Memory in Literature

English 10 LC

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Oryx and Crake Reading

For this coming Tuesday March 3 I'd like you to have read through page 144 (up to the chapter called "Sveltana") of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake, along with the Abrams assignments on the syllabus: "novel" and "metaphor." Have a great weekend, and hope you enjoy Atwood's freaky, post-apocalyptic science fiction!

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Reading for Tuesday Feb 10

Hi all. Just to confirm the reading assignment for this coming Tuesday, I'd like you to have read the first act of Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing, which would be up to page 78. Also, per the syllabus, that's in addition to the "point of view" entry in Abrams. Dry Lips is a contemporary play by Cree playwright Tomson Highway and a big change of pace from A Midsummer Night's D… Continue

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Jeanne commented on Jeanne's blog post 'Oryx and Crake Website'

Oh, that's cool, David. Thanks for pointing it out; I didn't notice it.

March 19, 2009

Jeanne replied to Jazmen Day's discussion 'Oryx and Crake: Ending'

I was also very frustrated by the cliffhanger the first time I read Oryx and Crake. I asked everyone I knew who had read it what they thought happened, and I went back and re-read to see if Atwood had planted any big clues that might lead me to the…

March 19, 2009

Jeanne replied to Courtney's discussion 'Crake v. Jimmy'

You've all brought very good insights to this question. That Jimmy's intelligence is really just of a different kind than Crake's seems clear. How brilliant of a word-man he really is we don't know because he sells himself short so consistently, and…

March 18, 2009

David commented on Jeanne's blog post 'Oryx and Crake Website'

Neat! You can actually click on Oryx's iris (like how Crake used that as his secret button to get into his grandmaster chatroom razzmatazz thing.)

March 16, 2009

Jeanne added a blog post

Oryx and Crake Website

Here's a link to the official Oryx and Crake website. http://www.oryxandcrake.co.uk It's pretty cool, if you find yourself with some downtime as you study. Good luck with exams!

March 16, 2009

Jeanne replied to Kevin Orbach's discussion 'Oryx and Crake - Post-Apocalyptic?'

This link http://www.oryxandcrake.co.uk is to the official site for the novel, and it's pretty cool. I'll also copy it to the blog section of our site, but I'm posting it here because the essay by Margaret Atwood here seems pretty germane to your qu…

March 16, 2009

Jeanne replied to LiZ's discussion 'Time and Memory'

It seems as though many of you are are interested in different way in the relativity of time, in the sense that events that we remember are more or less vivid not so much depending on how far away they are in time as depending on how significant tho…

March 15, 2009

Leona commented on Marivel Guevara's video 'Oryx and Crake Summary'

hahah the pigoons are funny in the video

March 14, 2009

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Oryx and Crake Website

Here's a link to the official Oryx and Crake website. http://www.oryxandcrake.co.uk It's pretty cool, if you find yourself with some downtime as you study. Good luck with exams!

Posted by Jeanne on March 16, 2009 at 12:02pm — 2 Comments

Essay Three Topics: Prose Fiction

Develop an argument with a clear, interesting guiding thesis, focused paragraphs, graceful transitions, and lots of concrete support from close-reading of the texts, on one of the following four topics. Your essay should be four to six pages long, typed in a 12-point font, double-spaced, and with reasonable margins. Essays are due by 5 pm on Friday March 20. Please hand in your essay by email. Because I will be out of town I will be unable to collect hard copies of your essays from th… Continue

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Real Science in Oryx and Crake

Just in case you thought we were reading pure science fiction, how about fluorescent mice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0UzdYRnMtY
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/01/0111_020111genmice.html

and xenotransplantation (clinical trials in animal to human organ transplants):
htt… Continue

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Dry Lips Interviews Link

Here's an excellent link Ashley Fu posted below to an interview with Tomson Highway on writing Dry Lips, as well as some other background on the play and interviews with actors and the dramaturg. Just in case anyone missed it below, I wanted to feature it in a separate blog post. http://www.playwrights.ca/portfolios/drylips.html

Posted by Jeanne on February 25, 2009 at 12:30pm

Louise Erdrich Bios and background info

Hi folks. I really liked this link with info on Louise Erdrich, who wrote the short story "Lulu's Boys" that we're reading for today. Erdrich is part Ojibway, a tribe whose language, along with Cree, is spoken in Dry Lips. Some of the themes and concerns in her writing are also similar to Highway's. I found the interviews here especially interesting, as well as the information on the Indian boarding school system in the U.S., similar in many ways to the Canadian residential schools we dis… Continue

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