Tag: Nancy Baker

April 26, 2015

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 35: A Discussion of the Works of Nancy Baker

Many years ago, I went on a quest to find the works of Nancy Baker since I had heard such wonderful things about her work. I was able to track down some used copies and read them… and they were brilliant, blending the artistic with the dark. Excitingly, ChiZine Publications has re-released Nancy Baker’s works, so I wanted to take...

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April 3, 2015

Speculating Canada on Trent Radio Episode 32: The Unsettling Power of Horror

I was recently invited by the Canadian lit magazine Quill and Quire to write an article for them about Canadian horror, so I decided to talk a little bit more about Canadian horror in this episode of Speculating Canada on Trent Radio. Today I discuss the power of horror to unsettle and the pedagogical value of being unsettled, and the...

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February 14, 2015

Quote – Life Doesn’t End Like Stories

“Disappointed, are you? No proper end to a story? Well, maybe not. But life don’t end like stories.” -Nancy Baker – A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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October 17, 2014

Quote – Lived as Everyone Else Did.

“If things had been different, I would have lived out my life as everyone else did: loved by some, ignored by others, finding my life’s joys or sorrows in my small portion of the world.” -Nancy Baker – A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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May 2, 2014

Quote – Shades of Loss

“If loss was shaded by guilt or rage or relief, that did not mean that the loss was not real. To give a colour depth required darkness. It did not negate red to add black, it only made it a different kind of red.” -Nancy Baker –  A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)  

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November 22, 2013

The Pedagogical Power of Play – Teaching Canadian SF (okay, and other literature courses too)

The Pedagogical Power of Play by Derek Newman-Stille Play is an important way to help students (of any age) learn. When you evoke student emotions, they remember things more effectively since memory acquisition is linked to emotional responses. By using an element of play in your teaching, your students are also more willing to take bigger risks, and do things...

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May 10, 2013

Quote – Nothing but Defiance Against Reality

“All his actions were nothing more than the petty rebellions of a schoolboy, gestures of defiance to the brutal, relentless authority of reality.” -Nancy Baker –  A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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March 2, 2013

Quote – The Storytelling Ritual

It was part of the storytelling ritual; the hints, the reticence, and then the reluctant recitation. Whatever wild tale he would spin would at least be entertaining and perhaps there might even be enough truth in it that it would give him some clues to the world he was entering.” -Nancy Baker –  A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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February 8, 2013

Quote – Not All Things Can Be Cured With Cookies and Kisses

“More years than he cared to contemplate had passed since his family had discovered, to their sorrow, that not all things could be cured with cookies and kisses. The magic of such talismans had long been lost to them, lost even before the keeper of them had been.” -Nancy Baker –  A Terrible Beauty (Penguin Books, 1996)

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January 1, 2013

Year in Review: What is Canadian Speculative Fiction – from the authors

People are often asking if there is such a thing as “Canadian identity”, something that differentiates Canada from other nations. I thought I would ask authors if they thought that there was something distinctly Canadian about Canadian Speculative Fiction or how much they felt that their Canadian identity influenced their writing. I have provided links to the full interviews below...

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