English literature

Look at this link to a website dedicated to A level English literatre studies.  It also provides free online seminars. http://peripeteia.webs.com/

 

 

 

http://www.bl.uk/whatson/exhibitions/gothic/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1DHZFB726CfZ29KDh4sDvnC/about-the-season

Remember that you can access the English and Media Centre magazine by following this link . Get the username and password from your teacher if you have forgotten it.  The magazine has lots of good tips about how to do your critical and comparative English lit coursework.

 

Have a listen to this link about the gothic in which Marina Warner, writer and professor of literature at Essex University, calls gothic Britain’s “most important cultural export.”  The British Film Institute has a season on gothic influences in British cinema.  Check it out here.

 

There are two productions of Macbeth on at the moment – Kenneth Branagh’s version in Manchester and one at The Globe in London.  Read a review here.

The Branagh version is going to be broadcast live on 20th July at cinemas around the UK.  Have a look at this link to see where you can watch it.  It’s on at Vue Reading and Henley.

                                           If you are going to carry on with A2 literature, you will be doing the Gothic genre.  This link will take you to an article about a new stage adaptation of the much acclaimed Swedish vampire love story (yes you did read that correctly)  Let the Right One In.  Would definitley be worth going to see this and tickets are going to be available at lower prices to attract a younger audience to the theatre.

 

If you are doing English literature A2, you have got to have a look at Gothic: The Dark Heart of Film, a season of films, TV and radio broadcasts organsied by the British Film Institute.  It looks brilliant.  Listen to the launch clip and read what some of the panel of guests said about the Gothic genre:  Charlie Higson nails it when he says: “I love the idea of decent, upstanding citizens stripping away layers of mystery to discover the craziness and horror at the heart of things.”  The director of the BFI Heather Stewart also gave this great insight: “Gothic will celebrate the very British genius – rooted in literature and art – that gave rise to some of the most filmed characters in our on-screen history: Dracula, Frankenstein and Jekyll & Hyde. Gothic introduced the nation to sex, unleashing dark passions and breaking taboos along the way”

There is a great British New Wave season on BBC Radio 4 at the moment.  These are texts that gave birth to the ‘angry young man’ culture with plays like Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and Look Back in Anger. The working class were the subjects of the play instead of the focus being solely on the middle class.  Follow this link.

Please click here for the excellent Angry Little Troll site. Its own mission statement suggests “this site is aimed at students (A Level through to undergraduate), teachers, and academics, working or interested in literary theory/English Literature. Over the coming weeks and months, the site will – hopefully – offer a selection of academic papers, “entries” on apsects of literature/literary theory studies, links to other sites of interest, and other miscellaneous tidbits.”