COD 2011 - S350

Wuthering Heights: A Journey into the Wild

Teachers preparing students for IGCSE (2011 – 0212 – 2013) and Literature lovers.

1 sessions, start: 20-May

Course detail

Year: 2011
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Ms. Mónica Beatriz Cuello
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 80.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 20 May 2011 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Mónica Beatriz Cuello

Mónica Cuello, graduate teacher of English from ISP “Pbro. Dr. A. M. Saenz”, Licenciada en Inglés from Universidad Nacional del Litoral, belongs to the team of Literature lecturers at the English Speaking Scholastic Association of the River Plate Centre. She has been a lecturer of Literatura Inglesa II at Universidad Nacional del Litoral and has taught IGCSE and IB literature at secondary schools. At present she teaches Language and Written Expression I and Language and Culture IV at ISP Saenz. She is also a tutor of English Language III and IV and Literatura de los Países de Habla Inglesa I and II at the Universidad Nacional de Lanús.
Teachers preparing students for IGCSE (2011 – 0212 – 2013) and Literature lovers.
To encourage and develop students' ability to:
- Enjoy the experience of reading literature;
- Understand and respond to the text from different points of view.
- Communicate an informed personal response appropriately and effectively;
- Appreciate the different frames of narration.
- Experience the novel's passion through focusing their attention on the language;
- Explore the main and secondary characters of the text and the relationships established among them.
The novel will be approached from two perspectives. First, the structure will be analysed considering the discussion of the "window image" proposed by Dorothy Van Ghent and the frames discussed by J. T. Matthews. Then the uncanny elements (in the Freudian sense of the term) which make up the text will be presented. These elements, namely the wind, the moor, death, ghosts, identity, produce an unsettling effect on the reader, make the novel an open text and encourage multiple interpretations.
The participants will be listen to Kate Bush's (1977) Wuthering Heights, they will be invited to explore the dichotomies the song presents as a way to introduce their students to the novel. Then the facilitator will discuss the text considering the different frames and will invite the participants to explore the text looking for examples. Next, the term "uncanny" will be introduced and the participants will be asked to consider and analyse the various uncanny elements the novel provides us with. Finally the facilitator will show some scenes from MTV's film Wuthering Heights and will invite the participants to use Mike Vogel's (2003) song I will crumble from the film to discuss the complex relationship Catherine and Heathcliff have.
- Allott, M. (ed.) (1973) Emily Brontë:Wuthering Heights. A casebook. London: Macmillan Press Ltd.
- Gilbert, S. and Gubar, S. (2000) The Madwoman in the Attic. The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century Literary Imagination. New Haven and London: Yale Nota Bene, Yale University Press.
- Van Ghent D. (1953) The English Novel.Form and Function. New York: Harper and Row.

Filmography:

Wuthering Heights (2003), directed by Suri Krishnamma. An MTV production.
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