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This lively and diverse bilingual collection of essays by writers and critics examines contemporary Canadian literary arts. The perspectives range from highly personal and introspective to scholarly and objective, yet each adds significantly to an understanding of the dialogue between writers and readers. Proceedings from a workshop held at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities during the summer of 1982, the volume includes such contributors as E.D. Blodgett, Jacques Brault, Richard Giguère, D.G. Jones, Myrna Kostash, Peter Stevens, Aritha van Herk, and Christopher Wiseman.

The collection will naturally be of interest to any student of Canadian literature, but the essays also forcefully address, both explicitly and implicitly, the question of a nationalism of the arts, an issue of great importance to performers and critics in many fields.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Table of Contents
  2. p. v
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  1. From the Director
  2. p. vi
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  1. Foreword
  2. pp. vii-x
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  1. About the Authors
  2. pp. xi-xiv
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-6
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  1. Part I: The Writer's Job
  1. THE WRITER'S JOB
  2. E.D. Blodgett
  3. pp. 9-26
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  1. THE MYTH OF THE LITERARY ORGASM
  2. Myrna Kostash
  3. pp. 27-30
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  1. Part II: The Mythology of Identity
  1. THE WORD, OLDER THAN ANY COUNTRY
  2. Christopher Wiseman
  3. pp. 33-38
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  1. THE MYTHOLOGY OF IDENTITY: A CANADIAN CASE
  2. D. G. Jones
  3. pp. 39-58
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  1. Part III: Reaching the People
  1. WRITERS READ; READERS WRITE: DEMOCRATIZING THE RELATIONSHIP
  2. Myrna Kostash
  3. pp. 61-64
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  1. L'ECRIVAIN ET SON PUBLIC
  2. Richard Giguere
  3. pp. 65-70
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  1. A LITERARY AFFAIR
  2. Aritha van Herk
  3. pp. 71-74
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  1. QUELQUES REMARQUES SUR LE ROLE DU CRITIQUE LITTERAIRE
  2. Richard Giguere
  3. pp. 75-78
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  1. Part IV: Canlit Comes of Age
  1. CANLIT'S MID-LIFE CRISIS
  2. Peter Stevens
  3. pp. 81-88
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  1. MURIR ET MOURIR
  2. Jacques Brault
  3. pp. 89-98
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