Course:ENGL 100-010
| Introduction | Seed Catalogue | Frankenstein | Moonshot | Loop Hero |
| ENGL 100-010 Florilegium | |
|---|---|
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| The Ends of the Earth: Imagining Terrestrial Futures | |
| Instructor: | Dylan Jackson |
| Email: | zachdylan.jackson@ubc.ca |
| Office: | Zoom |
| Office Hours: | 3:30–4:30pm T/Th |
| Class Schedule: | 2–3:30pm T/Th |
You've reached the florilegium for ENGL 100-010 (2022W1). In fact, you're probably a student in the course! On this page, we're compiling stand-out quotations or other excerpts from the four main texts we're reading this term:
- Robert Kroetsch, Seed Catalogue
- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
- Elizabeth LaPensée and Michael Sheyahshe, editors, Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection (vol. 3)
- Four Quarters, Loop Hero
Throughout term, we'll add our own contributions and read others'. They may factor into our class discussions and written assignments. They'll definitely helps us — and, perhaps, others! — to 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. The compiler or other community members would occasionally include brief descriptions explaining the quotation's significance.