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Machiavelli and Fascism
Authors: Stewart Herbert
Published: March 2013

The purpose of this article is to discuss an alleged intimacy of connection between the doctrines of Fascism and Machiavelli's theory of the state. Nothing could be easier than to point out numerous resemblances in detail, and the devotion many times avowed by Mussolini to his Machiavellian inheritance may be quoted as dispensing the investigator from further trouble. But superficial resemblances are often limited to the surface, and no one is likely to accept Mussolini's self-analysis as closing the question, in view of the many examples of men great in action but confused in theory. The Fascist dictator has recorded his belief that The Prince is the supreme guide to statesmanship, avowing his desire to preserve close contact between its doctrine and his own life: “between Machiavelli's thoughts and my thoughts on men and affairs, between Machiavelli's practice and my practice in governing.” The question is as to the success with which that purpose has been pursued.
José Ortega Y Gasset
Authors: Weyl Helene
Published: March 2013

A circle of men in a room high above one of the chief arteries of Madrid where the shrill life of the hot, dry city roars on and on, relentlessly, until the small hours of the night. Looming through the blue cigarette smoke, a group of haggard masklike faces—the masklike faces of an old race that by long tradition has learn t to hide its feelings—a group of Spanish faces like those in El Greco's great painting “The Burial of the Count Orgaz.”
Montesquieu and Penal Law Reform in England
Authors: Fletcher
Published: March 2013

In Montesquieu's philosophy, laws in general are necessary relationships inherent in the very nature of things. Civil laws may therefore be said to have a double function: on the passive side, they define “natural” relationships between different people and things; on the active side, they aim at reknitting “natural” relationships that have been dissolved. It is in this latter function that they may become penal.
Reviews
Authors: Kennedy  , Norwood Gilbert , Underhill Frank
Published: March 2013

A. Berriedale Keith, Letters and Essays on Current Imperial and International Problems, 1935–6, reviewed by W. P. M. Kennedy

A. Berriedale Keith, The King and the Imperial Crown: The Powers and Duties of His Majesty, reviewed by W. P. M. Kennedy

W. Ivor Jennings, Cabinet Government, reviewed by W. P. M. Kennedy

A. V. Evatt, The King and His Dominion Governors, reviewed by W. P. M. Kennedy

Douglas Bush, Mythology and the Romantic Tradition in English Poetry, reviewed by Gilbert Norwood

War Memoirs of David Lloyd George, V, VI, reviewed by Frank H. Underhill
Humanities
Authors: Hayne Barry
Published: March 2013

Reviews of books on the humanities published in Canada in 1989.
Romans
Authors: Paterson Janet , Hebert Pierre
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian fiction published in Canada in 1989.
Poetry
Authors: Hatch Ronald
Published: March 2013

Reviews of poetry published in Canada in 1989.
Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale: Scheherazade in Dystopia
Authors: Stein Karen
Published: March 2013

Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale is narrated by a Scheherazade of the future, telling her story to save her life. But whereas the Sultan of the Arabian Nights asks for Scheherazade's stories, Atwood's handmaid is locked into silence; to tell her tale is to risk her life. Her narrative itself is a criminal act, performed in secret and lost for many years. By narrating the story of the repressive republic of Gilead, the handmaid inscribes both her victimization and her resistance. Built on a woman's desire to tell her story, the novel is a provocative inquiry into the origins and meanings of narrative. Among the issues it explores are, first, the narrator's relation to her tale: the simultaneous fear and desire to narrate one's story, and the attempt to create a self through language; second, the nature of narrative itself: the ambiguity of language, and the multiplicity of interpretation.
Austin's Swink
Authors: Ricks Christopher
Published: March 2013

The author of How to do things with Words knew how to do things with such wording as constitutes allusion—as is clear from J.L. Austin's having given the world Sense and Sensibilia. The famous joke, which is not without pride and prejudice, is more than a quip because the displaced word sensibility so much enters, not into the equation, but into the opposite of equation. For a start, the register of 'sensibilia' is deliciously registered as cold-shouldering the warm thought of 'sensibility.'
Comments
Authors: Ammons  , Atwood Margaret , Clampitt Amy , Hecht Anthony , Johnston George , Macpherson Jay , Maillet Antonine , Merrill James , Hollander John
Published: March 2013

A number of writers, chiefly poets, generously took time from their own work to respond to my request for comments on the practice of alluding. Some wrote to say they could not write, but wrote so well that I asked if I might extract from a letter (Anthony Hecht) or print a very short statement. I am grateful to all contributors, here and elsewhere. (E. C.)
Introduction: Situating Knowledge
Authors: Hutcheon Linda
Published: March 2013

When Jean-François Lyotard entitled his 'report on knowledge' for the Quebec government in the 1970s the 'postmodern condition,' he gave a (much contested) label to something important that was happening in our familiar European-based culture's concept of what constitutes knowledge. Whether our own view of this and the rhetoric in which we might choose to talk about it suggest crisis or opportunity may be a question of temperament, but most of us have to face daily the consequences of the Age of Information Technology. For educators, this means that we can no longer assume that training within a discipline is simply a matter of the acquisition of something unproblematically called 'knowledge.' In a time of information overload, as Lyotard pointed out, the question of 'who will know? cannot be separated from the brute fact that it is efficiency of information transmission that will likely legislate available knowledge. Some commentators have seen universities as failing in their traditional role here and point to the proliferation of commercial information storage and retrieval systems as proof that institutions of hjgher education are no longer 'the privileged site of research and the sole repository of "advanced" knowledge.'
The 'Primitive,' the 'Real,' and the 'World System': Knowledge Producion in Comtemporary Anthropology
Authors: McCallum Pamela
Published: March 2013

