ENGL 222 Lecture Notes - Ecopoetry, Robert Kroetsch, Don Mckay
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Pie #2 due friday, march 1 close read. Globe and mail vancouverism -> rest of world wants our specific model of densification, mixed use residence: article claims rest of canada should want this too, because it"s successful, vancouver as a disseminated idea. Next week"s reading: beggar"s garden short story, pdf (download) on vista. 3 weeks ago we talked about: trickster. Trickster discourse worksheet: discourse: words with power (jargon, language) very specific language one needs to be trained into. For instance, king has created a kids" story where coyote comes to north. America to learn baseball: the trickster shift. Tricky way of understanding our relationship to other people / other cultures / relationship to place: characters that exist to dissemble what we already knew about a place. Borders - family that"s stuck in between a border. Question what national affiliation means / is, how do we get our identities from being nationalistic figures, what does it mean to be.
