ENGL 1080 Lecture 4: Araby by James Joyce

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1080
• Professor: Paul Salmon

Document Summary

Literary canons change; they must be challenged and questioned. There was a struggle to legitimize canadian literature. Was not studied as an organized curriculum until the late 1950"s. No indigenous authors were studied; lots of oral communication. James joyce is actually an irish author, but he is thought of as a. Even though south ireland & britain feud. Britain had many different prominent languages over the course. Ex: people in west india were educated in english. Almost of british colonialism, not just english everyone speaks english there. Ex: indigenous people in canada & the residential schools had. Ex: we only examine shakespeare in high school; there are so many other interesting authors from the elizabethan era who we don"t recognize him on a pedestal with no reason why. Shakespeare was a popular/highly regarded author, but we put. Male authors formed largest part of british literary canon in the 19th century. Women struggled for legitimacy in the public domain of literature.