EN 2220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Canadian Literature, Central Canada, Billy Gunn
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Literary regionalism: we spoke about it in two ways, it is a rebut/correction the overreaches and concerns of national literature but we could also say that has the logic of classical nationalism. Literature: we can think of ways that we can. Newfoundland came after and regionalism is there: the regions of nation are still bounded by the nations. It is still bounded by the nation and assuming that literature should respect the nation in some way. 5 regions in canada: west coast, north, central canada, parries, atlantic. Cremation of sam mcgee: literary prose, tropes of canadian weather. The painted door: the setting is integuil for what happens in the story therefore it cannot take place anywhere else. Canadian modernist fiction: 1930a-60s travel changing the way people thought about space and time. People started to ask big questions: out of the chaos following the first world war: artists were looking at new ways to it differently and make a new one.
