Examining Literature in Grade 12

692 Words2 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: American culture in canada

This exposition will demonstrate that graduating students in Ontario ought to just study Canadian literature in a Grade 12 English course. While great writers exist in all societies, Ontario students ought to just study Canadian authors. Since we have to get more acquainted with our writing. Three explanations behind this are; the need to concentrate on our own Canadian society regardless of being encompassed by different societies, the need to advertise and create our scholars, and the need to empower more youthful Canadian authors.

Students in Ontario taking English ought to just study Canadian literature in light of the fact that we are totally overwhelmed by the American society around us. This is a Canadian custom in light of the fact that we have dependably been an "extension plant" of an alternate nation beginning with England and France implying that our society has never had the opportunity to progress since we have dependably been under the thumb of an all the more capable outside society. Along these lines, for a considerable length of time, students in Ontario study about Shakespeare and other British journalists: today they might likewise mull over American authors, for example, Fitzgerald. In any case numerous schools confine a student’s exposure to the Canadian novel to ISP reading lists. In this sense, “Canada is America’s attic” [1] in which we have put away American and British literature without recognizing our own. No big surprise a Canadian student has issues, acknowledging there society.

Regularly what Canadian literature is mulled over is exceptionally old. This incorporates works, for example, Mordecai's Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz or Lawrence’s Stone Angel. Fifth Business, which was distributed in ...

... middle of paper ...

...ic Guide to Canadian Literature. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1972.
Davies, Robertson. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. (Series IV, Volume XIII). “Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science.” The Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa: 1975.

Works Cited

Endnotes

1 Letters in Canada p. 426 Robertson Davies

2 Robertson Davies, “Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science”, Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada (Series IV, Volume XlII, 1975), p. 35

3 Margaret Atwood, Survival, 18, 1972.

Works Cited

Robertson Davies. Letters in Canada. MacMillan Press, Toronto, 1979.

Margaret Atwood. Survival: A Thematic Guide to Canadian Literature. McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 1972.

Davies, Robertson. Transactions of the Royal Society of Canada. (Series IV, Volume XIII). “Canadian Nationalism in Arts and Science.” The Royal Society of Canada, Ottawa: 1975.

Show More
Related

  • How Did Vimy Ridge Shaped Canadian Culture

    947 Words  | 2 Pages

    The years since the Battle of Vimy Ridge may have passed quickly, but the legacy of the Canadians whose accomplishments were great in that pivotal First World War battle lives on. Many people claim to this day that Canada came of age as a country on those hard April days in 1917. At first, through the meticulous planning of the battle, the world saw a nation capable of working together and making decisions as a team. Afterwards, with the range of technical and tactical innovations involved in the attack, the world saw a strong nation unafraid to protect and defend. In the end, through great sacrifice the world bore witness to the birth of the Canadian legacy. To conclude that the nation was born on April 9th 1917, on the Artois plains is to deny over three centuries of history during which the ancestors of millions of Canadians devoted their lives to building the country. This is why the Battle of Vimy Ridge wasn’t the birth of Canada itself, but the birth of our legacy- the ‘true’ origin of our nation.

    Read More

  • Justification of the Canadian Participation in the Boer War

    1146 Words  | 3 Pages

    3 Wade. Mason. Search for a Nation. The Bryant press Limited, Toronto. 1967 [4] Canadians and Conflicts.

    Read More

  • Passchendaele: A Historical Review

    2136 Words  | 5 Pages

    Palmer, Howard. Patterns of Prejudice: A History of Nativism in Alberta. Toronto, Ont.: McClelland and Stewart, 1982. Print.

    Read More

  • Identity Crisis in Canadian Film

    5804 Words  | 12 Pages

    Much has been written about the ways in which Canada's state as a nation is, as Peter Harcourt writes, "described" and hence, "imagined" (Harcourt, "The Canadian Nation -- An Unfinished Text", 6) through the cultural products that it produces. Harcourt's terms are justifiably elusive. The familiar concept of "Canadian culture", and hence Canadian cinema, within critical terminology is essentially based on the principle that the ideology of a national identity, supposedly limited by such tangible parameters as lines on a map, emerges from a common geographical and mythological experience among its people. The concept that cultural products produced in Canada will be somehow innately "Canadian" in form and content first presupposes the existence of such things as inherently Canadian qualities that can be observed. Second, it presupposes a certain commonality to all Canadian artists and posits them as vessels through which these said "inherently Canadian qualities" can naturally flow. Third, it also assumes the loosely Lacanian principle that Canadian consumers of culture are predisposed to identify and enjoy the semiotic and mythological systems of their nation, and further connotes that Canadians have fair access to their own cultural products. Since these assumptions are indeed flawed but not altogether false, this paper will deal with the general relationship between the concept of Canada, its cultural texts, and its mythological and critical discourse as an unresolved problematic that should be left "open" in order to maximize the "meaning potential" of films as cultural texts within the context of "national identity," an ideological construct that remains constantly in flux.

