15-SM-14/24/34/44
The seminar will familiarize students with Canadian literary tradition and major trajectories of change in Canadian literature from the second half of the 19th to the beginning of 21st century. Special focus will fall on multicultural post-WWII prose in its varied themes, forms and genres, including emphasis on the different ways in which Canadian writers have been using autobiography, biography and other life-writing genres in their fiction writing, and the ways in which they have fictionalised auto/biographical texts. The seminar will also allow students to examine changes in the critical discourse on Canadian literature. Texts selected for discussion vary in style, subject-matter and focus, allowing students to appreciate the diversity of contemporary Canadian prose and literary criticism and theory.
- Teacher: Agnieszka Rzepa