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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.

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.

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.