Contents

pp v-vi

Preface and Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-16

Part I - The Genesis of Canadian and Comparative North American Studies

pp 17-18

Mapping North America: Comparative North American Literature and Its Contexts

pp 19-40

The Scottish Invention of Canadian Literature? John Buchan in Canada

pp 41-54

Part II - Comparative North American Studies: Literary Case Studies

pp 55-56

“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

pp 57-75

“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)

pp 76-92

“Landscape–of–the–Heart”: Transgenerational Memory and Relationality in Roy Kiyooka's Mothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka

pp 93-107

Performing Shame: Theatrical Motifs in the Works of Alice Munro and Alison Bechdel

pp 108-132

Timothy Findley's “Stones”: Names, Symbols, and Stories

pp 133-146

Part III - Comparative North American Studies beyond Print

pp 147-148

Comparative North American Opera: Individualism and National Identity

pp 149-160

“Who Really Lives There?”: (Meta–)Tourism and the Canada Pavilion at Epcot

pp 161-178

Contact Prints: Reading Margaret Atwood's The Door and the MaddAddam Trilogy through the Lens of Photography

pp 179-192

Cup–idity, or Poetic Larceny in Transatlantic Contexts: Margaret Atwood's “Stealing the Hummingbird Cup”

pp 193-208

Part IV - Coda: Reingard Nischik and Transatlantic Canadian Criticism

pp 209-210

Across the “Ocean of the Page”: Nischik and Kroetsch Gaining Ground

pp 211-222

Reingard, Queen of the Night

pp 223-224

Photo Log: 30 Years of Working in Canadian Criticism in Pictures

pp 225-230

Index

pp 231-243