= final examination topics: MA, English: Canadian and Québec Studies == topics # Northrop Frye's literary and cultural theories (“Polemical Introduction” in Anatomy of Criticism; The Great Code or The Double Vision) # Mass media and the theories of Marshall McLuhan (Marshall McLuhan, “Sight, Sound and the Fury”; Understanding Media) # Survey of Canadian poetry — major trends and poets (based on the selection in Gótika a vadonban, 1983) # Canada's political system (Parliament and Political Parties) # The French Regime (1534–1763) # The English Regime; immigration history of Canada # Quebecfiction in English (Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute; Louis Hémon, Maria Chapdelaine) # Immigrant fiction (John Marlyn, Under the Ribs of Death; Martha Ostenso, Wild Geese) # Regionalism in Canadian fiction (Stephen Leacock, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town; Hugh MacLennan, Barometer Rising; Jack Hodgins, “The Trench Dwellers”) # Fiction of 20th-century women writers — short stories (Margaret Atwood, “The Man from Mars”; Margaret Laurence, A Bird in the House) # Multiculturalism in Canada (Miriam Waddington, Halloween Party; Mordecai Richler, The Street; Gabrielle Roy, “Ely! Ely! Ely!”) # Canada in the world (foreign policy in a historical perspective) == suggested reading * Canadian Fiction -- Annotated bibliography (1972) * The Oxford Companion to Canadian History (1978) * Supplement to the Oxford Companion (1980) * The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature (1983) * Northrop Frye (ed. ): Literary History of Canada * Northrop Frye: Great Code: The Bible and Literature (1982) * Divisions on Ground: Essays on Canadian Culture (1982) * The Educated Imagination (1963) * Ken Mitchell: Horizon (1972) * Margaret Atwood: Survival (1972) * Second Words: Selected Critical Prose (1983) * C. Taylor: Radical Tories: The Constitution Tradition in Canada * M. Fowler: The Embroidered Tent * R. Wyatt: Foreign Bodies * Klink and Watters: Canadian Anthology * E. Watterson: Survey * David Staines: The Canadian Imagination (1976) * Mc. Whinney: Canada and the Constitution * C. Thomas: William Deacon: a Canadian Litarary Life * Literature in Canada Vol. 1. ; Literature in Canada Vol. 2. * Horizon (10 volumes) * Selye: Stress without Distress * Collected Writings of Louis Riel (5 volumes) * Arts of the Eskimo Prints * A Heritage of Canadian Art * G. Woodcock: People of the Coast * Collectifd: Histoire des femmes au Québec * Leger: Textes et réflexions sur le Canada * P. Bauerschaper: Arctic Journey * Canada Handbook * E. Toppings: Canada * Contemporary Canadian Painting * Leslie Hall Pinder: On Double Tracks * Jean R. Burnet -- Howard Palmer: Coming Canadians * West Coast Editorial Collective: Women and Word * G. Bruce Doern -- Richard W. Phidd: Canadian Public Policy == periodicals * British Journal of Canadies Studies * Mosaic * The Journal of Commonwealth Literature * Books in Canada * Queen's Quarterly