The Dead Brother’s Song: “Reading” Reframings

Vasiliki Petra

Abstract: The main goal of this project was to involve first grade high school students in the learning process, through the teaching of Literature along with art. The courses “Modern Greek Language”, “Drama” and “Civics”, which are taught in the first grade of High School, enriched the meanings of the reference text; we focused on the absurdity in The Dead Brother’s Song. Firstly, within the frames of implementing an instructional outline, the students had the opportunity to learn about the absurdity (in The Dead Brother’s Song, 9th century), about other intertextual works (20th century) and about the film “Brides” (21st century), which emphasize on stereotypical representations of the female sex. Consecutively, they became familiar with the paintings of the Munich School artists (19th century) and they were encouraged to both “tell” the story of the aforementioned absurdity and provide their own approach through digital storytelling.

Key words: literature, art, intersectionality