COD 2013 - G683

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfasts: "Reading Silences"

All lovers of reading Literature.

1 sessions, start: 01-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2013
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Daniel Ferreyra Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
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Non affiliate
ARS 125.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 01 June 2013 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 reading Literature.
-To share the joys of reading contemporary 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 texts in which typically silences prevail.
In Six Walks in the Fictional Woods (1994), Umberto Eco argues that texts are lazy machines that need the reader to do some of their work. His contention is that if texts were to say everything the reader is to understand, they would never end. Many contemporary writers base their works on the premise that what is suggested is much more relevant than what is overtly stated. This compels the reader of contemporary fiction to explore the spaces between the words, the silences in the texts, rather than simply read the words themselves. Writers like Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Kazuo Ishiguro, among others, cultivate this suggestiveness and invite the reader to unearth those texts that lie below the surface story.
-Presentation of an integrated approach to the texts.
-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.
• Coetzee, John Maxwell. “Make Him Sing”, from “Granta” (1997), London: Sigrid Rausing.
• Hemingway, Ernest. “A Clean, Well Lighted Place”, from Winner Take Nothing (1933), New York: Scribner’s.
• Ishiguro, Kazuo. “A Family Supper”, from Twentieth Century Fiction (1982), London: Penguin.
• Paley, Grace. “Mother”, from Sudden Fiction: American short-short stories (1986), Gibbs Smith: Utah.
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