This essay examines the interstices between geography and history in English Canadian poetry by analyzing the production of space through poetic imagery. It introduces two terms, "garrison temporality" and "geologic temporality," to demonstrate how poets created divisions in the Canadian landscape temporally, demarcating these divisions according to their understanding of the perceived spaces' historicity. In early Canadian poetry, poets tended to distinguish colonized spaces from uncolonized spaces by designating them as either historical or ahistorical. This was achieved, more specifically, by appropriating civil, or garrison, spaces into a narrative of English expansion which traced its historical lineage back to European antiqui...
The paper tackles the issues of temporality and narratives in lyric and epical poetry, in a context ...
An examination of literary site pieces written in Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth c...
This study calls for a re-evaluation of contemporary regionalist literary theory. It argues that tra...
In my dissertation “What is Here Now: Assembling Poetry in Canada after the Spatial Turn,” I examine...
Poetry in present day Canada begun almost simultaneously with the European colonization of those reg...
This dissertation develops and demonstrates a new mode of regional literary analysis. I begin by as...
This study introduces a multi-disciplinary ecocritical approach to fictional evocations of place in ...
The notion of place has played a central role in discussions of Canadian prairie literature, but it ...
Poetry & Geography examines the rich diversity of geographical imaginations informing post-war and c...
Poetry & Geography examines the rich diversity of geographical imaginations informing post-war a...
The history of Canadian poetry also must have much to do with “untamed nature and the countryside” a...
Working within the "topocentric" assumption that Canadian culture derives part of its vitality and c...
In "Tent Rings", a poem included in Alfred Wellington Purdy's 1967 collection of poetry, North of Su...
That period in Canada, between 1935 and 1955, which encompasses a pre-war depression, a world war, a...
Canadian remembrance of the Great War (1914-1918) in the early twenty-first century is often associa...
The paper tackles the issues of temporality and narratives in lyric and epical poetry, in a context ...
An examination of literary site pieces written in Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth c...
This study calls for a re-evaluation of contemporary regionalist literary theory. It argues that tra...
In my dissertation “What is Here Now: Assembling Poetry in Canada after the Spatial Turn,” I examine...
Poetry in present day Canada begun almost simultaneously with the European colonization of those reg...
This dissertation develops and demonstrates a new mode of regional literary analysis. I begin by as...
This study introduces a multi-disciplinary ecocritical approach to fictional evocations of place in ...
The notion of place has played a central role in discussions of Canadian prairie literature, but it ...
Poetry & Geography examines the rich diversity of geographical imaginations informing post-war and c...
Poetry & Geography examines the rich diversity of geographical imaginations informing post-war a...
The history of Canadian poetry also must have much to do with “untamed nature and the countryside” a...
Working within the "topocentric" assumption that Canadian culture derives part of its vitality and c...
In "Tent Rings", a poem included in Alfred Wellington Purdy's 1967 collection of poetry, North of Su...
That period in Canada, between 1935 and 1955, which encompasses a pre-war depression, a world war, a...
Canadian remembrance of the Great War (1914-1918) in the early twenty-first century is often associa...
The paper tackles the issues of temporality and narratives in lyric and epical poetry, in a context ...
An examination of literary site pieces written in Canada during the nineteenth and early twentieth c...
This study calls for a re-evaluation of contemporary regionalist literary theory. It argues that tra...