COD 2015 - G782

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Ian Macabre: revisiting Ian McEwan's early fiction

All literature lovers

1 sessions, start: 05-Sep

Course detail

Year: 2015
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Daniel Ferreyra Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 05 September 2015 09:00 am 12:00 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 literature lovers
- To share the joys of reading Ian McEwan’s early fiction.
- To discuss and exchange ideas on some of McEwan’s short stories.
- To build strategies that will enable the participants to take an active role in the creation of the meaning of texts.
For Ian McEwan, his first two collections of short stories (First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets) were "a kind of laboratory" that allowed him to discover himself as a writer. In this early fiction, McEwan explored violence, obsession, and devastating loss, which earned him the nickname "Ian Macabre". However, the term "macabre" does not fully grasp the complexity of McEwan’s probe into the human psyche through literature. His short stories reveal a painful preoccupation with the blurry divide between childhood and adulthood, the fantasies of adolescents, the fragility of human bonds in an unforgiving and barren world, and the need for the comfort of others. Through invention, humour, irony and satirical parody, his narrative offers us a peek into an underworld of marginal and broken people, but it also opens up windows into a reality that is simultaneously alien and familiar, beautiful and disquieting.
- 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 appreciate Ian McEwan’s mesmerizing narrative power.
A selection of short stories from Ian McEwan’s First Love, Last Rites and In Between the Sheets.
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