32211
Graduate Course
SoSe 17: Building the Canadian Literary Institution
Birte Wege
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This seminar provides an introduction to Canadian Literature, with particular emphasis on the mid- to late-20th century and efforts by Canadian publishers like Jack McClelland, of McClelland & Stewart, to foster a distinctly Canadian literary landscape. We will begin with an overview of Canadian Literature before the 1950s (reaching as far back as Thomas Chandler Haliburton, Canada’s first international best-selling author). We will then shift our focus to mid-century efforts to build a Canadian Literary Institution, exploring both the Canadian publishing landscape itself, and the forms and themes of the literature it produced. Authors will include Margaret Atwood, Leonard Cohen, Lawrence Hill, Thomas King, Margaret Laurence, Yann Martel, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai Richler, Gabriele Roy, and Sheila Watson.
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14 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2017-04-18 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-04-25 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-05-02 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-05-09 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-05-16 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-05-23 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-05-30 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-06-06 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-06-13 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-06-20 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-06-27 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-07-04 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-07-11 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2017-07-18 10:00 - 12:00