ENGL 222 Lecture Notes - Neoliberalism
Document Summary
Next week: seminar week! (no class on wednesday!) Informal discussion motivated by cap project: what you"ve been noticing that you haven"t noticed before, what you think about canada now as an idea, attendance and participation. The words we have inherited : do we resist inheriting the ideas of place. Racism: racism is easier to identify in u. s. than canada. Canada"s racism is subversive, low-level, difficult to deal with it. Critical thinkers that think canada is more racist that any other country. P. 587 many stories contain trickster or coyote : trickster figure. Shakespeare"s fools: con-men (confidence men, tricksters / irony. Ironic rendering of this place beaver is the most noble animal . Irony = dissemblers disassemble normalness and figure out why normal is normal. Different from sarcasm (sarcasmos tear flesh) Trickster figures use inappropriate language to make us think about how we react a certain way. For instance, swear words -> sex, bodily functions, theological / religious.
