ENG 253 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Canadian Literature, Authoritarianism, Truancy
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Time lag canadian literature, because it starts after the other literatures, we lagged behind the. The time lag is now starting to narrow. Into a period called modernism a response to a world that has been radically changed by the war. Idea of a stable and coherent world was shattered (by ww1) Modernism is a mind set about modernity -- response to modernity. Western modernism - 1st ! of 20th c. post- ww1 movement. Canadian modernism has 2 stages: early (first wave) It doesn"t reflect a stable and coherent world. It is a modernist response to the loss of that world. Modernist writers and poets imagined a radical break from the past because we no longer have a stable and coherent world. Mechanics of that response involve 3 elements: fragmentation. Juxtaposition to put two things side by side and leave it up to the reader to figure out how they relate to one another.
