ENGL 222 Lecture Notes - Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Pectoralis Major Muscle, Don Mckay
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Tricksters as figures / stories that write back to what we assume about the way the world works, canada works, nationality works, what it means to be. Ecocriticism writes back to human centric, ego-centric meaning towards place. P. 573 baler twine: mckay has a problem with way the raven has been displayed. Human saying i have power to do this and this power is more important that returning this dead crow to the ecosystem from which it came: materiel. Canadians have struggled with natural world - very cold. In contemporary vancouver no longer scared of the natural world. Natural world respite from rigours of the city. Suggests romantic poetry"s goal is to celebrate/inspiring human imagination: mckay aches for language that mutes that, or at least makes language flow both ways. Human wild not just human -> wild. Mckay wrote a lot about birds early in his career: humans envied birds, their ability to fly.
