BU208 Chapter Notes -Cormac Mccarthy, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Jack Kerouac
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Office hours: monday 1:30-2:30, tuesday 4:00-5:00 or by appointment. This course examines the foundational fictions of canadian, american and mexican culture through a study of narrative, place and identity. Key themes will include tensions between ethnic, regional and religious identities, urban and rural spaces, the relationship to land and place and the encounter of. European and first nations peoples, worldviews and lifeways. This year the course will explore these themes through three spatial/generic paradigms: the west (western), the border and the road. Cormac mccarthy, no country for old men, 2005. + additional required readings will be posted to the my learning space page. The course lectures are once a week for three hours (with a 10-15 minute break). Through the mylearningsapce course homepage, students will be able to access documents and other materials and view their grades. Power point presentations will be posted systematically at the end of each lecture; presentations will not be available prior to lecture.
