Gained Ground – Perspectives on Canadian and Comparative North American Studies: European Studies in North American Literature and Culture

Eva Gruber, Caroline Rosenthal

Introduction - Eva Gruber and Caroline Rosenthal PART I. THE GENESIS OF CANADIAN AND COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES Mapping North America: Comparative North American Literature and Its Contexts - Bettina Mack The Scottish Invention of Canadian Literature? John Buchan in Canada - Silvia Mergenthal PART II. COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES: LITERARY CASE STUDIES "Poetics of the Potent": Yann Martel's Life of Pi, Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Modes of Transcreation - Jutta Ernst "Wanting to Light out for Tender Tenantless Territories": Reading Landscape in Robert Kroetsch's The Hornbooks of Rita K (2001) and Mark Anthony Jarman's 19 Knives (2000) - Claire Omhovère "Landscape-of-the-Heart": Transgenerational Memory and Relationality in Roy Kiyooka's Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka - Katja Sarkowsky Performing Shame: Theatrical Motifs in the Works of Alice Munro and Alison Bechdel - Marlene Goldman Timothy Findley's "Stones": Names, Symbols, and Stories - Sherrill Grace PART III. COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES BEYOND PRINT Comparative North American Opera: Individualism and National Identity - Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon "Who Really Lives There?": (Meta-)Tourism and the Canada Pavilion at Epcot - Florian Freitag Contact Prints: Reading Margaret Atwood's The Door and the MaddAddam Trilogy through the Lens of Photography - Julia Breitbach Cup-idity, or Poetic Larceny in Transatlantic Contexts: Margaret Atwood's "Stealing the Hummingbird Cup" - Shuli Barzilai PART IV. CODA: REINGARD NISCHIK AND TRANSATLANTIC CANADIAN CRITICISM Across the "Ocean of the Page": Nischik and Kroetsch Gaining Ground - Aritha van Herk Reingard, Queen of the Night - Margaret Atwood Photo Log: 30 Years of Working in Canadian Criticism in Pictures