I think this clip can shape our entire discussion this evening: Wow.
There’s too much to talk about to pretend there is an order tonight: we’re just going to plow into things and let the pieces fall where they may — which seems like an appropriate way to do things, given our reading this week.
Discussion of the reading, journal –group work.
Group Work.
A conversation on Postmodernism: Mini-Lecture
Welch Everman’s Postmodern Mindset
Requirements for a “postmodern” mindset:
1) A willingness to entertain contradictions as being equally true
2) An ability to be serious and funny at the same time
3) You are attracted to the fake.
Nations are products of the eras during whch they matured.
The American “rebel” persists, even though modern Americans are some of the most passive people on the planet.
The English “Lord” persists, even through the feudal system was destroyed centuries ago.
The Canadian ? — ? was formed in the latter half of the twentieth century, and who knows what the future will hold?
Postmodernism and Canadian Literature
Paper Exchange
Prep For the Final Examination
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