There can be no doubt that the theorizing of those writers who have defined the postmodern movement—Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-François Lyotard, and Richard Rorty among others—has produced a number of arguments which offer a substantial challenge to the assumptions of traditional Western philosophy. While it would be misleading to suggest that the writings of these critics form a monolith unity, it is nevertheless possible to point to a number overlapping themes and motifs in their arguments. The body of work which has become known as postmodem theory is suspicious of Western rationalism's claims that a neutral and objective reason can formulate accurate, unbiased knowledge; it is suspicious of any assumption that human reason is homogeneous and universal, unaffected by the specific experiences of the individual knower; it is suspicious of the presupposition that knowledge is generated from a free play of the intelligence and is not bound up with or implicated in forms of power and systems of domination. To raise such questions is to imply that the goal, purpose, and justification of knowledge can no longer be unreflectively defined as a pursuit of an absolute, timeless truth.
Whose Classroom Is It Anyway? Teaching and Researching in the Humanities fom a Transdisciplinary Perspective
Authors: Gilman Sander
Published: March 2013

When I stand before a classroom fun of undergraduates or sit in a 'seminar with graduate students, the common wisdom is that I —as a teacher and scholar—will present some corner of the knowledge in my field. I am an 'expert' and, to the best of my ability, my job should be to illuminate the unknowing about my subject matter. But where does the 'knowledge' come from? Is it simply the product of historical accretion, the accumulation of the knowledge and questions of the past, or do I, the expert, help shape, change, and focus it? The Straussian assumption that knowledge is 'found' that it is passed down uninterpreted from those great thinkers in the past, has again reappeared in recent attacks on the American (and I am certain soon on the Canadian) university. 'We must return to the canon of texts which form the absolute basis of Western Knowledge!' shout the critics, from the philosopher Alan Bloom to Lynne Cheney, the director of the National Endowment for the Humanities. 'Teachers are spending too much time doing needless, pointless scholarship!' they cry. 'What they should be doing is teaching (and the more students the better)!' resounds the solution. And this cry for 'productivity' is echoed in the administrative halls of many universities.
Legitimating Change: The Decrees on Bastardy during the French Revolution
Authors: McDonald Christie
Published: March 2013

Concerns surrounding birth—the birth of children, the birth of societies—figure strongly in contemporary political consciousness from eastern Europe to North America. Whether it be the visible political events of eastern Europe and the Soviet Union since 1989, or the less visible but equally revolutionary changes in reproductive technologies (in vitro fertilization, test-tube babies, egg and sperm banks), one has the sense that change may be one of the only constants as this century nears its close. Yet understanding what is at stake for the future seems at best fragmentary. The question that I will address here is how the debates around maternity and birth express the malaise of society and the malaise of political change, how sociopolitical problems become intelligible through images of individual struggle involving family relations, and further, how the discourse on the family and filiation transforms epistemological concerns about the basis for discovering knowledge into the performance of change.
Epilogue
Authors: Chamberlin
Published: March 2013

Knowledge is necessary for two things: survival and power. And all of us are in the business of both. Anybody who has been in touch with the natural or the supernatural worlds within which we negotiate them will recognize that the notion of truth, from which knowledge is typically distinguished, is mostly a distraction. On the other hand, knowledge, unlike truth, is not usually available through traditions of bearing witness, which tend to be represented in certain secular and sacred institutions (such as churches and courts) and in the hermeneutic practices of the academy. All societies recognize that knowledge requires specialists charged with the responsibility for interpreting the wisdom of the community, consolidating the conditions for its survival and maintaining the sources of its power. In recent years, by which I mean the past several hundred, we have got into the pernicious habit of distinguishing between specialists who work in the yard and those who work in the tower.
Against Nature? Science and Oscar Wilde
Authors: Foster John Wilson
Published: March 2013

Late and soon, W.B. Yeats identified science as a culprit standing in dangerous opposition to art and imagination. In 1897, in 'The Celtic Element in Literature,' he welcomed a widespread reaction 'against the rationalism of the eighteenth century' which was mingling 'with a reaction against the materialism of the nineteenth century,' a reaction he identified in literature as 'the symbolical movement.' In 1900, he told Shaw in debate that Shaw belonged 'to a bygone generation — to the scientific epoch — and was now "reactionary." Shaw was not amused. In 1921, the poet recalled his detestation of T.H. Huxley and the famous (Irish-born) physicist John Tyndall who had deprived him of 'the simple-minded religion' of his childhood. His 1934 essay, 'Louis Lambert,' put the nineteenth century's most famous scientist in the dock for 'what our instinct repudiates, Darwin's exaltation of accidental variations.' Given such sentiments, one detects approval in Yeats's 1936 remembrance of Lionel Johnson as a Rhymers' Club-man who asserted that 'science must be confined to the kitchen or the workshop, that it could discover nothing of importance.'
Locking George Sand in the Attic: Female Passion and Domestic Realism in the Victorian Novel
Authors: Perkin J. Russell
Published: March 2013

