Literature in Canada 2.0

Assignment 2.2

First stories tell us how the world was created. In The Truth about Stories, King tells us two creation stories; one about how Charm falls from the sky pregnant with twins and creates the world out of a bit of mud with the help of all the water animals, and another about God creating heaven and earth with his words, and then Adam and Eve and the Garden. King provides us with a neat analysis of how each story reflects a distinct worldview. “The Earth Diver” story reflects a world…read more

Feb.10

Home again

Posted by jbernoe in Assignment 2.1

Comfort, familiarity, family, peace. These are shared threads of thought on the subject of home. What I found interesting is that a lot of you thought home was not a fixed structure. How ironic that I should write my earlier post about the connection of a fixed structure (house) and feelings (home). Guess I’m the odd one out! Upon rereading my previous post I suppose I could have emphasized more of the feelings associated with the structures that I focused my attention on. I also noticed an absence of pets,…read more

Feb.05

A Story

Posted by jbernoe in Assignment 1.3

You’ll never believe what happened. Well, you might after I tell you the story. It’s a rough one. I haven’t opened up about this to many people. Okay, here I go. Have I ever mentioned Margaret to you before? No? Okay. Well she was my neighbour and died. She was thirteen, a freshman in high school and at the time I was a couple years older, a senior, which made us unlikely friends even though we grew up together. She suffered from cystic fibrosis. She knew this ever since she…read more

Jan.28

Assignment 1.2

Posted by jbernoe in Assignment 1.2

At the beginning of this lesson I pointed to the idea that technological advances in communication tools have been part of the impetus to rethink the divisive and hierarchical categorizing of literature and orality, and suggested that this is happening for a number of reasons. I’d like you to consider two aspects of digital literature: 1) social media tools that enable widespread publication, without publishers, and 2) Hypertext, which is the name for the text that lies beyond the text you are reading, until you click. How do you think…read more

Jan.18