COD 2025 - D1093
Webinar - Sylvia Plath's Ariel (AS&A Level 2024-2028 set text). Challenges, Ideas & Resources to Teach her Poetry
Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching literature, in general, and Ariel, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this dramatic piece from a critical perspective
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sessions, start: 23-Apr
Please enrol before Friday, April 18th 2025
Course detail
Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Announced
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Cecilia Lasa PhD
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Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 23 April 2025 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Cecilia Lasa
Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching literature, in general, and Ariel, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this dramatic piece from a critical perspective
- To identify features of the tradition of female writers when reading Plath's poetry.
- To characterise the main themes and concerns in her poetry, mainly in Ariel.
- To reflect upon how motherhood is tackled by the poems.
- To analyse, particularly, the construction of the lyrical I in relation to the image of the woman writer in the post-war scenario.
- To compare and contrast the main arguments in the debate about Plath’s confessional poetry and Plath's feminism.
- To characterise the main themes and concerns in her poetry, mainly in Ariel.
- To reflect upon how motherhood is tackled by the poems.
- To analyse, particularly, the construction of the lyrical I in relation to the image of the woman writer in the post-war scenario.
- To compare and contrast the main arguments in the debate about Plath’s confessional poetry and Plath's feminism.
- The woman writer and the tradition of female writers.
- Typical concerns, questions, themes and rhetorical devices in Plath's Ariel.
- The construction of the Lyrical I: its appearances and movements in the map of Plath's poetry
- Motherhood and women's bodies.
- The main conceptual problems in relation to Plath as a confessional writer and as a feminist writer.
- Typical concerns, questions, themes and rhetorical devices in Plath's Ariel.
- The construction of the Lyrical I: its appearances and movements in the map of Plath's poetry
- Motherhood and women's bodies.
- The main conceptual problems in relation to Plath as a confessional writer and as a feminist writer.
- Recovery of attendees' previous knowledge about the selection of poems and its author
- Discussion of aspects related to the context of production
- Introduction to Sylvia Plath's poetic world and the importance of her poetry against hegemonic poetic tendencies of the time
- Exploration of specific features of her poetry –Lyrical I, rhetorical devices, themes, etc.–
- Guided group analysis of the selection of poems.
- Discussion of aspects related to the context of production
- Introduction to Sylvia Plath's poetic world and the importance of her poetry against hegemonic poetic tendencies of the time
- Exploration of specific features of her poetry –Lyrical I, rhetorical devices, themes, etc.–
- Guided group analysis of the selection of poems.
Source text
Plath, Sylvia. Ariel.
Critical and theoretical material
Gilbert, S. (1977) "My Name Is Darkness": The Poetry of Self-Definition"". Contemporary Literature, 18, 4; pp. 443-457.
Gilbert S. and Gubar, S. (1944). "In Yeats's House. Death and Resurrection of Sylvia Plath". In No Man's Land. The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 3. Letters from the Front. New Haven and London: Yale University Press; pp. 266-318.
Wagner-Martin, L. (2003). Sylvia Plath. A Literary Life. New York: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2003.
- (2007). "Plath and Contemporary American Poetry" (2007). In Gill, Jo (ed). The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; pp. 75-86.
- (1987). Sylvia Plath. A Biography. Londres: Chatto & Windus.
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.
Plath, Sylvia. Ariel.
Critical and theoretical material
Gilbert, S. (1977) "My Name Is Darkness": The Poetry of Self-Definition"". Contemporary Literature, 18, 4; pp. 443-457.
Gilbert S. and Gubar, S. (1944). "In Yeats's House. Death and Resurrection of Sylvia Plath". In No Man's Land. The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century. Vol. 3. Letters from the Front. New Haven and London: Yale University Press; pp. 266-318.
Wagner-Martin, L. (2003). Sylvia Plath. A Literary Life. New York: Palgrave, Macmillan, 2003.
- (2007). "Plath and Contemporary American Poetry" (2007). In Gill, Jo (ed). The Cambridge Companion to Sylvia Plath. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; pp. 75-86.
- (1987). Sylvia Plath. A Biography. Londres: Chatto & Windus.
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.