ENGL 229 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Northrop Frye, Margaret Atwood, Canadian Centennial
3 Sep 2018
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1939: born in ottawa to nutritionist mother and entomologist father. Food was big factor in her family so as a writer she"s preoccupied w/ food. Sees food as a reflection of the culture that produces it. Ex: artificial food = artificial culture, processed food = processed culture, etc. Interested in and attracted to the natural world through her father from a very young age. 1959-61: university of toronto, studies under northrop frye. Frye starts giving lectures on canadian literature. If the national mental illness of the united states is megalomania, that of. Trying to get a phd in gothic literature. But she hates harvard, feels she has to get out when u. s. goes to vietnam in 1967. She"s filled with these ideas when she returns to canada. Canadian centennial celebrations occuring when atwood comes back. Atwood writes survival: a thematic guide to canadian literature. She really wrote this book for high school teachers to help them teach.
