COD 2025 - D1137

Webinar - "Space, place and subjectivity" in Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English" (set readings for AS 2025 & 2026)

AS Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective

4 sessions, start: 14-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2025
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 14 August 2025 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
2 21 August 2025 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
3 04 September 2025 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
4 25 September 2025 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Florencia Perduca

Florencia Perduca, Graduate Teacher of English and Literary Translator from I. E. S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández", MA in Education Management and MA in Literary Linguistics (University of
Nottingham), is an ESSARP course Coordinator specialised in Literatures in Englishes, Literary Linguistic Analysis and Postcolonial Theory. She teaches Literature in English at I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernandez", Cultural Studies at ENS en Lenguas Vivas "Sofía E. Broquen de Spangenberg", Postcolonial Literature at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She teaches IGCSE Literature and IB English Language and Literature. She is the Overall Head of English Department at Tarbut School.
AS Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective
- To promote a context-based approach to the reading of texts which lend themselves to exploring Literatures in Englishes.
- To look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students’ awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning
Contents: Set readings from the Anthology Stories of Ourselves for AS 2024, 2025 & 2026.

Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English,
Volume 1 (ISBN 9781108436199)

Paper 2, Section C Prose Story

From Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English, Volume 1 (ISBN 9781108462297)
1) The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
2) The Son’s Veto by Thomas Hardy
3) The Door in the Wall by H G Wells
4) An Englishman’s Home by Evelyn Waugh
5) The Prison by Bernard Malamud
6) Billennium by J G Ballard
7) The People Before by Maurice Shadbolt
8) Five-Twenty by Patrick White
9) Report on the Threatened City by Doris Lessing
10) Games at Twilight by Anita Desai
11) My Greatest Ambition by Morris Lurie
12) To Da-duh, in Memoriam by Paule Marshall
13) Of White Hairs and Cricket by Rohinton Mistry
14) Tyres by Adam Thorpe
15) Real Time by Amit Chaudhuri

 Central themes (the present and the past; displacement; individual vs. society) and thematic threads (the motif of ‘home’ as resignifiying individual/collective identity) cutting all stories across.
 Narrative structure of the short stories.
 Symbols and motifs.
 Cultural gaps.
1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach texts from a literary linguistic perspective. 2) Each story’s/writer’s background and culture 3) Signs of identity in a text written in English 4) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text. 5) Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflection on how they mean.
1) ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, TIFFIN (1989) The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge.
2) ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, TIFFIN (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader, London: Routledge.
3) BOEHMER, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4) CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION (2020). Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English, Volume 2 (ISBN 9781108436199).
5) GRADDOL, D. (1997) The Future of English? London: The British Council.
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