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...publications together accounted for one-quarter of the estimated $75 million in ad revenues placed in Canada's 21 leading magazines last year. Obviously, supporters of the bill hope that it will divert these advertising dollars into Canadian-owned publications. Said Secretary of State J. Hugh Faulkner, the minister in charge of cultural affairs, when he announced the bill: "It is my hope and expectation that the decision of the government will result in the creation of a Canadian newsmagazine...
American Threat. That prospect does not trouble those Canadians who believe that their national identity is seriously threatened from south of the border. "We have to create our own identity," said Faulkner in a recent interview. "We have to protect ourselves. The alternative is to be simply overrun by the American arts and cultures...
...hard or experiment too much in order to match their first success. Sometimes they are written by people who said it all the first time around. Woiwode's novel is not one of these. Woiwode's first novel, What I'm Going To Do, I Think, won the William Faulkner Foundation Award for the "most notable first novel" of 1969. This feat would not be so noteworthy if the similarities between Woiwode and Faulkner were not so striking. Woiwode's story of the lives of a family in the Midwest, told from different points of view and from different narrative...
...addition of children and their own narratives compounds the problem of narration. As in Faulkner, it is sometimes difficult to know who is speaking and what he is talking about. One poignant example is found in a chapter entitled "The Basement." The beginning of the two-page chapter talks about the children and their mother, Alpha, in the third person; and this chapter, which points out the importance of the house and land to the children, ends in a rather Faulknerian ambiguity: "And this place our mother didn't mind one bit, or so it seems now, or was then...
...shortcomings of the book almost naturally spring from the different narrative techniques. In the middle of a long, sensitive description of Charles Neumiller's burial of his father, Faulkner's style intrudes: "Clarence carrying o'clock twelve." The more experimental parts of the book are far from perfect. At times there are too many lists of food and too many clumsy attempts at representing noises in onomatopoeic form--for example, "creer chee, creaca chee, creesh shee" to convey the sound of shoes on a sidewalk. At other points in the novel, the symbols are too apparent. The silver dollars which...