COD 2025 - D1091

Webinar - I hear Whitman Singing. Approaches to Teaching Leaves of Grass (AS&A Level 2024-2026 set text)

Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching literature, in general, and Leaves of Grass, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this dramatic piece from a critical perspective

1 sessions, start: 09-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Cecilia Lasa PhD
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Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 09 April 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 Leaves of Grass, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this dramatic piece from a critical perspective
- To identify artistic features in Whitman's poetry.
- To characterise the main themes and concerns in his poetry, mainly in Leaves of Grass.
- To reflect upon how art and politics are related in the poems.
- To analyse, particularly, the construction of the lyrical I in relation to the birth of a new country.
- To reflect upon how Whitman deals with political problems - the Civil War, Democracy, among others - from a renewed poetical perspective.
- Writing a new form of poetry.
- Typical concerns, questions, themes and rhetorical devices in Whitman's Leaves of Grass.
- The construction of the Lyrical I in Whitman's poetry.
- Developing a new voice for a new America.
- Politics and Poetry.
- Recovery of attendees' previous knowledge about the selection of poems and its author
- Discussion of aspects related to the context of production
- Introduction to Walt Whitman's poetic world and the relevance of his poetry
- Exploration of specific features of his poetry –Lyrical I, rhetorical devices, themes, etc.–
- Guided group analysis of the selection of poems.
Source text

Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass.

Critical and theoretical material

Bloom, H. (ed.) (2006). Walt Whitman (Bloom's Modern Critical Views) Chelsea House Publishers.
________________ (2008). Walt Whitman (Bloom's Classic Critical Views) Infobase Publishing.
Crawley, T. E. (1970). The Structure of Leaves of Grass. University of Texas Press.
Casale, F. (2009). Bloom's How to Write about Walt Whitman. Chelsea House Publications.

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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