- ISBN:9780521712477
- Format:Paperback
- Subject(s):English Literature
- Author(s):Adrian Barlow
- Available from: No date available
Critical introductions to a range of literary topics and genres.
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Each title includes a wide-ranging yet carefully levelled introductory discussion of a literary period, genre or theme, to provide students with an excellent introduction to an area of literature.
Helps students to address the new assessment objective 4 ('demonstrate understanding of the significance and influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received') - worth up to 35% of the A level qualification under new guidelines.
Discussion questions and end-of-section tasks offer an invaluable resource for self study as well as helpful exam preparation.
A mini-anthology of texts and extracts saves teachers time searching for appropriate 'wider reading' texts.
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- Contents
- Preface
- TEACHING LITERATURE IN CONTEXT AND CONTEXT IN LITERATURE: Introduction - what are we doing here?
- Assessing literature in context
- The case for close reading
- 'Context' in context
- CLOSE READING AND CONTEXT - WORDSWORTH's SONNET 'UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE'
- QUESTIONS OF CONTEXT: POETRY IN CONTEXT: Shelley and Smith - 'Ozymandias' whose 'Ozymandias'?
- Coleridge's Great Escape - 'This Lime Tree Bower My Prison'
- Misleading contexts - TS Eliot and 'Usk'
- Form as context - when is a sonnet not a sonnet?
- SHAKESPEAREAN CONTEXTS: Teaching Shakespeare - 1908 seen from 2008
- Venetian contexts - Othello and The Merchant of Venice
- Tongue-tied? The silent speaker in Shakespeare's sonnets
- On the watch in Shakespeare - Twelfth Night, Henry V, Richard II
- CONTEXTS AND THE NOVEL: Too tall? 'Handsome' in Jane Austen (Emma, Persuasion)
- Ways of seeing - teaching new texts (Hilary Mantel, A Change of Climate
- Joe Treasure, The Male Gaze)
- Englishness in the contemporary novel (Julian Barnes, England, England
- David Lodge, Nice Work
- Zadie Smith, White Teeth)
- Film and image as context (Ian McEwan, Atonement
- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities)
- NON-FICTION PROSE IN CONTEXT: Essays and blogs (Virginia Woolf, Angela Carter, Mary Beard)
- Travel writing - In search of England? (Rupert Brooke, Letters from America)
- CONFLICT AND CALAMITY AS CONTEXTS IN LITERATURE: The Literature of War ('The stage was set': concert parties and the theatre of war
- 'The Lords of No Man's Land': memorialising the Great War)
- From the Tsunami to Saddam Hussein (Julian Barnes, A History of the World in 10 ½ Chapters
- Charles Lamb, Richard Aldington, Primo Levi)
- MOVING ON: FROM 'ENGLISH LITERATURE' TO 'ENGLISH STUDIES': Context in transition - what universities want
- Poetry and translation - more questions of context
- Teaching to the test - context in unseen examinations
- Conclusion
- RESOURCES - PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, WEBSITES, READING
- Acknowledgements
- Index
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