COD 2010 - S340
An Integrated Approach to Jane Eyre (AS 2010/2011)
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: 13-Aug
The course chosen does not allow any new enrolment
Course detail
Year: 2010
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Paula D'Alessandro, Ms. Carla Valeria Horton
ESSARP Schools
ARS
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 130.00
ARS 130.00
Sessions
| Sessions | Dates | Start | Finish |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 August 2010 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
| 2 | 27 August 2010 | 05:30 pm | 08:30 pm |
Facilitator/s
Paula D'Alessandro
Carla Valeria Horton
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 A level/AS level literature teachers with useful tools for the analysis of literary texts.
• to provide them with strategies to facilitate students’ access to those texts.
• to enhance critical thinking in both teachers and students.
• to provide them with strategies to facilitate students’ access to those texts.
• to enhance critical thinking in both teachers and students.
Historical focus
From traditional to industrial society: a new place for women? Victorian society and the rise of ‘working women’. The process of modernization and its impact on traditional values.
Literary focus
Background: the rise of the novel. The origins of gothicism as female genre. The plight of the Victorian woman, in real life and in literature.
Jane Eyre: Character, setting and plot analysis. Prominent devices. The use of imagery and symbolism as narrative strategies. The intrusive narrator. The role of coincidence. Gothic elements and their appeal to the contemporary reader. The figure of the Byronic hero. Jane Eyre as heroine. The novel from the perspective of Gender Studies.
From traditional to industrial society: a new place for women? Victorian society and the rise of ‘working women’. The process of modernization and its impact on traditional values.
Literary focus
Background: the rise of the novel. The origins of gothicism as female genre. The plight of the Victorian woman, in real life and in literature.
Jane Eyre: Character, setting and plot analysis. Prominent devices. The use of imagery and symbolism as narrative strategies. The intrusive narrator. The role of coincidence. Gothic elements and their appeal to the contemporary reader. The figure of the Byronic hero. Jane Eyre as heroine. The novel from the perspective of Gender Studies.
Presentation of an integrated approach to the text between a historical and a literary background through oral presentations, debates, pair work and group work activities. Suggestions for the classroom.
Bronte, Charlotte: Jane Eyre. Signet Classics, U.S.A.
Bloom, Harold: The Brontës. Chelsea House, U.S.A
Ford, Boris (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’. Middlesex: Penguin Books
Hardy, Barbara: Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction. Methuen & Co. Ltd., Great Britain, 1985.
Hosbawn, Eric: La Era de la Revolución 1789-1848. Buenos Aires: Crítica, 1987.
Hosbawn, Eric: The Age of Capital, 1848-1875. London: Abacus, 1993.
Pool, Daniel: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. Touchstone Books, U.S.A., 1993.
Romero, José Luis: Estudio de la mentalidad burguesa. Buenos Aires: Alianza, 1987.
Stone, Lawrence: The Family, Sex, and marriage in England - 1500-1800. London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1979.
Bloom, Harold: The Brontës. Chelsea House, U.S.A
Ford, Boris (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’. Middlesex: Penguin Books
Hardy, Barbara: Forms of Feeling in Victorian Fiction. Methuen & Co. Ltd., Great Britain, 1985.
Hosbawn, Eric: La Era de la Revolución 1789-1848. Buenos Aires: Crítica, 1987.
Hosbawn, Eric: The Age of Capital, 1848-1875. London: Abacus, 1993.
Pool, Daniel: What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew. Touchstone Books, U.S.A., 1993.
Romero, José Luis: Estudio de la mentalidad burguesa. Buenos Aires: Alianza, 1987.
Stone, Lawrence: The Family, Sex, and marriage in England - 1500-1800. London: Penguin Books Ltd., 1979.