3ENG+Research+&+Communication


 * Course Outline:**

__**AS91479 - Develop an informed understanding of literature and/or language using critical texts**__

Class Task: "Through a Critical Lens"

Exemplar:

__"The Hunger Games" and Feminism__

[|"Feminist or Not?: The Hunger Games]- Heather Wood Rudulph (sexyfeminist.com)

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__Choose a Primary Source (Text)__

[|Internet Movie Database (IMDb)] [|Goodreads] Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald Slaughterhouse 5 - Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte The Colour Purple - Alice Walker One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Keysey Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee All Quiet on the Western Front - Erich Maria Remarque About a Boy - Nick Hornby Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger Lord of the Flies - William Golding Crime Story - Maurice Gee Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austin The Power and the Glory - Graham Greene In My Father's Den - Maurice Gee Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert A. Heinlein 2001 - Arthur C. Clarke Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes Frankenstein - Mary Shelley The Red Badge of Courage - Stephen Crane The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad The Bone People - Keri Hulme Among the Cinders - Maurice Shadbolt || **__Recommended Reading List for Level 3 Short Texts__** __Short Stories__ Patrica Grace Witi Ihimaera Janet Frame Ernest Hemingway Dylan Thomas Katherine Mansfield Flannery O'Connor Franz Kafka Ray Bradbury ||
 * **__Recommended Reading List for Level 3 Extended Texts__**:



__Choose a critical lens:__

Descriptions of various [|schools of literary criticism] at sparkcharts,com [|"Literacy Criticism"] at textetc.com "Major Schools of Literary Criticism" from online.santarosa.edu:

"Literary Theory" powerpoint from humboldt.spps.org:

"What is Literary Analysis?" powerpoint:

"Literary Criticism" powerpoint from vanschools.org:

"Theories of Literary Criticism" powerpoint:

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[|Online Literary Criticism Guide] at ipl.org

__Mr. Millen's Exemplar__

Notes - [|A Marxist Reading of "The Grapes of Wrath"]