Series:

EMC Advanced Literature

13 total works

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Studying Narrative is a collection of resources for teaching about aspects of narrative. It offers comprehensive and clear explanations of key concepts, with short, pithy critical extracts on both concepts and texts (including David Lodge and other OCR recommended writers) and lively classroom materials and approaches to teach them. Sections include: narrative voice, narrative viewpoint, structure, themes, character, genre, dialogue, experiments in narrative. There is an introductory section on 'What is narrative?' and a separate section on narrative poetry. The publication also includes concept cards which can be used in a range of different ways. Activities focus on popular texts in the new 2008 specifications, including: The Great Gatsby, Pride and Prejudice, Great Expectations, Wide Sargasso Sea, Jane Eyre, Dubliners, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Wuthering Heights, In Cold Blood, The Color Purple, God of Small Things, Small Island and many more. Individual activities, based on extracts, can also be adapted for use with a wide range of different texts.

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Balanced section-by-section activities with work encouraging an overview of the play as a whole. The flavour of the material is lively, challenging and innovative, with sparky ideas for getting through the text. * The play is treated as a drama text, exploiting opportunities to visualise it as theatre, rather than as just words on the page. * Contextual and critical material embedded in activities on the play itself. * A strong focus on language, incorporating new ideas in accessible ways. * Imaginative and active approaches to reading the play, including drama, role-play and innovative group work ideas. * Ways of reflecting on and recording important issues, themes, images and angles on character.

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* Close study of individual poems with activities which encourage students to read the poems comparatively and in context. * Active drama approaches offering accessible ways into the poems and appealing to a range of learning styles. * Contextual material including: Blake's own work and beliefs; historical, political and literary contexts closely connected to textual study. * A range of critical responses and ways of exploring the context of readings over time. * Strategies to support students in preparing to write about the poems in examination. CD ROM for interactive whiteboards, data projectors and PCs * Interactive activities and resources complementing and extending each section of the print publication. * 35-minute interview divided into 10 sections with Blake specialist Professor David Punter, Bristol University. * Extracts from The South Bank Show: Peter Ackroyd, Alan Ginsberg and enacted readings. * Images and Picture Power program for work on 'London'. * All the poems from Songs of Innocence and of Experience (illuminated poems and Word files). * A pdf of the full publication enabling you to create your own resources.

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Activities on each poem All the stories behind Duffy's re-workings Extracts from Ovid, the Bible, T.S. Eliot and other texts that relate to the collection Paintings and other visual representations of the stories behind the poems Inventive activities on AO3, (language, structure and form) including colour-coding for tone, creative writing, tracing motifs and images, work on voice and register. Approaches to encourage the development of independent opinions, including role-play and debating activities and ways of introducing short critical perspectives Help with making links across the collection, in preparation for the demands of the exam.

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An exclusive interview with Michael Frayn on DVD complements and extends the print material, offering fascinating insights into the process of writing and the world of the novel, including discussion of: the theme of spying, the methods of narration, the structure of the novel, representations of childhood, the use of motifs and 1940s Britain. 96-page photocopiable study guide * Close focus on structure, perspective and narrative voice. * Wide range of activities on plot, theme and character, including drama, role-play, charting, creative writing and visual representations. * Unusual and stimulating approaches to the study of AO3 and contextual material (for example, historical, social, literary and biographical) integrated into the study of the novel in ways which develop students' critical and evaluative skills. * A wide range of provocative critical extracts.

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Texts in their Times contains fresh and imaginative ideas for understanding texts in context. Short texts and extracts from the Victorian period and the early twentieth century are used to introduce students to the way in which literary texts relate to the times in which they were written. Using art, architecture and music, students are supported to think about influences beyond the purely historical. Close reading activities remain central. The texts and activities can be used as one-off lessons, or as a more sustained sequence. * Classroom materials ideal for teaching the context of any Victorian or any Modernist text, as well as to support responses to unseen texts and synoptic assessment. * Activities on a wide range of writers including: Tennyson, Dickens, George Eliot, T.S. Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Yeats and Lawrence. * Teachers' notes provide practical guidance and background material, including indications of points that might be raised in classroom discussion. * CD ROM contains a slide show of paintings and architecture from the two periods as well as short extracts from works by Mendelssohn and Stravinsky.

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* Short accessible activities introducing key ideas about readers, texts and contexts to fulfil AO3 and AO4. * Critical position cards summarising major theoretical approaches. * Carefully sequenced activities encouraging students to use theory imaginatively. * Ideal preparation for AQA B synoptic paper. * A wide range of texts including: short stories by Ray Bradbury, Ernest Hemingway and Flannery O'Connor; Killing Time by Simon Armitage; Shakespeare sonnets; First World War poetry; Wyatt's 'They flee from me'; poems by Emily Dickinson; the story of Adam and Eve from Genesis and Milton; Othello; Mansfield Park (book and film); and biographical texts on Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. * Critical extracts include writing by: Terry Eagleton; Angela Carter; David Lodge; Alice Walker; 19th-century critics on Jane Eyre; Edward Said, and Jacqueline Rose. * Teachers' notes providing practical guidance, background and key ideas to raise in classroom discussion.

