ENG215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Critics And Awards Program For High School Students, Margaret Atwood, Canadian Literature
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Robert weaver cbc radio anthologie : godfather of canadian literature, fiction that is about fiction, fiction that self-consciously addresses. P. 279: lois has an ambivalent, tense relationship w/ nature, intertwining of l in lucy and l in lois suggests similarities and differences b/w the two. P. 279: lucy likes to take risks, lucy"s disposition this summer camp her complaints superficial or suggests deeper issues, depression. Instead of lucy, lois now has uncertainty and ambiguity surrounding. Atwood challenges the structure of mystery genre: lois designated with task to try and generate more coherent narrative. P. 283 real sense of lois" guilt. Conclusion strength of lois" efforts to assert control by representing. Atwood gives a dynamic narrative that provides duplicity, complexity. Presence of aboriginal features in the story lucy representative of the erasure or silencing of aboriginals no voice in the narrative: nature becomes an appropriate objectification of trauma, loss.
