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Introduction to Elective 1: Transformations
MODULE A: Comparative Study of Texts and Context
This module requires students to compare texts in order to explore them in relation to their contexts. It develops students’ understanding of the effects of context and questions of value. (Reread English Stage 6 Syllabus 
, p 51.)
Elective 1: Exploring Connections
In this elective students will explore how meanings of a pair of texts can be shaped and reshaped by considering the nature of the connections between them. Exploration of the connections between the texts will enhance understanding of the values and contexts of each text. Relationships between these texts may be implicit or explicit. Connections may be established through direct or indirect references, contexts, values, ideas, and the use of language forms and features.
Students choose a pair of texts from the following list:
Shakespearean Drama and Film
Shakespeare, William, King Richard III, New Cambridge Shakespeare, Cambridge University Press, 1999, ISBN-13: 9780521276320; or Cambridge School Shakespeare, 2006, ISBN-13: 9780521618731
AND
Pacino, Al, Looking for Richard, Fox, 2005
Prose Fiction and Poetry
White, Patrick, The Aunt’s Story, Vintage/Random House, 1994, ISBN-13: 9780099324010
AND
Dobson, Rosemary, Selected Poems, Board of Studies website
‘Young Girl at a Window’, ‘Chance Met’, ‘Landscape in Italy’, ‘Azay-Le-Rideau’,
‘The Rape of Europa’, ‘Romantic’, ‘Primitive Painters’
Prose Fiction and Nonfiction
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, Penguin Red Classics, 2006, ISBN-13: 9780141028101
AND
Weldon, Fay, Letters to Alice on First Reading Jane Austen, Cambridge University Press, 1998, ISBN-13: 9780521589284 or reprint edition by Sceptre/Hatchette available October 2008, ISBN: 9780340589373
Poetry and Drama
Donne, John, Selected Poetry, Penguin Classics, 1986, ISBN-13: 9780140585186
‘Death be not proud’, ‘This is my playes last scene’, ‘At the round earths imagin’d corners blow’, ‘If poisonous minerals’, ‘Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse’, ‘A Valediction: forbidding mourning’, ‘The Apparition’, ‘The Relique’, ‘The Sunne Rising’
AND
Edson, Margaret, W;t, Nick Hern/Currency Press, 2000, ISBN-13: 9781854594587
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