ENG353Y1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 53 pages long!)
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Beginnings of canadian lit history: native literature: generally oral narratives, there aren"t always written texts, also stories told through visual arts (ex. Popular lit: sentimentality, also very popular at the time (going into the 20th century, one of the most famous being lucy maud montgomery, sympathy and sorrow. Trauma narratives often use present tense verbs: there"s an inability to process the story as it happens, in telling the story one processes the story, trauma is contagious, politics of making trauma beautiful ethical, representational, and cultural implications. Lucy maud montgomery: born in pei, her mother died while she was an infant and her father left afterwards to settle in the west. Genre: sentimental fiction was gaining momentum in the late 19th century in canada, emphasis on the tearful sorrows of the virtuous; sensitivity to the beauty in nature; emphasis on tears; sentimental moral message (triumph over adversity, pg. 68: power of imagination: natural world as opening anne"s scope for imagination ;
