Modern Literature & Culture Research Centre & Gallery

Course Description
This version of ACS 800 brings a group of students together for a unique collaborative showcase project that coincides with the centenary anniversary of Anne of Green Gables in 2008. Students will be able to explore crucial theoretical questions related to this literary classic by planning, organizing, marketing, publicizing and hosting a public event that can take the form of an exhibition, a conference, a website, a lecture series, or a combination of these, depending on student interest. Students will hone their literary, cultural, and research skills, will critically trace the creative imagination of L. M. Montgomery, and may liaise with the L. M. Montgomery Estate, as well as with local and national archives, institutions and media (limited enrolment).

Textbook
L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables, Broadview edition, 2004; or Norton edition, 2007.

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The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

MLC Themes

The Great War in Literature and Visual Culture

Amid the unprecedented social change of World War I, women renegotiated their identities by dramatically changing the way they engaged with the arts. But how did they do so? And how did everyday citizens engage with the war?
Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, considered by many to be the mother of Dada, was a daringly innovative poet and an early creator of junk sculpture. “The Baroness” was best known for her sexually charged, often controversial performances.
Modernism in the World

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Modernism in the World

Recent research has departed from the Euro-centric and national view of Modernism to include approaches and methods studying Modernism across national boundaries and across different art forms to include fashion, dance, performance, technology, and visual culture.
Lucy Maud Montgomery

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Lucy Maud Montgomery

L.M. Montgomery is perhaps Canada's most important literary export. She was prolific writer of over 500 short stories and poems, and twenty novels, including the beloved Anne of Green Gables.
Canadian Modernism

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Canadian Modernism

The works of numerous Canadian authors who lived during the modernist era may well constitute the most central and experimental articulation of Canadian modernism in prose, allowing authors to stage cross-cultural, controversial, and even conflicted identities.
Modernist Biography and Life Writing

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Modernist Biography and Life Writing

Life writing, including autobiographical accounts, diaries, letters and testimonials written or told by women and men whose political, literary or philosophical purposes are central to their lives, has become a standard tool for communication and the dissemination of information.