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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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Develop an argument that analyses, through contrast and comparison, the use of the unconventional couple as a dramatic device in the plays The Homecoming and Suddenly Last Summer. What does your comparison lead you to conclude about the different thematic Develop an argument that analyses, through contrast and comparison, the use of the unconventional couple as a dramatic device in the plays The Homecoming and Suddenly Last Summer. What does your comparison lead you to conclude about the different thematic

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    Develop an argument that analyses, through contrast and comparison, the use of the unconventional couple as a dramatic device in the plays The Homecoming and Suddenly Last Summer. What does your comparison lead you to conclude about the different thematic

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  • Many modern dramas feature an unconventional couple. From Kane’s coupling of Hippolytus and Phaedra, to Parks’s pairing of Booth and Lincoln, playwrights use the unconventional couple as a device to explore the different thematic interests of their plays. In The Homecoming (1965), for example, Pinter dramatises the unconventional relationships formed between Max, his sons, and Teddy’s wife. Suddenly Last Summer (1958), however, centres on the potentially incestuous couplings of Mrs Venable...
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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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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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Late Victorian Gothic fictions ‘encode an anxiety about “otherness”, about the possibility of a dual self, where the externally moral individual masks a primitive “other” within that threatens to engulf the civilised’ (Linda Dryden). Discuss. Late Victorian Gothic fictions ‘encode an anxiety about “otherness”, about the possibility of a dual self, where the externally moral individual masks a primitive “other” within that threatens to engulf the civilised’ (Linda Dryden). Discuss.

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    Late Victorian Gothic fictions ‘encode an anxiety about “otherness”, about the possibility of a dual self, where the externally moral individual masks a primitive “other” within that threatens to engulf the civilised’ (Linda Dryden). Discuss.

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  • Gothic fiction of the 1880s and 1890s dramatises the late Victorian fear of “otherness”. In fin-de-siècle Britain, the concept of racial and cultural degeneration spawned fears of a primitive “other”. This fear is encoded in The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). In both texts a primitive “other” threateningly lurks within externally moral men. Indeed, both Stevenson and Wilde suggest that the threat of “otherness” comes from with...
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Essay discussing ideas of masculinity and emotion in The Grapes of Wrath and The Sun Also Rises. Essay discussing ideas of masculinity and emotion in The Grapes of Wrath and The Sun Also Rises.

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  • Steinbeck and Hemingway both explore how masculinity can affect, and be affected by emotions. In The Grapes of Wrath (1939), for example, Steinbeck considers how masculinity can be strengthened by a man’s refusal to break down. Conversely, in The Sun Also Rises (1926), Hemingway explores how emotional breakdown can occur as a consequence of emasculation. Whereas Steinbeck upholds traditional masculine values and a demonstration of keeping ones emotions in check, Hemingway envisages a renewed s...
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How does Atwood introduce us to the world of the novel in chapters 1- 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale? How does Atwood introduce us to the world of the novel in chapters 1- 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale?

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    How does Atwood introduce us to the world of the novel in chapters 1- 3 of The Handmaid’s Tale?

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  • The novel, The Handmaid’s Tale’ is set in the Republic of Gilead, a land where women have to breed, or face being hung at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. The world of the novel is set in the future after a nuclear war. The United States, where the novel is set, does not exist as a union of states anymore, but still exists as a land mass. The people are governed in a very sanctimonious way and the society is theocratic, and many of their freedoms and liberties have ...
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‘The history of postmodern American fiction belongs to those authors who, in any idiom and for any audience, for brief passages or for entire careers, shared a new cultural sensibility as a response to an altered world’ (Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, and A ‘The history of postmodern American fiction belongs to those authors who, in any idiom and for any audience, for brief passages or for entire careers, shared a new cultural sensibility as a response to an altered world’ (Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, and A