    Read More

  • Alistair MacLeod's No Great Mischief

    1202 Words  | 3 Pages

    Eichler, Leah. "Alistair MacLeod: Of Scotsmen in Canada." The Publishers Weekly 247.17 (2000): 54. Print.

    Read More

  • Founding Father of Canada: Sir John A. Macdonald

    1845 Words  | 4 Pages

    Government of Canada. Legacy of Sir John A Macdonald. 29 Apr. 2005. Library and Archives Canada. 29 May 2011

    Read More

  • Influence of the Battle of Vimy Ridge on Canada

    1275 Words  | 3 Pages

    ...L., and Dean F. Oliver. The Oxford companion to Canadian military history. Don Mills, Ont.: Oxford University Press ;, 2011.

    Read More

  • Expo 67 and National Identity

    2116 Words  | 5 Pages

    Lister Sinclair’s pamphlet Change Comes to Canada was distributed at the Canadian Government Pavilion during Expo 67. Sinclair looks at the meaning of the name Canada. She analyses common points in people’s daily lives such as the meaning of ‘our home and native land,’ Canadian history, Canadian resources, transportation, climate and culture that tie each Canadian together. She claims that “every Canadian who thinks about Canada has his own idea about the meaning of that dream.” She argues that there is no actual national identity but individual identities that made up our national identity. She challenges the questions related to a national identity. It is interesting that something that questions the national identity would be distributed at Expo 67; but, it provides in...

    Read More

  • Canadian Technological Advancement in the 20th Century

    1259 Words  | 3 Pages

    Newman, Garfield et al. Canada A Nation Unfolding. Toronto: Mc Graw – Hill Ryerson Limited, 2000.

    Read More

  • Canadian Nationalism

    1878 Words  | 4 Pages

    Many people across the globe argue that nationalism within Canada is simply not feasible. It is said that we as a people, differ so greatly with our diverse cultures, religions, and backgrounds that we cannot come together and exist together as a strong, united nation. In his book, Lament for a Nation, George Grant tells the reader that “…as Canadians we attempted a ridiculous task in trying to build a conservative nation in the age of progress, on a continent we share with the most dynamic nation on earth. The current history is against us.” (1965) Originally directed towards the Bomarc Missile Crisis, the book argues that whatever nationalism Canada had was destroyed by globalization as well as the powerful American sphere of influence. Although it is true that the book was initially written as a response to the events that took place in the late 1950s, many of the points are still valid today.

    Read More

  • The American Influence in Canadian Popular Culture

    1937 Words  | 4 Pages

    Thompson, John Herd, and Mark Paul Richard. "Canadian History in North American Context." In Canadian studies in the new millennium. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008. 37-64.

    Read More

  • Between the Wars: Significant Events - Emily Carr

    670 Words  | 2 Pages

    There were many important events that occurred in between the First World War (1914 – 1918) and the Second World War (1939 – 1945), but the event that is the most significant to Canada's history is the career of Emily Carr (1871 – 1945). Born in Victoria, British Columbia, Emily helped shape Canada as we know it today, her art serving as a doorway into Aboriginal culture even as she became an inspiration for women in particular and is now very well-known in Canada and even internationally (The Canadian Encyclopedia, paragraph #1). This report will explore the muses, challenges and eventual success of possibly one of the most important women in Canada's history.

    Read More

  • Cultural Influence Of American Culture Essay

    1838 Words  | 4 Pages

    A nation’s culture resides in the hearts and souls of its people. Many countries have been influenced by various things such as immigration, media, news, as well as trends and fads from both in and out of the country. However, in the 1950s and 1960s, there was mainly news and word of mouth. Many had argued that Canada should establish its own culture to have an identity separate, later growing into a concern of the government. Most would think that the cultural influence was negative as the influences of other countries would take away from the country’s own culture and identity, but it was not the case. The influence of American culture in the 1950s and 1960s in Canada was positive. American music, Hippie culture, and the impact the American

    Read More

  • Historical Periods of Canadian History

    1753 Words  | 4 Pages

    Two history texts by Bumstead and Silver will be considered. The manner in which they organize Canadian history into logical and comprehensive periods will be taken into account. Each text establishes a chronological framework and within this, creates historical periods. Each period is intended to represent as logically as possible, the major cultural inclinations, political and social events, and thematic trends occurring within that period. Bumstead and Silver outline several broad periods, then delve into each period with a precise focus. Silver has a social focus within each period, and Bumstead has a thematic focus.

    Read More

  • Why the Death Penalty Should Be Abolished

    1035 Words  | 3 Pages

    ... Ed. W. Gordon West and Ruth Morris. Toronto, Canada: A Canadian Scholar? Press, 2000.

    Read More

More about Examining Literature in Grade 12

Open Document