Patterns in Isolation: Three Versions of Canadian Literature and Society Zailig PollockPatterns in Isolation: Three Versions of Canadian Literature and Society Zailig Pollock Paul Cappon (ed.), In Our Own House: Social Perspectives on Canadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1978. 208pp. $5.95.John Moss, Sex and Violence in the Canadian Novel: The Ancestral Present. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977. 326pp. $6.95.Ronald Sutherland, The New Hero: Essays in Comparative Quebec/Canadian Literature. Toronto: MacMillan of Canada, 1977, 118pp. $6.95.

1979 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-121
Author(s):  
Zailig Pollock
Keyword(s):  
Canadian Literature ◽  
Social Perspectives ◽  
Literature And Society

Review of Representations: Essays on Literature and Society.

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-93
Author(s):  
No authorship indicated
Keyword(s):  
Literature And Society

“The heart above the ruins”: Miriam Waddington’s Poetry, the Spanish Civil War, and Jewish Canadian Literature

1969 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Robins Sharpe
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Spanish Civil War ◽  
World War ◽  
Canadian Literature ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Holocaust ◽  
The Subject ◽  
War Consequences

The Jewish Canadian writer Miriam Waddington returned repeatedly to the subject of the Spanish Civil War, searching for hope amid the ruins of Spanish democracy. The conflict, a prelude to World War II, inspired an outpouring of literature and volunteerism. My paper argues for Waddington’s unique poetic perspective, in which she represents the Holocaust as the Spanish Civil War’s outgrowth while highlighting the deeply personal repercussions of the war – consequences for women, for the earth, and for community. Waddington’s poetry connects women’s rights to human rights, Canadian peace to European war, and Jewish persecution to Spanish carnage.

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