![]() Madame de Lafayette, The Princess of Clèves (Norton).Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quijote (Norton).Abelard and Heloise, The Letters and Other Writings (Hackett).Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur (Oxford).Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, The Romance of the Rose (Oxford).(The list of texts and editions below is tentative and incomplete, to be confirmed in January 2024.) Required Texts: The required reading for this course will include most or all of the following books, which will be available at The Word Bookstore (469 Milton Street, 51). Our work together will aim at a critical analysis of the textual ideologies articulated in this experimental process of historical combination. We will consider the novel as responding to a network of interrelated problems – of the self and its imaginative politics – at the representational crossroads of medieval epic, courtly romance, spiritual autobiography, picaresque satire, colonialist adventure, gallant intrigue, baroque casuistry, bourgeois conduct book, sentimental love story, moral treatise, psychological realism, and mock-heroic “comic epic in prose.” As the emerging literary “form of forms,” the early modern novel vibrantly juxtaposes and interweaves all these different generic strands. Our readings and discussion will refer to the European context of the evolution of this narrative form in England. 3 and 4.Description: This course will canvas some of the “origins” of the English novel and trace its development (particularly as anti-romance satire and realism) up to the mid-eighteenth century. 1, and Toronto's Air Canada Centre on Nov. Broken Social Scene plays Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom on Oct. "You write the music to find out what's going on inside." "Music sometimes isn't so much an expression as it is a discovery. "The one thing that really drove us back together was a sense of curiosity," says Spearin. And with the exception of some 2015 shows, they mostly stuck to that plan. Temporarily dissolving their collective seemed like the right decision. "It's not the way you're supposed to be living a life, but you're in the circus, so you have to just accept that." "Add in some booze perhaps here and there," he says. ![]() Cramped bus quarters and a lack of sleep had eroded their patience with each other. Since then, many of the band's members have progressed into their 40s, some have raised kids, and they've all pursued other musical projects.īrendan Canning remembers the 2011 tour that caused inevitable rifts between bandmates. It's been seven years since their last album Forgiveness Rock Record was lauded by critics. Members of Broken Social Scene had to make a difficult decision whether to perform on May 23 in the wake of the suicide bombing attack that left 22 people dead in Manchester. "In the sense of wiping away all the pettiness and stupidness that sometimes crops up in a band," adds Spearin.īroken Social Scene has endured its share of conflicts and disagreements, driven partly by the complications that come with a rotating membership that varies from six to 19 musicians.īroken Social Scene pose in this undated handout photo. Reflecting on the unexpected confluence of circumstances, Drew says the tour ended up starting "in a really beautiful way." "We were playing for the people in front of us and that was it." Life 'in the circus' "After we were done I said, 'Well I hope someone recorded that,"' he remembers. Some spoke about how the moment helped them find some solace.ĭrew says he couldn't have predicted the response. The powerful opener echoed across the Internet as fans shared videos of the performance. " went, 'I gotta do it, especially if you're playing Anthems.' "I recorded and said, 'Here's your city right now, Johnny,' and an hour before we went on he called me. ![]() "I would send him these little texts because he was very upset," says Drew, who sent Marr a video message after visiting a memorial near the blast site. But the guitarist was reticent to entertain his hometown crowd when the whole country was in emotional tatters.īroken Social Scene singer Kevin Drew stayed in touch with him throughout the day. The band decided their show must go on and thought the sombre Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl would set the appropriate tone to open the concert.Įarlier plans had called for Manchester native Johnny Marr, former guitarist for the Smiths, to join the band on stage.
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