COD 2013 - G685

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: "Reading Raymond Carver"

All lovers of reading Literature.

1 sessions, start: 03-Aug

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 03 August 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 fiction through the works of one of the most important contemporary American 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 what is not said prevails.
Raymond Carver has often been described as the writer of the American Dream gone sour: his characters are usually lower-middle class men and women who drink heavily, watch too much television and are isolated and marginalized. Nevertheless, this does not mean that they lack depth or insight: on the contrary, Carver's stories show them struggling against their constraining circumstances and glimpsing, however briefly, at another, better life.
Carver described himself as being "inclined toward brevity and intensity", and his writing as fiction that can be "written and read in one sitting". Far from being the result of flawed writing, the silences in his works are in fact the very source of meaning and expression.
- 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 Raymond Carver.
Short stories by Raymond Carver:

- "Popular Mechanics", from Sudden Fiction: American short-short stories (1986). Gibbs Smith: Utah.
- "Feathers", from Cathedral (1989), Vintage: New York.
- "Chef's House", from Cathedral (1989), Vintage: New York
- "Where I'm Calling From", from Where I'm Calling From (1988), Vintage: New York.
- "Cathedral", from Cathedral (1989), Vintage: New York.
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