George Sand's fiction was widely read in England in the nineteenth century, perhaps more widely than that of any other foreign author of note. As Patricia Thomson notes, although Sand's 'influence on the Victorian reading public and, more importantly, on Victorian writers was enormous ... it has now been almost completely forgotten' (1). Today Sand is known most often for the details of her personal life (recently the subject of the rather fanciful movie Impromptu), though there has been something of a renaissance of critical interest among scholars of French literature, and there have been two studies of her influence on Victorian literature. However, it seems that the effects of these studies have not been fully assimilated by students of English literature, judging by the relative scarcity of references to Sand in criticism of major Victorian writers.
'Transfigured to His Likeness': Sensible Transcendentalism in Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market'
Authors: Marshall Linda
Published: March 2013

Announcing their primacy, Christina Rossetti's fairy tales anchor her first two collections of poetry. 'Goblin Market' and 'The Prince's Progress' begin and title the volumes of 1862 and 1866, and 'Maiden-Song' follows directly on 'The Prince's Progress' in 1866; these three poems inaugurate, in their original order, the 1875 and 1890 'new and enlarged' editions of her poems. Their positioning at the beginnings of sequences that conclude with 'Devotional Pieces' suggests that these texts, for all their priority, belong to the more secularized band of Rossetti's poetic spectrum. Indeed, in her concordance The Bible and the Poetry of Christina Rossetti, Nilda Jiménez finds no scriptural echoes in any of these poems, an absence truly remarkable given the ubiquity of scriptural resonance in Rossetti's work. Her brother William Michael speculated that removal of Biblical references and diction from Christina Rossetti's poems would reduce her pages 'to something approaching a vacuum': 'the Bible was so much her rule of life and faith that it had almost become a part of herself, and she uttered herself accordingly' (Preface, Golden Treasury Poems, xii). Despite the appearance of a biblical vacuum in her fairy tales, however, they do in truth call up Scripture and speak Rossetti's Christian devotion through and through, but in ways, it may be, inapparent to our usual apprehensions of religious utterance. The alleged 'godlessness' of 'Goblin Market' in particular recommends that fairy tale to Germaine Greer, who otherwise dismisses much of Rossetti's verse as pious nonsense (x, vii, xxii); but even Jerome McGann, who contra Greer sensitively confirms the Christian 'machinery' of the poem, locates its metaphorical operations on 'secular grounds' (237–8, 247, 251).
Translations
Authors: Koustas Jane
Published: March 2013

Reviews of literary translations published in Canada in 1993.
Poetry
Authors: Tregebov Rhea
Published: March 2013

Reviews of poetry published in Canada in 1993.
Drama
Authors: Knowles Richard Paul
Published: March 2013

Reviews of drama published in Canada in 1993.
A Lifetime in English Studies
Authors: Blissett William
Published: March 2013

Now retired from teaching, I am often asked what I chiefly miss, and candour compels the answer, `the sound of my own voice holding forth in the classroom,' to which I hastily add, `the antiphonal sound of my students putting up resistance or adding their own insights, at first feeble, later spirited.' A.S.P. Woodhouse used to say, with his great laugh: `two years ago I gave up thinking, a year ago I gave up reading, this year I gave up writing, and so I am ready to say something about education.'
An Introduction to W. M. Tweedie's 'Inaugural Address' of 1888
Authors: Tilson Alistair
Published: March 2013

In 1878, W.M. Tweedie, a son of the manse, entered Mount Allison Wesleyan College (now Mount Allison University) in Sackville, New Brunswick as one of eleven freshmen. After four years of study which included some mathematics, botany, and chemistry, in addition to Latin, Greek, rhetoric, and English language and literature, he graduated with a BA in 1882, having won prizes in philology and English literature. In the fall of that year it was announced that he had won a Gilchrist scholarship for university studies at Edinburgh or London. On 29 September, after a dinner in his honour complete with 'a gorgeous array of steaming fowls and rich pastrys' (Archibald Papers), he began his journey to England to matriculate at London University, then the leading centre for the study of English language and literature. He graduated from London with a second BA in 1884, having won prizes for English,Latin,and Anglo-Saxon.In 1885,1886,and 1887, he spent many months in Heidelberg, perfecting his knowledge of German, and in June of 1887 he successfully passed the London MA examinations in English and German languages and literatures and was awarded the degree.
`Address,' Queen's University 1889
Authors: Cappon James
Published: March 2013

My subject to-night is the teaching of English in universities. Some seven or eight months ago it happened that an appointment was being made in this department in a neighboring university, and as a consequence the correspondence columns of the Toronto Mail were for a week or two filled with letters on the subject. Most of these letters enumerated the qualifications which, in the opinion of the writers, a university teacher of English ought to possess; and I, being myself a university teacher of English, was filled with admiration, not unmixed at times with terror to see the very liberal notions which these writers entertained regarding the acquirements of a professor of English.
Fiction
Authors: Goldman Marlene , Heffernan Teresa , Craig
Published: March 2013

