Jason Blake
Biographic Data
| ID | 6363203 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason Blake |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason |
| FAMILY NAME | Blake |
| SIGNATURE | BLAKE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8413-1395 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Putting Flash in the Canadian Literature Classroom
This teaching note considers the benefits of including very short stories or “flash fiction” in the (Canadian) literature classroom. Because the genre is relatively new and favors brevity, it can be attractive to students. Teachers can be sure the students will have read the story, or even find the time to have them read entire stories in class. As well, choosing very short works lets us introduce a variety of Canadian authors to our students. We…
Intercultural Bewilderment
The article presents a translation of Jesuit missionary Hallerstein's letters from Slovenian into English.The discussion touches on domestication and foreignization translation strategies, before focusing on some intercultural and historical challenges of translating place names and names of people.Using examples from practice, the paper draws attention to the impact of the use of sources, the cross-linguistic differences in orthography, Romaniza…
Appropriation, Absence and the Canadian Studies Classroom
This article focuses on “appropriation of voice” or “cultural appropriation” in the Canadian Studies classroom. It is aimed at instructors who teach Canadian Literature outside Canada, in places where Canada is itself a strange, foreign or even exotic country. Keeping classroom practice in mind, I divide the article into three sections. The first provides a classroom-oriented overview of appropriation debates; the second looks at tokenism on read…
Roughneck
A Canadian icon in a ‘cretinous provincial dump’ – Glenn Gould and Thomas Bernhard’s novel The Loser
This article examines Thomas Bernhard’s 1983 The Loser from a ‘Canadianist’ perspective. Though the Austrian novelist inserted a fictionalised Glenn Gould into his work, he had little interest in the pianist’s actual biography and even less interest in Canada. This makes for fascinating reading because one sees an outsider’s view of a Canadian icon. Bernhard uses Gould as a tool for attacking Austrian culture. After briefly introducing Bernhard’s…
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A Canadian icon in a ‘cretinous provincial dump’ – Glenn Gould and Thomas Bernhard’s novel The Loser
This article examines Thomas Bernhard’s 1983 The Loser from a ‘Canadianist’ perspective. Though the Austrian novelist inserted a fictionalised Glenn Gould into his work, he had little interest in the pianist’s actual biography and even less interest in Canada. This makes for fascinating reading because one sees an outsider’s view of a Canadian icon. Bernhard uses Gould as a tool for attacking Austrian culture. After briefly introducing Bernhard’s…
Roughneck
Appropriation, Absence and the Canadian Studies Classroom
This article focuses on “appropriation of voice” or “cultural appropriation” in the Canadian Studies classroom. It is aimed at instructors who teach Canadian Literature outside Canada, in places where Canada is itself a strange, foreign or even exotic country. Keeping classroom practice in mind, I divide the article into three sections. The first provides a classroom-oriented overview of appropriation debates; the second looks at tokenism on read…
Intercultural Bewilderment
The article presents a translation of Jesuit missionary Hallerstein's letters from Slovenian into English.The discussion touches on domestication and foreignization translation strategies, before focusing on some intercultural and historical challenges of translating place names and names of people.Using examples from practice, the paper draws attention to the impact of the use of sources, the cross-linguistic differences in orthography, Romaniza…
Putting Flash in the Canadian Literature Classroom
This teaching note considers the benefits of including very short stories or “flash fiction” in the (Canadian) literature classroom. Because the genre is relatively new and favors brevity, it can be attractive to students. Teachers can be sure the students will have read the story, or even find the time to have them read entire stories in class. As well, choosing very short works lets us introduce a variety of Canadian authors to our students. We…
Political science (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Canadian Identity and History (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · German Literature and Culture Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work) · Appropriation (1 work)