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Exam Board: AQA, Edexcel, Eduqas & CCEA Level: AS/A-level
Subject: Modern Languages First Teaching: September 2016 First
Exam: June 2017 Literature analysis made easy. Build your students'
confidence in their language abilities and help them develop the
skills needed to critique their chosen work: putting it into
context, understanding the themes and narrative technique, as well
as specialist terminology. Breaking down each scene, character and
theme in No et moi (No and Me), this accessible guide will enable
your students to understand the historical and social context of
the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to
write a successful essay. - Strengthen language skills with
relevant grammar, vocab and writing exercises throughout - Aim for
top marks by building a bank of textual examples and quotes to
enhance exam response - Build confidence with knowledge-check
questions at the end of every chapter - Revise effectively with
pages of essential vocabulary and key mind maps throughout - Feel
prepared for exams with advice on how to write an essay, plus
sample essay questions, two levels of model answers and examiner
commentary
In 1682 the French explorer Rene-Robert Cavelier de La Salle
claimed the Mississippi River basin for France, naming the region
Louisiana to honor his king, Louis XIV. Until the United States
acquired the territory in the Louisiana Purchase more than a
century later, there had never been a revolution, per se, in
Louisiana. However, as Jennifer Tsien highlights in this
groundbreaking work, revolutionary sentiment clearly surfaced in
the literature and discourse both in the Louisiana colony and in
France with dramatic and far-reaching consequences. In Rumors of
Revolution, Tsien analyzes documented observations made in Paris
and in New Orleans about the exercise of royal power over French
subjects and colonial Louisiana stories that laid bare the
arbitrary powers and abuses that the government could exert on its
people against their will. Ultimately, Tsien establishes an
implicit connection between histories of settler colonialism in the
Americas and the fate of absolutism in Europe that has been largely
overlooked in scholarship to date.
Taking in works from writers as diverse as William Shakespeare,
William Wordsworth, Charlotte Bronte, John Keats, James Joyce and
D.H. Lawrence, this book spans approximately 300 years and unpacks
how bodily liquidity, porosity and petrification recur as a pattern
and underlie the chequered history of the body and genders in
literature. Lennartz examines the precarious relationship between
porosity and its opposite - closure, containment and stoniness -
and explores literary history as a meandering narrative in which
'female' porosity and 'manly' stoniness clash, showing how
different societies and epochs respond to and engage with bodily
porosity. This book considers the ways that this relationship is
constantly renegotiated and where effusive and 'feminine' genres,
such as 'sloppy' letters and streams of consciousness, are pitted
against stony and astringent forms of masculinity, like epitaphs,
sonnets and the Bildungsroman.
The noted British literary scholar turns her attention to the
rarely examined topic of narrative in the plays and offers some new
insight into the playwright's craft. Shakespeare makes narrative
theatrical and it is as prominent in his craft and language as
characterization and imagery. Hardy analyzes key structures,
including reflexive narrative and the narrative compoundings used
to begin and end plays. She also examines narrative subtleties in
the works of Plutarch, Holinshed, Brooke, and Sidney that
Shakespeare read. Finally, she explores common narrative techniques
-- memory, forecast, and gendered story -- and extensively analyzes
these issues in three plays: Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth.
THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's
favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS &
A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you
get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy to
use, packed with valuable features and written by experienced
experts to give you an in-depth understanding of the text, critical
approaches and the all-important exam. An enhanced exam skills
section which includes essay plans, expert guidance on
understanding questions and sample answers. You'll know exactly
what you need to do and say to get the best grades. A wealth of
useful content like key quotations, revision tasks and vital study
tips that'll help you revise, remember and recall all the most
important information. The widest coverage and the best, most
in-depth analysis of characters, themes, language, form, context
and style to help you demonstrate an exhaustive understanding of
all aspects of the text. York Notes for AS & A2 are available
for these popular titles: The Bloody Chamber (9781447913153) Doctor
Faustus (9781447913177) Frankenstein (9781447913214) The Great
Gatsby (9781447913207) The Kite Runner (9781447913160) Macbeth
(9781447913146) Othello (9781447913191) Wuthering Heights
(9781447913184) Jane Eyre (9781447948834) Hamlet (9781447948872) A
Midsummer Night's Dream (9781447948841) Northanger Abbey
(9781447948858 Pride & Prejudice (9781447948865) Twelfth Night
(9781447948889)
From Allen Ginsberg's 'angel-headed hipsters' to angelic outlaws in
Essex Hemphill's Conditions, angelic imagery is pervasive in queer
American art and culture. This book examines how the period after
1945 expanded a unique mixture of sacred and profane angelic
imagery in American literature and culture to fashion queer
characters, primarily gay men, as embodiments of 'bad beatitudes'.
Deutsch explores how authors across diverse ethnic and religious
backgrounds, including John Rechy, Richard Bruce Nugent, Allen
Ginsberg, and Rabih Alameddine, sought to find the sacred in the
profane and the profane in the sacred. Exploring how these writers
used the trope of angelic outlaws to celebrate men who rebelled
wilfully and nobly against religious, medical, legal and social
repression in American society, this book sheds new light on
dissent and queer identities in postmodern American literature.
THE ULTIMATE GUIDES TO EXAM SUCCESS from York Notes - the UK's
favourite English Literature Study Guides. York Notes for AS &
A2 are specifically designed for AS & A2 students to help you
get the very best grade you can. They are comprehensive, easy to
use, packed with valuable features and written by experienced
experts to give you an in-depth understanding of the text, critical
approaches and the all-important exam. An enhanced exam skills
section which includes essay plans, expert guidance on
understanding questions and sample answers. You'll know exactly
what you need to do and say to get the best grades. A wealth of
useful content like key quotations, revision tasks and vital study
tips that'll help you revise, remember and recall all the most
important information. The widest coverage and the best, most
in-depth analysis of characters, themes, language, form, context
and style to help you demonstrate an exhaustive understanding of
all aspects of the text. York Notes for AS & A2 are available
for these popular titles: The Bloody Chamber (9781447913153) Doctor
Faustus (9781447913177) Frankenstein (9781447913214) The Great
Gatsby (9781447913207) The Kite Runner (9781447913160) Macbeth
(9781447913146) Othello (9781447913191) Wuthering Heights
(9781447913184) Jane Eyre (9781447948834) Hamlet (9781447948872) A
Midsummer Night's Dream (9781447948841) Northanger Abbey
(9781447948858 Pride & Prejudice (9781447948865) Twelfth Night
(9781447948889)
It's been barely twenty years since Dave Eggers (b. 1970) burst
onto the American literary scene with the publication of his
memoir, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. In that time, he
has gone on to publish several books of fiction, a few more books
of nonfiction, a dozen books for children, and many
harder-to-classify works. In addition to his authorship, Eggers has
established himself as an influential publisher, editor, and
designer. He has also founded a publishing company, McSweeney's;
two magazines, Might and McSweeney's Quarterly Concern; and several
nonprofit organizations. This whirlwind of productivity, within
publishing and beyond, gives Eggers a unique standing among
American writers: jack of all trades, master of same. The
interviews contained in Conversations with Dave Eggers suggest the
range of Eggers's pursuits-a range that is reflected in the variety
of the interviews themselves. In addition to the expected
interviews with major publications, Eggers engages here with
obscure magazines and blogs, trade publications, international
publications, student publications, and children from a mentoring
program run by one of his nonprofits. To read the interviews in
sequence is to witness Eggers's rapid evolution. The cultural
hysteria around Staggering Genius and Eggers's complicated
relationship with celebrity are clear in many of the earlier
interviews. From there, as the buzz around him mellows, Eggers
responds in kind, allowing writing and his other endeavors to come
to the fore of his conversations. Together, these interviews
provide valuable insight into a driving force in contemporary
American literature.
