 5 | 1997 | $0.30 Add |