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S T U D I E S I N C A N A D I A N L I T E R A T U R E

É T U D E S E N L I T T É R A T U R E C A N A D I E N N E

Volume 35 Number 1

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The University of New Brunswick

© 2010

Editors: Jennifer Andrews, John Clement Ball Associate Editors: Anne Brown, Mary Rimmer

Managing Editor: Kathryn Taglia Editorial Assistant: Lisa Alward, Kitty Elton, Réjean Ouellette Design & Layout: Robert M. Weger

Advisory Board:

Guy Beauregard National Taiwan University E.D. Blodgett University of Alberta Monika Boehringer Mount Allison University Daniel Coleman McMaster University David Creelman University of New Brunswick Justin D. Edwards University of Wales, Bangor Janice Fiamengo University of Ottawa Danielle Fuller University of Birmingham Thomas Gerry Laurentian University Helen Gilbert Royal Holloway, University of London Terry Goldie York University Sherrill Grace University of British Columbia Faye Hammill University of Strathclyde Ajay Heble University of Guelph Douglas Ivison Lakehead University Smaro Kamboureli University of Guelph

Catherine Khordoc Carleton University Susan Knutson Université Sainte-Anne Kathy Mezei Simon Fraser University Jean Morency Université de Moncton Laura Moss University of British Columbia Norman Ravvin Concordia University Christian Riegel University of Regina Chantal Savoie Université Laval Florence Stratton University of Regina Nora Foster Stovel University of Alberta Cynthia Sugars University of Ottawa Anthony Tremblay St. Thomas University Gerry Turcotte U of Notre Dame, Sydney Marie Vautier, University of Victoria Kathleen Venema University of Winnipeg Herb Wyile Acadia University

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SCL/ÉLC Volume 35.1

Table of Contents

Is Canadian Literature Still “National”?

Twenty-First-Century Canadian Literature in Spatial Perspective

Sabine Milz 5

Then and Now Converging: Lionel Kearns’s Complicated Nation

Jessica Langston 40

Les saisons d’Herménégilde Chiasson, essayiste

Robert Viau 56

Of Trilogies and Triangles: Adultery in Arthur Stringer’s Prairie Stories

and Mazo de la Roche’s Whiteoak Chronicles

Tobi Kozakewich 80 Boxed In: Alice Munro’s “Wenlock Edge” and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Joanna Luft 103

The Stone Diaries as an “Apocryphal Journal”

Brenda Beckman-Long 127

Carol Shields and Simone de Beauvoir:

Immanence, Transcendence, and Women’s Work in A Fairly Conventional Woman, The Stone Diaries, and Unless

Bethany Guenther 147 Des mots comme les murs d’une maison :

le leitmotiv du logis dans le roman acadien contemporain Chantal Richard 165 Behind the Façades of an Aesopian Duck:

The Quest for Authenticity in the Literary Forgeries of David Solway Maryanne Laurico 180

“A Sorrow of Stones”:

Death, Burial, and Mourning in the Writing of Anne Wilkinson

Sara Jamieson 201

Culturally Conceptualizing Trauma:

The Windigo in Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road

Vikki Visvis 224 “You saw me cross the bar”: Masculinity, Disability, and the Western in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy

Nadine LeGier 244

“Guy Talk”: An Interview with Guy Vanderhaeghe

Nicola A. Faieta 256 Notes on Contributors

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