Oxford English Dictionary defines the following genres as:
Fable - n, A fictitious narrative or statement; a story not founded on fact.
Parable- n, An allegorical or metaphorical saying or narrative.
Fairytale- n, An unreal or incredible story.
Dialogue- n, A conversation carried on between two or more persons; a colloquy, talk together.
Honestly, I do not think it is going to be easy for me to write a story using one of these genres. I am more of the type of person who likes to write in a first-person narrative. If I had to choose, i'd probably write a fairytale or a fable.
One example of a fairytale is the tale of "The Crumbs on the Table" - Grimm's Fairy Tales
You can find the story at: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~spok/grimmtmp/
One example of a fable is the story of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" - Aesop
You can find the story at: http://www.storyarts.org/library/aesops/stories/boy.html
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Essentialism and experience
From reading this article, i think essentialism is the essence, identity, subjectivity, and experience of people.
Fuss says people use essentialism to silence others and dominate the institutional setting.
A problem she discusses is the "competition for voice" in the classroom, and how she is wary about discussing personal histories in the classroom because the basis they have might not be correctly theorized.
But this is criticized because bringing personal experience into the classroom can cause more participation from everybody in the room, enhancing learning.
"Many of the limitations she [Fuss}points out could be easily applied to the way experience informs not only what we write about, but how we write about it, the judgements we make."
Fuss also suggests that "the very discursive practices that allow for the assertion of the "authority of experience" have already been determined by politics of race, sex, and class domination.
Gender- Most of what is taught in this article comes from the writings of a black feminist writer.
Black feminist writer's believe that they need to have more more say in the classrooms, and how essentialism takes place in them.
Fuss says people use essentialism to silence others and dominate the institutional setting.
A problem she discusses is the "competition for voice" in the classroom, and how she is wary about discussing personal histories in the classroom because the basis they have might not be correctly theorized.
But this is criticized because bringing personal experience into the classroom can cause more participation from everybody in the room, enhancing learning.
"Many of the limitations she [Fuss}points out could be easily applied to the way experience informs not only what we write about, but how we write about it, the judgements we make."
Fuss also suggests that "the very discursive practices that allow for the assertion of the "authority of experience" have already been determined by politics of race, sex, and class domination.
Gender- Most of what is taught in this article comes from the writings of a black feminist writer.
Black feminist writer's believe that they need to have more more say in the classrooms, and how essentialism takes place in them.
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