The next thrilling adventure, all NEW from MJ Porter Icel is a lone
wolf no more... Oath sworn to Wiglaf, King of Mercia and
acknowledged as a member of Ealdorman AElfstan's warrior band, Icel
continues to forge his own destiny on the path to becoming the
Warrior of Mercia. With King Ecgberht of Wessex defeated and
Londonium back under Mercian control, the Wessex invasion of Mercia
is over. But the Wessex king was never Mercia's only enemy. An
unknown danger lurks in the form of merciless Viking raiders, who
set their sights on infiltrating the waterways of the traitorous
breakaway kingdom of the East Angles, within touching distance of
Mercia's eastern borders. Icel must journey to the kingdom of the
East Angles and unite against a common enemy to ensure Mercia's
hard-won freedom prevails. Praise for MJ Porter 'Immediate and
personal' Bestselling author Matthew Harffy 'No lover of Dark Age
warfare is going to be disappointed. Personal, real, fascinating
and satisfying.' S.J.A. Turney 'If you love history, fiction,
adventure and great stories - You won't regret it!" Eric Schumacher
'MJ Porter recounts a sensitive, reluctant hero's coming-of-age
within a Dark Age realm riven by chaos and conflict' Bestselling
author Matthew Harffy 'Refreshing... I was reluctant to put the
book down' Historical Novel Society Readers are spell-bound 'So
real I felt I was there!... A page-turner' Reader review 'Wonderful
to read and hard to put down' Reader review 'I found the pages
flying by... A great book' Reader review
Exam Board: AQA & Edexcel Level: AS/A-level Subject: Modern
Languages First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2017
Literature analysis made easy. Build your students' confidence in
their language abilities and help them develop the skills needed to
critique their chosen work: putting it into context, understanding
the themes and narrative technique, as well as specialist
terminology. Breaking down each scene, character and theme in Un
Sac de Billes (A Bag of Marbles), this accessible guide will enable
your students to understand the historical and social context of
the novel and give them the critical and language skills needed to
write a successful essay. - Strengthen language skills with
relevant grammar, vocab and writing exercises throughout - Aim for
top marks by building a bank of textual examples and quotes to
enhance exam response - Build confidence with knowledge-check
questions at the end of every chapter - Revise effectively with
pages of essential vocabulary and key mind maps throughout - Feel
prepared for exams with advice on how to write an essay, plus
sample essay questions, two levels of model answers and examiner
commentary
Featuring case studies, essays, and conversation pieces by scholars
and practitioners, this volume explores how Indian cinematic
adaptations outside the geopolitical and cultural boundaries of
India are revitalizing the broader landscape of Shakespeare
research, performance, and pedagogy. Chapters in this volume
address practical and thematic concerns and opportunities that are
specific to studying Indian cinematic Shakespeares in the West. For
instance, how have intercultural encounters between Indian
Shakespeare films and American students inspired new pedagogic
methodologies? How has the presence and popularity of Indian
Shakespeare films affected policy change at British cultural
institutions? How can disagreement between eastern and western
perspectives on the politics of a Shakespeare film become the site
for productive cross-cultural dialogue? This is the first book to
explore such complex interactions between Indian Shakespeare films
and Western audiences to contribute to the assessment of the new
networks that have emerged as a result of Global Shakespeare
studies and practices. The volume argues that by tracking critical
currents from India towards the West new insights are afforded on
the wider field of Shakespeare Studies - including feminist
Shakespeares, translation in Shakespeare, or the study of music in
Shakespeare - and are shaping debates on the ownership and meaning
of Shakespeare itself. Contributing to the current studies in
Global Shakespeare, this book marks a discursive shift in the way
Shakespeare on Indian screen is predominantly theorised and offers
an alternative methodology for examining non-Anglophone cinematic
Shakespeares as a whole.
