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final examination topics: MA, English: Canadian and Québec Studies

topics

  1. Northrop Frye’s literary and cultural theories (“Polemical Introduction” in Anatomy of Criticism; The Great Code or The Double Vision)
  2. Mass media and the theories of Marshall McLuhan (Marshall McLuhan, “Sight, Sound and the Fury”; Understanding Media)
  3. Survey of Canadian poetry — major trends and poets (based on the selection in Gótika a vadonban, 1983)
  4. Canada’s political system (Parliament and Political Parties)
  5. The French Regime (1534–1763)
  6. The English Regime; immigration history of Canada
  7. Quebecfiction in English (Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute; Louis Hémon, Maria Chapdelaine)
  8. Immigrant fiction (John Marlyn, Under the Ribs of Death; Martha Ostenso, Wild Geese)
  9. Regionalism in Canadian fiction (Stephen Leacock, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town; Hugh MacLennan, Barometer Rising; Jack Hodgins, “The Trench Dwellers”)
  10. Fiction of 20th-century women writers — short stories (Margaret Atwood, “The Man from Mars”; Margaret Laurence, A Bird in the House)
  11. Multiculturalism in Canada (Miriam Waddington, Halloween Party; Mordecai Richler, The Street; Gabrielle Roy, “Ely! Ely! Ely!”)
  12. Canada in the world (foreign policy in a historical perspective)

suggested reading

periodicals