Reviews of fiction published in Canada in 1994.
Theatre
Authors: O'Neill-Karch Mariel
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian books on theatre published in 1994.
Humanities
Authors: Pecher Edward , MacPherson Jay , Cameron Elspeth
Published: March 2013

Reviews of books on the humanities published in Canada in 1994.
Poesie
Authors: Cloutier Cécile
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian poetry published in Canada in 1994.
Castles on the Cortex; or, Medieval Scholasticism Revisited
Authors: MacIvor Heather
Published: March 2013

The University is not in ruins, though it is tempting to conclude otherwise at a time of shrinking budgets and declining public esteem. To suggest that the University is in ruins is to imply that it was once whole, to hark back to a `golden age' of the university when all students were gifted, colleagues respected each other, the citizenry bowed when a professor walked among them, and money flowed like water. We know that there has never been such a golden age, and yet we continue to evoke it. We complain about our students, imagining that in some bygone age all undergraduates wrote clearly and fluently, respected the professor's authority, loved learning for its own sake, and breached the portals of the library more often than those of the pub. But most of the problems facing the University today are not new. Therefore, I must disagree with the metaphor in the title of Bill Readings's book.
Redesigning the Ruins
Authors: Neuman Shirley
Published: March 2013

Universities around the world have lost much more than what Bill Readings in The University in Ruins describes as their founding Idea—whether that Idea be Reason or Culture —and their national cultural mission. They have lost their monopoly on the production of knowledge—on its discovery, its synthesis, its evaluation, and its teaching. They have lost very significant public funding. And they have lost their Olympian freedom from forms of accountability that include, but are by no means restricted to, what Readings describes as forms of accounting.
Fiction
Authors: Heble Ajay
Published: March 2013

Reviews of fiction published in Canada in 1996.
Humanities
Authors: Duffy Dennis , Smith Rowland , Brazeau Raymond
Published: March 2013

Reviews of books on the humanities published in Canada in 1996.
Conte et Nouvelle
Authors: Lord Michel
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian fiction published in Canada in 1996.
Poésie
Authors: Chamberland Roger
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian poetry published in Canada in 1996.
Sciences humaines
Authors: Portelance Christine , Michaud Ginette , Fortier Frances
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian social sciences published in Canada in 1996.
Drama
Authors: Knowles Richard Paul
Published: March 2013

Reviews of drama published in Canada in 1996.
Translations
Authors: Koustas Jane
Published: March 2013

Reviews of literary translations published in Canada in 1996.
Voices of Opera: Performance, Production, Interpretation
Authors: Doherty Mike , Reiman Erika
Published: March 2013

Opera's recent resurgence as a popular theatrical form may be attributed in part to its multivocality. The voices of opera are not simply the physical voices of the singers, but the productive collisions of ideas among composer, librettist, singer, conductor, director, impresario, critic, and, not least, the general public. The struggle to make opera palatable to the widest possible audience produces a parallel struggle to preserve its artistic integrity. In recent years, these multiple collisions have created an operatic milieu whose excitement and ideological richness have attracted a wider audience than perhaps ever before.
Richard Wagner's Adaptation of Gottfriend von Straßburg's Tristan
Authors: Reichenbächer Helmut
Published: March 2013

An ancient fable, the story of Tristan and Isolde's ill-fated love became one of the great themes in medieval European literature. Richard Wagner studied French and German medieval poetry during his Dresden years (1842–49), and his library contained copies of three different editions of the most famous version of the medieval Tristan, Gottfried von Straßburg's early thirteenth-century epic. In his opera Tristan und Isolde, Wagner draws on Gottfried's medieval epic and adapts it for his mid-nineteenth-century music drama.
Fiction
Authors: Heble Ajay
Published: March 2013

Reviews of fiction published in Canada in 1997.
Translations
Authors: Koustas Jane
Published: March 2013

Reviews of literary translations published in Canada in 1997.
Humanities
Authors: Neuman Shirley , Deloria Jr. Vine , Grauer Lally
Published: March 2013

Reviews of books on the humanities published in Canada in 1997.
Introduction
Authors: Levene Mark
Published: March 2013

In 1965 a contributor to the Literary History of Canada saw the short story as a form in decline, prey to the incursions of developing popular media and its inherent subordination to the novel. Thirty-one years later, pages 102–41 in a 150-page issue of the New Yorker were occupied by Alice Munro's brilliant, multi-layered story, `The Love of a Good Woman.' In 1996 as well there was an extraordinary literary event in the publication of selected stories by both Munro and Gallant. Responses consistently allied the two writers with Chekhov and Joyce, with Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, as the pre-eminent writers of short fiction this century. The importance, the incremental power, of the short story in Canadian literary culture has been unmistakable for at least a decade, as any list of its distinguished practitioners in English, besides Munro and Gallant, indicates: Margaret Atwood, Sandra Birdsell, Clark Blaise, Dionne Brand, Bonnie Burnard, Sharon Butala, Morley Callaghan, Timothy Findley, Cynthia Flood, Keath Fraser, Douglas Glover, Katherine Govier, Barbara Gowdy, Jack Hodgins, Greg Hollingshead, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Margaret Laurence, Norman Levine, Alistair MacLeod, Rohinton Mistry, Leon Rooke, Diane Schoemperlen, Carol Shields, Audrey Thomas, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Aritha Van Herk, Rudy Wiebe. To celebrate this abundance and to help develop an understanding of the genre — through inquiries into the work of particular writers and into more general questions — Brian Corman, the editor of the journal, suggested that two issues be devoted to the subject. Next year we will publish a broader poetics of the short story.
Canadian in the End?
Authors: Hermansson Casie
Published: March 2013

