COD 2015 - S543

"The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman for AS Level

AS Literature teachers and Literature lovers

1 sessions, start: 08-May

Course detail

Year: 2015
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Martha Patricia De Cunto
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ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 200.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 08 May 2015 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.
AS Literature teachers and Literature lovers
- Become acquainted with different interpretations of the story.
- Discuss main themes and the use of stylistic devices for the creation of meaning.
- Explore key passages through the use of close reading.
1) Characters and characterization, conflict, themes, symbols, point of view, tone, atmosphere, use of time. Historical context. Key rhetorical figures in the text.
2) Traditional, feminist and psychoanalytic readings of the story.
3) The cult of domesticity, feminist architecture, the different conceptions and treatments of madness, story as literature of protest, the search for agency.
4) Tensions in the story between patriarchal discourses and feminist discourses.
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.
- Allen, P. W. (1988) Building Domestic Liberty. Charlotte Gilman´s Architectural Feminism. Armhest: The University of Massachusetts Press.

- MacPike L. (1975) ‘Environment as Psychopathological Symbolism in "The Yellow Wallpaper"’ in American Literary Realism, 1870-1910, Vol. 8, No. 3. pp. 286-288 University of Illinois. www.jstor.org/stable/27747980. Accessed: 18/02/2015 12:11

- Moi, Toril (1985) Sexual/Textual Politics: Feminist Literary Theory. London: Routledge

- Treichler, P.A (1984) ‘Diagnosis and Discourse in "The Yellow Wallpaper"’in Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, Vol. 3, No. 1/2, Feminist Issues in Literary Scholarship pp. 61-77. University of Tulsa. www.jstor.org/stable/463825 . Accessed: 18/02/2015 12:09

- Wright, E. (1984) Psychoanalytic Criticism. Theory in Practice. Methuen
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