What is Canadian literature? What is a Canadian novel? I am not going to be so foolhardy as to attempt to define these terms; many have wandered into this wilderness—and returned, what else but bewildered if they were honest, or with simplistic or outdated notions if they were naive; this is hardly surprising—the country is changing around us even as we speak, stirring up a host of conflicting ideas and interests, and to look for an essence, a core, a central notion within that whirlwind is surely an illusion. To define this country or its literature seems like putting a finger on Zeno’s arrow: no sooner do you think you have done it than it has moved on. But I think I can still ask, Am I a Canadian writer? Why, you may ask. Whence this perversity? (Has anyone been calling you names, at least recently? Has anyone said you are not a Canadian writer? Well, the issue did arise several years ago, I believe, but this time the question is my own. Why, you ask?) Because an author o...
House and Land, Allen Curnow Wasn’t this the site, asked the historian, Of the original homestead? Couldn’t tell you, said the cowman; I just live here, he said, Working for old Miss Wilson Since the old man’s been dead. Moping under the bluegums The dog trailed his chain From the privy as far as the fowl house And back to the privy again, Feeling the stagnant afternoon Quicken with the smell of rain. There sat old Miss Wilson, With her pictures on the wall, The baronet uncle, mother’s side, And one she called The Hall; Taking tea from a silver pot For fear the house might fall. People in the colonies , she said, Can’t quite understand… Why, from Waiau to the mountains It was all father’s land. She’s all of eighty said the cowman, Down at the milking-shed. I’m leaving here next winter. Too bloody quiet, he said. The spirit of exile, wrote the historian, Is strong in...
U. P. HIGHER EDUCATION SERVICES COMMISSION, PRAYAGRAJ Syllabus ENGLISH (Subject Code-10) An outline of the course content UNIT-I : Literature and Society in the following periods (a) Renaissance (b) Reformation (c) Restoration (d) Neo-classical Period (e) Romantic Period (f) Victorion Period (g) Modern Period (h) Post-Modern Period UNIT-II : British Drama C. Marlowe : Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta Ben Jonson : Everyman in His Humour W. Shakespeare : Hamlet, King Lear, The Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Tempest, King Henry IV, Part I & II John Dryden : All For Love W. Congreve : The Way of the World John Webster : The Duchess of Malfi John Galsworthy : Strife, Escape George Bernard Shaw : Candida, Saint Joan, Man and Superman John Synge : The Playboy of the Western World T.S. Eliot...
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