COD 2012 - S429

Working with Comics: Maus by Art Spiegelman Part 1

Language and Literature teachers interested in reading and analyzing the autobiographical novel about a Holocaust survivor.

1 sessions, start: 03-Aug

Course detail

Year: 2012
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Postponed
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Martha Patricia De Cunto
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
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Non affiliate
ARS 100.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 03 August 2012 05:30 pm 08:30 pm

Facilitator/s

Martha Patricia De Cunto

She holds a Master of Arts in Literary Linguistics from the University of Nottingham, UK and is currently doing a PhD in Literature at the University of Buenos Aires. She is also pursuing a Master's Degree in Cultural Studies at UNR. She has been a lecturer in American Literature, Children's Literature, YAL Literature and Introduction to Literary Studies at I.E.S. Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernández". She has also taught Creative Writing at ISP “Joaquín V. González”. She has been a teacher of Language and Literature in several schools in Buenos Aires for more than 30 years.
Language and Literature teachers interested in reading and analyzing the autobiographical novel about a Holocaust survivor.
- Analyze words and pictures in the comics and the collaboration between them.
- Explore use of time and transition techniques to signal fictional present and past.
- Explore voice and point of view.
- Explore key extracts of the text.
1) Characters and characterization, conflict, themes, symbols, point of view, tone, atmosphere, use of time. Historical context. Key rhetorical figures in the text.
2) Main themes: survival and identity; relationship between father and son; the way the past affects the present, etc.
3) The use of animals as characters.
The facilitator will present the topics. Participants will be required to work on extracts to explore key moments in the novel and discuss how meaning is produced through close analysis of language and pictures.

Note: Participants are expected to read the graphic novel for the workshop.
- Duncan, R. and Smith, M. (2009) The Power of Comics. History, Form, and Culture. New York: The Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.

- Heffernan, J. (2006) Cultivating Picturacy Visual Art and Verbal Interventions Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press.

- Mclaughlin, J. (ed.) (2005) Comics as Philosophy. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi.

- Petersen, R. (2001) Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels. AHistory of Graphic Narratives. US: Praeger.

- Saraceni, M. (2003) The Language of Comics. London: Routledge.
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