COD 2022 - D479

Webinar - "Space, place and subjectivity" in Stories of Ourselves: The University of Cambridge International Examinations Anthology of Short Stories in English (set readings for AS 2022/2023)

AS Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective

4 sesiones, inicia: 16-May

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Ciclo: 2022
Nivel: A Distancia
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: A Distancia
Capacitador/es: Ms. Florencia Perduca MA
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Sesiones Fechas Inicia Termina
1 16 Mayo 2022 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
2 23 Mayo 2022 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
3 30 Mayo 2022 05:30 pm 07:30 pm
4 06 Junio 2022 05:30 pm 07:30 pm

Capacitador/es

Florencia Perduca

Florencia Perduca, Graduate Teacher of English and Literary Translator from I. E. S en Lenguas Vivas "J. R. Fernández", MA in Literary Linguistics (University of
Nottingham), is an ESSARP course coordinator specialised in Literatures in Englishes, Literary Linguistic Analysis and Postcolonial Theory. She teaches Literature in English at I.E.S. en Lenguas Vivas "Juan Ramón Fernandez", Cultural Studies at ENS en Lenguas Vivas "Sofía E. Broquen de Spangenberg", Postcolonial Literature at Licenciatura en Lengua Inglesa, Universidad Nacional del Litoral. She teaches IGCSE English Language and Literature. She is Head of Senior School at St. Catherine's Moorlands School, Sede Belgrano.
AS Literature and Language teachers interested in working with both canonical and non-canonical texts from a literary linguistic perspective
- To promote a context-based approach to the reading of texts which lend themselves to exploring Literatures in Englishes.
- To look for and build strategies to raise teachers and students’ awareness of specific cultures and their worlds of meaning.
Contents: Set readings from the Anthology Stories of Ourselves for AS 2022 & 2023.

Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English,
Volume 2 (ISBN 9781108436199)

Paper 2, Section A Prose: Set Texts:

1. Ambrose Bierce’s “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
2. Thomas Hardy’s “The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion”
3. Edith Wharton’s “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell”
4. Saki’s (Hector Hugh Munro) “Gabriel-Ernest”
5. Katherine Mansfield’s “The Doll’s House”
6. M R James’s “A Warning to the Curious”
7. Sherwood Anderson’s “Death in the Woods”
8. Ralph Ellison’s “The Black Ball”
9. Philip K Dick’s “Stability”
10. Marghanita Laski’s “The Tower”
11. Penelope Fitzgerald’s “The Axe”
12. Margaret Atwood’s “When It Happens”
13. Ovo Adagha’s “The Plantation”
14. Aminatta Forna’s “Haywards Heath”
15. Ken Liu’s “The Paper Menagerie”





 Central themes (the present and the past; displacement; individual vs. society) and thematic threads (the motif of ‘home’ as resignifying individual/collective identity) cutting all stories across.
 Narrative structure of the short stories.
 Symbols and motifs.
 Cultural gaps.
Methodology: 1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach texts from a literary linguistic perspective. 2) Each story’s/writer’s background and culture 3) Signs of identity in a text written in English 4) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text. 5) Reading of key extracts in the short stories and reflection on how they mean.
1) ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, TIFFIN (1989) The Empire Writes Back, London: Routledge.
2) ASHCROFT, GRIFFITHS, TIFFIN (1995) The Post- Colonial Reader, London: Routledge.
3) BOEHMER, E. (1995) Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
4) CAMBRIDGE ASSESSMENT INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION (2020). Stories of Ourselves: The Cambridge Assessment International Education Anthology of Stories in English, Volume 2 (ISBN 9781108436199).
5) GRADDOL, D. (1997) The Future of English? London: The British Council.
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