In a post-Survival (1972) update in 1985, Margaret Atwood announced to an audience at Princeton, `yes, Virginia, there is a Canadian Literature' (Atwood, `After Survival,' 135). Yet, another fourteen years later, what constitutes `Canadian' is still a dominant critical question. Geographically and demographically speaking, there have always been very good reasons for Margaret Atwood to conclude, as she does elsewhere, that `Canadian' is a kind of overdetermined nebula:
'It was about vanishing': A Glimpse of Alice Munro's Stories
Authors: Levene Mark
Published: March 2013

Some writers inspire in critics an awed silence (though rarely, of course, a gleeful contempt), others the most carefully honed and constrained of perspectives. Others still — for me, notably Joyce and Munro — trigger the instinct to reach, perhaps to overreach, to match their constant artistic surprises and their sheer humanity with a critical enterprise that is commensurately abundant and respectful, that spins its own sorts of `tricks' (that signal word from Munro's `Material,' Something, 43) to mirror the ones the writer has been performing with an ever-increasing sense of adventure and gracefulness. To use another of Munro's prime words, the compulsion is to find the broadest `fit' between the interpretation and the fiction. Since a major emphasis of this essay is the extraordinary change in Munro's conception of the later stories, particularly `Carried Away' and `The Love of a Good Woman,' that is initiated by `White Dump,' a change marked by the connection between `vanishing' and the spatial character of the narrative, a reasonable course would have been a close reading of these few stories. But following Munro's own fascination with connectedness, it seemed essential in this exploration of her work to trace the continuities as well as the changes, to detail (within limits) how the shadings of one volume come to the edge or to the centre of another. At the same time, a brief theoretical approach to the short story also seemed desirable for the simple reason that if Munro is indeed one of its pre-eminent writers, one reason might well be that her work cataylses, in D.H. Lawrence's terms, the pure `carbon' of the genre (183). For these interwoven ends, particular words — transience, indeterminacy, absence, multiplicity, and space — recur throughout this inquiry, the last providing the immediate link between theory and practice.
Les masques del'ériture : Cet imperceptible mouvement de Aude
Authors: Potvin Claudine
Published: March 2013

Aude, qui a d'abord publié sous le nom de Claudette Charbonneau-Tissot, pratique le genre de la nouvelle depuis ses tout débuts. Ayant à son acquis six recueils de nouvelles ou de contes et trois romans, cette romancière et nouvellière élabore dans ces récits un univers étrange et fantastique . Or lefantastique dans ses textes ne sert bien souvent que de prétexte, voire de masque, à un commentaire et une réflexion de nature philosophique, et extrêmement réaliste dans un certain sens, sur l'existence, la douleur, la mort. L'écriture s'y déguise, cherchant derrière les mots un dénuement qui masque à son tour les paroles inutiles. L'auteure parle d'une « zone de silence » où commencerait le véritable travail d'écriture, de « phrases épurées » qui permettraient d'atteindre l'indicible, d'une « forme de dépouillement » (Lord, 1988a: 68–69).
La mécanique des corps terrestres dans La vie passe comme une étoile filante de Diane-Monique Daviau
Authors: Côté Nicole
Published: March 2013

La vie passe comme une étoile filante : faites un vœu est le cinquième recueil de Diane-Monique Daviau . Comme le recueil de nouvelles précédent, Dernier accrochage, celui-ci comporte une structure dont l'architecture tripartite semble fortement organisée. Il faut toutefois remarquer la particularité de cette architecture : alors que les première et dernière sections sont simplement intitulées i et iii, la mitoyenne porte une titre fait de lettres (et consiste en lettres – la section est épistolaire) plutôt que de chiffres – « Ton petit dauphin ». Par ailleurs, les trois parties sont composées respectivement de 13, de 28 et de 15 nouvelles, séquence qui pourrait être réduite aux formules i = x; ii = 2 (x+1); iii = (x+2), si on considère que la variable x a pour valeur 13, chiffre qui représente le nombre de nouvelles dans la première partie. Si cette formulation des divisions du recueil peut sembler tirée par les cheveux, elle n'en démontre pas moins la tendance de l'auteure, déjà visible dans le choix des sous-titres, à privilégier la séquence tout en y insérant des éléments qui fonctionnent comme des solutions de continuité, des obstacles à la transparence du sens.
Fiction
Authors: Knutson Susan , Besner Neil
Published: March 2013

Reviews of fiction published in Canada in 1998.
Translations
Authors: Koustas Jane
Published: March 2013

Reviews of literary translations published in Canada in 1998.
Poetry
Authors: Parsons Marnie
Published: March 2013

Reviews of poetry published in Canada in 1998.
Sciences humaines
Authors: Paterson Janet , Yergeau Robert , Vaillancourt Daniel
Published: March 2013

Reviews of French-Canadian social sciences published in Canada in 1998.
Introduction
Authors: Lord Michel
Published: March 2013

