ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Spritsail, Intertextuality, Human Nature
ENG22 – Letue
The Rising Village
• Goldsmith
o Born in New Brunswick in 1794
o Son of Irish-born Loyalist
▪ American colonist who supported the British cause
The Deserted Village 1770
• Oliver Goldsmith
o Nostalgic pastoral poem
o Bemans Bitais poles ad aguish
o Exodus of people to the colonies
• The main intertext
o A iposte to the olde Goldsiths laet
• Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's meaning by another text
• Double-talk – employing an ambivalent discourse that says contradictory
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The Rising Village – the Deserted Village
• Apostrophe to older poem
• Ioatio to the use
• Calling on his namesake for Inspiration
o 12-28
o 27-34
o 47-50
▪ acknowledgement of fortitude of the vision that the emigrants
had when they deserted their homeland for a new life
• line 60 – his hoe aid the ildeess of tees
• Not depicting accurately the realities of colonial life in Nova Scotia
Moral values
• Aspirational and cautionary tale
• A society that mishandles
• Its children look for trouble
Letters of Agricola
• On the Principles of Vegetation and Tillage
• Written for Nova Scotia by John Young
• Emphasis on agricultural affairs had slackened after 1820
• Poem: a literary rendering of Yougs aguet that agiultue ould ig
commercial progress
Ordering and controlling nature
• Human nature and agriculture
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• Fear of encroaching chaos as a result of moral turpitude
• Loss of control of nature – villages failure to subdue anarchic tendencies
• School master: 228-240
o House presents the human
o Udeied y the fat that the shool aste doest hae a foal
education
Structure
• Developmental structure - linear
o Rude culture of the soil/lonely settler (59-60)
o Arts of culture – cultivation 121
o Church – morality 165
o Tavern – socialisation/community 130
▪ Individualist experiences reaches the point of converging into
a web or relations
o Pedlar 199/ merchant 207 / country store 226
o Doctor 215/ school 229
▪ Pogessiist isio i the
o Sports 260
o Albert and Flora 309 onwards
Villages li to ivilisatio
Four stages theory
1. Savage stage
2. Pastoral stage
3. Agricultural stage
4. Commercial stage
Savage stage
• Wandering savages 45, 81, 91, 99
• Natives at the lowest of levels / dismissive 107
o Removes their names 108
o
• Fails to acknowledge their right to the land 85
• ‘eaffis settles oloial ights
• Natives the violators of natural law 81
o Grotesque perversion of justice
Pastoral stage
• Departure of savage tribes
• Affirms pioneer heroism
• Wilderness becomes homestead
• Rising crops 115
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• No real pastoral stage in Nova Scotia
• Quick shift to agriculture 115
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Document Summary
The rising village: goldsmith, born in new brunswick in 1794, son of irish-born loyalist, american colonist who supported the british cause. The deserted village 1770: oliver goldsmith, nostalgic pastoral poem, bemans b(cid:396)itai(cid:374)(cid:859)s p(cid:396)o(cid:271)le(cid:373)s a(cid:374)d a(cid:374)guish, exodus of people to the colonies, the main intertext, a (cid:396)iposte to the olde(cid:396) golds(cid:373)ith(cid:859)s la(cid:373)e(cid:374)t. Intertextuality is the shaping of a text"s meaning by another text: double-talk employing an ambivalent discourse that says contradictory thi(cid:374)gs that a(cid:396)e(cid:374)(cid:859)t (cid:396)esol(cid:448)ed (cid:894)(cid:272)a(cid:374) also (cid:271)e i(cid:396)o(cid:374)i(cid:272)(cid:895) The rising village the deserted village: apostrophe to older poem, calling on his namesake for inspiration. Moral values: aspirational and cautionary tale, a society that mishandles. Letters of agricola: on the principles of vegetation and tillage, written for nova scotia by john young, emphasis on agricultural affairs had slackened after 1820, poem: a literary rendering of you(cid:374)g(cid:859)s a(cid:396)gu(cid:373)e(cid:374)t that ag(cid:396)i(cid:272)ultu(cid:396)e (cid:449)ould (cid:271)(cid:396)i(cid:374)g commercial progress.
