Week One
Hi, I'm Jessica Keir but Jess is perfectly fine. I am from about an hour away from Toronto, Ontario. I am a second-year student in Arts studying Sociology.
I took this class not only because Arts students have a literature requirement but because it seemed like a very interesting course to take! I love reading good books and subconsciously analyzing their meanings so to be able to share my thoughts on the pieces of literature we are given in this class sounds like a decent time to me. :)
In the lecture, it was brought up how we are reading these pieces in translation which is a given since they are all in English but I did not think about how that impacts the way the readers would take in the words. So blatantly obvious but very interesting to think about!
I really like the structure of this course and think it is super helpful to accommodate our busy, personal lives so we can choose when to do the work and essentially pick our grade.
Looking forward to the rest of this course!
Hey Jessica, Nice to meet you! I too was surprised when I thought about the impacts of translation when interpreting texts. Often times when reading a translated piece we fail to understand its full context but it also in some ways makes it more relatable to us.
ReplyDeleteGood luck on the course!