COD 2019 - CP010
Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Eutopias? Utopias? Dystopias? The Steady Comeback of a Genre
Literature teachers, literature lovers, IGCSE teachers and AS/A level teachers
1
sessions, start: 05-Oct
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2019
Level: Culture Programme
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Lorrain Ledwith MA
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 800.00
ARS 800.00
Non affiliate
ARS 800.00
ARS 800.00
Sessions
Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
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1 | 05 October 2019 | 09:00 am | 12:00 pm |
Facilitator/s
Lorrain Ledwith
Literature teachers, literature lovers, IGCSE teachers and AS/A level teachers
- To explore the origins of utopia/dystopia in the history of literature.
- To analyze extracts from traditional utopias and dystopias and promote a contextual and stylistic analysis.
- To encourage teacher´s interest in teaching the genre from a new perspective in an attempt to provide a space for students to discuss the world they live in.
- To relate the works to other artistic manifestations such as films so as to help students understand the complexities of the contemporary world.
- To analyze extracts from traditional utopias and dystopias and promote a contextual and stylistic analysis.
- To encourage teacher´s interest in teaching the genre from a new perspective in an attempt to provide a space for students to discuss the world they live in.
- To relate the works to other artistic manifestations such as films so as to help students understand the complexities of the contemporary world.
- Thomas More, Utopia
- George Orwell, 1984
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid´s Tale
- Lois Lowry, The Giver
- Barker, Nicola H(a)ppy
- George Orwell, 1984
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid´s Tale
- Lois Lowry, The Giver
- Barker, Nicola H(a)ppy
The reading group will be an open space for analysis and discussion. From the analysis of traditional utopias and dystopias, we will move to the presentation of H(a)ppy where the aural blends in with the written and become one.
- Thomas More, Utopia
- George Orwell, 1984
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid´s Tale
- Lois Lowry, The Giver
- Barker, Nicola H(a)ppy (2017), London: Penguin Random House.
- Booker, Keith (1994) The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
- Claeys, Gregory (2010) The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Jameson, Fredric (2005) Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, London, Verso.
- Selection of film extracts.
- George Orwell, 1984
- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid´s Tale
- Lois Lowry, The Giver
- Barker, Nicola H(a)ppy (2017), London: Penguin Random House.
- Booker, Keith (1994) The Dystopian Impulse in Modern Literature, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
- Claeys, Gregory (2010) The Cambridge Companion to Utopian Literature, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Jameson, Fredric (2005) Archaeologies of the Future: The Desire called Utopia and Other Science Fictions, London, Verso.
- Selection of film extracts.