A key figure in contemporary speculative fiction, Jamaican-born
Canadian Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) is the first Black queer woman as
well as the youngest person to be named a "Grand Master" of Science
Fiction. Her Caribbean-inspired narratives-Brown Girl in the Ring,
Midnight Robber, The Salt Roads, The New Moon's Arms, The Chaos,
and Sister Mine-project complex futures and complex identities for
people of color in terms of race, sex, and gender. Hopkinson has
always had a vested interest in expanding racial and ethnic
diversity in all facets of speculative fiction from its writers to
its readers, and this desire is reflected in her award-winning
anthologies. Her work best represents the current and ongoing
colored wave of science fiction in the twenty-first century. In
twenty-one interviews ranging from 1999 until 2021, Conversations
with Nalo Hopkinson reveals a writer of fierce intelligence and
humor in love with ideas and concerned with issues of identity. She
provides powerful insights on code-switching, race, Afrofuturism,
queer identities, sexuality, Caribbean folklore, and postcolonial
science fictions, among other things. As a result, the
conversations presented here very much demonstrate the uniqueness
of her mind and her influence as a writer.
Through readings of Ishiguro's repurposing of key elements of
realism and modernism; his interest in childhood imagination and
sketching; interrogation of aesthetics and ethics; his fascination
with architecture and the absent home; and his expressionist use of
'imaginary' space and place, Kazuo Ishiguro's Gestural Poetics
examines the manner in which Ishiguro's fictions approach, but
never quite reveal, the ineffable, inexpressible essence of his
narrators' emotionally fraught worlds. Reformulating Martin
Heidegger's suggestion that the 'essence of world can only be
indicated' as 'the essence of world can only be gestured towards,'
Sloane argues that while Ishiguro's novels and short stories are
profoundly sensitive to the limitations of literary form, their
narrators are, to varying degrees, equally keenly attuned to the
failures of language itself. In order to communicate something of
the emotional worlds of characters adrift in various uncertainties,
while also commenting on the expressive possibilities of fiction
and the mimetic arts more widely, Ishiguro appropriates a range of
metaphors which enable both author and character to gesture towards
the undisclosable essences of fiction and being.
The Western, with its stoic cowboys and quickhanded gunslingers, is
an instantly recognizable American genre that has achieved
worldwide success. Cultures around the world have embraced but also
adapted and critiqued the Western as part of their own national
literatures, reinterpreting and expanding the genre in curious
ways. Canadian Westerns are almost always in conversation with
their American cousins, influenced by their tropes and traditions,
responding to their politics, and repurposing their structures to
create a national literary tradition. The American Western in
Canadian Literature examines over a century of the development of
the Canadian Western as it responds to the American Western, to
evolving literary trends, and to regional, national, and
international change. Beginning with Indigenous perspectives on the
genre, it moves from early manifestations of the Western in
Christian narratives of personal and national growth, and its
controversial pulp-fictional popularity in the 1940s, to its
postmodern and contemporary critiques, pushing the boundary of the
Western to include Northerns, Northwesterns, and post-Westerns in
literature, film, and wider cultural imagery. The American Western
in Canadian Literature is more than a simple history. It uses genre
theory to comment on historical perspectives on nation and region.
It includes overviews of Indigenous and settler-colonial critiques
of the Western, challenging persistent attitudes to Indigenous
people and their traditional territories that are endemic to the
genre. It illuminates the way that the Canadian Western enshrines,
hagiographies, and ultimately desacralizes aspects of Canadian
life, from car culture to extractive industries to assumptions
about a Canadian moral high ground. This is a comprehensive, highly
readable, and fascinating study of an underexamined genre.
An analysis of the oldest form of poetry. Sumer, in the southern
part of Iraq, created the first literary culture in history, as
early as 2500BC. The account is structured around a complete
English translation of the fragmentary Lugalbanda poems, narrating
the adventures of the eponymous hero. The study reveals a work of a
rich and sophisticated poetic imagination and technique, which, far
from being in any sense 'primitive', are so complex as to resist
much modern literary analysis.
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