EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Pluperfect, Canadian Literature
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For cartier, the notion of discovery was important to how we look at exploration narratives. The idea of canada as a vast and empty land is a trop that dominates the exploration narratives: for these explorers, the emptiness of canada had to do with the notion of discovery. Imagine what it is like to live in europe in the 16th century and to be told that there is new land across the ocean. Exploration narratives extremely popular in europe from 16th century and onwards. Exploration narratives often began as journals or logs or reports, but were often revised for commercial publication. Its important to think about this because it tells us how these narratives came about: their genealogy was not as best sellers, they were not written to be best seller books. They have documentary and scientific undertaking: they began as documents for scientific discovery. Emerged into this tradition of adventure and travel takes.
