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    Linguistics

    Linguistics is the study of language. Language accompanies almost all human activities, and is the medium for many of them.

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    Literacy

    Literacy has been defined both as the ability to read and write one's own name and as the ability to read and understand newspapers, magazines and encyclopedia articles written at a level of sophistication often well above that of the average graduate of grade 10.

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    Literary Bibliography in English

    The essential foundations of literary scholarship are adequate research tools and definitive texts of the literature itself: both are the products of literary bibliography - the former of enumerative, the latter of textual and analytical, bibliography.

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    Literary Bibliography in French

    Bibliographies of Canadian LITERATURE IN FRENCH can be roughly divided into 2 groups: retrospective, which list printed items of an earlier period, and current, which record the publication of books and articles as they appear.

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    Literary History in English 1620-1867

    Literary History in English 1620-1867The writing that critics identify as the earliest ENGLISH-LANGUAGE LITERATURE in Canada was produced by COLONIAL governors, soldiers, MISSIONARIES, settlers, European EXPLORERS and travellers, NEWSPAPER journalists, and community figures who in time began to consider the BRITISH NORTH AMERICAN colonies their home. Many were WOMEN. Few writers, to start, considered themselves "Canadian" (a term early reserved for the francophone settlers in QUEBEC). Most wrote for European readers (SeeFOREIGN WRITERS ON CANADA...

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    Literary History in English 1867-1914

    With Confederation came immediate calls for Maritime separation but also a quickened interest in the growth of a national culture. Journalists and academic essayists earnestly disputed Canada's political destiny.

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    Literary History in English 1914-1940

    The FIRST WORLD WAR featured variously in Canadian LITERATURE: as historical subject and setting, metaphor of personal conflict and national coming-of-age, test of loyalty, instance of officiousness, and prototype of political bias (SeeFIRST WORLD WAR IN CANADIAN LITERATURE).

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    Literary History in English 1940-1960

    Literary History in English 1940-1960From the beginning of the SECOND WORLD WAR in 1939 to the early 1960s, Canada was negotiating its new-found international role, joining the UNITED NATIONS, developing the NORTH, and opening its borders more widely to IMMIGRANTS and REFUGEES--and to a tenth province, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR, which in 1949 voted to join the Canadian CONFEDERATION. In the wake of fascism and the Holocaust, ANTI-SEMITISM in the country was slowly starting to wane,...

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    Literary History in English 1960-1980

    The period between 1960 and 1980 was a definitive moment in Canadian literary history. Energized by the country’s centennial celebrations and widespread cultural nationalism, authors were excited by the prospect of Canadian literature as a means to help develop a national identity. 

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    Literary History in English 1980-2000

    The last two decades of the 20th century were marked by growing social and economic conservatism, a tendency towards fewer gambles in PUBLISHING ventures, and a greater reliance on computer TECHNOLOGY (e-mail, internet communications, electronic journals such as Frank DAVEY's Swift Current): A.K.

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    Literary History in English in the 21st century

    This troubled period began with the Y2K scare, when COMPUTER programs worldwide were expected to fail. 3000 people, 25 of them Canadian, died in the New York Trade Center bombings on "9-11" 2001.

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    Literature in Canada

    With the works of such internationally acclaimed authors as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro and Lawrence Hill, Canada is a force to be reckoned with on the literary stage. The Canadian Encyclopedia includes a variety of articles about literature in Canada, both fiction and non-fiction, gathered by topic in this collection.

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    Literature in English: Language and Literary Form

    This article offers an overview of the history and development of Canadian English literature from the mid-20th to present day, including several of its early influences from various other languages.

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    Literature in English: Teaching

    In colonies, the literary tradition of the mother country normally prevails. This was true in Canada, where it has taken English-speaking Canadians a long time to accept their own literature as a legitimate subject for study.

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    Literature in English: Theory and Criticism

    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a principal source of modern literary theory in English, made little direct impression in 19th-century Canada, largely because literary life in Canada shared the anti-theoretical biases of Victorian England.

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