EN 3230 Study Guide - Final Guide: Mcclelland & Stewart, Miriam Toews, A Complicated Kindness
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Course day & time: wednesdays, 11:30 a. m. -2:30 p. m. Pre-requisites: 7. 5 credits, including 1. 0 credit of second-year liberal studies. Anti-requisite: students who have taken engl 2b02 may not take this course for further credit. Taking a close look at individual texts and traditions, this course considers notions of canada through literary representations of its people, languages, and landscapes, and through canada"s different models of verbal art (aboriginal, african, european, and others). Texts studied may range from pre-contact indigenous myths, the diaries of early pioneers, novels of the immigrant condition, to french-canadian works in translation. Traditions may include folklore, hip hop, the anglo-american modernist literary tradition, and the contemporary, urban avant-garde. Students can expect to examine several genres in this course, including poetry and fiction. While this is an abbreviated course on canadian literature, various geographic regions are covered (atlantic canada, rural quebec, the prairies, and the bigger cities of toronto and vancouver).
