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Tabloid
We often associate tabloid newspapers with sensationalism, low-brow culture and big images. Although these associations are for the most part correct, technically the term 'tabloid' refers to the actual...
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Black Boy
Richard Wright's 'Black Boy' is an autobiographical portrait of growing up black in the South during the first part of the 1900s. Wright, whose political and cultural activities placed him at the centre...
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Stylistics
By Debra Williams-Gualandi Stylistics as it has developed in the twentieth century may be considered the study of how linguistic features contribute to the meaning and effect of a work. One can see the...
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Postcolonial criticism
By Debra Williams-Gualandi I was lucky enough to be an undergraduate student in a dynamic English Literature department in the late 1980s. The late (and for me, great) Edward Said influenced the tone...
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New historicism
By Debra William-Gualandi In my efforts to read into the guide, behind it, beneath it, underneath it, in order to reach an understanding of what theoretical currents lie behind the aims of the program,...
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Critical Discourse Analysis
By Debra William-Gualandi Critical discourse analysis (CDA) covers a number of methods and theoretical underpinnings in academic research. It provides some excellent tools for the work we do in English...
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Skills Free
The further oral activity tests various skills. As the course aims to develop the powers of expression and communication, students are expected to prepare their use of language, organize their activity...
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Context of composition
If writers are influenced by their context, then we will have to learn more about these contexts in order to understand their texts. Writers can be influenced by the times in which they live, the place...
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WT1, the 'imaginative piece' Free
I am currently examining the last batch of written tasks from the old A2 course, and I'm coming across a lot of issues that are relevant for the new Language and Literature course. Essentially the core...
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WT2 Q3 (Starkey)
The following written task 2 took its inspiration from a unit on race and language. Students were given all six prescribed questions for written task 2 and shown a few videos, one of which was this interview...