CDNS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Robin Scherbatsky, West Edmonton Mall, Canadian Studies

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CDNS 1000
• Professor: Richard Nimijean

Document Summary

Tells us that writers and artists define the nation. The greatest threat to the nation is outside cultural traditions (us influence) Sealing the country off to outside traditions: writers and artists as architects of nation, look to folk culture and traditions, in canada, romantic cultural nationalism emerges in relationship with the land. North functions as a life source for canada, engaging with the northern landscape. Civilization seperates us from it : romantic view of landscape in 19th century canada, concept of elan vital-lifeforce, relationship between nationalism and landscape. Images of landscape prove that we have ownership over the land. Celebrating the values of nature is always positive with nationalist thought. Is all about creating a sense of homeland or a claim to territory. Associating landscapes with a community and its historical past: attempts to generate homeland, naturalization of the nation- the nation is the active ingredient, nationalization of nature, celebration of untamed nature in canada.