EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Double Hook, Seigneurial System Of New France, Canadian Literature
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Recap: talked about the critical conversation around the modernist fiction in canada. We could look at texts which is quite explicitly modernist because it follows all the conventions of modernism. It is interrogating, mixing methodologies (religious and scared symbolism) important and what is happening. It would reward a careful and close re-reading. A poem should not mean but be. characters isolation means something and is important to the story. It is place based without inviting a regional response: place based vs. regional : we say this is very much a place based text the. British exploration: we french and english have never lost our bloodless civil bore (can. lit bernie). Cabot (1490s); jamestown (1607) first british settlement in na; 13 colonies which will eventually come the united states. Cartier (1530s); champlain est quebec city, alliance with indigenous groups then much of north america. Franklin: isolation and mixed mythologies, glory and darkness (no moralizing but a happy (ish) ending.
