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: Nature?s Nation, National Natures? Reading Ecocriticism in a Canadian Context (1998)
Susie O?Brien
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 n?est pas un pays, c?est l?hiver": 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 Robert?s Animal Stories (1996)
Misano Dean
Chapter 20: The "I" in Beaver: Sympathetic Identification in the Self?Representation in Grey Owl?s Pilgrims of the Wild (2007)
Carrie Dawson
Chapter 21: The Ontology and Epistemology of Walking: Animality in Karsten Huer?s 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
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