HUMA 1200 Lecture Notes - Bildungsroman, Heteronormativity, Table Hockey Games

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1200
• Professor: Jon Sufrin

Document Summary

These feeling of chaos and constant change only accelerated over the course of the 20th century. 06:25 we now live in a postmodern world where a few things remain solid and stable for very long. Definition: the rejection of the notion that one set of ideas can explain everything, and the assertion that there are no longer any central religious or philosophical structures that serve to organize society. What this means is that the national centre no longer holds, in other words there is no longer a national centre or at least a core. He said that canadians are open to experimentation and difference: similar idea in last week"s lecture of immigration and multiculturalism, is that one of our central tradition is that we have no tradition. The film crazy explores the difficult and often painful means by which tradition and uncertainty wither away and are replaced by ideas that are new and unknown and confusing.