Stewart Donovan

Stewart Donovan

Department of English
Professor (1985)
BA (St.FX), MA (Ottawa),
PhD (National University of Ireland)

email: sdonovan@stu.ca


Courses Regularly Taught:

ENGL 2463 Modern Irish Literature
ENGL 3563 Film and Narrative I
ENGL 3573 Film and Narrative II
ENGL 3623 The Literature of Politics
ENGL 3483 Irish Film
ENGL 3713 James Joyce
ENGL 4976 Seminar: Modern Literature

Publications

Books
Maritime Union: A Political Tale, (novel) Non-Entity Press, 1992
Cape Breton Quarry, (collection of poems) Breton Books, 1994
The Nashwaak Review, editor, Volumes 1-8, 1994-2000

Articles
"Breakfast with Borges," (an interview with Jorge Luis Borges) The Antigonish Review 52 (Winter 1983) pp. 67-71.
Remembering Yeats" an interview with Irish novelist Francis Stuart TAR 71-72 (Autumn 1987 Winter 1988) pp. 57-64.
"South by South West" a review/article of In the Spirit of the Times and Islands by Ken Norris; Islands Lovelier Than a Vision by Cyril Dabydeen Journal of Canadian Poetry Vol. 3, 1988
"Song and Suffering:the Northern Irish Conflict 1969-89
." The Antigonish Review, Vol. 80 (Spring 1990) pp. 145-161.
"The Dog Eared Texts: Selected Essays and Reviews of R.J. MacSween" edited and introduced. TAR 87-88 (Fall 1991-Winter 1992) pp. 129-228.
"Finn in Shabby Diggs: Myth and the Reductionist Process in At Swim Two Birds", The Antigonish Review Vol. 89 (Spring 1992) pp. 147-153.
"Writers and Politics: Ezra Pound back in the dock" TAR, Vol. 93-94, (Spring-Summer, 1993) pp. 47-55.
"Famous American Whines" a review article of Fame in the Twentieth Century by Clive James and The Culture of Complaint: the Fraying of America by Robert Hughes. TAR Vol. 97 (Spring 1994) pp. 115-127.
Frankfurt to Dubrovnik: an interview with Rudolph Siebert The Nashwaak Review Vol. 1 (Fall 1994) pp. 69-90.
"John McGahern's Amongst Women: The Autumn of the Patriarch" The Nashwaak Review Vol. 1 (Fall 1994) pp. 44-58.
"Riding the paradigm from Joyce to Cronenberg: or art, culture and politics in a millennial mood" The Antigonish Review Vol 114 (Summer 1998), pp. 151-170.

Reviews
"Brian Moore's latest Novel," a review of Black Robe by Brian Moore. The Atlantic Provinces Book Review Vol. 12, No. 2 (May-June1985)
"Cassie Brown Reprint," a review of Standing Into Danger by Cassie Brown. APBRVol 12, No. 3 (Sept-Oct 1985)
"Alden Nowlan's Poetry," a review of An Exchange of Gifts: Poems New and Selected by Alden Nowlan APBR Vol. 12 No. 4 (Nov-Dec 1985)
"Atlantic Stories," a review of Atlantic Anthology Vol. 1 ed. by Fred Cogswell. The Cormorant Vol. 4, No. 1 (Spring 1986)
"Celtic Hero and Modern Misfit," a review of Fionn macCUMHAILL: Celtic Myth in English Literature by James MacKillop. APBR Vol.13, No. 3 (Sept-Oct 1986)
"The Irish and the land of the fish," a review of Talamh an Eisc: Canadian Irish Essays edited by Cyril Byrne and Margaret Harry APBR Vol. 14, No.1 (Jan-Feb 1987)
"Poet of Wit and Wonder" a review of Philip Larkin and English Poetry by Terry Whalen TAR 73 (Spring1988)
"All the Mill People" a review of The Wanton Troopers by Alden Nowlan APBR Vol.15, No. 4 (Nov-Dec 1988)
"McLuhan Revival" review-article of Marshall McLuhan: the Medium and the Messenger by Philip Marchand and Marshall McLuhan:the Man and His Messages edited by George Sanderson and Frank MacDonald APBR Vol. 16, No. 3 (Sept. Oct. 1989)
Everlasting Voices: aspects of the Modern Irish Short Story by Richard J. Thompson's CHOICE American Library Association (1990)
W.H. Auden by Wendell Stacy Johnson CHOICE (1990)
Jocoserious Joyce by Robert Bell CHOICE (1990)
"Uncounted Irish" a review of The Uncounted Irish by Margaret Fitzgerald and Joseph King APBR Vol.17, No. 2 (Sept-Oct. 1990)
Kate O'Brien by Adele Dalsimer CHOICE (1990)
Understanding Graham Green by R.H. Miller CHOICE (1990)
"Ideas in reaction: byways to the Pound arcana by Carroll Terrell CHOICE ( 1991)
"Pax Americana" a review of Blood Class and Nostalgia: Anglo-American Ironies, by Christopher Hitchens. TAR Vol. 86 (Summer 1991)
Samuel Ferguson:The Literary Achievement by Peter Denman CHOICE (1991)
Flann O'Brien by Sue Asbee CHOICE ( 1991)
"Mr Wu and Mrs Stitch " a review of The Letters of Evelyn Waugh and Diana Cooper edited by Artemis Cooper TAR Vol. 90 (Summer 1992)
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Murray CHOICE ( 1993)
The aesthetics of James Joyce by Jacques Aubert CHOICE (1993)
A Walking Tour of Southern France: Ezra Pound among the troubadours edited by Richard Sieburth CHOICE (1993)
Ezra Pound and the Symbolist Inheritance by Scott Hamilton CHOICE (1993)
Ulysses and the Irish god by Frederick K. Lang CHOICE (1993)
The prose literature of the Gaelic revival, 1881-1921:ideology and innovation by Philip O'Leary CHOICE (1994)
Ezra Pound as critic by G. Singh CHOICE (1995)
Graham Greene: the enemy within by Michael Shelden CHOICE (1995)
"The Lessons of the Master: The Notebooks of Louis Dudek" The Nashwaak Review Vol 2 (Summer 1995) pp. 35-40.
The dual tradition: an essay on poetry and politics in Ireland by Thomas Kinsella CHOICE (1996)
Under English Eyes: a review of Heathcliff and the Great Hunger by Terry Eagleton The Nashwaak Review Vol 3 (Winter 1996)
"Michael Collins and the English Patient in Edinburgh" The Nashwaak Review Vol 5 (Summer 1998) pp. 134-143.
"A Small Primer on Modernism: Hugh Kenner on the Pound Era" The New Brunswick Reader, June 6, 1998.
"Critical Essays on Toni Morrison's Beloved" CHOICE (1998)
"Chekov's Comic Stories" CHOICE (1999) "
W.H. Auden, A Life, Vol. 11" CHOICE (1999)

Research Interests:

Creative Writing, Irish Studies, Film, Literature and Politics


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