COD 2013 - G697

Life and Times of J. M. Coetzee

Literature Teachers and literature lovers. Note: previous reading is necessary.

1 sesiones, inicia: 23-Mar

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Ciclo: 2013
Nivel: General
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Terminado
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. Flavia Daniela Pittella
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1 23 Marzo 2013 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Capacitador/es

Flavia Daniela Pittella

Ms. Flavia Pittella graduated from the University of La Plata as a Teacher of English Language and Literature. She is also Lic. in Ciencias Sociales, FLACSO, with special mention in Reading, Writing and Education. She has participated in international academic conferences and has published articles in different magazines. She holds several Postgraduate courses in literature and language teaching. For the past 20 years, she has taught ESL classrooms and ESL examinations for the IGCSE/AS Language and Literature. She has been a Reading group facilitator for over nine years. She is a cultural journalist at Radio Mitre and several other media. She has published "40 libros que adoro y no podes dejar de leer". Planeta, 2014. She writes regularly for Infobae Cultura. She is the director of “El tercer lugar: espacio cultural”.
Literature Teachers and literature lovers. Note: previous reading is necessary.
J .M. Coetzee is among the most widely read contemporary authors. Having won the Booker Prize twice, the Nobel of Literature in 2003 and almost all literature prizes and Mentions around the world, he is also a subject of study at Universities and enjoys a community of faithfull readers around the globe. He visited Argentina last year for the FILBA and will be probably visiting us again this year in the Buenos Aires International Book Fair. It is the aim of this course to introduce readers to Coetzee's work and create enthusiasm in those readers who are still wondering what makes this writer such an exceptional character.
Coetzee and the politics of writing: political and social commitment.
- Coetzee and women. Women characters and feminine issues in his work.
- Coetzee talks about Coetzee: the fictional autobiographies.
-Coetzee et al: his essays, letters and speeches.
We will read and share excerpts from a varietey Coetzee’s work and the facilitator will try to map the characteristics that make his writing so outstanding.
Novels
In the Heart of the Country (1977)
Waiting for the Barbarians (1980)
Life & Times of Michael K (1983)
Foe (1986)
Age of Iron (1990)
Disgrace (1999)
Elizabeth Costello (2003)
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life (1997)
Youth: Scenes from Provincial Life II (2002)
Summertime (2009)
Non-fiction
J.M. Coetzee, Inner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
David Attwell (ed.) (1993) J.M. Coetzee and the Politics of Writing. California: The University of Califoria Press
J.M. Coetzee (1992) Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews. Harvard, Harvard University Press
J.M. Coetze and Paul Auster: (2013) Here and Now: Letters, 2008–2011


No previous reading is neccesary
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