Les nouvelliers sont loin d’avoir dit leur dernier mot, pas plus d’ailleurs que les théoriciens et les analystes de ce genre protéiforme. Aussi, tel que prévu et annoncé dans le précédent numéro de UTQ (vol. 68, no 4, Fall 1999) sur la nouvelle québécoise et canadienne, nous poursuivons notre exploration du genre narratif bref en mettant cette fois l’accent sur des problématiques plus larges, qui rendent compte autrement de la vitalité du genre nouvellier au cours de deux dernières décennies du XX⊇ siècle. Que ce soit au Québec (André Berthiaume) ou dans la francophonie hors-Québec (Marcel Olscamp), dans le champ de l’écriture au féminin (Estelle Dansereau) ou dans celui des genres fantastiques et de science-fiction (Sophie Beaulé), et même au milieu de contraintes multiples (André Carpentier), la nouvelle continue de se tailler une place de choix dans la littérature d’ici. Nous ne pouvons d’ailleurs plus dire que cela se fait toujours envers et contre tous, car même si un certain milieu considère qu’ils’agittoujours d’un petit genre (il l’est pour les amateurs de best- sellers et de littérature alimentaire), il reste que ce genre est fréquenté par un nombre impressionnant d’écrivains de premier ordre, qui, pour la plupart, sont représentés dans les textes des collaborateurs de ce numéro.
Aspects de la nouvelle contemporaine au Québec
Authors: Berthiaume André
Published: March 2013

Mon propos est d’aborder quelques aspects de ce genre particulier qu’est la nouvelle littéraire dans un espace géographique tout aussi particulier qu’est le Québec d’aujourd’hui. Je me permettrai donc d’indiquer ou de rappeler sur le sujet quelques faits, de proposer des réflexions et des hypothèses qui, je l’espère, ne paraîtront pas trop hasardeuses. Vous serez sans doute d’avis que j’aurais pu intituler cet exposé « Grandeur et misère de la nouvelle québécoise ».
The Imperial Conference of 1937
Authors: Dafoe John
Published: March 2013

The Imperial Conference of 1937 was the least spectacular of the whole series from 1887 down to the present day. Its tepid, non-committal report commanded only a lukewarm press. "Less impressive than its predecessors," "conclusions small and of limited moment," "ending in a cloud of admirable sentiments," "singularly reticent," "vague,"-these characterizations of the findings are picked almost at random from the press of our British nations. But a Canadian minister, in attendance at the Conference, gave a different summing-up. He said the Conference was "useful" and contented himself with this single word. Doubtless this was a true word. A Conference including six British prime ministers, each with his retinue of colleagues, advisers, secretaries, and experts, continuing for a month, with special facilities for the interchange of information and views, could not but be of great value to all those in attendance. Indirectly there doubtless will be worthwhile results as the outcome of these exchanges of views, this widening of knowledge, this pooling of experience; but of actual business little was done because there was nothing much that could be done under the conditions that prevailed.
The Russian Revolution, 1917–1937
Authors: Flenley
Published: March 2013

"Russia," remarked a French traveller in 1607, "is not an open country, into which one can enter to learn the language, find out this and that, and then depart. For besides the fact that it is shut off, everything there is so secret that it is very difficult to learn the truth about anything, unless one has seen it with one's own eyes." This gout du secret persisted in Russia down to, and even after, the fall of the Tsarist re´gime. As recently as 1934 one of the best known American correspondents in Russia, W. H. Chamberlin, after a dozen years in the country, found it impossible to get at the truth regarding the famine in the Ukraine and the Caucasus. Yet the past few years have witnessed the publication of a considerable amount of material about both the new and the old Russia, and this, coupled with the fact that it is now just twenty years since the revolution bf 1917 took place, justifies an attempt to chart its course and estimate its meaning.
Astronomy from Constellations to Atoms
Authors: Allen Frank
Published: March 2013

“He stretcheth out the north over empty space and hangeth the earth upon nothing.” Thus eloquently the Patriarch Job uttered his lofty panegyric on the works of the Almighty; and in one brief but majestic sentence, breathing limitless power and mystery, he comprehended the most significant astronomical knowledge of antiquity.
Quintilian's Approach to Literature
Authors: Carver
Published: March 2013

I make no apology for assuming that most readers of this journal, apart from classical specialists, have but a slight acquaintance with Quintilian. I was myself shamelessly ignorant of his writings until some three or four years ago, when I thought it necessary to investigate the truth of the statement, repeated from one text-book to another, that he exercised a dominant influence on European education in the sixteenth century. Until that time I had been repelled by three facts which constituted almost the whole of my relevant knowledge: Quintilian was a rhetorician, and we have ceased to study rhetoric; he flourished in the Silver Age, and must on that account be less valuable than Cicero; he expressed himself magnificently in twelve books, and a rhetorician cannot hope to atone for his tiresome profession unless he can contrive to be brief, bright, and brotherly. The penalty of asking too much is to receive nothing; and the sight of the twelve books awakened thoughts of the value of time, the folly of attempting to read everything, and the existence of a class of literature which, as Bacon says, is merely to be tasted.
The Royal Commission on Dominion-Provincial Relations
Authors: Scott
Published: March 2013

