Feb 05, 2025  
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University of Alberta Calendar 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

AUENG 381 - Canadian Literature since 1950


Course Career Undergraduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 3-0-0
Fee index 6
Faculty Augustana Faculty
Department AU Fine Arts
Typically Offered either term

Description
Development of literature in English in Canada from the middle of the twentieth century to the present, an age that some have termed postmodernist. The course focuses on the rise and fall of realism in fiction and also the emergence of distinctively Canadian voices among our poets. Included are works by Laurence, Atwood, Wiebe, Munro, Davies, Birney, Page, Purdy, and Layton. Prerequisites: AUENG 102. Note: Not to be taken by students with credit in AUENG 281.