It is strange to be reminded that Jane Austen’s classic romance, Pride and Prejudice, was published (sans zombies) just five years before the first edition of Mary Shelley’s gothic horror tale, Frankenstein. The contemporary social upheaval caused by the competing ideologies of the Enlightenment, Industrialisation and the Romantic Movement is evident in Shelley’s text but [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Jane Austen’
Contextual Notes for Pride and Prejudice
Posted in HSC English, tagged Comparative Study, context, HSC, Jane Austen, Module A, Pride and Prejudice on June 19, 2011 | 11 Comments »
Belonging through textual engagement
Posted in HSC English, tagged AoS, Area of Study, belonging, buffy, HSC, Jane Austen, Literature, text on March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The final aspect of belonging on the ETA list and the one my students have had the most difficulty with is belonging through textual engagement. Like all of the aspects, and the concept of belonging itself, belonging through textual engagement seems ephemeral to the point of meaninglessness. However, if you can master it and apply [...]
What Belonging means to me
Posted in HSC English, Thinking, tagged AoS, Area of Study, Australian literature, belonging, Jane Austen, journal, language, quotes on October 20, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Belonging is the new HSC Area of Study but it’s more than that, it’s a fundamental human need. I tend to conceptualize belonging in the negative, to think of the outsider, of the person who doesn’t belong. I always identified with those characters in books, with Erika Yurken in Hating Alison Ashley, with Elspeth in [...]
EX11 Term 3 Project Post 3
Posted in Reading, Teaching, Writing, tagged appropriation, creative writing, English literature, Jane Austen, journal, Literature, Preliminary, reading on August 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
All three of my texts end with a relationship being firmly established. In P&P and B&P, this relationship is a marriage and this has been the goal, if not of the female leads then at least of their mothers, all along. Bridget ends up with her Darcy but, in the modern western tradition (begun, I [...]
EX11 Term 3 Project Post 2
Posted in Reading, Teaching, tagged appropriation, English literature, film, Jane Austen, journal, Literature, Preliminary, reading, texts on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
During discussion in class today a student asked, “isn’t that the one where they randomly burst into song?” He was, of course, referring to one of my chosen appropriations, the Bollywood film, Bride and Prejudice (see previous post for an example of a musical number from the film). This got me thinking about the links [...]
EX11 Term 3 Project Post 1
Posted in Reading, Teaching, tagged appropriation, English literature, Jane Austen, journal, Literature, Preliminary, reading, texts on July 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Following the example of Dr Shann, I have decided to begin work on the Term 3 project being undertaken by the Preliminary Extension English classes. These journal entries will chronicle my progress and, hopefully, serve as a guide to the students who are tackling the idea of a learning journal for the first time. This [...]
