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Summary Notes on Graham Swift's Waterland and the idea of progress Summary Notes on Graham Swift's Waterland and the idea of progress

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    Summary Notes on Graham Swift's Waterland and the idea of progress

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  • Notes covering: - Graham Swift's Waterland - The ideas of progress and how war interacts with this - Pre and post enlightenment ideas of progress -Structure of the narrative of Waterland
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In what ways do the novels Waterland and Austerlitz present the two world wars as challenges to philosophies of historical progress? In what ways do the novels Waterland and Austerlitz present the two world wars as challenges to philosophies of historical progress?

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    In what ways do the novels Waterland and Austerlitz present the two world wars as challenges to philosophies of historical progress?

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  • An analysis of the way in which progress in relation to WWI and WWII is presented in the novels, Waterland (Graham Swift) and Austerlitz (W.G. Sebald). The notion of human progress is challenged by WWI and WWII and the impact it has on the lives of the characters in the novels. The wars resemble a descent into animalistic primitivism and the collapse of the progress of the enlightenment.
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Explore the relationship between place, belonging, and identity as represented in at least two Caribbean texts Explore the relationship between place, belonging, and identity as represented in at least two Caribbean texts

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    Explore the relationship between place, belonging, and identity as represented in at least two Caribbean texts

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  • Caribbean texts are preoccupied by the relationship between place, belonging, and identity. The formation of a distinct national identity has been undermined by the historical processes that shaped the Caribbean. Consequently, Caribbean literature explores the ramifications of colonialism on the people’s sense of belonging.
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How does Shakespeare explore nature versus nurture in “The Tempest”? How does Shakespeare explore nature versus nurture in “The Tempest”?

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    How does Shakespeare explore nature versus nurture in “The Tempest”?

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  • Exploration of Nature Vs Nurture in Shakespeare's The Tempest. Focussing on Caliban and his relationship with the island and with Prospero.
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PowerPoint Presentation covering Graham Swift's Waterland PowerPoint Presentation covering Graham Swift's Waterland

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    PowerPoint Presentation covering Graham Swift's Waterland

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  • Presentation covering the following: - Swift's Life and early career - Importance of war in Swift's fiction, especially WWI - Waterland - WWI and shell shock - Role of WWII - war and philosophies of progress - threat of nuclear war - style and narrative structure
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PowerPoint presentation covering Ian McEwan's novel Atonement PowerPoint presentation covering Ian McEwan's novel Atonement

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    PowerPoint presentation covering Ian McEwan's novel Atonement

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  • Presentation covers: - McEwan's life and early career - McEwan and War - Atonement - Legacy of WWI and impending WWII - McEwan and Auden, - Realism and the 'real' - Trauma as a missed encounter with the real - Narrative technique and the evocation of trauma
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Presentation summarising Pat Barker's Another World Presentation summarising Pat Barker's Another World

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    Presentation summarising Pat Barker's Another World

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  • Presentation summarising Pat Barker's Another World Explores: - Life and background of author - WWI - Summary of the novel and its core themes
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Charlotte Bronte Essay and Supporting notes - Shirley, The Professor, Jane Eyre

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    Charlotte Bronte Essay and Supporting notes - Shirley, The Professor, Jane Eyre

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  • Essay on the contrapuntal analysis of Bronte's Jane Eyre and Shirley. Notes on: - Shirley - The Professor - Jane Eyre - Feminism in Victorian literature - Race and colonialism in Victorian literature
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Contrapuntal analysis of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Shirley Contrapuntal analysis of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Shirley

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    Contrapuntal analysis of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and Shirley

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  • Contrapuntal analysis, advocated by Edward W. Said, demands a vision in which imperialism and literature are viewed simultaneously. Reading a Charlotte Brontë novel contrapuntally is considering how the text interacts with its metropolitan context alongside the historical context of British imperialism. In Jane Eyre (1847) the colonial histories of the West Indies and India intertwine with the experiences of women in the metropolis. The metropolitan history of Shirley (1849) can be situated in ...
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To what extent do magical realist texts offer a feminist perspective? To what extent do magical realist texts offer a feminist perspective?

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    To what extent do magical realist texts offer a feminist perspective?

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  • Magical realism, as ‘a mode suited to exploring- and transgressing- boundaries’ , is useful for feminist objectives. The genre challenges dominant ways of seeing the world and can therefore be used to contest androcentric worldviews. In The House of the Spirits (1985), for example, the use of the supernatural empowers the women of the Trueba household. In Nights at the Circus (1984) the magically realist body of Fevvers is a symbolic representation of the New Woman. In both texts, however, t...
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