Post #1 – INTRO
Hi! My name’s Jenna and I’m from Langley (about an hour away for those of you who aren’t familiar with the GVA yet). I was fortunate enough to be assigned a room with one heck of a view, so I’m currently writing in front of a window overlooking the ocean. It’s absolutely gorgeous outside right […]
Intro Page
Hi EveryoneIsn’t Kierkegaard difficult? Just thought I’d put that out there, because now whenever I try and think about ArtsOne now I just imagine a Danish philosopher kicking me repeatedly while screaming “what do you mean you don’t know what teleolog…
Make-up lecture Tuesday, Oct. 14
We have a time and room for the lecture we’ll be doing on Sophocles’ Antigone on Tuesday, Oct. 14, because we won’t have a lecture on Thanksgiving (Monday, Oct. 13). It is: Tues., Oct. 14, 4:30-6:30pm, IBLC 182 We know that some of you won’t be able to make it due to other commitments, but […]
About Me
My name is Ana Maria Fernandez and I am a first year student at UBC in the Faculty of Arts. I was born and raised in Guadalajara, Mexico and I recently moved to Victoria, B.C. in 2011. I enjoy reading, drawing, painting, and want to be an Architect. My interest in history and English is what mainly […]
Introductions: Take 2
I apologize for my previous post where I failed miserably to introduce myself. I shall try again. If I start at the very beginning of my life, I’m afraid my story will be quite a repetitive one that I’m sure you’ve heard before. We all started out more or less the same, and were born […]
Rights of Man
Thomas Paine is a curious character, whose legacy is hard to assess. But perhaps this is why it is all the more important to (re)read him. His difficulties, ambiguities, and ambivalences, in the midst of the eighteenth-century “Age of Revolutions,” … Continue reading →
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Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey pulls off the difficult feat of being both relentlessly self-reflexive and (on the whole) a genuinely enjoyable read. It is, after all, a commentary on the writing and reading of novels, and more specifically on the … Continue reading →
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe’s classic novel Things Fall Apart (1958) is often seen as a riposte to European representations of African life and culture, not least for instance Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, which Achebe memorably described as the work of “a … Continue reading →
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Things Fall Apart, Heart of Darkness, Apocalypse Now
I know it doesn’t matter whether or not I write any more blogs posts since yesterday was the last lecture and Arts One is for the most part, over. However, I’ll take it upon myself that I admit writing these blogs have been a (bit – not entirely) a chore. However, I find a certain […] Continue reading →
Because this is so late, just thoughts on Apocalypse Now
First, sorry this is extremely late; I forgot the fact that the movie was still in fact something we were studying and thus we would have to write a blog post for it still. So since this is so late, … Continue reading → Continue reading →