Az Eszterházy Károly Tanárképző Főiskola Tudományos Közleményei. 2000. [Vol. 6.] Eger Journal of American Studies. (Acta Academiae Paedagogicae Agriensis : Nova series ; Tom. 26)

Book reviews - Judit Ágnes Kádár: Canada and the Millenium—Proceedings of the 2nd Canadian Studies Conference in Central Europe. Editor: Anna Jakabfi

JUDIT ÁGNES KÁDÁR CANADA AND THE MILLENNIUM—PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2ND CANADIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE IN CENTRAL EUROPE Editor: Anna Jakabfi. Budapest: Loránd Eötvös University

—Hungarian Canadianists's Association, 1999.215 pp. Reading the Anna Jakabfi edited Canada and the Millennium

— Proceedings of the 2nd Canadian Studies Conference in Central Europe provides us with an invaluable selection of perspectives on some current trends in Canadian culture and literature in particular. The book commemorates the anniversary of Canadian Studies in Hungary and celebrates the teaching, research and cooperation of the higher education institutions as well as the Hungarian Canadian Friendship Society. Among the writers of the included essays there are prestigious literati from Central-European countries and Canada. These contributions offer a wide variety of exciting topics ranging from a comprehensive discussion of multiculturalism to specific analyses of trends in literature, such as drama and the problem of canonization, postmodern discourse criticism, or human rights in the context of children's literature. The focus of the book is certainly rather literary, a number of further essays elaborate new approaches to French and European poetry, female and the feminist novel or to specific texts by authors like Margaret Atwood and Timothy Findley. Structurally the collection of essays is divided into two parts, the first incorporating writings of a rather general interest ("Past, Present, Future

—Summing Up") and the second including specific literary investigations of some individual writers' contribution to the Canadian 217