COD 2014 - G734

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Revisiting Sylvia Plath

Language and Literature teachers interested in reading and analyzing a selection of poems by confessional poet Sylvia Plath

1 sessions, start: 09-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2014
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Martha Patricia De Cunto
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ARS 150.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 09 August 2014 09:00 am 12:00 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.
Language and Literature teachers interested in reading and analyzing a selection of poems by confessional poet Sylvia Plath
- Analyze the poems from a feminist perspective.
- Explore what the poems mean and how.
- Explore voice and point of view.
1) Key rhetorical figures.
2) Main themes: subjectivity and identity construction; representations of men and women, family relationships, etc.
3) Modernist features of the poems.
A student-centered pedagogy. Participants will be required to do close reading of the poems collaboratively.
- Bloom, Harold (ed.) (1989) Modern Critical Views: Sylvia Plath. New York and Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers.
- Gill, Jo (ed.) (2008) The Cambridge Introduction to Sylvia Plath. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press
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