ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Manawaka, Real Country, Highland Clearances
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Eng252y1 lecture notes: laurence"s the diviners. Introduction: geography and space is a part of the tradition; adhere to the traditions of the landscape, locates the plot in manitoba, was written in the 1960s, balancing roles of wife, writer, and mother. Imagination to create her past and identity because she doesn"t recall much: page 10 o o about her parents, page 14. Feminism: female voice is oppressed o o. Imagination might have emotional validity: memory bank movies, seem more engaging and livened, segments of morag"s past which she does remember unlike the photographs in which morag doesn"t remember her past, can be delusive as well, page 20. Is honest when she says that she doesn"t know which memories are facts and which are embellished: page 69 changes; we embellish truths. We constantly edit our memories; out understanding of the episode. Memory as a vehicle of accessing the past is not fixed: piper gunn o.
