English Literature A privileges the process of making autonomous meaning, encouraging students to debate and challenge the interpretations of other readers as they develop their own informed personal responses. Given the spirit of the specification, rather than imposing a uniform list of prescribed set texts, various options are offered in terms of both time period and genre. Across the course, students will study texts both diachronically (produced across a very broad time period) and synchronically (produced within a clearly defined time period). The course encourages the exploration of texts in a number of different ways: • the study of a literary theme over time • the study of literature through engaging with two of the main historicist perspectives, the diachronic (reading texts written across widely different time periods that explore the same theme) and synchronic (reading texts written within a narrower and clearly defined time period) • the study of various texts, both singly and comparatively, chosen from a list of core set texts and a list of chosen comparative set texts • writing about texts in a number of different ways. Working with texts over time involves looking at ways in which authors shape meanings within their texts. It also involves thinking about a wide range of relevant contexts, some of them to do with the production of the text at the time of its writing, some (where possible) to do with how the text has been received over time and, most of all in this specification, contexts to do with how the text can be interpreted by readers now. And finally, because texts and their meanings are not fixed, interpretation is not fixed, and multiple interpretations are possible.
Name: A Level English Literature Qualification title: GCE A Level in English Literature B Qualification type: Assessment 2 Exams and 1 piece of coursework Awarding Assessment & Qualifications Alliance Created 20150923 09:38:39 Updated 20161031 15:17:43
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Title: GCE A Level in English Literature B Qualification: GCE A Level in English Literature B Classification: Languages, Literature and Culture