ENGL 315
Modern Canadian Literature
Winter 2023
Topics
- Canadian modernism
- The poet’s identity
- Modernist writing, art, and nature
- Modernism and Indigenous peoples
- Mythology
- Social criticism
- Body, mind, and spirituality
- Modernism and nationhood
Readings
- Earle Birney — Can. Lit.
- Margaret Avison — The Butterfly
- E. J. Pratt — The Shark
- Al Purdy — A Handful of Earth
- P. K. Page — Arras
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- syllabus ↗Winter 2023
- The public page contains a course schedule; it does not expose the complete module reading lists.