McGill Department of English Undergraduate Review
By: Elizabeth Strong Michael Ondaatje’s poem “‘The gate in his head’” is dedicated to Victor Coleman, a well-known Canadian poet and the first editor at…
By: Alicia Lapeña-Barry As a poetic form which occupies a significant amount of space in the English literary canon, the sonnet is a genre which…
Comments closedBy: Claire Hurley Pedagogical relationships are one of the many thematic preoccupations that dominate Leonard Cohen’s body of work over his long and esteemed career…
Comments closedBy: Nathan Drezner Judith Thompson’s 2007 docudrama play, Palace of the End, presents a series of characters entrapped in their own histories, tangled up in…
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By: Julien Gagnon The thematic dynamics at play between life and death, and especially the inevitable convergence of these apparent binaries, are evoked by likening…
Comments closedBy: Sophie Brzozowski The 1970s in Quebec were characterized by a sentiment of rebellion and empowerment amongst francophone Québecois, who had harbored resentment toward Canadian…
Comments closedby Ronny Litvack-Katzman James Merrill’s The Broken Home and Michael Ondaatje’s Letters & Other Worlds both cast doubt upon the idea of a perfect family.…
Comments closedBy Liz Wagner Since it disturbs the natural flow of reading, the fragment form constitutes one of the most striking literary features of contemporary migration…
Comments closedby Sanjna Navani Temporality is “a mode of implantation through which institutional forces come to seem like somatic facts”; in heteronormative society, these forces “are…
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