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An exciting way into the contexts of pre-1770 drama texts. The cultural, social and historical context of the plays of this period are introduced, using substantial extracts from many of the set texts. * Uses visual and textual material from the period and by modern historians, to introduce contexts, including paintings of Elizabeth I and James I, theatre designs and short quotations from writers and critics. * Explores the main thematic preoccupations of Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatists, including religion, magic and superstition, order and disorder, gender, class, science and learning. * Introduces ideas about comic and tragic genres, exploring their roots in Classical forms of drama. * Includes extracts from set texts such as The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, Dr Faustus, Volpone, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, The Merchant of Venice, The Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night and Antony and Cleopatra. * Offers a case study of performances of a play through the ages, allowing students to speculate on how context affects the way texts are staged and interpreted. * Offers modern critical readings, with activities to support understanding of different critical positions.*
Promotes close reading of the language of the plays.

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* Close focus on narrative voice, structure and style. * Wide range of activities including drama, role-play, charting, creative writing and visual representations. * Active approaches to criticism. * Coursework suggestions.

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- Strategies for reading the text and teacher resources - Themes - Characterisation - Voice - Nick as character and storyteller - Structure - Close linguistic analysis: symbolism, lexical clusters - Contexts - historical, social and cultural, literary and images from the period - Creative writing and media approaches - Active approaches to criticism - Speaking and listening

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Tragedy

by English & Media Centre

Published 10 February 2009
Tragedy: A Student Handbook is a comprehensive introduction to tragedy, designed for advanced level and undergraduate students. It provides clear explanations of key concepts in tragedy and changing ideas about tragedy over time, from classical theories and Renaissance thinking through to modern interpretations. There are short introductions to broad periods and contexts - Greek tragedy, Renaissance tragedy, European playwrights of the late 19th century, modern American tragedy, modern British tragedy and modern Irish tragedy - as well as accounts of the work of significant playwrights, including Sophocles, Shakespeare, Webster, Marlowe, Ibsen, Beckett, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Brian Friel. Key plays are explored in more detail. These include: Oedipus, all Shakespeare's major tragedies, The Duchess of Malfi, The White Devil, A Doll's House, Waiting for Godot, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Death of A Salesman, All My Sons, , A View from the Bridge, Playboy of the Western World, Shadow of a Gunman and Translations.The text includes short extracts from criticism, a glossary of terms and questions to provoke reflection on the way individual plays use the tragic form.

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A three-part publication: approaches to the modern novel; study material on Regeneration and Enduring Love with interviews on DVD. This resource includes excellent classroom material on the two novels, as well as an invaluable sequence of approaches to any modern novel. * A substantial introductory section, with practical approaches and activities for use with any modern novel, including: narrative voice; characters and characterisation; the structure of novels; the differences between story and plot; the history of the modern novel; what makes a novel 'modern'; its wider literary and cultural context. * Extensive study material on Enduring Love by Ian McEwan and Regeneration by Pat Barker, with contextual material and critical interpretations, to develop students' understandings about literary study. * Contextual material on Regeneration - invaluable preparation for unseen or synoptic examinations based on writing about the First World War. * A DVD including interviews with Pat Barker and Ian McEwan, in which they explore key aspects of the texts; short extracts from the film of Regeneration, to support the study of the book and comparative work on the book and the film.

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Wuthering Heights continues to be an extremely popular text for study at advanced level. The combination of a compelling plot, highly charged emotions, complexity of narrative voice and structure and the combined use of features of Gothic and Romantic literature make it an excellent text to study. Rather than offering a chapter-by chapter approach, the material assists students in thinking about the novel in the context of a wider understanding of narrative. It encourages a close focus on key aspects of form, structure and language, balanced by an awareness of the contexts of writing and reception and critical interpretations over time. Contextual and critical material is used to help students to articulate and develop their own interpretation of the text. Many of the activities model the use of evidence in supporting an argument, or reading of the text. Activities include a detailed linguistic analysis of a key passage, suitable for combined literary and linguistic study as well as the study of English Literature, a reality TV role-play exploring oppositions in the novel and opportunities for creative writing as a way of developing critical understanding of the text.Quotation and context cards can be used to help students use evidence, test their knowledge and revise the text for exams.
The materials support individual study, group work and whole class work and include a range of strategies including creating visual maps and diagrams, jigsawing, presentations and a whole class simulation. There is also support for writing in exams. Includes printable pdf of the publication on CD ROM.