In the body politic disease grows slowly, though the symptoms may disclose themselves in sudden fashion. Canada is now stricken with a form of constitutional paralysis, the beginnings of which can be traced to a distant past. It was as long ago as 1883 that a certain Lord Watson began to sit on the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, and to mould Canadian constitutional law to his conception of the loosely knit federal state. In a series of opinions between 1883 and 1899 he evolved new concepts of constitutional law of a particularly decentralizing character, and he elevated the provincial legislatures to the position of sovereign parliaments in full possession of the Crown and its prerogatives.
Philosophy in Renaissance Art
Authors: Flexner Abraham
Published: March 2013

For more than half a century preceding the outbreak of the Great War in 1914 American scholars and scientists, who for the most part had already received a Ph.D. degree at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Chicago, or elsewhere, and who desired further and usually informal opportunities for research under the direction of a great master, often resorted to one of the German universities. A few found such opportunities in America, a few others in Great Britain, France, or elsewhere, but Germany was the Mecca for an overwhelmingly large percentage of them.
American Foreign Policy
Authors: Corbett
Published: March 2013

Of the seven Great Powers in the world today, only four appear to be working in accordance with a settled plan of foreign policy. Great Britain, France, and Russia are living from hand to mouth, their conduct determined by the day's expediency. Their policy is peace, if you will, but it is the perilous peace of the moment, preserved by retreat and by shifting alliances, methods which increase the danger of ultimate explosion. Peace until we are ready to fight, would perhaps not be an unjust description. Of the remaining Powers, Italy, Japan, and Germany have the same plan, which is progressive aggrandizement at whatever cost of violence and illegality. The United States alone has thought out and is following a long-term plan of peace and good neighbourhood. Hers, that is to say, is the one government of the first rank which at present shows any sense of ethical and legal progress towards an effective world-community.
Wolfe to the Duke of Richmond: Unpublished Letters
Authors: Carver
Published: March 2013

Although it is necessary that my name should stand at the head of this article the responsibility for the principal contents is not my own, and I propose to retire from the scene after a short explanation. A few months ago I suspected that a document of literary importance which I was anxious to trace might have found its way to Goodwood, and the Duke of Richmond and Gordon very kindly gave permission, through his secretary, for a search to be made among the historical papers in his muniment room. The immediate object was not attained, but in the course of the search I found a collection of letters written by Wolfe to the third Duke of Richmond, apparently undisturbed since the eighteenth century, and certainly not known to historians. A further request for permission to copy and publish these letters was readily granted, and it was thought fitting that the publication should be in a Canadian journal.
Reviews
Authors: Hendel  , Underhill Frank , Gordon
Published: March 2013

Etienne Gilson, The Unit of Philosophical Experience, reviewed by C. W. Hendel

R. A. MacKay and E. B. Rogers, Canada Looks Abroad, reviewed by Frank H. Underhill

F. R. Scott, Canada Today: A Study of National Interests and National Policy, reviewed by Frank H. Underhill

H. V. Routh, Towards the Twentieth Century: Essays in the Spiritual History of the Nineteenth, reviewed by R. K. Gordon
Canadian Poetry—A Minority Report
Authors: Smith
Published: March 2013

Professor E. J. Pratt's recent article in the QUARTERLY on the present status of English-Canadian poetry has sent me to a number of other attempts by Canadian poets or critics to evaluate the contemporary native product in terms of the achievement of the past, and I have been struck by the fact that the only thing all the articles have in common is a more or less all-pervading, but usually ill-defined, sense of uneasiness or dissatisfaction. Occasionally this is given direct and even truculent expression; sometimes the reader absorbs it rather furtively, reading between the lines; and sometimes it is rationalized out of existence or sublimated into patriotic boasting. Yet whether the critic denounces, excuses, paints with pride, or merely throws out a smoke screen, he betrays, it has seemed to me, a feeling of insecurity that sometimes amounts almost to bewilderment. Canadian poetry is lost, or it hasn't found itself; new vistas are opening ahead of it, or it has come to a dead end. It is either up a tree or it has slipped from its high estate, and it needs somebody to give it a fresh direction. It should mirror the aspirations of the struggling masses; or it should return to the grand manner and high morals of our fathers. The older poets are too sentimental, and the young are too brainy. The denizens of the Canadian pantheon haven't much to say, but they feel deeply and they love God and Nature; the modern poets are obscure....
Matthew Arnold and the Eighteenth Century
Authors: Brown
Published: March 2013

Criticism, as Arnold conceived it, fastened primarily on great men and great works. But the estimilte of Arnold's criticism has rested too heavily upon what he has said of such men and such works: attention has been withdrawn from his many fruitful generalizations on the connection between an individual writer and the age in which he lives, the tradition to which he subscribes, the movements against which he rebels. To think in terms of movements was by no means alien to Arnold's mind: whenever he occupied himself, as he often did, with works of secondary worth or with writers incompletely expressive, he set in the foreground the definition and estimation of movements. Much of his most illuminating criticism is found in passages where movements are his over-riding interest.
Maurice Blondel's “Action” Against the Totalitarians
Authors: Jacques
Published: March 2013

