¡Tenemos un kamishibai en el cole!!!!

¿No sabéis lo que es?

Kamishibai quiere decir “teatro de papel” en japonés. Se remonta al siglo XII y, a pesar de ser tan, tan antiguo, sigue siendo muy popular en Japón, desde donde se ha extendido a todo el mundo … ¡y ha llegado hasta la Escuela Europea de Alicante!

El kamishibai es una forma de contar cuentos dirigido a niñas y niños pequeños. Está formado por un conjunto de láminas que tienen un dibujo en una cara y texto en la otra. Normalmente se trata de un cuento, aunque también se pude utilizar para trabajar algún contenido de aprendizaje.

La lectura del kamishibai se realiza colocando las láminas en orden sobre un soporte, un “teatrillo” de tres puertas, de cara al público, deslizando el narrador las láminas una tras otra mientras lee el texto.

El kamishibai combina de forma muy adecuada el aspecto visual con la narración oral, uniendo lectura y representación, creando un ambiente mágico que favorece la concentración de los niños en torno a la historia. Además, se puede adaptar al ritmo de los niños según la manifestación de sus vivencias y emociones en cada momento.

Las historias pueden contarse en cualquier idioma ya que nacen de las imágenes. Las que traen los cuentos disponibles están en español, francés e inglés.

El kamishibai es, además, una buena forma de contar cuentos en familia, puede ayudar a recuperar la tradición oral y facilita enormemente el contar cuentos a otras personas, como los abuelos a sus nietos, en una fiesta infantil, o compartir los cuentos entre los alumnos y alumnas de clases superiores con los más pequeños. La forma de representación teatral, la posibilidad de crear las propias ilustraciones y la narración de una historia que va naciendo al tiempo que se cuenta, son una perfecta combinación de elementos que despierta la imaginación y la fantasía entre los oyentes y hace que los niños y niñas disfruten mucho.

¡A nuestros niños y niñas les ha encantado esta forma de contar historias!!!



Homenaje a Dickens en la semana del bicentenario de su nacimiento

Para cerrar la semana dedicada a Dickens no podían faltar las referencias a los homenajes que en todo el mundo se están dedicando al autor y a su obra.

El mundo entero se ha volcado en las celebraciones del 200 aniversario del nacimiento de Dickens. Desde personalidades de la política, familiares directos del escritor, o autoridades en el mundo de las letras, muchos han sido los que han dedicado parte de su tiempo y de su saber a recordar al escritor inglés, su obra y la importancia que esta tiene en la historia de la literatura en general, y en la memoria lectora de cada uno de nosotros, en particular.

Estas entradas en el blog de la Escuela Europea de Alicante han sido nuestro sencillo homenaje. No había mayor intención que la de compartir la información, ofrecer un apunte para que cada lector o lectora pueda ir más allá según su interés, favorecer el recuerdo de las que fueron nuestras lecturas, hacer un repaso a la filmografía … nada más ¡y nada menos!

Estos son algunos de los homenajes a Dickens que le han dedicado en otros países:

British Council

Charles Dickens tribute

En España

200 años de Charles Dickens RTVE

Políticos españoles valoran la obra de Dickens

En Francia

Charles Dickens L'Express

Hommenage à Charles Dickens

Dickens, l'écrivain des opprimés Le Figaro

En Alemania

Charles Dickens Focus

Charles Dickens Eselsohren



El “doodle” de Google protagonizado por algunos de los personajes

de las novelas de Dickens

Disfrutando de Dickens ... sus libros ... las películas ...

Reading Dickens … around Europe!!!!

“Charles Dickens, Français naturalisé, et Citoyen de Paris.” Dickens

signed a letter from France to his friend John Forster this way in 1847, but

behind the joke lay his fascination for French life and culture and a sense

of affinity with France. Dickens returned to France often, and his travels

and experiences there found expression in some of his finest work”

(from the book Dickens on France: Fiction, Journalism, and Travel Writing, Edited by John Edmondson, Signal Books, 978-1904955061)

¿Cómo puedo acceder a las obras de Dickens en mi idioma?

A través de la Biblioteca Digital Europea Europeana podemos acceder a las ediciones de Dickens en otros idiomas, desde las primeras traducciones, hasta las últimas ediciones de sus obras: Europeana enables people to explore the digital resources of Europe's museums, libraries, archives and audio-visual collections. It promotes discovery and networking opportunities in a multilingual space where users can engage, share in and be inspired by the rich diversity of Europe's cultural and scientific heritage.

Find more http://www.europeana.eu/portal/

Para encontrar las obras de Dickens en francés, holandés, alemán, portugués … podemos ir al enlace http://blog.europeana.eu/2012/02/charles-dickens/

Dickens film adaptations: a different way to get deep into Dickens world!

Why Dickens's novels have inspired so many hundreds of adaptations on screen?

Dickens was always adapted. From the start of his brilliant career his works were pirated for the stage - often, to his annoyance, before his serial publications were even finished. The Inimitable author himself produced versions of his tales for his immensely popular reading tours. (Michael Eaton, http://www.screenonline.org.uk)

Find more about Dickens film adaptations:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019c7q1 BBC documentary from the magical films of the silent era to the celebrated work of director David Lean and high definition television

http://www.dickens2012.org/section/film-tv-radio Dickens 2012 Film, TV and radio

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/473285/index.html The definitive guide to Britain’s film and TV story

http://filmlondon.org.uk/dickens2012shorts Dickens 2012 Short Film Scheme

http://www.world-history-movies.com/charles-dickens.html The history of the world on film



Dickens literary style

                                                 ('Dickens' Dream' by Robert William Buss)

Dickens loved the style of the 18th century picturesque or Gothic romance novels although it had already become a target for parody. One "character" vividly drawn throughout his novels is London itself. From the coaching inns on the outskirts of the city to the lower reaches of the Thames, all aspects of the capital are described over the

course of his body of work.

