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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 2: Texts in Time
In this elective students compare how the treatment of similar content in a pair of texts composed in different times and contexts may reflect changing values and perspectives. By considering the texts in their contexts and comparing values, ideas and language forms and features, students come to a heightened understanding of the meaning and significance of each text.
Students choose a pair of texts from the following list:
Prose Fiction and Film
- Shelley, Mary, Frankenstein, Penguin Red Classics, 2006, ISBN-13: 9780141024448
AND
- Scott, Ridley, Blade Runner (Director’s Cut), Warner Bros, 1982 or Scott, Ridley, Blade Runner (Final Cut), Warner Bros, 2007
or
Prose Fiction and Poetry
- Fitzgerald, F Scott, The Great Gatsby, Penguin Red Classics, 2006, ISBN-13: 9780141023434
AND
- Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, Aurora Leigh and Other Poems, Penguin Classics, 1995, ISBN-13: 9780140434125
Sonnets I, XIII, XIV, XXI, XXII, XXVIII, XXXII, XLIII
or
Drama and Nonfiction
- Albee, Edward, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Vintage/Random House, 2001, ISBN-13: 9780099285694
AND
- Woolf, Virginia, A Room of One’s Own, Penguin Classics, 2005, ISBN-13: 9780141018980
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