COD 2024 - D969
Webinar - A Character Approach to Teaching Dracula (set text, AS & A Level Literature 2024)
Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching Literature, in general, and Dracula, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this novel from a critical perspective
1
sessions, start: 24-Apr
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2024
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Cecilia Lasa MA
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Free of charge
Exams Schools
Free of charge
Free of charge
Non affiliate
Free of charge
Free of charge
Sessions
Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
---|---|---|---|
1 | 24 April 2024 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Cecilia Lasa
Language and Literature teachers interested in teaching Literature, in general, and Dracula, in particular. Literature lovers interested in discussing this novel from a critical perspective
- To identify the main problems and challenges teachers and student may face when analysing Dracula
- To account for the main conflict(s) in the novel
- To explain how the construction of characters and the setting contributes to the main conflict(s) in Dracula
- To analyse the cultural and political implications of the novel
- To discuss possible strategies, activities, resources and dynamics to tackle Dracula in class
- To account for the main conflict(s) in the novel
- To explain how the construction of characters and the setting contributes to the main conflict(s) in Dracula
- To analyse the cultural and political implications of the novel
- To discuss possible strategies, activities, resources and dynamics to tackle Dracula in class
- Narrative crises by the end of the 19th century.
- The construction of England as an Empire: industrialisation and expansionism.
- The concepts of "reverse imperialism" and "anxiety of reverse colonisation".
- The consolidation of the bourgeoisie.
- Sex and gender. Contesting models for women: "the Angel in the House", "the New Woman", the femme fatale.
- The woman writer: "anxiety of influence" vs. "anxiety of authorship".
- The nature, functions and status of the vampire.
- The construction of England as an Empire: industrialisation and expansionism.
- The concepts of "reverse imperialism" and "anxiety of reverse colonisation".
- The consolidation of the bourgeoisie.
- Sex and gender. Contesting models for women: "the Angel in the House", "the New Woman", the femme fatale.
- The woman writer: "anxiety of influence" vs. "anxiety of authorship".
- The nature, functions and status of the vampire.
- Recovery of attendees' main difficulties when teaching literary texts and of their previous knowledge about the novel and its author
- Discussion of the problems related to the context of production
- Introduction to the main thematic concerns of Dracula
- Exploration of specific features of the novel –polyphony, characters, setting, conflict, etc.
- Guided group analysis of Dracula
- Discussion of the problems related to the context of production
- Introduction to the main thematic concerns of Dracula
- Exploration of specific features of the novel –polyphony, characters, setting, conflict, etc.
- Guided group analysis of Dracula
Source text
Stoker B. (2000). Dracula. Wordsworth Editions, Hertfordshire.
Critical and theoretical material
Arata S. (1990). The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization. Victorian Studies 33(4): 621–645.
Gilbert S., Gubar S. (2000). The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. Yale University Press, New Haven, London.
Lasa, C. (2018). The vampirisation of the novel: narrative crises in Dracula. Palgrave Commun 53 (4). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0108-6
Senf C. (1979). Dracula: the Unseen Face in the Mirror. The Journal of Narrative Technique 9(3): 160–170.
Senf C. (1982). Dracula: Stoker' Response to the New Woman. Victorian Studies 26(1): 33–49
Senf C. (2017). Realism, Horror and the Gothic in Dracula and Thomas Hardy's "The fiddler of the reels". Palgrave Communications 3:17083. https://doi.org/10.1057/ palcomms.2017.83.
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.
Stoker B. (2000). Dracula. Wordsworth Editions, Hertfordshire.
Critical and theoretical material
Arata S. (1990). The Occidental Tourist: Dracula and the Anxiety of Reverse Colonization. Victorian Studies 33(4): 621–645.
Gilbert S., Gubar S. (2000). The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination. Yale University Press, New Haven, London.
Lasa, C. (2018). The vampirisation of the novel: narrative crises in Dracula. Palgrave Commun 53 (4). https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0108-6
Senf C. (1979). Dracula: the Unseen Face in the Mirror. The Journal of Narrative Technique 9(3): 160–170.
Senf C. (1982). Dracula: Stoker' Response to the New Woman. Victorian Studies 26(1): 33–49
Senf C. (2017). Realism, Horror and the Gothic in Dracula and Thomas Hardy's "The fiddler of the reels". Palgrave Communications 3:17083. https://doi.org/10.1057/ palcomms.2017.83.
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.