Gained Ground (EPDF) von Eva Gruber

Compares the cultural productions of Canada and the US - literature, but also film, opera, and even theme parks - providing a reassessment of Canadian Studies within a comparative framework.

Introduction - Eva Gruber and Caroline Rosenthal
PART I. THE GENESIS OF CANADIAN AND COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES
Mapping North America: Comparative North American Literature and Its Contexts - Bettina Mack
The Scottish Invention of Canadian Literature? John Buchan in Canada - Silvia Mergenthal
PART II. COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES: LITERARY CASE STUDIES
"Poetics of the Potent": Yann Martel'sLife of Pi, Edgar Allan Poe'sThe Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, and Modes of Transcreation - Jutta Ernst
"Wanting to Light out for Tender Tenantless Territories": Reading Landscape in Robert Kroetsch'sThe Hornbooks of Rita K (2001) and Mark Anthony Jarman's19 Knives (2000) - Claire Omhovère
"Landscape-of-the-Heart": Transgenerational Memory and Relationality in Roy Kiyooka'sMothertalk: Life Stories of Mary Kiyoshi Kiyooka - Katja Sarkowsky
Performing Shame: Theatrical Motifs in the Works of Alice Munro and Alison Bechdel - Marlene Goldman
Timothy Findley's "Stones": Names, Symbols, and Stories - Sherrill Grace
PART III. COMPARATIVE NORTH AMERICAN STUDIES BEYOND PRINT
Comparative North American Opera: Individualism and National Identity - Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon
"Who Really Lives There?": (Meta-)Tourism and the Canada Pavilion at Epcot - Florian Freitag
Contact Prints: Reading Margaret Atwood'sThe Door and the MaddAddam Trilogy through the Lens of Photography - Julia Breitbach
Cup-idity, or Poetic Larceny in Transatlantic Contexts: Margaret Atwood's "Stealing the Hummingbird Cup" - Shuli Barzilai
PART IV. CODA: REINGARD NISCHIK AND TRANSATLANTIC CANADIAN CRITICISM
Across the "Ocean of the Page": Nischik and Kroetsch Gaining Ground - Aritha van Herk
Reingard, Queen of the Night - Margaret Atwood
Photo Log: 30 Years of Working in Canadian Criticism in Pictures