It is important to know the history of a nation in order to
understand its literature. Keeping this in mind trace the different stages of
Canadian history from the First settlers to the present age.
It is important to know the
history of a nation in order to understand its literature. Keeping this in mind
trace the different stages of Canadian history from the First settlers to the
present age. Canadian literature, the body of written workshop produced by
Canadians. Reflecting the country’s binary origin and its sanctioned
bilingualism, the literature of Canada can be resolve into two major divisions
English and French. This composition provides a brief literal account of each
of these literatures. It is important to know the history of a nation in order
to understand its literature. Keeping this in mind trace the different stages
of Canadian history from the First settlers to the present age.
From agreement to 1900
It is important to know the
history of a nation in order to understand its literature. Keeping this in mind
trace the different stages of Canadian history from the First settlers to the
present age. The first pens of English in Canada were callers — explorers,
trippers, and British officers and their women — who recorded their prints of
British North America in maps, journals, journals, and letters. These
foundational documents of peregrinations and agreements call the talkie
tradition in Canadian literature in which terrain, history, and laborious
passages of disquisition and discovery represent the hunt for a myth of origins
and for a particular and public identity. As the critic Northrop Frye observed,
Canadian literature is visited by the booting question “ Where is then?”;
therefore, tropical mappings of peoples and places came central to the
elaboration of the Canadian erudite imagination. It is important to know the
history of a nation in order to understand its literature. Keeping this in mind
trace the different stages of Canadian history from the First settlers to the
present age.
It is important to know the
history of a nation in order to understand its literature. Keeping this in mind
trace the different stages of Canadian history from the First settlers to the
present age. The foremost documents were unornamented narratives of trip and
disquisition. Written in plain language, these accounts document heroic
peregrinations to the vast, unknown west and north and encounters with Inuit
and other native peoples ( called First Nations in Canada), frequently on
behalf of the Hudson’s Bay Company and the North West Company, the great
fur-trading companies. It is important to know the history of a nation in order
to understand its literature. Keeping this in mind trace the different stages
of Canadian history from the First settlers to the present age. The discoverer
Samuel Hearne wrote A Trip from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the
Northern Ocean (1795), and Sir Alexander Mackenzie, an discoverer and fur
dealer, described his peregrination in Passages from Montreal … Through the
Mainland of North America, to the Frozen and Pacific Abysses (1801). Simon
Fraser recorded details of his 1808 trip west to Fraser Canyon (The Letters and
Journals of Simon Fraser, 1806 – 1808, 1960). Captain John Franklin’s published
account of a British nonmilitary passage to the Arctic, Narrative of a Trip to
the Shores of the Polar Sea (1823), and his mysterious exposure during a
posterior trip reemerged in the 20th century in the jotting of authors Margaret
Atwood and Rudy Wiebe. A Narrative of the Adventures and Mournings of JohnR.
Jewitt (1815) is a prison narrative that describes Jewitt’s experience as a
internee of the Nootka (Nuu-chah-nulth) principal Maquinna after Jewitt was
wrecked off Canada’s west seacoast; on the whole, it presents a sympathetic
ethnography of the Nuu-chah-nulth people. The Diary ofMrs. John Graves Simcoe
(1911) records the everyday life in 1792 – 96 of the woman of the first
assistant governor of Upper Canada ( now Ontario). In 1838 Anna Jameson
published Winter Studies and Summer Rambles in Canada, an account of her
peregrination in the New World.
Frances Brooke, the woman of
a visiting British military chaplain in the conquered French garrison of
Quebec, wrote the first published novel with a Canadian setting. Her History of
Emily Montague (1769) is an epistolary love describing the foamy downtime decor
of Quebec and the life and mores of its residers.
What are the major themes present in the novel Surfacing.
Write a detailed note on ‘Naturalism’ and show how it is reflected in the novel ‘The Tin Flute.
