COD 2026 - D1220

Webinar - “Selves and Others in AS Literature in English: Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English. Volume 3" (set readings for 2027-2028)

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

4 sessions, start: 13-Aug

Please enrol before Monday, August 10th 2026

Course detail

Year: 2026
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Announced
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 13 August 2026 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
2 20 August 2026 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
3 27 August 2026 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
4 03 September 2026 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.
IMPORTANT: Set readings from the Anthology Stories of Ourselves ONLY for students sitting for Cambridge AS in 2027 & 2028).

Set stories for examination in 2027 & 2028 from Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge International Education Anthology of Stories in English, Volume 3 (ISBN 9781009467681) Paper 2, Section A Prose Story:
1) "The Black Veil" by Charles Dickens
2) "The Tell-Tale Heart" by Edgar Allen Poe
3) "A Wagner Matinee" by Willa Cather
4) "Araby" by James Joyce
5) "The Preliminaries" by Cornelia Comer
6) "The Nightmare Room" by Arthur Conan Doyle
7) "The Woman at the Store" by Katherine Mansfield
8) "Never" by H E Bates
9) "Atrophy" by Edith Wharton
10) "A Lady’s Beaded Bag" by Tennessee Williams
11) "The Lagoon" by Janet Frame
12) "The Blush" by Elizabeth Taylor
13) "Land Deal" by Gerald Murnne
14) "Kind Stranger" by Meron Hadero
15) "Staying Behind" by Ken Liu

- Central themes (the present and the past; displacement; individual vs. society) and thematic threads (the motif of ‘home’ as resignifying 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 3 (ISBN
5) GRADDOL, D. (1997) The Future of English? London: The British Council.

ISBN 9781009467681
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