COMPULSORY TASK:

Please complete the two tasks in the document below.

You will need to submit and discuss your notes with your English teacher in September. 

Year 13 English Literature Compulsory Summer Task

If you have any questions, please email l.clark@springwoodhighschool.co.uk

 

OPTIONAL EXTENSION:

Read the following articles from the collection of articles ‘The art of fiction’ by David Lodge (click here), and take notes on the main aspects. 

• The Stream of Consciousness (Virginia Woolf) page 41
• Interior Monologue (James Joyce) page 46
• Symbolism (D. H. Lawrence) page 138
• Metafiction (John Barth) page 206
• The Uncanny (Edgar Allan Poe) page 21 1

 The art fiction is published under a wide range of headings, such as the Intrusive Author, Suspense, the Epistolary Novel, Time-shift, the Sense of Place, and Symbolism.

Each topic is illustrated by a short passage or two taken from classic and modern fiction, ranging from Laurence Sterne to J.D. Salinger, from Jane Austen to Fay Weldon, from Charles Dickens to Martin Amis. David Lodge takes these passages apart and puts them back together again with the expertise of a novelist, critic, and teacher. Technical terms are lucidly explained, and their applications examined, in the literary-critical equivalent of slow-motion replays of some of the best writing in the English language. To throw further light on a given topic, the author sometimes refers directly, and revealingly, to his own experience of writing fiction.

This book is essential reading for students of literature, aspiring writers, and anyone who enjoys literary fiction and would like to better understand how it works.