Reading Contemporary British Literature
YEAR 2014-2015
Group 301
GRACE NOTES
By Bernard MacLaverty
Task 1
Step 3, pp. 56 – 83
YEAR 2014-2015
Group 301
GRACE NOTES
By Bernard MacLaverty
Step 3, pp. 56 – 83
How would the character answer the following question? How does it
characterize her? Write the answer as if you were
the character herself.
(p.59) - What
was the point? What was the point in going on if every waking was to be this plunge
into panic? ......
As an Introduction.....
Why did I decide on this Project for our final discussion?
While reading the book our eye can't but be caught by an abundance of metaphors B.Maclaverty employs in his novel, metaphors which keep his ideas"under disguise" and make the reader think over the character and the situations - WHY does the author say it like this?.. WHAT does he want to say?.. why does he make us think about THIS?.. and in THIS very way?..
Some metaphorical images are quite clear, others make us think longer, some - in our case - demanded general discussions to share ideas which only then helped come to certain conclusions.
But that was an enjoyable metaphor-untangling experience!!!!
TASK SETTING
Every student is to choose a metaphor he/she likes most of all and introduce it to the class and explain it in the most understandable way. Imagine that you are a linguistic professor reading a lecture on metaphors. How would you make your students involved, how would you make them understand what Metaphor is, how it functions, what it implies in this very context and why?!!!!!
Brief report:
https://www.facebook.com/facultyforeignlanguages/posts/829112900475523
One of the students' Presentations - by Marina Ulyanitskaya and Julia Stetsenko.
OUR FINAL DISCUSSION
Our Literature and Linguistic afternoon session "My favourite "Grace Notes" Metaphor"As an Introduction.....
Why did I decide on this Project for our final discussion?
While reading the book our eye can't but be caught by an abundance of metaphors B.Maclaverty employs in his novel, metaphors which keep his ideas"under disguise" and make the reader think over the character and the situations - WHY does the author say it like this?.. WHAT does he want to say?.. why does he make us think about THIS?.. and in THIS very way?..
Some metaphorical images are quite clear, others make us think longer, some - in our case - demanded general discussions to share ideas which only then helped come to certain conclusions.
But that was an enjoyable metaphor-untangling experience!!!!
TASK SETTING
Every student is to choose a metaphor he/she likes most of all and introduce it to the class and explain it in the most understandable way. Imagine that you are a linguistic professor reading a lecture on metaphors. How would you make your students involved, how would you make them understand what Metaphor is, how it functions, what it implies in this very context and why?!!!!!
Brief report:
https://www.facebook.com/facultyforeignlanguages/posts/829112900475523
One of the students' Presentations - by Marina Ulyanitskaya and Julia Stetsenko.
