Lecture notes from RMST 221B, WEEK 2 (as image files crashed on Canvas and UBC Blogs site)
- TOPIC:
Introduction: starting small with a frog in a poem- context: a bigger picture, whole book, intertextual network of books and other knowledge, and ecosystem
- reading ecosystemically
- READINGS:
Prologues, prefaces, and bodies of knowledge:- Marie de France Lais (+ Fables) prologues
- Michel de Montaigne “To the reader”
- + (guided reading in Thursday class) I.1, II.18, III. 2 & 8
- + (online meanderings) bestiaries and other Big Books Of All Knowledge
- TUESDAY: Introduction to the Marie & Montaigne introductions (Marie, “Prologue”; Montaigne, “To the reader”) and to this world; via frogs
- THURSDAY: mainly Marie Lais “Prologue” + Montaigne “To the reader,” plus I.1 + excerpts from II.18, III.2, III.8 on what he’s doing and why; keeping frogs and their small stoical wisdom in mind
- FOR THURSDAY:
- read Marie Lais prologue
- read Montaigne “To the reader”
- read Montaigne book I essay 1 and imagine that we are discussing frogs rather than humans
- TO DO for next week: reading commentary on Canvas (commenting about this week’s Marie and Montaigne readings; one of the bonus readings at the end, an excerpt from the Pancatantra, provides an example of commenting on and discussing reading; there is also more information on Canvas)
