COD 2010 - G537

Reading Group on Contemporary Literature: Life-writing

Lovers of reading with an advanced level of English.

1 sessions, start: 07-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2010
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Susana Gullco Groisman
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Non affiliate
ARS 65.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 07 August 2010 10:00 am 12:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Susana Gullco Groisman

She graduated with distinction in British History and Literature from the Instituto Superior del Profesorado "Dr. Joaquín V. González" and was a lecturer in Contemporary British Literature in her alma mater institution for forty years (having gone through competition to obtain tenure in 1975). She has been a guest speaker at numerous educational centres in our country. She is the former Head of the English Department at the I.S.P."J. V. González" and former President of APIBA. At present she belongs to the team of Literature lecturers at the English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate Centre.
Lovers of reading with an advanced level of English.

- To share the joys of reading.
- To discuss the statements of an author (or a biographer) and to confront them with excerpts from their work.

The selected writers are:
- Virginia Woolf (connection with Victoria Ocampo).
- Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
- J. M. Coetzee.
Group discussion.
Bibliography to be consulted after the meeting if interested in further exploration.
- Bell, Quentin & Virginia Woolf 1882-1912 Triad / Paladin, 1976.
- Bell, Quentin & Virginia Woolf 1912-1941 Triad / Paladin, 1979.
- Coetzee, J. M. Boyhood Vintage, 1998.
- Coetzee, J. M. Youth Vintage, 2003.
- Summertime Harvill Secker, 2009.
- Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Crack-up. New Direcitons, 1945.
- Nicolson, N. Portrait of a Marriage. Futura Publications, 1986.
- Ocampo, V. "Virginia Woolf en su Diario" Revista Sur, Mayo 1982 (segunda edición).
- Woolf, V. The Diary of Virginia Woolf Vol 1 1915-19. Penguin, 1979.
- Woolf, V. The Diary of Virginia Woolf Vol 2 1920-24. Penguin, 1981.
- Woolf, V. Moments of Being. Triad / Panther, 1978.
- Woolf, V. A Writer's Diary. Triad / Granada, 1981.
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