ENGL 2810Y Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Lucy Maud Montgomery, Gaston Bachelard, Alice Munro

• School: Trent University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 2810Y
• Professor: ROb Winger

Document Summary

What good is it if you can read plato and never clean your toilet? . ~ alice munro as ada jordan in lives of girls and women (1970) The ending as a bend in the road . Rachel lynde, reacting to anne"s entrance into avonlea: "well, the world was certainly turning upside down!" Anne, sitting by window: "god"s in his heaven, all"s right with the world" (334) Suggests anne has achieved her goal: personal domestic belonging. Less interested in gardens than wild forms of nature. Some critics see nature as source of feminine power (barry et al. Anne breaks barrier between indoors and outdoors. The poetics of space (1969): the house, even more than a landscape, may be a psychic state," and even when reproduced as it appears from the outside, it bespeaks intimacy. (72) In all essential respects the little gable chamber was unchanged.