COD 2025 - D1087

Webinar - Is it Greener on the Other Side? Tools to Teach Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (AS Level 2024-2026 set text)

Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching literature, in general, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this piece from a critical perspective

1 sessions, start: 12-Mar

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Cecilia Lasa PhD
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 12 March 2025 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Cecilia Lasa

Cecilia Lasa holds a Ph. D. in Literature and a Master's Degree in Literatures in Foreign Languages and in Comparative Literatures (FFyL, UBA). She is a Teacher of English (IESLV "Juan R. Fernández") and a Teacher of Literature (FFyL, UBA). She has a Higher Diploma in Research in Humanities (UBA) and has done a Specialisation in Reading, Writing and Education (FLACSO) and in Writing and Literature (Ministerio de Educación, Argentina). She has worked as a teacher of Literature and of academic reading and writing in Teacher Training Colleges in Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires and national universities as well. She is currently working as a teacher and researcher in English Literature and American Literature (FFyL, UBA). She is the author of Academic Writing and has edited and co-authored Literatura y formación docente. Proyectos de lectura y de escritura.
Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching literature, in general, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this piece from a critical perspective
- To identify artistic features in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- To account for the main themes and concerns in the poem.
- To compare and contrast characters in the light of the conflict(s) in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- To analyse the description of different settings in relation to the protagonist's journey and sojourning.
- To explain the conflict(s) in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in relation to its context.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and its context.
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Arthurian stories.
- Main concerns, concerns, themes and rhetorical devices in the poem.
- Character construction, setting and atmosphere.
- The uses of the romance in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
- Recovery of attendees' previous knowledge about the poem
- Discussion of aspects related to the context of production
- Introduction to the Arthurian stories
- Exploration of specific features of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight –character construction and development, description strategies, rhetorical devices, themes, etc.–
- Guided group analysis of the selection of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Source text

Armitage, Simon (ed.), Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, W. W. Norton & Company, Londres y Nueva York, 2007.

Critical and theoretical material

Arner, Lynn, «The Ends of Enchantment: Colonialism and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight». Texas Studies in Literature and Language. Vol. 48, No. 2, 2006 (pp. 79-101).
Chism, Christine, «Romance», in Scanlon, Larry (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature 1100-1500, Cambridge University Press, New York and Cambridge, 2009, (pp. 57-69).
Davies, Robert R., Domination and Conquest: The Experience of Ireland, Scotland and Wales, 1100-1300, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.
___________, The First English Empire. Power and Identity in the British Isles 1093- 1343, The Ford Lectures Delivered in the University of Oxford in Hilary Term 1998, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 2000.
Hahn, Thomas, «Gawain and Popular Chivalric Romance in Britain», in Krueger, Roberta L. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, (pp.218-234).
Lasa, Cecilia and Menán, Carina. "Sir Gawayn and þe Grene Knyȝt: política de la ficcionalización en la Inglaterra expansionista medieval" Intus - Legere Historia [online], 12.1, 2018, 5-20. Web. 21 dic. 2024.
Jameson, Fredric, «Magical Narratives: Romance as Genre». New Literary History, Vol. 7, No. 1, Critical Challenges: The Bellagio Symposium, 1975, (pp.135-163).

Cambridge's Bibliography about Literature in English

Cambridge International Examinations (2018). Learner Guide IGCSE®Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Russell, C (2018). Cambridge IGCSE® and O Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Whitthome, E (2018). AS & A Level Literature in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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