ENG354Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Signify, Michael Ondaatje, John Locke
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After purdy, the idea of a national poet becomes anachronistic: nobody is thinking of a nation as a whole anymore. Michael ondaatje published the collected the works of billy the kid when he was (cid:884)6, won the governer general(cid:495)s award. Ondaatje is telling us how he is using historical documents to record billy the kid(cid:495)s story. Postmodernism: an awareness of what he is doing with history, biography, legend, poetry, and fiction. Linda hutcheon theorized canadian postmodernism: how it developed distinctly in. Her books define postmodernism: a contradictory phenomenon, one that uses and abuses, install and then subverts, the very concepts that is challenges. Sets us up with conventions that are familiar to us and then undercuts them. Meta is a work of art that is aware of itself as a work of art. Expectations we have from history books: teleology, objectivity. Works that deal with the subject of history or biography.
