COD 2010 - S339
Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge (AS 2010)
A Level/AS level Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce A Level Literature/AS Level Language and Literature in English in their curriculum.
2
sessions, start: 11-Jun
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2010
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Paula D'Alessandro
ESSARP Schools
ARS
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 126.00
ARS 126.00
Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 June 2010 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
| 2 | 25 June 2010 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Paula D'Alessandro
A Level/AS level Literature teachers; teachers/schools who wish to introduce A Level Literature/AS Level Language and Literature in English in their curriculum.
- To provide Literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of literary texts.
- To make it possible for teachers to understand the historical, literary and social background to the text, both at the moment of its composition and the moment of its setting in time.
- To provide them with strategies to facilitate students' access to those texts through textual intervention.
- To enhance critical thinking in both teachers and students.
- To make it possible for teachers to understand the historical, literary and social background to the text, both at the moment of its composition and the moment of its setting in time.
- To provide them with strategies to facilitate students' access to those texts through textual intervention.
- To enhance critical thinking in both teachers and students.
- Background: Thomas Hardy as transitional writer. The changing environment: city and countryside. Changing interests and values. Architecture and literature in Hardy. Social conditions in Dorset. Hardy and agnosticism. Pessimism. Social Darwinism. The Victorian reading public. Hardy’s influence on 21st century literature.
- The Mayor of Casterbridge: The novel as tragedy. The Hardy hero and his predicament. Character and fate. Realism and naturalism. Character, setting and plot analysis. Prominent devices. The use of imagery and symbolism as narrative strategies. A sociological approach to The Mayor of Casterbridge.
- The Mayor of Casterbridge: The novel as tragedy. The Hardy hero and his predicament. Character and fate. Realism and naturalism. Character, setting and plot analysis. Prominent devices. The use of imagery and symbolism as narrative strategies. A sociological approach to The Mayor of Casterbridge.
Presentation of an integrated approach to the text covering a literary background as well as literary analysis and pedagogical considerations through presentations, debates, pair work and group work activities. Suggestions for the classroom.
- Draper, R. (ed) (1975). Hardy: The Tragic Novels. The Macmillan Press Ltd. Hong Kong.
- Ford, B. (ed.) (1954) The Pelican Guide to English Literature : Volume 6: From Dickens to Hardy – Part 1: "Notes on the Victorian Scene"; Part 2: "The Literary Scene"; "The changing environment: city and countryside" (p. 418-432). Middlesex: Penguin Books.
- Hardy, B. (1985) Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction. Suffolk: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
- Pope, R. (1995) Textual Intervention. New York: Routledge.
- Stone, L. (1979) The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England - 1500-1800. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
- Williams, M. (1976) A Preface to Hardy. New York: Longman Group Ltd.
- Ford, B. (ed.) (1954) The Pelican Guide to English Literature : Volume 6: From Dickens to Hardy – Part 1: "Notes on the Victorian Scene"; Part 2: "The Literary Scene"; "The changing environment: city and countryside" (p. 418-432). Middlesex: Penguin Books.
- Hardy, B. (1985) Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction. Suffolk: Methuen & Co. Ltd.
- Pope, R. (1995) Textual Intervention. New York: Routledge.
- Stone, L. (1979) The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England - 1500-1800. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
- Williams, M. (1976) A Preface to Hardy. New York: Longman Group Ltd.