Pensum/l?ringskrav

Primary Texts

Novels

Texts in Eva-Marie Kr?ller, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature, Cambridge University Press 2004:

  • Penny van Toorn: "Aboriginal Writing." pp.22-48
  • David Staines: "Poetry." pp.135-154
  • Marta Dvorak: "Fiction." pp.155-174
  • Robert Thacker: "Short Fiction." pp.177-193
  • Magdalena Redekop: "Canadian Literary Criticism and the Idea of a National Literature." pp.263-275

Articles in Compendium (Available from Kopiutsalget, Akademika, at the beginning of term):

Early Myths:

  • Bill Reid og Robert Bringhurst, "The Raven and the First Men"
  • Buhkwujjenene, "Nanaboozhoo Creates the World"
  • Aisa Qupiqrualuk (overs. Eugene Arima), "Lumaaq"
  • Edward M. Weyer (red.), "The Sedna Myth"
  • Norval Morriseau, ""The Indian That Became a Thunderbird"
  • George Bird Grinnell (red.), "The Race"
  • Ella Elizabeth Clark, "Coyote and the Salmon"
  • Farnz Boas (red.), "The Sun Tests His Son-in-Law"

Short Stories:

  • Thomas C. Haliburton, “The Clockmaker”
  • Catherine Parr Traill, "Female Trials in the Bush"
  • Susanna Modie, "A Visit to Grosse Isle"
  • Charles G. D. Roberts, “When Twilight Falls on Stump Lots”
  • Duncan Campbell Scott, "Labrie's Wife"
  • Stephen Leacock, "My Financial Career"
  • Ethel Wilson, "Hurry, Hurry"
  • Morley Callaghan, "A Sick Call"
  • Sinclair Ross, "The Painted Door"
  • Alistair MacLeod, "As Birds Bring Forth the Sun"
  • Mavis Gallant, "The Chosen Husband"
  • Jack Hodgins, "The Concert Stages of Europe"
  • Thomas King, "A Seat in the Garden"
  • Alice Munro, "Something I've Been Meaning to Tell You"
  • W. D. Valgardson, "Bloodflowers"
  • Rudy Wiebe, "The Naming of Albert Johnson"

Poetry:

  • E. J. Pratt, "Come Away, Death"
  • A. M. Klein, "The Rocking Chair"
  • Al Purdy, "The Cariboo Horses"
  • Dorothy Livesay, "The Secret Doctrine of Women"
  • P. K. Page, "The Stenographers"
  • Phyllis Webb, "To Friends Who Have Also Considered Suicide"
  • Robert Kroetsch, ""F. P. Grove: The Finding"
  • Irving Layton, "Butterfly on Rock"
  • Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows"
  • Margaret Atwood, "This Is a Photograph of Me"
  • Michael Ondatjee, "To a Sad Daughter"

Literature Critic/History:

  • W.H. New, "Indigenous Myths and Tales". In W.H. New, Canadian Short Fiction, 2nd ed. Scarborough, Ontario: Prentice Hall Canada, 1997. pp.16-18

Secondary reading

Published Mar. 6, 2005 11:51 AM