COD 2025 - D1092

Webinar - Mapping Dubliners (AS&A Level 2024-2026 set text). Tools to Teach James Joyce's Short Stories

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

1 sessions, start: 16-Apr

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 16 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 Dubliners, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this dramatic piece from a critical perspective
- To identify the main features of James Joyce's narrative styles
- To recognise the author’s main thematic concerns
- To characterise the status of Literature at the beginning of the 20th century in Great Britain and Ireland
- To describe the main aspects of the historical context in which Joyce writes Dubliners
- To analyse the cultural and political implications of Joyce's collection of stories
- Narrative crises by the end of the 19th century.
- New ways of writing literature.
- Europe in the context of the First and the Second World Wars.
- Joyce's experimental narrative.
- Character construction, setting and atmosphere in Joyce's Dubliners
- Recovery of attendees' previous knowledge about the collection of short stories and its author
- Discussion of aspects related to the context of production
- Introduction to the main thematic concerns and artistic aspects of Dubliners
- Exploration of specific features of the short stories –characters, setting, conflict, etc.
- Guided group analysis of a selection of short stories from Dubliners. Teachers will have questions and ideas to draw upon for the stories not analysed in the webinar.
Source text

Joyce, J. Dubliners.

Critical and theoretical material

Bulson, E. (2006). The Cambridge Introduction to James Joyce. Cambridge University.
Parandowski, J. (1979). Meeting with Joyce. Potts, W. (ed.), Portraits of the Artist in Exile: Recollections of James Joyce by Europeans, pp. 154-162. University of Washington.
Jameson, F. (2009). War and Representation. PMLA, vol. 124, Nº 5, pp. 1532-1547.

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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