| We will consider a wide range of texts written across the country after the Second World War. We will examine the usefulness and the validity of a variety of literary paradigms which have been employed, at different times, in the study of Canadian fiction, including such categories as realism/metafiction, regionalism/cosmopolitanism, modernism/postmodernism, historical romans/historiographic metafiction, and immigrant fiction/'New-Canadian' fiction. The novels will be situated within their cultural, critical, and theoretical framework, as we investigate the ways in which the academy has addressed these texts. Students will be resonsible for a brief class presentation, a full seminar presentation, and an article length term paper. |
