ENG353Y1 Lecture : As For Me and My House pt1
Document Summary
As for me and my house sinclair ross. Recognized by many as a great canadian novel. Up until the 1960s, the canadian literary canon was mostly poetry; the novel was written more for mass appeal. As was an attempt to elevate the novel to the status of art . However, it has caused confusion from the time it was written a lot going on in this book. Ross made the setting of the novel ambiguous, allowing for it to be in a canadian prairie town, or in the midwest. He had to appeal to the masses for financial reasons, targeting both the canadian and. The novel was a failure in the us, and nearly so in canada. However, critics began to look further into this book, especially thematic critics like frye and atwood, in the themes of a malevolent nature, and the figure of the paralyzed artist: nature, encroaching malevolent void.
