Russell Carey, Anne Fairhall, Tom Rank

A/AS Level English Literature A for AQA Student Book

Herausgeber: Giovanelli, Marcello

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A new series of bespoke, full-coverage resources developed for the 2015 A Level English qualifications.

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Produktdetails

• A Level (AS) English Literature AQA
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 277mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 676g
• ISBN-13: 9781107467927
• ISBN-10: 1107467926
• Artikelnr.: 41852904

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
BEGINNING: 1. Overview
2. Responding to literature
3. Texts, contexts and time
4. Wider reading, research and writing skills
5. Poetry
6. Prose
7. Drama
DEVELOPING: 8. Love Through the Ages: Introduction
8.1 What is love?
8.2 Connecting love through the ages: Poetry
8.3 Connecting love through the ages: Prose
9. Love Through the Ages: Shakespeare
9.1 The Elizabethan era
9.2 Shakespeare's plays
9.3 Othello
9.4 The Taming of the Shrew
9.5 Measure for Measure
9.6 The Winter's Tale
10. Love Through the Ages: Poetry
10.1 Ideal, romantic love
10.2 Love, sex and inconstancy
10.3 Marriage and mature love
10.4 Love, loss and taboos
10.5 Bringing it all together
11. Love Through the Ages: Prose
11.1 Romantic love
11.2 Marriage and commitment
11.3 Love and death
11.4 Social conventions and taboos
11.5 Jealousy, guilt and remembrance 11.6 Bringing it all together
12. World War I and its Aftermath: Introduction
12.1 The Great War
12.2 The historical and social context
12.3 Memory and mourning
12.4 The pre-war cultural context
12.5 The aftermath
13. World War I and its Aftermath: Drama
13.1 The theatre of war and war in the theatre
13.2 R.C. Sherriff: Journey's End
13.3 Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop: Oh! What a Lovely War
13.4 Peter Whelan: The Accrington Pals
13.5 Richard Curtis and Ben Elton: Blackadder Goes Forth
13.6 David Haig: My Boy Jack
14. World War I and its Aftermath: Poetry
14.1 Poetry and remembrance
14.2 The age of chivalry
14.3 Which England?
14.4 Only connect: Finding the themes
15. World War I and its Aftermath: Prose
15.1 The novel before the First World War
15.2 Understanding the set texts
15.3 Rebecca West: The Return of the Soldier
15.4 Erich Maria Remarque: All Quiet on the Western Front
15.5 Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms
15.6 Susan Hill: Strange Meeting
15.7 Pat Barker: Regeneration
15.8 Sebastian Faulks: Birdsong
15.9 Sebastian Barry: A Long Long Way
15.10 Ben Elton: The First Casualty
15.11 Pat Barker: Life Class
15.12 Bringing it all together
16. Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day: Introduction
16.1 Introduction
16.2 Education, education, education
16.3 Education and social mobility
16.4 Representation of class and gender in post-1945 literature
16.5 Representations of gender
16.6 The enduring influence of stereotypes
16.7 Exploring how Sylvia Plath portrays attitudes towards women in 'The Applicant'
17. Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day: Drama
17.1 Introduction
17.2 The beginning of Miller's All My Sons
17.3 The moral implications of plays
17.4 Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
17.5 Tennessee Williams: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
17.6 Making connections across genres
18. Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day: Poetry
18.1 Poetry today
18.2 The poems in this unit
18.3 Poems about family relationships
18.4 Poems about relationships, their tensions and endings
18.5 Two poets exploring one day from different perspectives
18.6 Poetry about loss and grief
18.7 Bringing it all together
19. Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day: Prose
19.1 The texts in this unit
19.2 Exploring Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
19.3 Exploring The Handmaid's Tale
19.4 Exploring The Color Purple
19.5 Structure of novels
19.6 Prose questions in the examination paper
19.7 Bringing it all together
20. Texts Across Time
20.1 Why do a non-examined assessment?
20.2 The key requirements of the non-examined assessment
20.3 Choosing your texts
20.4 Selecting a theme for your comparison
20.5 Preparing for the assignment
20.6 Writing the first draft
20.7 The final draft
20.8 Unit summary
ENRICHING: 21. Love Through the Ages
22. World War I and its Aftermath
23. Modern Times: Literature from 1945 to the Present Day
24. Texts Across Time
Index
Acknowledgements