His writing style is florid and poetic, with a strong comic touch. His satires of British aristocratic snobbery are often popular. Comparing orphans to stocks and shares, people to tug boats, or dinner-party guests to furniture are just some of Dickens's acclaimed flights of fancy. Many of his characters' names provide the reader with a hint as to the roles played in advancing the storyline, such as Mr. Murdstone in the novel David Copperfield, which is clearly a combination of "murder" and stony coldness. His literary style is also a mixture of fantasy and realism.

Dickens is famed for his depiction of the hardships of the working class, his intricate plots, and his sense of humour. But he is perhaps most famed for the characters he created. His novels were heralded early in his career for their ability to capture the everyday man and thus create characters to whom readers could relate



Most of Dickens's major novels were first written in monthly or weekly instalments in journals such as Master Humphrey's Clock and Household Words, later reprinted in book form. These instalments made the stories cheap, accessible and the series of regular cliff-hangers made each new episode widely anticipated. Part of Dickens's great talent was to incorporate this episodic writing style but still end up with a coherent novel at the end.

Another important impact of Dickens's episodic writing style resulted from his exposure to the opinions of his readers. Since Dickens did not write the chapters very far ahead of their publication, he was allowed to witness the public reaction and alter the story depending on those public reactions.

Dickens's novels were, among other things, works of social commentary. He was a fierce critic of the poverty and social stratification of Victorian society.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens

PREFACE TO THE CHARLES DICKENS EDITION OF DAVID COPPERFIELD, 1869

It would concern the reader little, perhaps, to know how sorrowfully the pen is laid down at the close of a two-years' imaginative task; or how an Author feels as if he were dismissing some portion of himself into the shadowy world, when a crowd of the creatures of his brain are going from him for ever. Yet, I had nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess (which might be of less moment still), that no one can ever believe this Narrative, in the reading, more than I believed it in the writing.

So true are these avowals at the present day, that I can now only take the reader into one confidence more. Of all my books, I like this the best. It will be easily believed that I am a fond parent to every child of my fancy, and that no one can ever love that family as dearly as I love them. But, like many fond parents, I have in my heart of hearts a favourite child. And his name is DAVID COPPERFIELD.

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Dickens literature

Dickens - The Guardian

Dickens works - online literature

Charles Dickens was born at Portsmouth on 7 February 1812, the second of eight children. Dickens's childhood experiences were similar to those depicted in David Copperfield. His father, who was a government clerk, was imprisoned for debt and Dickens was briefly sent to work in a blacking warehouse at the age of twelve.

He received little formal education, but taught himself shorthand and became a reporter of parliamentary debates for the Morning Chronicle. He began to publish sketches in various periodicals, which were subsequently republished as Sketches by Boz. The Pickwick Papers were published in 1836–7 and after a slow start became a publishing phenomenon and Dickens's characters the centre of a popular cult.

Part of the secret of his success was the method of cheap serial publication which Dickens used for all his novels. He began Oliver Twist in 1837, followed by Nicholas Nickleby (1838) and The Old Curiosity Shop (1840–41).After finishing Barnaby Rudge (1841) Dickens set off for America; he went full of enthusiasm for the young republic but, in spite of a triumphant reception, he returned disillusioned. His experiences are recorded in American Notes (1842). Martin Chuzzlewit (1843–4) did not repeat its predecessors' success but this was quickly redressed by the huge popularity of the Christmas Books, of which the first, A Christmas Carol, appeared in 1843.

During 1844–6 Dickens travelled abroad and he began Dombey and Son while in Switzerland. This and David Copperfield (1849–50) were more serious in theme and more carefully planned than his early novels. In later works, such as Bleak House (1853) and Little Dorrit (1857), Dickens's social criticism became more radical and his comedy more savage.

In 1850 Dickens started the weekly periodical Household Words, succeeded in 1859 by All the Year Round; in these he published Hard Times (1854), A Tale of Two Cities (1859) and Great Expectations (1860–61). Dickens's health was failing during the 1860s and the physical strain of the public readings which he began in 1858 hastened his decline, although Our Mutual Friend (1865) retained some of his best comedy.

His last novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, was never completed and he died on 9 June 1870. Public grief at his death was considerable and he was buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. 

Chapter I

TREATS OF THE PLACE WHERE OLIVER TWIST WAS BORN AND OF THE
CIRCUMSTANCES ATTENDING HIS BIRTH

Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many
reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to
which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently
common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse; and
in this workhouse was born; on a day and date which I need not
trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible
consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all
events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head
of this chapter.

Oliver Twist (1838)

 

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Charles Dickens 1812-1870

Celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Dickens

Dickens 2012 is an international celebration of the life and work of Charles Dickens to mark the bicentenary of his birth, which falls on 7 February 2012.

Although a writer from the Victorian era, Dickens’s work transcends his time, language and culture. He remains a massive contemporary influence throughout the world and his writings continue to inspire film, TV, art, literature, artists and academia. Dickens 2012 sees a rich and diverse programme of events taking place in the run up and throughout the whole of 2012.

To mark the bicentenary of Charles Dickens's birth on 7 February 2012, celebrations under the Dickens 2012 banner will be taking take place all over the world from Australia to Zurich.

For more information see Dickens 2012