{"title":"In Praise of the Garrison Mentality: Why Fear and Retreat May be Useful Responses in an Era of Climate Change","authors":"S. Malisch","doi":"10.7202/1062361AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062361AR","url":null,"abstract":"This essay revisits one of the foundational settler texts of Canadian literature, Northrop Frye’s “Conclusion” to the Literary History of Canada . It offers a controversial re-reading of Northrop Frye’s infamous “garrison mentality” thesis from the perspective of contemporary eco-criticism, particularly in view of the global crisis of climate change. The essential ecological logic of Frye’s account is that human isolation from nature impedes humanity’s “fullest functioning as a species.” However, the logic of the garrison thesis has been implicitly shared by critics who purport to oppose Frye’s approach; at base, both Frye and his critics assume that human-nature interconnection fosters human potential and creativity. Drawing on a number of prominent environmental biologists and ecocritics, the essay demonstrates that the garrison mentality, in which humans maintain a respectful distance from nature, may be the most ecologically sound response. This opens up a provocative question: “What if the most crucial role for literature . . . is not to fuel and thrive on the individual quest for creative fulfillment and self-understanding, but to harness itself to the task of bringing human aspirations, collectively, within limits?”","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86871223","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.7202/1062370ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1062370ar","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72511485","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Spatial Politics of Homosociality in Austin Clarke’s In This City","authors":"Cornel Bogle","doi":"10.7202/1058066AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1058066AR","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90729621","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Back Matter","authors":"","doi":"10.7202/1058073ar","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1058073ar","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"101 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75453551","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Slippery and Plural: Collaborative Writing in Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland’s “Subject to Change” and “Reading and Writing Between the Lines”","authors":"Benjamin Authers, Andrea Beverley","doi":"10.7202/1058067AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1058067AR","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83595218","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Tu n’as pas à te sentir coupable d’être”: A Multiversal Approach to Guilt in Gaétan Soucy’s L’Acquittement","authors":"Scott M. Powers","doi":"10.7202/1058060AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1058060AR","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76959700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Seed Activism, Global Environmental Justice, and Avant-Garde Aesthetics in Annabel Soutar’s Seeds","authors":"Tania Aguila-Way","doi":"10.7202/1058058AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1058058AR","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78859831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Writing “Home”: The Healing Power of Métis Storytelling in Cherie Dimaline’s Red Rooms and The Girl Who Grew a Galaxy","authors":"Petra Fachinger","doi":"10.7202/1058065AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1058065AR","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"116 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76133830","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“A Scrap of the Savage”: E. Pauline Johnson’s Canoeing Journalism","authors":"Jeffrey Swenson","doi":"10.7202/1058061AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1058061AR","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"138 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73028571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pacific Doors: Earle Birney, Allen Curnow, and Pacific Modernisms","authors":"D. Mcneill","doi":"10.7202/1058059AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1058059AR","url":null,"abstract":"<jats:p />","PeriodicalId":42265,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN CANADIAN LITERATURE-ETUDES EN LITTERATURE CANADIENNE","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87331858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}