COD 2007 - G405

Deconstruction: "The Experience of the Impossible"

IGCSE / AS teachers of Literature and Language interested in working with Literary Criticism and exploring how it can throw light on the texts they read and teach.

3 sessions, start: 09-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2007
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Martha Patricia De Cunto
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 90.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 09 April 2007 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 16 April 2007 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
3 23 April 2007 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Martha Patricia De Cunto

She holds a Master of Arts in Literary Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, UK and is currently doing a PhD in Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. She is also pursuing a Master's Degree in Cultural Studies at UNR. She has been a lecturer in American Literature, Children's Literature, YAL Literature and Introduction to Literary Studies at I.E.S. Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández". She has also taught Creative Writing at ISP “Joaquín V. González”. She has been a teacher of Language and Literature in several schools in Buenos Aires for more than 30 years.
IGCSE / AS teachers of Literature and Language interested in working with Literary Criticism and exploring how it can throw light on the texts they read and teach.
- Introducing general concepts associated with deconstruction. - Applying deconstruction to literary texts.
1st session: An overview of the Structuralist concept of the sign: the signifier and the signified. Meaning as the interplay of difference (Ferdinand de Saussure). The Postructuralist concept of the production of meaning: Introducing Jacques Derrida's "differance". Dissemination and polysemy, language and reality, the ‘undecidables’, binary thinking or "violent hierarchies". Practice: Looking for, subverting and destabilizing binary oppositions in excerpts from Gilman's "The Yellow Wallpaper", Faulkner’s "A Rose for Emily" and Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. 2nd Session: Logocentric vs. self-deconstructive thinking: speech and writing, origins, centre and margin, presence and absence, the supplement. Practice: Reading Cortazar’s "Blow-up". Spotting logocentric and self-deconstructive elements. 3rd Session: Introducing Paul de Man’s deconstructive approach. Literary language and misreading. Practice: Reading poems by Sylvia Plath: Working with tropes.
- Presentation of concepts. - Guided group activities on the texts.
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