The great democracies are confronted today with the problem of action in a radically urgent setting; their very existence depends upon an estimate of the élan vital of the totalitarian powers. Nowhere is this clash of forces felt more intensely than in France where Action has come to have a glorious or a sinister meaning varying with the political party using the term. Even the Church is rent by the intensity of the political struggle: Catholics are members of the Action Française and support the Comte de Paris, or they declare their allegiance to Blum, Jouhaux, and the Socialists. This rivalry is so strong that Catholic writers of the Left have been socially boycotted by church officials adhering to the Fascists. An outstanding Socia1ist writer in Fascist Provence must display considerable courage.
The Sieur de Montaigne and Cicero
Authors: Alexander William Hardy
Published: March 2013

The classical renaissance, in so far as any movement can ever be fairly identified with a single person, began with Petrarch, and it was Petrarch's choices in Latin literature that proved most influential, not only in his native country which never departed from them, but in all Western Europe as well for a very considerable time. In prose—and it is only that which presently concerns us—his choice was Cicero.
Reviews
Authors: Woodhouse  , Rice  , Gordon Cyrus , Beare Frank , Sedgewick  , Woodhead
Published: March 2013

British War Blue Book, reviewed by A. S. P. Woodhouse

Harold Nicolson, Why Britain is at War, reviewed by A. S. P. Woodhouse

W. J. Rose, Poland, reviewed by A. S. P. Woodhouse

Franz von Lützow, Bohemia, reviewed by A. S. P. Woodhouse

Watson Kirkconnell, Canada, Europe, and Hitler, reviewed by A. S. P. Woodhouse

Oxford Pamhplets on World Affairs, reviewed by A. S. P. Woodhouse

Douglas Bush, The Renaissance of English Humanism, reviewed by W. G. Rice

Samuel A. B. Mercer, The Tell-el Amarna Tablets, reviewed by Cyrus H. Gordon

Etienne Gilson, Reason and Revelation in the Middle Ages, reviewed by Frank W. Beare

G. Wilson Knight, The Burning Oracle, reviewed by G. G. Sedgewick

E. A. Havelock, The Lyric Genius of Catullus, reviewed by W. D. Woodhead

A. A. Day, The Origins of Latin Love-Elegy, reviewed by W. D. Woodhead
Freedom and Contemporary Thought
Authors: Taylor
Published: March 2013

Confronted with another world war in its most terrible phases, we must feel ourselves compelled at times to turn from the stark madness and the bloody agony of current events, and fix our attention on what may lie beyond this latest Armageddon. We know that our age has been profoundly affected by the nature and the consequences of the last war; and whether or not this second one was necessarily bred by the first, it seems indisputable that, even with the most desirable results through the triumph of the democracies, the effects will bring us face to face with conditions and problems—social, political, intellectual, and religious—that must be aggravated because we are still in arrears in dealing with those which emerged after 1914.
The Function of Poetry
Authors: Beach Joseph Warren
Published: March 2013

My subject is imaginative literature. Criticism I do not here propose. That is another question, a later step, beset with difficulties innumerable. The question I now wish to raise in regard to literature is, very simply, this: What is it for? Why write books and read them? What does it do for us? In short, what function does it serve?
Latin and Education
Authors: Norwood Gilbert
Published: March 2013

This article does not aim at a complete or even summary account of that familiar dispute, “Is Latin Worth While?” The arguments, no less hackneyed than weighty, presented with an almost ritual regularity on both sides I have no present inclination to rehearse, but confess that I have grown a little tired of watching both parties ignore certain basic truths. These I propose to state, in the hope that the controversy may thus be drawn into better focus and the combatants dissuaded from working further mischief. Accordingly this article (as I called it) makes no pretence to structure or to fully developed argument, being little more than a list of guite separate facts regularly ignored or suppressed by both the assailants and the champions of classical studies—or of Latin: for no great distinction between Latin and Greek can in this connection be maintained.
Reviews
Authors: Wallace Malcolm , Walter Felix , Allen Frank
Published: March 2013

DeLancey Ferugson, Pride and Passion: Robert Burns, reviewed by Malcolm W. Wallace

A. F. B. Clark, Jean Racine, reviewed by Felix Walter

A. S. Eve, Rutherford, Being the Life and Letters of the Rt. Hon. Lord Rutherford, O.M., reviewed by Frank Allen

H. H. Langton, Sir John Cunningham McLennan. A Memoir, reviewed by Frank Allen
Der Einfluss von Naturschutzorganisationen auf Rechtsetzung und Vollzug
Authors: Ulber Marcus
Published: March 2013

Influence of nature conservation organisations on legislation and law enforcement

Nature conservation organisations influence laws and ordinances, administrative strategies and law enforcement. By doing this, they seek to improve the position of nature. The exertion of influence by organisations is a traditional element of Swiss politics. The nature conservation organisations bring in their claims and their expertise on all political levels and at all stages of legislation.
Umweltbildung fördert den respektvollen Umgang mit der Natur
Authors: Frommherz Christoph
Published: March 2013

Environmental education promotes a respectful approach to nature

Environmental education is not only of topical interest but has over the last 40 years developed into an interesting and multifaceted approach to education, which has been recognised as an important component of the Swiss educational system. Environmental education opportunities for all ages have been put in place, always with the objective of leading people to a relation with natural resources which is based on respect.