{"id":191,"date":"2019-09-07T18:26:46","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T01:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rmst221b\/?p=191"},"modified":"2020-01-04T22:07:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-05T05:07:05","slug":"humanimals-reading-a-local-bestiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/rmst221b\/humanimals-reading-a-local-bestiary\/","title":{"rendered":"Humanimals Reading: A Local Bestiary"},"content":{"rendered":"

INFORMATION FOR READERS<\/h2>\n

\"\"<\/a>This local public bestiary is being made by UBC students as part of their independent work in a second-year undergraduate course, about animals and reading in the premodern Romance world. You can find out more about the rest of the course in other areas of this site.<\/p>\n

Our bestiary is a collection of local animals.<\/p>\n

\u201cLocal\u201d brings together immediate and global environments: it could be UBC, Vancouver, the Pacific north-west coast, or any other part or parts of the world that are an individual student\u2019s place of belonging. Some of us have more than one home, and some of us are writing together.<\/p>\n

Our animals are of many sorts. There might be fabulous creatures here, mythical beasts, monsters, dreams, spirits, ghosts, demons, gods. Some of them might not usually count as animals, some might not usually count as real or as actual things that exist in this world.<\/p>\n

Welcome to our world.<\/p>\n

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BESTIARY CONTENTS<\/h2>\n

(an alphabetical table of contents will appear here after the end of the course with links to each bestiary entry \/ inhabitant; while the bestiary is being created, you\u2019ll see creatures appearing in \u201clocal public bestiary contribution<\/a>\u201d in chronological order of creation)<\/p>\n

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INFORMATION FOR STUDENTS<\/h2>\n

PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE CONTRIBUTION (10% of final grade)<\/p>\n

Contribution to \u201cHumanimals Reading: A Local Bestiary”: object selection, description, and commentary; individual work; may be pseudonymous and\/or collaborative; may also overlap with final project work.<\/p>\n

The bestiary will be organised somewhat like bestiaries via, for example, Isidore of Seville and Brunetto Latini (and Marie de France\u2019s Fables<\/i> and other fable-collections from the pre-modern world). We\u2019ll work on its organisation together.<\/p>\n

An object\u2014or rather, a subject: the subject of your attention, close reading or focussed listening, study, and analysis\u2014could be an animal, a representation of an animal, an object or idea associated with or made out of animal; it could include digitisedr manuscripts, MOA inhabitants, live action video, etc. \u201cLocal\u201d isn\u2019t necessarily just UBC but is open to student individual interpretations, so as to be true to themselves.<\/p>\n

More about this assignment is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read next \u2192\u00a0students: how to become a UBC Blogs \u201cauthor\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

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Bonus reading animal in the local public bestiary: The Draft Resources Creature<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

PROJECT (40%)<\/p>\n