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The English Canon for the Twenty-First Century
REGION:
Australia
LEVELS:
Year 11 / Year 12
SUBJECT AREA:
English
EDITION:
1ed
ISBN:
9780521671316
PUBLICATION DATE:
17/05/2006
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What can the canon do for you?
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.
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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 We want to give you the opportunity to view sample pages of our titles so it's easier for you to make decisions. What can the canon do for you? ALL TITLES IN SERIES:
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