Q. Discover as many allusions as you can to historical references (people and events), literary references (characters and authors), and mythical references (symbols and metaphors). I will be referencing pages 28-37 from the Bantam 1994 edition of Green Grass, Running Water. To see which edition this is, click here. In this passage, Lionel gives an …
Q.7 Describe how King uses the cyclical paradigm of the Medicine Wheel (and a little help from Coyote) to teach us to understand, or at least to try to understand the power behind the stories we tell ourselves. As mentioned in this lesson, the term ‘Medicine Wheel’ is not a native term, but it is …
Q.3 Frye writes: A much more complicated cultural tension arises from the impact of the sophisticated on the primitive, and vice a versa. The most dramatic example, and one I have given elsewhere, is that of Duncan Campbell Scott, working in the department of Indian Affairs in Ottawa. He writes of a starving squaw baiting …
Q 5.“If Europeans were not from the land of the dead, or the sky, alternative explanations which were consistent with indigenous cosmologies quickly developed” (“First Contact” 43). Robinson gives us one of those alternative explanations in his stories about how Coyote’s twin brother stole the “written document” and when he denied stealing the paper, he …
Jo’s Honey Badger Have you ever considered how Evil came to be? Where did Evil come from? Did someone create Evil? I heard a story about this once, when I was living abroad. I was sharing an apartment in Italy with two other American girls. We had a night off and after a few bottles …
Question #7: 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 …
Welcome! This blog is attached to Erika Paterson’s ENGL 470 class at UBC. In this course, we will be discussing the intersections and departures of Canadian literature with particular regards to the intersections of European(/colonial) and Indigenous story telling. The way we will discuss story telling is not simply by assessing the act of story …