Recounts the history of the development of a Canadian national literature from romantic retrospection to commitment to the future. (RAE)

Argues that humor is an international language and phenomenon that retains, in the transposition, its own subtle boundaries, and that the essential duality at its core will continue to require familiarity with the contours and mixed reality of the chosen homeground. (RAE)

Argues that adopting a metacritical stance and examining the dialogue between text and audience will result in a better understanding of how Canada's cultural and intellectual contexts shape the interpretive act, and how this dialogue constructs the public meaning of literary works. (RAE)

Claims that Quebec writers in the 1960s-80s, buoyed by nationalist and separatist aims, created alternative "Marias" who write out of their language, dreams, and bodies, and who are trying to effect a further liberation. Asks where future trajectories invented by Quebec writers will propel their readers next. (RAE)

Explores a cultural image--how Canadians view themselves and their society--from an American immigrant's perspective. (RAE)

Argues that the way out of worn out analogies of Canadian literature is found not only by acquiring knowledge of other cultures, but also by abandoning the deceptive parallelisms that overcome differences only by hiding them. (RAE)

Reviews eighteenth and nineteenth century Canadian literature. Notes that despite its cultural significance, this early literature has been dismissed by critics and scholars. (MM)