COD 2011 - S240

A Streetcar Named Desire: the reader as director

IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English Literature in their curriculum.

2 sessions, start: 12-Apr

Course detail

Year: 2011
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Eugenio López Arriazu PhD
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ARS 160.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 12 April 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 pm
2 26 April 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Eugenio López Arriazu

Eugenio is a Ph. D. in Literature from UBA. He graduated from I. S. P. Joaquín V. González as a teacher of English as a Foreign Language, and from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA, as Licenciado en Letras and Profesor de Lengua y Literatura. He currently teaches American Literature and Slavic Literatures at the UBA. He has taught Introduction to Literature, American Literature, and English Literature I and II at several Teacher Training and Translator Training Institutions, as well as Literatures in English and Literary Theory at the Diplomatura Superior en Cs. del Lenguaje, I.S.P.J.V. González.
IGCSE Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce IGCSE English Literature in their curriculum.
- To provide IGCSE literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of drama.
- To provide them with strategies to facilitate students' access to those texts.
- To enhance critical thinking in both teachers and students.
The actor certainly being the critic of a character (as O. Wilde wisely put it), it follows that the director is the critic of the play. In order to flesh out characters and reconstruct setting and sound effects the reader must resort to his/her imagination; but to imagine rounded characters, the reader must also interpret their inner conflicts, the symbols that represent them and that they enact, as well as the themes that relate them to the other characters and the plot. However, the play cannot be staged yet; it still remains to get out of the character’s subjectivity and see their dramatic function and historical insertion. This seminar is designed to provide teachers with the historical and cultural background to the play, analyse the text and encourage debate and interpretations. In order to do so, some scenes of the Elia Kazan’s film version (starred by Marlon Brando) will be analysed so that readers can "stage" their own version.
Presentation of an integrated approach to the text covering both a historical and a literary background, as well as literary analysis and pedagogical considerations through debates, pair and group work, and video activities.
- Aristotle, Poetics, http://classics.mit.edu//Aristotle/poetics.html, provided by The Internet Classics Archive.
- Janson, H. W. (1991) History of Art. New Jersey: Prentice Hall.
- Kazan, Elia, A. Streetcar Named Desire, Warner Home Video © 1951 Charles K. Feldman Group Productions.
- Navarro, F. (1995) Historia del Arte. Barcelona: Salvat Editores, S.A.
- Sambrook, H. (2000) York Notes: A Streetcar Named Desire. London: York Press, Longman.
- Williams, T. (1959) A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: Penguin Books.
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