ENG252Y1 Lecture Notes - Confederation Poets, Prose Poetry, Canadian Literature
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Earliest form of canadian literature stems from these. Noteworthy for their language, landscaping, and simple literature dimensions are reduced to biblical allusions = the quest, the odyssey, and the ordeal. Each transforms the narrator into some form of a hero epistolary fiction: fiction written in the form of letters the emily montague story is canada"s first novel. Unites politics and romance feminist argument running through = marry for love, revolutionary thinking; romantic subplot was considered provocative settler narratives: transitioning literature into the 19th century less complaining than the journals. Started by suzanne moody and katherine partrail social satire: Gained popularity in the 19th, most well-known is hamilton. Detailing historical events in a melodramatic way, pulpy novel with pulpy characters set in a historical place, popular novel is wacoosta, written for a popular audience, not a literary novel sentimentality: Has sympathy and sorrow, became popular with anne of green gables author social reform:
