COD 2016 - S560

All My Sons by Arthur Miller for IGCSE 2016/2017

IGCSE Literature teachers and literature readers

1 sessions, start: 18-Mar

Course detail

Year: 2016
Level: Secondary
Language: English
Status: Ended
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Facilitator/s: Martha Patricia De Cunto
Print course
ESSARP Schools
ARS
Exams Schools
ARS
Non affiliate
ARS 300.00

Sessions

Sessions Dates Start Finish
1 18 March 2016 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.
IGCSE Literature teachers and literature readers
- Become acquainted with different interpretations of the play.
- 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 and pragmatic elements. Historical context. Key rhetorical figures in the text.
2) The American Dream.
3) Gender roles.
4) Tensions in the play: social responsibility vs. individual responsibility; idealism vs. practicality; past vs. present.
5) Cathartic moments.
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.
- Bloom, Harold (ed.) (2007) Arthur Miller Blooms Modern Critical Views. New York: Infobase Publishing

- Chaswal, Deepak. “Betrayal and Guilt in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons”. IUP Journal of English Studies , Sep 2011, Vol. 6 Issue 3, p7-20, 14p.

- Mishra, Raj Kumar. “Arthur Miller’s All My Sons in the Light of Aristotle’s Poetics”. IUP Journal of English Studies , Dec 2013, Vol. 8 Issue 4, p41-46, 6p.

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

- Werden, Leslie . “Memories of Yesterday and Tomorrow: Familial Legacies in Titus and All My Sons”. War, Literature & the Arts: An International Journal of the Humanities. 2007, Vol. 19 Issue 1/2, p68-84. 17p.

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