Much of the criticism of Canadian literature, John Metcalf informs us, does not take into account the details of form, style, technique, and language that writers cherish. Instead, most critics insist on reading literature -- distorting it, undervaluing it, undermining it -- by placing it in a journalistic, sociological, historical, political, or even religious framework. Sam Solecki (whose puckish and probing essay on John Metcalf's criticism 'Some...