The series is designed to advance the publication of research pertaining to themes and motifs in literature. The studies cover cross-cultural patterns as well as the entire range of national literatures. They trace the development and use of themes and motifs over extended periods, elucidate the significance of specific themes or motifs for the formation of period styles, and analyze the unique structural function of themes and motifs.

The Editors: Mark Cronlund Anderson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Regina and Coordinator of Interdisciplinary Studies at Luther College, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. He is the author of as well as of a forthcoming study, , which explores how American film has served as a vehicle for the mythical promotion of Manifest Destiny. Irene Maria F. Blayer is Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Languages Literatures and Cultures at Brock University, Ontario, Canada. Her main area of specialization embraces the comparative study of Romance linguistics within a historical context. Other research interests explore linguistic issues embedded in oral and written narrative traditions, and the concepts of identity and culture. Recent publications include among others two co-edited volumes: (Lang, 2002) and (Lang, 2004).

Contents: Mark Cronlund Anderson/Irene Maria F. Blayer: Introduction – Sandra L. Beckett: Recycling Red Riding Hood in the Americas – Pauline Morel: Counter-Stories and Border Identities: Storytelling and Myth as a Means of Identification, Subversion, and Survival in Leslie Marmon Silko’s «Yellow Woman» and «Tony’s Story» – Bernie Harder: A Dialogic Reading of Oral Literature: Harry Robinson’s and – Ute Lischke: «Blitzkuchen»: An Exploration of Story-Telling in Louise Erdrich’s – David T. McNab: Storytelling and Transformative Spaces in Louise Erdrich’s , and – Eileen Margerum: Palmer Cox: Telling Stories to Produce Modern Children – Mary Anne Harsh: The Carnivalesque and the Grotesque in Roch Carrier’s : A Twentieth-Century Novel with Renaissance Echoes – Gregory Maillet: Longfellow’s «Evangeline» and Mailett’s : Storytelling and the Soul of l’Acadie – Anthony G. Murphy: Singing His America: Narrative Strategies of Dissonance in the Story-Songs of Steve Earle – Monika Boehringer: Sexual/Textual Politics in by France Daigle.