ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Confederation Poets, Queer Theory, Avant-Garde
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Three passage analyses may be too much, so i will reduce it to the analysis of 2 passages out of 4. Have a concrete claim and a recognizable thesis for your essay, and have a couple of representative examples to support your claim. The texts you have to draw on will be specified in the essay questions. One thing that came up in tutorial is the question of whether reading anne of. Green gables through a queer lens is imposing a modern lens on the text. Be clear about what queer theory actual does; it can help us re-conceptualize some of the relationships we find in the text. If you disagree, you still have to acknowledge that the novel resists hetero- normativity and presents certain kinds of attachments as more favored by society at the time. The modernist period marked a profound change in the belief systems that structured anglo-american society.
