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Article: Criticism (Philip Marchand. Ripostes: Reflections on Canadian Literature).(Review)
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- World Literature Today
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- March 22, 1999
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Philip Marchand. Ripostes: Reflections on Canadian Literature. Erin, Ont. Porcupine's Quill. 1998. 198 pages. Can$14.95. ISBN 0-88984-196-9.
Ripostes: Reflections on Canadian Literature collects nineteen essays and represents something of a personal milestone: a ten-year celebration of Philip Marchand's work as the book columnist for the Toronto Star. Appropriately, he opens the collection with an essay titled "Confessions of a Book Columnist," wherein he offers his two qualifications for reviewing books and publishing his reflections on Canadian literature: being well read and very intelligent. Having satisfied these qualifications, he then identifies, with ...
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Article: A time for vision - For Margaret Atwood, author of ...
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... ... Beginnings are sudden, but also insidious," writes Margaret Atwood in this month's Boston Herald Book Club selection ... novels, 13 volumes of poetry, several studies of Canadian literature and four books for children, she describes the ...
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