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Masters in Pieces

Masters in Pieces
The English Canon for the Twenty-First Century
AUTHOR(S):
Michael Parker / Fiona Morrison
REGION:
Australia
LEVELS:
Year 11 / Year 12
SUBJECT AREA:
English
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1ed
ISBN:
9780521671316
PUBLICATION DATE:
17/05/2006
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Masters in Pieces introduces students to the ideas and people surrounding a selection of the most significant English literature of the past thousand years. Taking a contemporary critical literacy approach to major literary works, students completing units in this text will be prepared for their senior year.

  • Includes the Medieval, Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods, as well as the last two hundred years of Australian literature.
  • Encourages students to think about these texts in new ways by considering them in light of modern literary theories and in relation to popular culture.
  • Discusses and questions the existence and formation of the English literary canon.
  • Asks students to respond to the texts in a variety of ways, from essay-writing and role-plays to creative writing and mock trials.
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INTRODUCTION; Alternative Structure for Units; Note to teachers;

The Idea of A Canon

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

What is the 'English canon'?: Context - Ways of seeing the canon

Origins of the canon

Humanism and the canon

Challenges to Humanism

The American 'Culture Wars'

Various Schools of Literary Criticism: Postcolonial

Feminist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic

New Historicist and Cultural Materialist

Queer

Deconstructive

UNIT ONE - Knights

Floods and Dragons - Olde and Medieval Literature

Context of the Period

Beowulf

Geoffrey Chaucer and The Canterbury Tales

Vision Literature and St Julian

Mystery Plays and Noah's Flood

King Arthur, Malory and Morte D'Arthur

UNIT TWO - Lovers, Monsters and Devils - Renaissance Literature

Context of the Period

More and Utopia

Sonnet Smorgasboard: Thomas Wyatt, Phillip Sidney, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Mary Wroth; Renaissance Drama; Christopher Marlowe and Dr Faustus; William Shakespeare, King Lear and The Tempest; John Milton and Paradise Lost;

UNIT THREE - Visions - Nature and Tyrants - Romantic Literature; Context of the Period

William Blake and "Songs of Innocence and Experience"

William Wordsworth and "Tintern Abbey"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge and "Kubla Khan"

Percy Byssche Shelley and "Ozymandias"

John Keats and "Ode to Autumn"

Alongside Romanticism - Jane Austen

UNIT FOUR - Harpies, Goblins and Handbags- Victorian Literature

Context of the Period

Alfred, Lord Tennyson and "The Lady of Shalott"

The Rise of the Novel; Charles Dickens, Hard Times and Great Expectations; Charlotte Bronte and Jane Eyre; Christina Rossetti, the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and "Goblin Market"; Oscar Wilde and The Importance of Being Earnest;

UNIT FIVE -

Anxieties, Rebellions and Mermaids - Modern Literature;

Context of the Period; Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness

W. B. Yeats, "Easter 1916" and "The Second Coming"

James Joyce and Ulysses; Virginia Woolf and To the Lighthouse

T.S Eliot and "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"

UNIT SIX - Bushmen, Stars and the Big Smoke - Australian Literature; Introduction - National Literatures and Contemporary Classics

Visions of the Outback: Charles Harpur

Banjo Paterson, Henry Lawson, Dorothea Mackellar, Henry Handel Richardson

The Big Smoke - Modernism and (Urban) Australia: Kenneth Slessor, Christina Stead, The Ern Malley Affair; Newer Landscapes in Poetry: Judith Wright, Gwen Harwood; Where Are We Now?: Tim Winton

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Michael Parker
At the time of publication, Michael was Head of English at Newington College in Sydney. He has previously worked at Eton College in the UK and Cranbrook School in Sydney, and works each week at Alexandria Park Community School in Redfern. Michael has marked and judged Extension English in the HSC.
Fiona Morrison
At the time of publication, Fiona was convenor and lecturer of the University of Sydney's UPC English Literature course. She has previously worked as a lecturer at the University of Sydney, UNSW and the University of Western Sydney. Fiona also works as a policy consultant at universities and in the vocational education and training sector. She has regularly been heard as the literary correspondent of ABC 702's afternoon programme.
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