Course:ENGL100-014
| Introduction | Poetry | Frankenstein | Sir Gawain and the Green Knight |
| ENGL 100-014 Florilegium | |
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| Reading and Writing About Language and Literature | |
| Instructor: | Dylan Jackson |
| Email: | zachdylan.jackson@ubc.ca |
| Office: | BuTo 304 |
| Office Hours: | Mondays 1–2pm |
| Class Schedule: | MWF 11am–12pm |
You've reached the florilegium for ENGL 100-014 (2024W2). In fact, you're probably a student in the course! On this page, we're compiling stand-out quotations or other excerpts from the three main sections of literature we're covering this term:
- Our poetry section
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- Anonymous, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Throughout term, we'll add our own contributions and read others'. They may factor into our class discussions and written assignments. More definitively, they'll help us and others think through and with these texts.
In the Middle Ages, a florilegium — in English, "a gathering of flowers" — was a book that collected a given community's favourite short quotations. These quotations might be from literature, philosophy, theology, history, or some combination of those. (The compilers weren't huge on genre distinctions.)
The important thing was that each quoted line or passage represented something that mattered to the florilegium compiler. Every contributor would copy down a quotation that captured something important to them, their community, or the world in general. Often, they or their colleagues would add their own comments on the quotation's significance.