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3:7 Hyperlinking GGRW
Write a blog that hyper-links your research on the characters in GGRW for pages 85 to 96. Be sure to make use of Jane Flick’s reference guide on you reading list. Alberta At the beginning of this section, Alberta compares marriage to … Continue reading
3:5 King of Allusions
Find three examples of names that need to be spoken aloud in order to catch the allusion. Discuss the examples as well as the reading technique that requires you to read aloud in order to make connections. Why does King … Continue reading
3:2 Nationalism
2] In this lesson I say that it should be clear that the discourse on nationalism is also about ethnicity and ideologies of “race.” If you trace the historical overview of nationalism in Canada in the CanLit guide, you will … Continue reading
2:6 Reading Aloud
1.) In his article, “Godzilla vs. Post-Colonial,” King discusses Robinson’s collection of stories. King explains that while the stories are written in English, “the patterns, metaphors, structures as well as the themes and characters come primarily from oral literature.” More … Continue reading
2:4 Here’s a Third Reason Why
In this lesson I say that our capacity for understanding or making meaningfulness from the first stories is seriously limited for numerous reasons and I briefly offer two reasons why this is so: 1) the social process of the telling … Continue reading
2:3 Stories of Home
After reading the lovely blogs of John, Navi, and Sandra – as well as writing my own blog, I’ve found some similarities we shared. All of our homes were different and yet our descriptions of home were so similar. Sandra brought … Continue reading
2:2 This was my 8th move in less than 3 years
Home. What do you call home? Where is it? This used to be an easy question when I grew up in the same house for 12 years. 3 years later, I’ve moved to a new country and gone from living … Continue reading
1:5 How Evil Came Into the World
I have a great story to tell you. It is the story of how evil came into the world. This isn’t the story you know, this isn’t about Eve and Adam and the apple. This story comes before that. … Continue reading
1:3 Summarizing Chamberlin
Edward Chamberlin, in his book If This is Your Land, Where are Your Stories?, very eloquently concludes by finding an answer to this title question. I’m going to take the topics he is discussing and connect it to something I … Continue reading
1:1 An Introduction to My Summer of Canadian Literature
Hi there! My name is Stefanie and I am excited to get started with ENG 470 this summer! Welcome to my blog where I will be discussing, with all of you, the histories and origins behind Canadian Literature and where … Continue reading