"Unit 1: Literary Genres- Aspects of Tragedy (Exam- 40%) Students will study the genre of “Tragedy” and analyse the extent to which tragic elements emerge in a range of genres. Students will study one Shakespeare play (Othello or King Lear), one other drama text (i.e. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman) and one pre 1900 text (i.e. Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the D’Urbervilles). Unit 2: Texts and Genres- Elements of Political Writing (Exam- 40%) Students will look at the extent to which texts can be labelled “political”. Although it can be claimed that all texts are political, what defines the texts is that they have issues of power and powerlessness at their core and political issues are central to each text’s structure. Again, students will look at texts from a range of genres i.e. Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience. Unit 3: Theory and Independence (Coursework- 20%) This unit is designed to allow students to read widely, to choose their own texts (if appropriate) and to understand that contemporary study of literature needs to be informed by the fact that different theoretical and critical methods can be applied to the subject. This area of the course provides a challenging and wide-ranging opportunity for an introduction to different ways of reading texts and for independent study. Students write a comparative essay on a work of poetry and prose, enlightened by a theory or approach to literary criticism (e.g. feminist theory, Marxist theory etc.). "
Name: GCE A Level in English Literature B Qualification title: GCE A Level in English Literature B Qualification type: GCE A/AS Level or equivalent Assessment Awarding Assessment & Qualifications Alliance Created 20161004 13:12:00 Updated 20161004 13:13:00
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