|
''Canadian Literature'' is a quarterly of criticism and review published by the University of British Columbia. ''Canadian Literature'' was founded in 1959 by George Woodcock, who produced seventy-three issues before retiring in 1977. After Woodcock's retirement, the University of British Columbia invited William H. New, formerly an advisory editor, to act as editor. New headed the journal until 1995, producing seventy-two issues. Between 1995 and 2003, Eva-Marie Kröller took up the role of editor. In addition to producing thirty-four issues, Kröller expanded ''Canadian Literature'' by introducing a peer review process and recruiting distinguished Canadian and international scholars to make up an editorial board. In 2003, Laurie Ricou, who has been either an associate or acting editor since 1983, became the journal's editor. Ricou's term ended in 2007 and saw Margery Fee taking the helm as editor.〔(Canadian Literature: About ). Retrieved 9 March 2011.〕 ''Canadian Literature'' aims to foster a wider academic interest in the Canadian literary field, and publishes a wide range of material from Canadian and international scholars, writers, and poets. Each issue contains a variety of articles and an extensive book reviews section. As well, each issue includes selections of unpublished original poetry from Canadian contributors. To give its pages depth and breadth, ''Canadian Literature'' alternates general and special issues. The general issues deal with a range of periods and topics, while the special issues focus on more specific topics, including travel, ethnicity, women's writing, and multiculturalism. ''Canadian Literature'' is not aligned with any single theoretical approach; rather, it is interested in exploring articles on all subjects relating to writers and writing in Canada.〔Woodcock, George. (Editorial ), ''Canadian Literature'' 1. Retrieved 9 March 2011.〕 Each issue contains both English and French content from a wide range of contributors and has been described as "critically eclectic".〔"Canadian Literature / Litterature Canadienne." ''Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada.'' Ed. W.H. New. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Print.〕 ''Canadian Literature'' has an average page length of 208 pages. The print circulation is approximately over a thousand while the readership is worldwide as it is distributed in Canada, US, and twenty-five other countries.〔(Canadian Literature ), Magazine Association of BC website. Retrieved 2011-03-09.〕 Institutions make up 85% of the subscription base, which is largely made up of university and college libraries. In 2007, ''Canadian Literatures subscriber base was 45% Canadian, 36% American and 19% international.〔Potter, Laura. "A Short History of ''Canadian Literature.''" ''From A Speaking Place: Writings from the First Fifty Years of ''Canadian Literature.'' '' Eds. W.H. New et al. Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2009.〕 == History == ''Canadian Literature'' was established in the autumn of 1958 by Roy Daniells and George Woodcock at the University of British Columbia. The first issue of the journal appeared in summer 1959 to skeptical reception because of a general belief that Canada had no national literature; some critics predicted that the journal would run out of material after only a few issues.〔 Initially, editor George Woodcock intended that ''Canadian Literature'' would be fully bilingual in French and English, but due to the lack of French submissions, after ten years of publication French-language material never rose above 10% of an issue's content.〔 At the time of its foundation, ''Canadian Literature'' was the first and only quarterly entirely devoted to the discussion and criticism of Canadian writing and literature.〔"''Canadian Literature."'' ''The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature''. Ed. William Toye. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2001.〕 Although the position of editor eventually went to George Woodcock, the university's first choice would have been folk bibliographer and UBC's only specialist in Canadian literature, Reginald Watters, but instead offered the position to Woodcock after Watters decided to accept a fellowship in Australia.〔Klinck, Carl F. ''Giving Canada a Literary History.'' Ed. Sandra Djwa. Ottawa: Carleton UP for U of Western Ontario. Cited in Fetherling, Douglas. ''The Gentle Anarchist: a Life of George Woodcock.'' Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1998.〕 Under Woodcock's editorship, he strived to keep the journal from being purely academic,〔Doyle, Mike. "Working with George Woodcock." ''Making Waves: Reading BC and Pacific Northwest Literature.'' Ed. Trevor Carolan. Vancouver: Anvil / University of the Fraser Valley P, 2010.〕 instead adopting a tone "serious but not academic, popular but not journalistic, contextual more than textual" (Fetherling).〔Fetherling, Douglas. ''The Gentle Anarchist: a Life of George Woodcock.'' Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1998.〕 Woodcock later attributed ''Canadian Literatures success to having arrived "at the right moment in the development of a Canadian literary tradition, and created its own ground swell of critical activity."〔Woodcock, George. ''Beyond the Blue Mountains: An Autobiography.'' Markham, ON: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1987. cited in Potter, Laura. "A Short History of ''Canadian Literature.''" ''From A Speaking Place: Writings from the First Fifty Years of ''Canadian Literature.'' '' Eds. W.H. New et al. Vancouver: Ronsdale, 2009.〕 Woodcock resigned from editorship in 1977, having edited 73 issues of the journal. He appointed his first choice, W. H. New, to succeed him. New had served as an assistant editor since 1965. New chose to give priority to First Nations, Asian Canadian, Caribbean Canadian and other minority literatures, which previously had been under-represented in Canadian literary criticism. New retired from the position of Editor in 1955, having edited 72 issues.〔 New was succeeded by Eva-Marie Kröller as editor. She raised the journal's reputation world wide by establishing an international editorial board and refining the peer-review process for article submissions, which had been started by New. The goal of formalizing the peer-review process was to allow the journal to keep appealing to both general and scholarly audiences.〔 During Kröller's editorship, ''Canadian Literature'' fortified its commitment to Canadian francophone writers by appointing its first Associate Editor specifically for francophone writing, Michel Rocheleau. Under Associate Editor Réjean Beaudoin's guidance, ''Canadian Literature'' has published several special issues featuring a majority of French content, such as "Littérature Francophone hors-Québec / Francophone Writing Outside Quebec."〔 In 1995, the journal underwent major design changes: it moved from plain beige covers to coloured, changed to a narrower trim, and added more pages to each issue in order to accommodate an expanded focus on themes such as postcolonialism, poetics, cultural history, and multiculturalism. The journal also decided to keep publishing original poems by Canadian writers as a part of its tradition as "an in-between" literary periodical.〔 In 2012, ''Canadian Literature'' launched a free online classroom resource called ''CanLit Guides''. The guides use archival material from the journal to teach students about academic writing and reading. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Canadian Literature (journal)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|