English Literature Lectures

Modernist Poetry in the 1930s and 1940s / The Montreal Group

Readings:

• F. R. Scott, "Laurentian Shield"
• Dorothy Livesay, "Day and Night"
• A. M. Klein, "The Rocking Chair"

Realism & Martha Ostenso's Wild Geese (1925)

Early Twentieth Century Literature.

Reading List:

• John McCrae, "In Flanders Fields"
• Stephen Leacock, "The Marine Excursion of the Knights of Pythias"
• J. G. Sime, "Munitions!"

The "Confederation Poets" and Victorian Aesthetics in Canada.

Readings:

• Bliss Carman, "Low Tide on Grand Pré"
• Archibald Lampman, "The City of the End of Things"
• E. Pauline Johnson, "The Cattle Thief"
• D.C. Scott, "The Onoondaga Madonna"

The literature of settlement

Readings:

- Susanna Moodie, from Roughing it in the Bush

- Mary Ann Shadd, from A Plea for Emigration

- E.J. Pratt, from Towards the Last Spike

Introduction to the course. Abridged because of administrative demands.

Readings:

- Anonymous, “Nathaniel’s Tilt” (1745)

- Anonymous, “Nova Scotia. A New Ballad” (1750)

- [Assigned but not discussed] Roch Carrier, “The Hockey Sweater”

Conclusions/review

Dionne Brand's Inventory

From Joy Kogawa's Obasan

Cherie Dimaline's The Marrow Thieves