Poetry and personal understanding

Dear readers, How are you all doing, I hope you are all enjoying the beautiful weather this week! For this week’s lecture, we have discussed the poems from Juliana Spahr and Wisława Szymborska. We discussed the purpose and the symbolism of their work and how they differ from each other. The two poems revolve around the …

Collectivism and Obasan

Dear readers, It’s been almost a month since my last blog entry, I hope you are all doing alright. Last week we’ve been looking at the archive of Joy Kogawa and her draft of Obasan in the R.B.S.C. library, so here are some afterthoughts of my visit. During our visit, we were given different folders …

Comics ,stories with boxes and pictures

Dear readers,   It has been around 2 weeks since my last blog and being equipped with more knowledge and thoughts, I hope this blog will be more interesting . During classes, we have been discussing and analyzing “Persepolis” all the way from the paratexts to the history background of the story. Although we have …

Language, an evolving matter

Dear readers, It has been roughly one month since the start of class in UBC and I have been reading about academic writing for my ASTU lectures. I remember discussing about genres in English writing. Professor Luger has talked about how genre is the combination of situation and form, with the help of various examples, …