blog#2 – Combray and Childhood Guilt — While reading Proust’s Combray, I automatically and unconsciously tried to categorize it in my brain with themes of other texts and books I’ve read in the past. The result was somewhere between ‘intimacy-deprived only child soliloquy‘ and ‘anxiety fueled mommy issues‘. Though Combray left with me with more […]
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blog#1 – introduction
blog#1 – introduction Hello all, I’m Jasmine. I’m in my (second) first-year of school at UBC. I’m taking this course because I’ve always had in interest in books and literature from people that aren’t currently alive – mostly because I could afford the royalty-free books at the store (thank you penguin). I’m hoping to learn […]