IMAGINING TORONTO
Intersections of Literature and Place in the Toronto Region

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GEOG 4280 3.0
Fall Term 2007-08
Department of Geography
York University

Seminar Notes & Handouts


GEOG 4280 | Imagining Toronto Course
Seminar Notes and Handouts

Updated 14 November 2007

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Week
Date
Materials
1
September 5 Lecture: no notes
Handout: GEOG 4280 course syllabus
2
September 12 Lecture: The City as Text (slides)
3
September 19 Lecture: Toronto's Literary Cartographies (slides)
Handout: First reflective assignment
4
September 26 Lecture: Possibilities of Dwelling: Home and Homelessness in Toronto Literature (PowerPoint slides)
Handout: Research Paper Outline (Word document)
5
October 3 Lecture: Music from Elsewhere: Writing the Immigrant City (slides)
6
October 10 Lecture: The Age of Wisdom: Representing Youth and Maturity in Toronto Literature (slides)
Handout: Second Reflective Assignment
7
October 17 Lecture: The Labouring City: Narratives of Work in Toronto Literature (slides)
8
October 24 Lecture: The Sexual City (slides)
9
October 31 Lecture: Urbia and Suburbia (slides)
10
November 7 Lecture: Toronto the Wild (slides)
Handout: Third Reflective Assignment (due 21 November 2007)
11
November 14 Lecture: Fantastic Toronto (slides)
12
November 21
13
November 28
  December 5

 


 

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