Course on Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend

The deadline for registering to our UCC Adult Continuing Education - ACE evening course on Elena Ferrante has been extended and it will be possibile to do that until tomorrow (24th of January) at this link:

https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/courses/shortcourses/sc0154/

You can register for our UCC Adult Continuing Education - ACE evening course on Elena Ferrante until next Monday.
Here's the link:
https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/courses/shortcourses/sc0154/

Last few days to register for our UCC Adult Continuing Education - ACE course on Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend.
You can do it here:
https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/courses/shortcourses/sc0154/

We will talk about anonymity, female friendship, violence, mythology, love, organised crime, Naples, motherhood and writing in Ferrante's novels.

The course is designed both for students who have read My Brilliant Friend and for those who would like to start reading the books with a deeper awareness of Ferrante’s poetics.

Enigmatic and Mysterious Literary Genius Elena Ferrante | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

Did you like My Brilliant Friend TV Series?
HBO announced an upcoming Season 2 for next year.
In the meanwhile, our UCC Adult Continuing Education - ACE evening course can give you all the information needed to better understand the novels and the TV series.
You can register here
https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/courses/shortcourses/sc0154/

'My Brilliant Friend' to Return for Season 2 on HBO Based on Elena Ferrante's 'The Story of a New Name.'

Our course on Elena Ferrante's MyBrilliant Friend will be proposed another time within UCC Adult Continuing Education - ACE.

For all those who missed the opportunity last autumn and for those who got interested in Ferrante through the brand new HBO tv series, you can register until the 18th of January at the following link: https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/courses/shortcourses/sc0154/

The course will start on the 31 of January 2019 and will continue every Thursday (7-9) for 10 weeks.

Enigmatic and Mysterious Literary Genius Elena Ferrante | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

Registration for our course on Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend will remain open until next Wednesday.

You can apply here:

Enigmatic and mysterious literary genius Elena Ferrante and her : My Brilliant Friend | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

Last day to apply for our course on Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend.

To apply, please visit the following UCC Adult Continuing Education - ACE webpage:

Enigmatic and mysterious literary genius Elena Ferrante and her : My Brilliant Friend | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

Deadline for registering to our evening course on Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend is this Friday (21st of September).

You can apply through the following UCC Adult Continuing Education - ACE webpage:

Enigmatic and mysterious literary genius Elena Ferrante and her : My Brilliant Friend | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

Only ten days left to register for our course on Elena Ferrante's My Brilliant Friend.

In class, we will discuss the story of Elena and Lila through the analysis of selected excerpts. Moreover, we will disentangle Ferrante’s popular thus complex narrative through references to the socio-historical Italian context in which the quartet is settled, as well as through a comparison with Ferrante’s previous works (Troubling Love, The Days of Abandonment and The Lost Daughter) and other Italian novels. The course is designed both for students who have read My Brilliant Friend and for those who would like to start reading the books with a deeper awareness of Ferrante’s poetics.

To apply, please click on the link below

Enigmatic and mysterious literary genius Elena Ferrante and her : My Brilliant Friend | University College Cork Learn, Study and Research in UCC, Ireland's first 5 star university. Our tradition of independent thinking will prepare you for the world and the workplace in a vibrant, modern, green campus.

Official trailer of the tv series based on My Brilliant Friend in now out.
The course will be an opportunity to watch and discuss this as well.

You can apply here on UCC Adult Continuing Education - ACE website before the 21st of September:
https://www.ucc.ie/en/ace/courses/shortcourses/sc0154/

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Last Saturday, on her weekend column for The Guardian, Elena Ferrante wrote about motherhood, one of the crucial topics of her novels:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/aug/25/elena-ferrante-one-morning-i-looked-at-myself-in-the-mirror-and-recognised-my-mother.

We will dedicate to the topic of motherhood in Elena Ferrante a class of the course. This is the entire syllabus:

Week 1 - Anonymity and Authorship: During the first introductory class the figure of the writer Elena Ferrante will be presented. We will discuss their choice of anonymity and their peculiar idea of authorship making specific reference to Ferrante’s letters and interviews.

Week 2 – Female Friendship: The analysis of “My Brilliant Friend” will start, during the second week, with a focus on the core theme of the friendship between Elena and Lila. We will make comparisons with other novels centred on the topic of female friendship, a relatively rare theme in Western literary production.

Week 3 – Naples and the City: The class will be dedicated to the relationship of the novels’ protagonists with the space of the city where most of the story is settled, Naples. References to other Neapolitan women writers such as Anna Maria Ortese and Fabrizia Ramondino will be made.

Week 4 – Mythology: The story of Partenope (the Siren who, according to local mythology, founded Naples) will be presented in order to discuss Ferrante’s re-writing of the myth.

Week 5 – Violence: We will analyse the different forms of violence (gender-based violence, political violence, cultural violence) represented in “My Brilliant Friend” with the aim to understand the role they play in the Italian and Neapolitan context mirrored in the novel.

Week 6 – Organised Crime: The class will consist in an overview on the issue of organised crime in Italy and, specifically, on the Neapolitan phenomenon of Camorra. This will offer a broader contextualisation of Ferrante’s work and will allow a comparison with other contemporary Italian cultural productions on the topic, such as the novel and tv series Gomorrah, both written by Roberto Saviano.

Week 7 – Feminism: The connections of Ferrante’s work to feminist theory and history will be considered during this class. Specific references will be made to the history of Italian women’s movement and to the role these events have in “My Brilliant Friend”.

Week 8 – Love: Feminist theories on romantic love will be analysed during this class in order to disentangle the intricate web of relationships and desires that populate the quartet’s plot.

Week 9 – Motherhood: The relationship of the protagonists with their mothers and, in turn, the behaviour of Elena and Lila as mothers will be the core of this class. We will compare Ferrante’s representation of motherhood with that proposed by other Italian women writers.

Week 10 – Writing: We will look at the complex symbolism that in “My Brilliant Friend” is attributed to the act of writing, with the aim of establishing an association between the protagonists’ writing and the work of the mysterious author Elena Ferrante.

Elena Ferrante: ‘One morning I looked at myself in the mirror and recognised my mother’ For a long time, I felt that to stop loving her was the only way I had to love myself