COD 2014 - S492

"Love and Marriage in As You Like It"

Teachers and Literature lovers

1 sesiones, inicia: 12-Abr

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Ciclo: 2014
Nivel: Secundaria
Idioma: Inglés
Estado: Pospuesto
Lugar: ESSARP - Deheza 3139, CABA
Capacitador/es: Ms. Ailen Geraghty
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1 12 Abril 2014 09:00 am 12:00 pm

Capacitador/es

Ailen Geraghty

Ailen Geraghty is a graduate English teacher from I.E.S Lenguas Vivas “Juan Ramón Fernández”, where she has done her specialisation in the Literature Seminar "Shakespeare and Feminism". She is currently doing her Master in Foreign Language Literatures and Comparative Literatures in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA. She has worked in the teaching of English at primary and secondary school levels.
Teachers and Literature lovers
- To propose a postmodern/feminist reading of the play and demonstrate how this can be relevant to teenagers.
- To promote reading as a complex interaction between the writer, the text and the reader in which the gender of the reader is not necessarily irrelevant.

- To suggest activities for the classroom.
- Introduction to Postmodern and Feminist Criticism (applied to Literature).
- Implications of a Postmodern/Feminist reading of Shakespeare and its relevance in class.
- Lovesickness and the misogyny cure.
- Circulations of desire and anxiety
- To analyse the concept of love, female relationships (Rosalind and Celia’s), jealousy and the mandates of marriage in the play.
- To explore the notion of happy ending.
- Forest of Arden- its symbolism
- Cross-dressing and its implications – the symbol of Ganymede
- Socioeconomic dependence of women.
- Female loyalty.
- The ventriloquism of patriarchal discourse.
1) Presentation and discussion of how to approach a postmodernist reading of Shakespeare 2) Guided group reflection and exchange of ideas on the main themes and issues raised by the text. 3) Reading of key extracts in the play and reflection on how they mean. 4) Discussion on how to bring to class what has been analysed in the course.
Neely, C.T. (2004) Distracted Subjects: Madness and Gender in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture. New York: Cornell University.
Traub, V. The (In)Significance of Lesbian Desire in Early Modern England in Goldberg, J. (1993) Queering the Renaissance. Durham: Duke University Press.
Traub, V. (1992) Desire and Axiety: Circulations of Sexuality in Shakespearean Drama. London: Routledge.
Tvordi, J. Female Alliance and the Construction of Homoeroticism in As You Like It and Twelfth Night in Frye, S. and Robertson, K.(1999) Maids and Mistresses, Cousins and Queens: Women's Alliances in Early Modern England. New York:Oxford University Press.
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