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[pbprincess]

A list of the best 100 books of the 20th C. from Random Modern Libraries.
Bolded if I've read it. As the New Zealand library association I nicked this from said, it's interesting how Ameri-centric and how many repeat authors are on this list.

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[realinterrobang]

Aren't all Canadian English literature degrees basically completely Anglocentric? I know more English history from having done a degree in English literature than at least some people who were born and raised in England...

In a sense, I kind of prefer it that way, because we could otherwise do a surfeit of Canadian literature, in which case I would have varfed on my shoes and done a philosophy degree instead*, or American literature, which would have been entirely too much like capitulation.

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* There are good Canadian writers. There is Canadian Literature. If you draw a Venn diagram of the two groups, the circles never intersect.

the circles never intersect.

[pbprincess]

er: Lawrence, Davies, Atwood immediately occur for novelists and Patrick Lane is my favourite poet, so I will respectfully disagree.