School of English and American Studies

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= 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