COD 2018 - G941

Cultural Programme - Reading Breakfast: Reading Ali Smith's "Autumn"

All literature lovers

1 sessions, start: 09-Jun

Course detail

Year: 2018
Level: General
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Mr. Daniel Ferreyra Fernández
Print course
ESSARP Schools
Free of charge
Exams Schools
ARS 500.00
Non affiliate
ARS 500.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 09 June 2018 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 fiction.
- To discuss and exchange ideas on one of Ali Smith’s most acclaimed novels, her narrative techniques, her recurrent themes and her fictional universe.
- To build strategies that will enable the participants to take an active role in the creation of the meaning of the novel.
Set in post-Brexit Britain, Ali Smith’s Autumn revolves around the close bond between Elisabeth Demand, a young college student, and Mr. Gluck, a 101-year-old man living in a care home. Mr. Gluck was inspirational to Elisabeth in her younger years through his descriptions of the collages of pop artist Pauline Boty. The plot largely alternates between Daniel's prolonged dreams and Elisabeth's recollections of the origins of their friendship and its repercussions. As an intertextual and “intergeneric” novel, Autumn offers an insightful examination of the nature of art and representation, the uniqueness and preciousness of mortal lives and the possibility of true human connection.
- Presentation of an integrated approach to the text.
- Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the text.
- Reading of key sections of the novel to appreciate its narrative power.
Ali Smith’s Autumn (2016).
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