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born on July 10, 1931

Canadian author and storyteller

Attended University of Western Ontario and eventually lived there as a writer-in-residence.

First Canadian to receive a Nobel Prize in literature

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Born May 13th, 1937

Canadian essayist and author.

Known for writing the children’s book “The Hockey Sweater” (1979).

His work is very notable to Canadian culture; a quote from The Hockey Sweater had been used on the former Canadian five dollar bills.

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Born September 21st, 1934

Canadian poet, singer, songwriter, musician, novelist, and painter.

Studied at McGill University

His most notable work is the song “Hallelujah”, which was released in 1984.

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Intractable between them grows

a garden of barbed wire and roses.

Burning briars like flames devour

their too innocent attire.

Dare they meet, the blackened wire

tears the intervening air.

Trespassers have wandered through

texture of flesh and petals.

Dogs like arrows moved along

pathways that their noses knew.

While the two who laid it out

find the metal and the flower

fatal underfoot.

Black and white at midnight glows

this garden of barbed wire and roses.

Doused with darkness roses burn

coolly as a rainy moon:

beneath a rainy moon or none

silver the sheath on barb and thorn.

Change the garden, scale and plan;

wall it, make it annual.

There the briary flower grew.

There the brambled wire ran.

While they sleep the garden grows,

deepest wish annuls the will:

perfect still the wire and rose.

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Born in Sri Lanka in 1943 but became a Canadian citizen at the age of 18.

Poet, novelist and a filmmaker.

Novels are usually based on the real lives of unusual people, which he then mixes in fiction.

Also multiculturalism and politics.

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Connection to The Last of The Crazy People

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Connection to The Last of The Crazy People

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Many of the characters within The Last of the Crazy People, such as Jessica, Nicholas, Gilbert, and Rosetta, isolate themselves because they fear reality.
This is very much related to "The Garrison Mentality".

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Born in 1939 in Ottawa, Ontario.

She studied English and Philosophy

Studied under Northrop Frye

Wrote about human behavior and the natural world.

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the tentativeness in novels either became the focus or was dissipated in more confident forms of writing depending on the novel

shift from realist to surrealist, self-reflective, feminist, or parodist modes

narrative forms became more experimental and playful

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Frye believed that this was a common theme that unified most Canadian literature. Essentially it involves characters that build walls, either physically or mentally, around them to protect themselves from the outside world.

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writers started responding to local life and interests

Colonial frame of mind and Victorian verse became slowly broken and cast off

tentativeness in characterization and subject matter which resulted in many restless and sensitive protagonists (artists, children)

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Northrop Frye was a Canadian literary critic, who helped greatly in defining Canada’s literary identity during the 50’s and 60’s.

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Born in England in 1916 and moved to Alberta Canada at the age of four.

Poet, prose writer and a visual artist.

Wrote about love, figuring out your identity, and global warming.

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The Canadian literary identity in the 50’s and 60’s formed through the consolidation the works of all of these Canadian authors.

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Canadian Literary Identity (Settlement - 1900)

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Canadian Literary Identity (Settlement - 1900)

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most writings were documents of “British North America”

literature was influenced by this, and most works focused on “mapping” characters and settings

historical romance novels were a popular genre at the time