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    ‘The history of postmodern American fiction belongs to those authors who, in any idiom and for any audience, for brief passages or for entire careers, shared a new cultural sensibility as a response to an altered world’ (Paula Geyh, Fred G. Leebron, and A

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  • Postmodern American fiction responds to the economic and social changes that occurred in America, and the globalised world, post-World War Two. This altered world required innovative modes of representation that could reflect the new cultural sensibility of the authors. Auster and DeLillo, for example, are part of this postmodern movement of formal innovation. The hallmarks of literary postmodernism frame The New York Trilogy (1986) and Cosmopolis (2003). Indeed, by evaluating the concept of the...
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‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past’ (William Faulkner). Taking this statement as your starting-point, discuss how this applies to Toni Morrison’s novels, Beloved and Jazz. ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past’ (William Faulkner). Taking this statement as your starting-point, discuss how this applies to Toni Morrison’s novels, Beloved and Jazz.

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    ‘The past is never dead. It’s not even past’ (William Faulkner). Taking this statement as your starting-point, discuss how this applies to Toni Morrison’s novels, Beloved and Jazz.

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  • Toni Morrison’s fiction is preoccupied with the persistence of the past. Indeed, in Beloved (1987) and Jazz (1992) the past continually resurfaces in the present. In Beloved, for example, Sethe is haunted by her past in the form of her departed daughter. Whereas in Jazz, the past is tragically repeated in the lives of Joe and Violet Trace. In both texts, Morrison’s characters must confront their past in order to move on. Accordingly, their experiences demonstrate Morrison’s ‘concern to b...
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A close critical analysis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnett 43 A close critical analysis of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnett 43

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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnet 43 is principally a poem about the intense love and compassion a woman feels for her husband. The poem is taken from a collection of sonnets, entitled Sonnets from the Portuguese, which trace the interlude between 1945, when Elizabeth met her partner Robert Browning, to 1846, when they were married. Browning lived and wrote during the Victorian era, a time of major societal and economical change. This is reflected in her work, which draws on religious, polit...
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The disciplinary function of early crime narratives is subverted by their status as commodities. To what extent do you agree with this statement? The disciplinary function of early crime narratives is subverted by their status as commodities. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

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    The disciplinary function of early crime narratives is subverted by their status as commodities. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

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  • In early crime narratives a tension exists between the intended disciplinary function and the entertainment value demanded by their status as commodities. The Ordinary Accounts and the criminal broadsides, for example, acted as an indirect form of state-controlled surveillance. This ideological policing, however, is balanced against the commercial obligation to appeal to a wide readership. Indeed, the sensational nature of early crime narratives arguably undermines their disciplinary purpose of ...
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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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PowerPoint presentation covering Sebald's book Austerlitz. PowerPoint presentation covering Sebald's book Austerlitz.

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    PowerPoint presentation covering Sebald's book Austerlitz.

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  • PowerPoint presentation covering: - Sebald's life and career - Sebald and war - Austerlitz - Narrative style - War, the Holocaust and ideas of progress
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What do you find interesting about the ways the writer presents rebellion in the novel? What do you find interesting about the ways the writer presents rebellion in the novel?

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    What do you find interesting about the ways the writer presents rebellion in the novel?

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  • Throughout her novel (The Handmaid’s Tale) Margaret Atwood expresses various forms of rebellion through different characters and situations. The Handmaid’s Tale in its own context is not considered a novel when referring to rebellion, but the expression of a satirical dystopia which is mainly expressed through the beliefs and actions of different characters. It is therefore often compared to George Orwell’s nineteen eighty-four with the expression of freedom from and freedom to.
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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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Notes exploring the origins and key themes of Magical Realism Notes exploring the origins and key themes of Magical Realism

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    Notes exploring the origins and key themes of Magical Realism

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  • Notes covering: - Origins of Magical Realism - Alternative realities of magical realism - Combination of reality and fantasy - Locations and dislocations - El boom and the new novel - Post colonial Latin America - Marquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude
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