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The article discusses a pilot study of university student reading experience in relation to critical and empathetic engagement, as well as the impact of the ecology of hasty reading on experience of literary value. It examines the conditions of ecology of reading including reading requirements, media of texts and course load. The study also explores the perceived impact of reading habits on perception of learning, empathy, aesthetic pleasure, literary appreciation and immersive reading.

The article discusses the role of cats in modernist writing, particularly commenting on distinctions between humans and animals in literature. Several books are discussed, including the memoir "Noa Noa," by artist Paul Gauguin, and the novel "Women in Love," by D.H. Lawrence. The author also analyzes the comic strip "Krazy Kat" by George Herriman and the comic book character Catwoman, created by writer Bill Finger and artist Bob Kane. The writings of American author H.P. Lovecraft are also considered.

Drawing upon recent anthropological scholarship for a general theory of production, exchange, and valuation, this essay seeks to understand cultural appropriation, in a consequential but not exclusive way, as an ambivalent process whereby the norms and practices of imperialist society may be challenged by modern writers whether of Native or non-Native heritage. The examples of Emily Cart, Marius Barbeau, and Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) here illuminate a basic set of relationships between modernism, imperialism, and nationalism.

Deals with the focus given to family in postmodern Canadian tragedy. Ideas about the concept of the individual; Depiction of family in Thomas King's "All My Relations"; Views on the characters in "Traplines."

Criticizes the book 'The New Romans' by Al Purdy. Concept of ressentiment; Moral superiority of British over Americans; Relationship between Americans and Canadians.

Talks about the bad multiplicity in Canadian literature. Assumption in critical practice regarding Canadian literature; Definition of bad multiplicity; Analysis of the history of Canadian sociability.

Stephen Leacock's work, especially Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), continues to prompt contradictory conclusions about the political imagination expressed in his humorous fiction. Is it liberating or consolatory, subversive or conservative? This essay tries to resolve the question with a dialectical historicist reading of the ideology and logic of Leacock's style. The method is metacritical, aiming to provide a reconciling structure for the more positive claims resulting from nonhistoricist methods of reading Sunshine Sketches, along with the more negative ones resulting from methods addressed to the events and ideologies of Leacock's modernity and his analysis, as a political economist, of this modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses the book `Irony's Edge: The Theory and Politics of Irony,' by Linda Hutcheon. Transideological form of irony; Realist mythos of Hutcheon's study; Anti-foundationalist methodology.

Discusses the concept of modernistic reduction as it is appears in the book `Deep Hollow Creek,' by Canadian author Sheila Watson. Watson's `doctrine of equality'; Mythical symbol of the Coyote; Desire for a utopian ideology; Uniqueness of the Watson's modernism.