Greening the Maple

Acknowledgements Introduction: Ecocriticism North of the Forty--ninth Parallel Ella Spoer and Nicholas Bradley Section 1: Nature and Nation: Before and Beyond Thematic Criticism Chapter 1: Selections from The Busch Garden: Essays on the Canadian Imagination (1971) Northrop Frye Chapter 2: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972) Margaret Atwood Chapter 3: La Forêt or the Winlderness as Myth (1987) Rosemary Sullivan Chapter 4: Quest for the Peaceable Knowledge: Urban/Rural Codes in Roy, Laurence, and Atwood (1984) Sherrill E. Grace Chapter 5: Women in the Wilderness (1986) Heather Murray Section 2: The Emergence of Ecocriticism in Canada Chapter 6: "Along the Line of Smoky Hills": Further Steps towards an Ecological Poetics (1990) D.M.R. Bentley Chapter 7: So Big about Green (1991) Laurie Ricou Chapter 8: So Unwise about Green (1996) Laurie Ricou Chapter 9: Eruptions of Postmodernity: The Postcolonial and the Ecological (1993) Linda Hutcheon Chapter 10: Contemporary Canadian Poetry from the Edge: An Exploration of Literary Ecocriticism (1995) Gabriele Helms Chapter 11: Natureâs Nation, National Natures? Reading Ecocriticism in a Canadian Context (1998) Susie OâBrien Section 3: Reading Canadian Landscapes Chapter 12: Nature Trafficking: Writing and Environment in the Western Canada--U.S. Borderlands Jenny Kerber Chapter 13: Calypso Trails: Botanizing on the Bruce Peninsula (2010) Catriona Sandilands Chapter 14: Knowledge, Power, and Place: Environmental Politics in the Fiction of Matt Cohen and David Adams Richards Cheryl Lousley Section 4: Environments and Cross--Cultural Encounters Chapter 15: Canadian Art according to Emily Carr: The Search for Indigenous Expression (2005) Linda Morra Chapter 16: "Mon pays, ce nâest pas un pays, câest lâhiver": Literary Representations of Nature and Ecocritical Thought in Quebec Stephanie Posthumus and élise Salaün Chapter 17: Decolonization: Reading Asian and First Nations Relations in Literature (2008) Rita Wong Section 5: Neighbours Unknown: Animals in Canadian Literature Chapter 18: Selections from Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature (1972) Margaret Atwood Chapter 19: Political Science: Realism in Robertâs Animal Stories (1996) Misano Dean Chapter 20: The "I" in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification in the Self--Representation in Grey Owlâs Pilgrims of the Wild (2007) Carrie Dawson Chapter 21: The Ontology and Epistemology of Walking: Animality in Karsten Huerâs Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd Pamela Banting Section 6: In Full Bloom: New Directions in Canadian Theory Chapter 22: Poetics of the Semiosphere: Pataphysics, Biosemiotics, and Imaginary Solutions for Water (2011) Adam Dickinson Chapter 23: Literature and Geology: An Experiment in Interdisciplinary Comparative Ecocriticism Travis V. Mason Chapter 24: The Dwelling Perspective in English--Canadian Drama Nelson Gray Afterword: Ecocritical Futures Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley Appendix: Taking Frlight: From Little Grey Birds to The Goose Liza Sazbo--Jones Notes Index

Linda Hutcheon is Associate Professor of English at McMaster University. Jenny Kerber teaches in the areas of Canadian and American literature, literary theory, and environmental criticism in the Department of English at the University of Toronto. Her essays on Canadian literary and environmental topics have appeared in Canadian Poetry , Canadian Literature , Essays on Canadian Writing , and Green Letters . This is her first book. Catriona Sandilands is a professor in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. She is a fellow of the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, a former Canada Research Chair and past president of both the Association for Literature, Environment and Culture in Canada and the Association for the Study of Literature and Environment (US). Cate is internationally known for her work in the environmental humanities, including three (sole and co-authored) books and over eighty scholarly and popular articles, essays and stories. In addition to Rising Tides, she is working on a book about plants and environmental philosophy (Cultivating Feminism) and a memoir about her journey to write a book about Jane Rule (The Jane Book). Cate lives and writes in Toronto, ON, and on Galiano Island, BC. Dr. Linda Morra is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Bishop's University. Her publications include Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Authorship (2014), a co-edited collection of essays, Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations in Canadian Women's Archives (2012), and an edition of Jane Rule's memoir, Taking My Life (2011). Ella Soper is a lecturer in the Department of English and Drama at the University of Toronto Mississauga, in the Department of English at University of Toronto Scarborough, and in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Rita Wong is an award-winning writer of four books of poetry, her latest titled undercurrent (2015). She is co-editor of downstream: reimagining water (WLU Press 2017), nominated for the Alanna Bondar Memorial Book Prize. She teaches at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, on the unceded Coast Salish territories also known as Vancouver, where she learns from water. Nicholas Bradley is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Victoria. Northrop Frye (1912-1991) was Canada's leading literary critic and one of the world's leading theorists of society and the imagination. Among his twenty-three books, and more than three hundred articles and reviews, are classic studies such as Fearful Symmetry , Anatomy of Criticism , The Great Code , and Words With Power . Margaret Atwood is known internationally for her award-winning novels, poetry, and short stories. She was born in Ottawa in 1939, and spent much of her childhood in northern Ontario and Quebec. She has lived, studied, and worked in Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Vancouver, Alliston, and Boston, as well as England, Scotland, Ireland, France, Italy, and Germany.