Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature (Reappraisals : Canadian Writers, No 13)

The format of this book is arbitrary and exact, the way paint is in a landscape by Alex Colville. It follows the program of the symposium that took place at the University of Ottawa, from April 25 to 27, 1986. As Bakhtin leaps from the sidelines to centre stage, as Derrida clambers out of orchestra pit into the prompter's box, and Lancan swings from the flies, as Foucault, Lévi-Strauss, Saussure, Barthes, and a throng of others rhubarb their way through the text, one recognizes just how connected all the disparate elements of this critical extravaganza really are. Introduction : The Presence Of Text / John Moss -- Writer, Writing, Ongoing Verb / George Bowering, Robert Kroetsch, Edited By Betty A. Schellenberg -- Structuralism/post-structuralism: Language, Reality And Canadian Literature / Barbara Godard -- The Question Of The Corpus: Ethnicity And Canadian Literature / Francesco Loriggio -- Reading For In Literature Of Colonial Space / Heather Murray -- Signs Of The Themes: The Value Of A Politically Grounded Semiotics / Terry Goldie -- Importing Difference: Feminist Theory And Canadian Women Writers / Shirley Neuman -- Listen To The Voice: Dialogism And The Canadian Novel / Sherrill Grace -- Lacan: Implications Of Psychoanalysis And Canadian Discourse / Barry Cameron -- Reconstructing Structuralism: The Theme-text Model Of Literary Language And R.f. Scott's Lakeshore / James Steele -- History And/as Intertext / Linda Hutcheon -- Language And Silence In Richardson And Grove / Margaret E. Turner -- Rewriting Roughing It / John Thurston -- Bakhtin Reads De Mille: Canadian Literature, Postmodernism, And The Theory Of Dialogism / Richard Cavell -- The Reader As Actor In The Novels Of Timothy Findley / Elizabeth Seddon -- Blown Figures And Blood: Toward A Feminist/post-structuralist Reading Of Audrey Thomas' Writing / Susan Ruddy Dorscht -- Reconstructing The Deconstructed Text: Reading Of Robert Kroetsch's What The Crow Said / Kenneth Hoeppner -- Present Tense: The Closing Panel / Stephen Scobie, George Bowering, Linda Hutcheon, Robert Kroetsch. Edited And With An Introduction By John Moss. University Of Ottawa Symposium, April 25 To 27, 1986--introd. Includes Bibliographies. Contents Introduction: The Presence of Text Writer Writing, Ongoing Verb Structuralism/Post-Structuralism: Language, Reality and Canadian Literature The Question of the Corpus: Ethnicity and Canadian Literature Reading for Contradiction in the Literature of Colonial Space Signs of the Themes: The Value of a Politically Grounded Semiotics Importing Difference: Feminist Theory and Canadian Women Writers "Listen to the Voice": Dialogism and the Canadian Novel Lacan: Implications of Psychoanalysis and Canadian Discourse Reconstructing Structuralism: The Theme-Text Model of Literary Language and F. R. Scott's "Lakeshore" History and/as Intertext Language and Silence in Richardson and Grove Rewriting Roughing It Bakhtin Reads De Mille: Canadian Literature, Post-modernism, and the Theory of Dialogism The Reader as Actor in the Novels of Timothy Findley Blown Figures and Blood: Toward a Feminist/Post- Structuralist Reading of Audrey Thomas' Writing Reconstructing the Deconstructed Text: A Reading of Robert Kroetsch's What the Crow Said Present Tense: The Closing Panel Contributors