ENGL 3502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: William Carlos Williams, Pub, Tabula Rasa
20 Feb 2016
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Even at that young age i was secure in the illusion that the land my parents and grandparents homesteaded had had no prior occupants, animal or human. We were the truly innocent (kroetsch 328) How mixed my own feelings were towards that whole generation of pioneers how difficult they were to live with, how authoritarian, how unbending, how afraid to sow love, many of them, and how willing to show anger (lawrence. Contrasting kroetsch focused less on the landscape. My sense of the gap between me and history was growing. History as i knew it did not account for the world i lived in. present here in this landscape, i was taking my first lesson in the idea of absence (328) Embracing the model of archaeology, against that of history (329) Formulating a new way to think about the past. A kind of archaeology makes this place, with all its implications available to use for literary purposes (331)
