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Long Essays or Lectures (published as separate books/booklets):

1. As Canadian as...Possible...Under the Circumstances. (The Robarts Lecture) Toronto: ECW Press, 1989.

2. Leonard Cohen and his Works (Prose). Toronto: ECW Press, 1989.

3. Leonard Cohen and his Works (Poetry). Toronto: ECW Press, 1992

4. The Politics of Representation in Canadian Art and Literature. Working Paper Series, Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, York University, l988.



Translations:

1. Félix Leclerc, Allegro. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1974.

2. Madeleine Gagnon, extract from Lueur. In Les Stratégies du réel/The Story This Far, ed. Nicole Brossard. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1980, 246-55.



Journal Articles:

"Beautiful Losers: All the Polarities." Canadian Literature 59 (1974): 42-56.

"Atwood and Laurence: Poet and Novelist." Studies in Canadian Literature 3 (1978): 255-63.

"'Snow Storm of Paper': The Act of Reading Self-Reflexive Canadian Verse." Dalhousie Review 59 (1979): 114-28.

"'Out of the Pulver and the Polished Lens': A.M. Klein as Wordsmith." Canadian Poetry 4 (1979): 52-8. (with Alain Goldschlager)

"The Poet as Novelist: A Matter of Trust." Canadian Literature 86 (1980): 6-14.

"Reading Atwood's Life Before Man : Structural Form Through Psychic Verisimilitude." Comparison (Special Issue on Canadian Literature) 12 (1981): 41-58.

"Pride and the Puritan Passion." Etudes Canadiennes (Paris) (Special Issue on Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel ) (1982): 55-62.

"Romanciers ontariens des années soixante-dix." Protée 10.2 (1982): 15-19.

"The 'Postmodernist' Scribe: The Dynamic Stasis of Contemporary Canadian Writing." University of Toronto Quarterly 53.3 (1984): 283-95.

"Canadian Historiographic Metafiction." Essays on Canadian Writing (Special Anniversary Issue) 30 (1984-85): 228-38.

"Feminism, Postmodernism, Poststructuralism." Canadian Women Studies/Cahiers de la femme 6.3 (1985): 36-9.

"Voices of Displacement." Canadian Forum June-July (1985): 33-8.

"Italian Canadian Writing and the Canon." Italian Canadiana 2.1 (1986): 31-7.

"Challenging the Conventions of Realism." Canadian Forum April (1986): 34-8.

"Shape-Shifters." Canadian Forum January (1987): 26-32; reprinted in World Literature (China), 1994.

"Telling Accounts: Daphne Marlatt, Ana Historic ." Brick 34 (1988): 17-19.

"The Politics of Representation." Signature: A Journal of Theory and Canadian Literature 1.1 (1989): 23-44.

"Incredulity toward Metanarrative: Negotiating Feminisms and Postmodernism," Tessera 7 (Fall 1989): 39-44.

"Postmodern Ironies of Ethnicity," Italian Canadiana 6 (1990): 7-17.

"The Perils of Irony...Even in the Global Village", Zeitschrift fur Kanada-Studien, 13.1.23 (1993): 51-62.

“Parlare Canadese: Le ironie dell'arte e della letteratura Canadese.” Nuovi Argomenti 14 (2001): 59-62.

“Criptoetnicità.” Tutte storie 8 (May 2001): 28-30.



Chapters in Books:

" Beautiful Losers : All the Polarities." The Canadian Novel in the Twentieth Century. Ed. George Wood­cock. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975. 298 -311.

"Formalist Aggression and the Act of Reading." Violence in the Canadian Novel Since 1960. Eds. T. Goldie and V. Harger-Grinling. St. John's: Memorial University, 1981. 9-23.

"From Poetic to Narrative Structures: The Novels of Margaret Atwood." Margaret Atwood: Language, Text, and System. Ed. S.F. Grace and L. Weir. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1983. 17-31.

"Novel in English, 1959-1980s." Canadian Encyclopedia. Edmonton: Hurtig, 1985. 1293-4.

“Running in the Family : The Postmodernist Challenge." Spider Blues. Ed. Sam Solecki. Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1985. 301-14.

"Margaret Atwood." Dictionary of Literary Biography. Ed. W.H. New. Volume 53. Detroit: Gale, 1986. 17-34.

"Shape Shifters." A Mazing Space. Ed. Shirley Neuman and Smaro Kamboureli. Edmonton: NeW­est/Longspoon, 1986. 219-27.

"History and/as Intertext." Future Indicative: Literary Theory and Canadian Literature. Ed. John Moss. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1987. 169-84.

"Present Tense: The Closing Panel" remarks. Future Indicative. 242-3.

"Leonard Cohen and His Works." Canadian Writers and their Works. Toronto: ECW Press, 1989. Published separately also.

"Confounding the Dark: A Symposium on Canadian Writing," in The Second Macmillan Anthology, ed. Leon Rooke and John Metcalf (Toronto: Macmillan,1989), 167-8; 178; 183-4.

"The Novel." The Literary History of Canada. Vol. 4. Ed. W.H. New. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989. 73-96.

