Double Talking: Essays on Verbal and Visual Ironies in Canadian Contemporary Art and Literature ed. by Linda Hutcheon (review)

HUMANITIES 205 Linda Hutcn,eol!\, on Verbal and Visual Ironies in Canadian CDllleJn'f)lmIll1 ECW Press. 220. that runs out that it 206 LEITERS IN CANADA 1992 two such in her mtrOCluc:ncm his~t01'1all: different eras may not have his or her own but HUMANITIES 207 In 7he and reviews in An lmtep'en.c:leJ'lt he became involved in Ithe Canadian Novel' held in 1978: One because the to Renaissance di::jcn~D(ln(~ biei1Allee!n manner "against the commentators tn4:::t"n'r'1""~:l1 information to sUI~gE~tin~that~~·~o~i~ ......U:;(;::);::)J.I-,' one of several articles Keith how Conference on the own in the event was a curious one. I was the dark horse among otherwise main since I had little on Canadian criticism at that time and few of those knew who I was or what I thc)u)1;ht. The convenors didn't. I well remember an invitation 'out of the blue,' I was asked to on 'Themes in Canadian the names of the other I was asked to teljeptlOI1Le soon as I had made up my I was a crisis choice and scrapllng the bottom of the barrel. I contacted them in order to '""..,.......''''', disiaOOr()vE!d of the very end anclCKLng the whole business. When the voice at the other end of the telc~tlonle elncc~urca.ged me to come and do what I had I ternp1tatlon to ride my OWn nOIDm/-nOT5.e selt-rlep1res, enltaulon colours much of ·un·INn.... 2:athE~reld in An SU~tgEsts the rationale the Introduc- ...