ENG 2133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Canadian Literature, Ulna, Term Paper
3 May 2018
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ENG2133- Lecture 1- May 2, 2018
Agenda for today’s class
• Introduction
• Ovid Metamorphoses - Creation, structure + differentiation
• - desire +transformation
• - Apollo +Daphne, Pan + Syrinx, Joule + lo
• Sublimation, work + memorialisation
• The work of desire
• Rape, sex, violence
Blow your mind ( Extra reading/songs etc of personal interest, not to be tested on etc.)
• Keats ode o a Greia Ula usure of spellig
• Yeats “ailig to Byrotiu
Back on track
• Profs expertise is in Canadian literature thus much of the titles studied in this course are
Canadian works (bias)
• This is not a psych class- it is about how these authors have used madness and desire in works to
express art
• What does art mean
• Course about experience, how we feel, how we fell in our own skin, how we feel about the
world
• Nothing more intimate than going crazy
• Intensely personal but also not all at the same time
• More of an idea course than a factual historical one
• More similarly related to a philosophy class
• Get used to feeling confused- best way to do well in this class is to try these ideas on
• Big ideas- take chances
• Many books we will look at are pushing the limits
• Transformation is KEY theme of this course
• Characters we will see are always changing
• For this class we are welcome to use the 1st person and give opinions! Its encouraged actually,
however, make sure you have valid arguments
• Generally you need to keep in mind that everything we read is hypothetical- try and imagine
these characters and the situations, the language etc
• Madness/desire appear in literature as limited- often defined by a break down in language
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