COD 2012 - G650

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfasts: Reading Minimalist Fiction

All lovers of literature reading.

1 sessions, start: 08-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2012
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Daniel Ferreyra Fernández
Print course
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Non affiliate
ARS 100.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 08 September 2012 10:00 am 12:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Daniel Ferreyra Fernández

Daniel Ferreyra Fernández graduated from ISP “Dr. Joaquín V. González” as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language in 1998. He specialized in Contemporary Literature at ISP “Dr. Joaquín V. González” (1999 – 2005). Since 2001, he has been teaching courses and workshops on Contemporary Literature at “Asociación Argentina de Cultura Inglesa” (AACI) and at the British Art Centre (BAC). He currently teaches English Language IV at IES en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, ENS en Lenguas Vivas “Sofía B. de Spangenberg” and at ISP “Dr. Joaquín V. González”. He also teaches IGCSE Literature and English B (International Baccalaureate) courses at Colegio Palermo Chico. From 2016 to 2018 he was the Vice Dean at IES en Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, where he is currently the Head of the English Department at the Teacher Training college. He has been a facilitator at ESSARP since 2012.
All lovers of literature reading.
- To share the joys of reading Minimalist Fiction through the works of some of its most representative writers.
- To discuss and exchange ideas on the short stories.
- To build strategies that will enable the participants to take an active role in the creation of the meaning of minimalist texts, in which typically "the unsaid" prevails.
In "The text says what it does not say", Pierre Macherey claims that "silence (in a book) may be the source of expression". This idea is key to our understanding of Minimalism as a literary style. Minimalism can be traced back to the 1960s and 1970s in the works of writers like Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Anne Beattie, and Charles Bukowsky among others. It is characterized by an economy with words and a focus on surface description: the reader is thus compelled to read the silences between the words and to unearth a second, ciphered story that lies beneath an apparently uneventful surface story.
- Presentation of an integrated approach to the texts and to Minimalist Fiction.
- Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the texts.
- Reading of key sections of the short stories to raise awareness of the underlying stories encoded within the text and the techniques employed by the writers.
- Barnes, Julian. "Marriage Lines" from Pulse (2011), London: Jonathan Cape.
- Carver, Raymond. "Cathedral" from Cathedral (1983), New York: Knopf.
- Cheever, John. "Reunion" from Sudden Fiction: American short-short stories (1986), Gibbs Smith: Utah.
- Hemingway, Ernest. "Cat in the Rain" from In Our Time (1925), Boni and Liveright: New York.
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