EN 2220- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 84 pages long!)
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Last semester: pre-confederation literature, confederation literature, world war one and two. This class: history and context, world war two, massey commission, institutionalization of canadian literature, expo 67 and centennial nationalism, thematic criticism, frye, atwood. Massey commission: royal commission on national development in the arts, letters and. 2: canada council, national library, financial aid to universities. Centennial nationalism: celebrations include, expo67 50 million visitors to montreal; 120 governments, 60 pavilions; create national identity, celebrate achievements, transcanada highway 1962, canadian flag 1965, universal health care 1966, pg. 431 gordon lightfoot; canadian railroad trilogy: commissioned by the cbc for the centennial, song about canada for the centennial, broadcasted all across. Canada: history lesson in song, indebtedness for the labor that went into building the railway and in building the country, celebratory portrait. Thematic criticism: no(cid:396)th(cid:396)op f(cid:396)(cid:455)e (cid:862)co(cid:374)(cid:272)lusio(cid:374) to literary history of canada(cid:863) i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1010)(cid:1009, the concluding chapter of a collection on canadian literature, important essay that includes two famous passages:
