ENG215H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Okanagan Language, Telling Stories, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences
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Harry robinson, coyote tricks owl & thomas king, the one about coyote going west . Passage analysis is a 500 word essay response. see syllabus for more detail. Trace roots of short story back to oral narratives in order to fully understand them. oral narratives part of the foundation of the canadian short story. Lit and non lit are both important to this genre. how oral story telling informs written narratives, how written narratives honour oral story telling. I tell stories for 21 hours or more i"m a story teller . 1900 in bc, a rancher and one of the last story tellers of his people. Spent long hours with his grandmother and elders, were told numerous stories that became central to his life. became skilled telling stories in okanagan language and in english, telling and retelling these narratives. Narrative limited to being physically present when oral. Ethnographer wendy wickwire doing doctoral research on oral song, met harry.
