COD 2024 - D990
Webinar - "Space, place and subjectivity" in Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English. Volume I (set readings for AS 2024, 2025 & 2026)
AS as well as Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective
4
sessions, start: 30-May
Please enrol before Monday, May 27th 2024
Course detail
Year: 2024
Level: Distance
Language: English
Status: Announced
Lugar: Distance
Facilitator/s: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 30 May 2024 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
| 2 | 06 June 2024 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
| 3 | 13 June 2024 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
| 4 | 27 June 2024 | 05:30 pm | 07:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Florencia Perduca
AS as well as Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective
-To promote a literary linguistic approach to the reading of texts that 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 exploring instrumental reading and its formative value.
-To prepare materials that meet AS Language & Literature core objectives.
-To look for and build strategies to raise teachers' and students' awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning exploring instrumental reading and its formative value.
-To prepare materials that meet AS Language & Literature core objectives.
Set readings from the Anthology Stories of Ourselves. Volume I. Set Readings for AS 2024, 2025 & 2026.
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 resignifying individual/collective identity) cutting all stories across.
- Narrative structure of the short stories.
- Symbols and motifs.
- Cultural gaps.
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 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) Discuss each story’s/writer’s background and culture
3) Delve into signs of identity in a text written in English(es)
4) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text, its particular web of meaning, and the ways in which the author uses language to represent specific concerns.
5) Active reading of key extracts in the short stories and a reflection on how they mean.
2) Discuss each story’s/writer’s background and culture
3) Delve into signs of identity in a text written in English(es)
4) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text, its particular web of meaning, and the ways in which the author uses language to represent specific concerns.
5) Active reading of key extracts in the short stories and a reflection on how they mean.
1) Aschcroft, Griffiths, Tiffin (1989) The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge.
2) Aschcroft, 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 1 (ISBN 9781108436199).
5) Graddol, D. (1997) The Future of English? London: The British Council.
2) Aschcroft, 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 1 (ISBN 9781108436199).
5) Graddol, D. (1997) The Future of English? London: The British Council.