Attempt a detailed analysis of the poem ‘Envoi’ by Eli Mandel
Write a detailed note on the genre of the Canadian long poem.
It is important to know the history of a nation in order
to understand its literature. Keeping this in mind trace the different stages
of Canadian history from the First settlers to the present age.
Halifax, in the colony of Nova Scotia, and New
Brunswick’s Fredericton were the scenes of the foremost erudite flowering in
Canada. The first erudite journal, the Nova-Scotia Magazine, was published in
Halifax in 1789. The city’s erudite exertion was amped by an affluence of
patriots during the American Revolution and by the energetic Joseph Howe, a
intelligencer, a minstrel, and the first premier of Nova Scotia. Two of the
most potent influences on erudite development were in substantiation by the end
of the 18th century erudite magazines and presses and a strong sense of
regionalism. By satirizing the shoptalk, habits, and faults of Nova Scotians,
or Moralists, Thomas McCulloch, in his reissued Letters of Mephibosheth
Stepsure (1821 – 22), and Thomas Chandler Haliburton, in The Clockmaker (1835 –
36), featuring the brash Yankee huckster Sam Slick, expertly brought their
region to life and helped plant the kidney of folk humour. It is important to
know the history of a nation in order to understand its literature. Keeping
this in mind trace the different stages of Canadian history from the First
settlers to the present age.
Utmost of the foremost runes were
nationalistic songs and hymns (The Pious Verses of Joseph Stansbury and Doctor
Jonathan Odell, 1860) or topographical narratives, reflecting the first
callers’ concern with discovering and naming the new land and its occupants. In
The Rising Village (1825), native-born Oliver Goldsmith used heroic couples to
celebrate colonist life and the growth of Nova Scotia, which, in his words,
promised to be “ the wonder of the Western Skies.” His auspicious tones were a
direct response to the melancholy lyric written by his Anglo-Irish granduncle,
Oliver Goldsmith, whose The Deserted Vill (1770) concludes with the forced emigration
of dispossessed townies. It is important to know the history of a nation in order
to understand its literature. Keeping this in mind trace the different stages
of Canadian history from the First settlers to the present age.
Emigrants, featuring of a new Eden but
encountering rather the realities of changeable native peoples, a fierce
climate, strange wildlife, and physical and artistic privation, were the
subject of prose sketches by the Strickland sisters, Susanna Strickland Moodie
and Catherine Parr Strickland Traill. Moodie’s harsh, yet at times comical,
Roughing It in the Bush (1852) was written to discourage prospective settlers,
but Traill’s Backwoods of Canada (1836) presents a more favourable picture of
the New World.
The Dominion of Canada,
created in 1867 by the confederation of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Upper
Canada, and Lower Canada ( now Quebec), rained a flurry of nationalistic and
erudite exertion. The so- called Confederation muses turned to the geography in
their hunt for a truly native verse. Unlike their forerunners, they no longer
simply described or moralized nature but tried to capture what the Ottawa
minstrel Archibald Lampman called the “ answering harmony between the soul of
the minstrel and the spirit and riddle of nature.” New Brunswick minstrel
CharlesG.D. Roberts inspired his kinsman, the fat and vagabond Bliss Carman, as
well as Lampman and Duncan Campbell Scott, also an Ottawa minstrel, to begin
writing verse. Lampman is known for his contemplations on the geography. Scott,
who was a government director, has come more known for championing the
assimilation of First Nation peoples than for his poetry’s definition of
Canada’s northern nature. Maybe the most original minstrel of this period was
Isabella Valancy Crawford, whose various mythopoeic verse, with its images
drawn from the lore of native peoples, colonist life, tradition, and a
emblematic animated nature, was published as Old Spookses’Pass, Malcolm’s Katie,
and Other Runes in 1884. It is important to know the history of a nation in
order to understand its literature. Keeping this in mind trace the different
stages of Canadian history from the First settlers to the present age.