"Afterword to The Edible Woman ." Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, reissue of New Canadian Library edition, 1989.

"Leonard Cohen: Poetry." Canadian Writers and their Works: Essays on Form, Context, and Development. Toronto: ECW Press, 1989. (also published separately)

"The Particular Meets the Universal." Writing and Gender. Ed. L. Scheier, S. Sheard, E. Wachtel. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1990. 148-51.

"The Canadian Postmodern." Studies on Canadian Literature: Introductory and Critical Essays. Ed. Arnold Davidson. New York: MLA, 1990. 18-33. (Translated into Korean, Contemporary World Literature [Fall 1991]: 46-63; also published in Chinese in Foreign Literature and Art Bimonthly 6 (1992): 227-44.)

"Circling the Downspout of Empire." Past the Last Post: Theorizing Post-Colonialism and Post-Modernism . Ed. I. Adam and H. Tiffin. Calgary:University of Calgary Press, 1990. 167-89; reprinted in Reader in Post- Colonial Theory, Eds. Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffin, Helen Tiffin. London and NY: Routledge, 1994. 130-35.

"Postmodernism's Ironic Paradoxes: Politics and Art," epilogue to Mark Cheetham, Remembering Postmodernism: Trends in Recent Canadian Art. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991. 109-33. French translation: Montreal: Editions Liber, 1992.

"As Canadian as..." The Canadian Essay. Ed. Gerald Lynch and David Rampton. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1991. 330-51; reprinted in Roberta Birks, Tomi Eng, Julie Walchli, eds., Landmarks: A Process Reader for Canadian Writers (Prentice Hall Canada), forthcoming.

"Black and White and Shades of Grey." Introduction to The Drawings of Gail Geltner. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1992. 7-14.

"Canada's 'Post': Sampling Today's Fiction." Likely Stories: A Postmodern Sampler. Ed. George Bowering and Linda Hutcheon. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1992. 9-16.

"Introduction." Double-Talking. Ed. L. Hutcheon. Toronto: ECW Press, 1992. 11-38.

"Splitting Images: The Postmodern Ironies of Women's Art." ReImagining Women: Representations of Women in Culture. Eds. S. Neuman and G. Stephenson. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1993. 256-70.

"Inscribing the Self and the Nation." Témoignages. Ed. Shirley Neuman. Ottawa: Canadian Federation for the Humanities, 1993. 141-49.

"Die Politisierung der Präfixe: postmodern, postkolonial, postkulturell: Die Situation in Kanada." Multikulturelle Gesellschaft: Modell Amerika. Ed. Berndt Ostendorf. Munich: Fink, 1994. 155-66.

"Incredulity Toward Metanarrative: Negotiating Feminisms and Postmodernism." Collaboration in the Feminine: Writings on Women and Culture from TESSERA. Ed. Barbara Godard. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1994. 186-92. Reprinted in Ambiguous Discourse: Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers. Ed. K. Mezei (Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 1996, 262-8; and Postmodernism and Feminism in the Canadian Context, ed. Shirin Kudchedkar (Delhi: Pencraft, 1995), 75-80.

"Frye Recoded: Theory and the 'Conclusions'". The Legacy of Northrop Frye. Ed. Alvin Lee and R. Denham. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995. 105-21. Translated into Chinese in Foreign Literatures 2 (1995): 12-20.

"The Field Notes of the Public Critic." Introduction to the reissue of Northrop Frye, The Bush Garden. Toronto: House of Anansi Press, 1995. vii-xx.

"Den Frostschaden an den Wurzeln der kanadischen Imagination: Postmoderne und Postkolonialismus." Amerika: Entdeckung, Eroberung, Erfindung. Ed. Winfried Herget. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag, 1995. 227-40.

"Multicultural Furor: The Reception of Other Solitudes," Cultural Difference and the Literary Text. Eds. Katrin Schwenk and Winfried Siemerling. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1996. 10-17.

"A Crypto-ethnic Confession" The Anthology of Italian-Canadian Writing. Ed. J. Pivato. Toronto: Guernica, 1998. 314-23.

"Fruitful Dualities: Contextualizing Crusz," Floating the Borders: New Contexts in Canadian Criticism. Ed. Nurjehan Aziz. Toronto: TSAR P, 2000. 259-63

"O Trabalho das mulheres: os irônicos desfios feministas." O Voz da Crítica Canadesne No Feminino. Ed. Nubia Jacques Hanciau, Eliane T.a. Campello, Eloina Prati dos Santos. Rio Grande: Editora da Furg, 2001. 237-61..

"La do Canada." La do Canada. Ed. Stella E.O. Tagnin. San Paolo: Editora Olavobras, 2002.

"The Canadian Mosaic," (De)Contructing Canadianness: Myth of the Nation and its Discontents. Ed. Eugenia Sojka. Krakow: Kaotwice, 2007. 230-49.

" Canadian Ethnic Ironies and Di Cicco’s Poetry." Pier Giorgio Di Cicco: Essays on his Works. Ed. Joseph Pivato. Toronto: Guernica, 2011. 22 -41.