Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature

Contents

Contents Introduction: The Presence of Text JOHN Moss 1 Writer Writing, Ongoing Verb GEORGE BOWERING 5 ROBERT KROETSCH Edited by BETTY A. SCHELLENBERG Structuralism/Post-Structuralism: Language, Reality and Canadian Literature BARBARA GODARD 25 The Question of the Corpus: Ethnicity and Canadian Literature FRANCESCO LORIGGIO 53 Reading for Contradiction in the Literature of Colonial Space HEATHER MURRAY 71 Signs of the Themes: The Value of a PoliticallyGrounded Semiotics TERRY GOLDIE 85 Importing Difference: Feminist Theory and Canadian Women Writers SHIRLEY NEUMAN 95 "Listen to the Voice": Dialogism and the Canadian Novel SHERRILL GRACE 117 Lacan: Implications of Psychoanalysis and Canadian Discourse BARRY CAMERON 137 Reconstructing Structuralism: The Theme-Text Model of Literary Language and F. R. Scott's "Lakeshore" JAMES STEELE 153 History and/as Intertext LINDA HUTCHEON 169 Language and Silence in Richardson and Grove MARGARET E. TURNER 185 Rewriting Roughing It JOHN THURSTON 195 Bakhtin Reads De Mille: Canadian Literature, Postmodernism , and the Theory of Dialogism RICHARD CAVELL 205 The Reader as Actor in the Novels of Timothy Findley ELIZABETH SEDDON 213 Blown Figures and Blood: Toward a Feminist/PostStructuralist Reading of Audrey Thomas' Writing SUSAN RUDY DORSCHT 221 Reconstructing the Deconstructed Text: A Reading of Robert Kroetsch's What the Crow Said KENNETH HOEPPNER 229 Present Tense: The Closing Panel STEPHEN SCOBIE 239 GEORGE BOWERING LINDA HUTCHEON ROBERT KROETSCH Contributors 246 ...