Maricopa Community Colleges  ENH207   20076-99999 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 06/26/07
ENH207 20076-99999 LEC 3 Credit(s) 3 Period(s)
Canadian Literature
Explores the literature of Canada in its historical, philosophical, and cultural contexts. Includes fiction, non-fiction, mythology, and poetry of Canada's diverse cultures, including Native voices, European settlers, and immigrant communities.
Prerequisites: None.
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ENH207   20076-99999 Canadian Literature
1. Explain the importance of First Nations narrative traditions, and give some examples from Inuit and Haida cultures. (I)
2. Describe the impact of French and English settlements narratives on readers in Europe and colonialism in Canada. (I)
3. Contrast European Rationalist perspectives with First Nations perspectives on Nature, morality, and spirituality. (I)
4. Define romanticism, and identify and describe representative samples of Romantic writing in Canadian literature. (II)
5. Trace the rise of nationalism in Canadian literature in the Nineteenth Century, giving examples of nationalistic writers and works. (II)
6. Identify the historical and social influences that usher in modernism in Twentieth-Century Canadian literature. (III)
7. Identify and describe the contributions of major realist, modernist, and imagist writers in Canadian literature. (III)
8. Identify and explain the elements of postmodernism in Canadian literature. (IV)
9. Define cultural pluralism, and identify examples of pluralism in major works of Canadian literature. (IV)
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ENH207   20076-99999 Canadian Literature
    I. In the Beginning: First Contact
        A. First Nations voices
          1. Inuit
          2. Haida
        B. European Exploration
          1. French
          2. English
        C. Conquest and colonialism
        D. Narratives of exploration and settlement
        E. European Rationalism vs. Native perspectives
        F. Representative writers such as
          1. Saukamapee
          2. Samuel Hearn
          3. John Franklin and Dr. John Richardson
          4. Anna Brownwell Jameson
          5. Catharine Parr Traill
          6. Susanna Moodie
      II. Romanticism in Nineteenth-Century Canadian Literature
          A. Images of nature and wilderness
          B. Images of "other" cultures
          C. Images of animals
          D. Rise of Canadian nationalism
          E. Confederation Poets
            1. Isabella Valancy Crawford
            2. Charles G. D. Roberts
            3. E. Pauline Johnson
            4. George Frederick Cameron
            5. Bliss Carman
            6. Susie Frances Harrison
            7. Archibald Lampman
            8. Duncan Campbell Scott
        III. Realism and Modernism in Twentieth-Century Canadian Literature
            A. Crisis of faith
            B. War and peace
            C. Nature as enemy
            D. Landscape as a metaphor for human imagination
            E. Imagism
            F. Rise of provincial and regional identity in literature
            G. Representative writers such as
              1. Emily Carr
              2. E. J. Pratt
              3. L. M. Montgomery
              4. Ethel Wilson
              5. Margaret Laurence
              6. F. R. Scott
              7. A. J. M. Smith
              8. Morley Callaghan
              9. Earle Birney
              10. Sinclair Ross
              11. A. M. Klein
              12. Dorothy Livesay
              13. Irving Layton
              14. Robertson Davies
              15. P. K. Page
              16. Margaret Avison
              17. Al Purdy
          IV. Post-Modernism, Feminism, and Cultural Pluralism in Contemporary Canadian Literature
              A. Failure of meta-narrative and the search for Truth
              B. Fragmentation and cultural pluralism
              C. Individualism
              D. Rejection of traditional power structures
              E. Representative writers such as
                1. Leonard Cohen
                2. Phyllis Webb
                3. Robert Kroetsch
                4. Alice Munro
                5. Mordecai Richler
                6. George Bowering
                7. Joy Kogawa
                8. Carol Shields
                9. Margaret Atwood
                10. Michael Ondaatje
                11. George Elliott Clark
                12. Miriam Toews
              F. Rising stars and trends for the future
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