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\u201cFor this blog assignment, I would like you to explain why it is that Scott\u2019s highly active role in the purposeful destruction of Indigenous people\u2019s cultures is not relevant for Frye in his observations above? You will find your answers in Frye\u2019s discussion on the problem of \u2018historical bias\u2019 (216) and in his theory of the forms of literature as closed systems (234 \u20135).\u201d<\/p>\n
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I believe that the irrelevance of Scott\u2019s role in the \u201cpurposeful destruction of indigenous people\u2019s cultures\u201d lies in the cycle of detachment that derives from the closed literary forms in Canadian writing. Frye speaks of a group of writers that gets their motivation from their own experience, but lacks the tools to translate these into relevant literary works. In a more direct manner, the Canadian authors lack a sense of cultural unity, and are often writing more in the image of European roots rather than their own unique literary identity.<\/p>\n
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Frye also speaks of the closed, nearly out of touch, nature of the writer\u2019s work. Within this paradigm Scott would be able to lament the decline of the \u201cnoble savage\u201d in one instance, than play an active role in legislation that created, in reality, the circumstances of his poetry. Furthermore, Frye is a literary critic, albeit with his own political opinions, but his focus when critiquing Scott would have very little interest in Scott\u2019s political leanings. In essence, the same vacuum that Canadian authors exist in, being disjointed and lacking of plot in their works, would allow Frye to overlook the \u2018real world\u2019 work that Scott did in favour of the fictional literature that Scott created. In the same way that Frye says that \u201cEven when it is literature in its orthodox genres of poetry and fiction, it is more significantly studied as part of Canadian life than as part of an autonomous world of literature.\u201d (Frye 216) This would allow Frey to separate the subject matter of Scott\u2019s poetry from the parallels that existed in his political world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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