{"id":19992,"date":"2014-02-26T19:45:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T18:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19992"},"modified":"2019-02-22T13:32:18","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T12:32:18","slug":"contemporary-canadian-literature-in-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr\/?p=19992&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Contemporary Canadian Literature in English"},"content":{"rendered":"

Course title: Contemporary Canadian Literature in English<\/strong><\/span>
\nInstructor<\/strong>: Assoc. Prof. Vanja Poli\u0107<\/span>
\nECTS credits<\/strong>: 6<\/span>
\nLanguage<\/strong>: English<\/span>
\nDuration<\/strong>: 4th or 6th semester<\/span>
\nStatus<\/strong>: elective<\/span>
\nEnrolment requirements<\/strong>: completed Introduction to English literature, enrolment in the 4th or 6th semester<\/span>
\nCourse description<\/strong>: The starting point for the course is the genre of the cowboy western and the myth of the Wild West. The course proceeds to analyse the ways in which they are reinscribed and transformed in contemporary Canadian literature with the aim of bringing to the surface the hitherto suppressed accounts in the dominant discourse of history. These are cultural-historical aspects of Canadian society such as white settlement and colonial history of western Canada; marginal or silenced voices in the Wild West myth such as women\u2019s voices, First Nations voices and immigrants from visible minorities; realities of the life in the West vs. their portrayal in the Wild West myth.\u00a0 From a literary-theoretical perspective, the course will observe postmodernism in CanLit through the metamorphosis of the \u201ctraditional\u201d cowboy western genre as trivial literature into serious literature such as historiographic metafiction and historical novel.<\/span>
\nObjectives<\/strong>: Acquainting the students with contemporary Canadian culture and history through relevant works from Canadian literature.<\/span>
\nCourse requirements<\/strong>: The final grade is based on continuous assessment which includes regular attendance, preparation for and participation in class, writing small assignments, timely submission of the final paper, and obligatory sitting for midterm and endterm exam. The paper is worth 35%, midterm and endterm exams are worth 50% and other elements of continuous assessment are worth 15% of the final grade. Students must meet all requirements of continuous assessment.<\/p>\n

The exact date of the mid-term exam is defined in cooperation with the students. Topics for the main written assignment (student paper) are selected during week 8.<\/span><\/p>\n

Week by week schedule<\/strong><\/span>
\nWEEK 1: introduction into Canada: history and geography<\/span>
\nWEEK 2: the Wild West myth and the Frontier thesis \u2013 US vs. Canada<\/span>
\nWEEK 3: G. Bowering, Shoot!<\/i> \u2013 introduction to the 19th c. society and the First Nations<\/span>
\nWEEK 4: G. Bowering, Shoot!<\/i> \u2013 Canada as a postcolonial country?<\/span>
\nWEEK 5: historiographic metafiction (Hutcheon) and shedding light on history<\/span>
\nWEEK 6: G. Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman’s Boy<\/i> \u2013 creation of the national myth<\/span>
\nWEEK 7: G. Vanderhaeghe, The Englishman’s Boy<\/i> \u2013 sequel<\/span>
\nWEEK 8: mid-term exam and essay topics<\/span>
\nWEEK 9: F. Stenson, Lightning<\/i> \u2013 historical approach to cowboys and the Wild West<\/span>
\n WEEK 10: G. Bowering, Caprice <\/i>\u2013 the Wild West as a story<\/span>
\nWEEK 11: G. Bowering, Caprice <\/i>\u2013 sequel<\/span>
\nWEEK 12: P. deWitt, The Sisters Brothers <\/i>\u2013 ironizing the Wild West<\/span>
\nWEEK 13: P. deWitt, The Sisters Brothers <\/i>\u2013 sequel<\/span>
\nWEEK 14: final remarks, end-term exam<\/span><\/p>\n

Reading list:<\/strong><\/span>
\nNovels<\/strong><\/span>
\nBowering, George. Caprice<\/i><\/span>
\nBowering, George. Shoot<\/i>!<\/i><\/span>
\ndeWitt, Patrick. The<\/i> <\/i>Sisters<\/i> <\/i>Brothers<\/i><\/span>
\nVanderhaeghe, Guy. The Englishman\u2019s Boy<\/i><\/span>
\nStenson, Fred. Lightning<\/i> \u2013 selections<\/span>
\nTheory<\/strong><\/span>
\nAmerican Review of Canadian Studies<\/i>, special issue: The West. 33, no. 4 (Winter 2003)<\/span>
\nHutcheon, Linda. \u201cHistoriographic Metafiction\u201d, The Canadian Postmodern<\/i>.<\/span>
\nTurner, F. J. The Frontier in American History<\/i> \u2013 selected chapters<\/span>
\nSee. Scott W. The History of Canada<\/i><\/span>
\nSlotkin, Richard. Gunfighter Nation: the myth of the frontier in twentieth-century America<\/i> \u2013 selected chapters<\/span>
\nCritical articles on the novels<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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