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Dynamic Syllabus
DYNAMIC SYLLABUS
AoE: Time and Space
Global Issues: Culture, identity and community / Beliefs, values and education / Politics, power and justice / Art, creativity and the imagination / Science, technology and the environment
Key Concepts: Identity / Culture / Creativity / Communication / Perspective / Transformation
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LW: William Blake, ”Songs of Innocence and of Experience: Shewing the Two Contrary States of the Human Soul”, 1794 (leaning ‘reader, writer, text’)
Primary Texts
from Songs of Innocence
The Ecchoing Green
The Lamb
The Chimney-Sweeper*
The Little Boy Found*
The Divine Image*
Holy Thursday*
Nurse's Song
Infant Joy*
from Songs of Experience
Holy Thursday*
The Chimney-Sweeper*
Nurse's Song
The Tyger
My Pretty Rose Tree*
The Garden of Love
London
Infant Sorrow*
A Poison Tree
A Divine Image*
* covered exclusively through individual student project work/class presentations
Secondary Texts
William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, 1793 (excerpt) (poetry)
William Blake, Jerusalem, 1808 (poetry, hymn)
William Wordsworth, The Tables Turned, 1798 (poetry)
Sam Hobkinson and Peter Ackroyd, "The Romantics, Liberty (s1:e1)", 2006, BBC Documentary (excerpt) (documentary, non-fiction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLwRXlSgiSQ
Pia Rørkær Sigh and Niels Randbo Back, "The Romantic Age: Historical background" from , “Through Literary Landscapes”, 2020 (historical background text, non-fiction)
Pia Rørkær Sigh and Niels Randbo Back, "The Romantic Age Literary Background" from , “Through Literary Landscapes”, 2020 (historical background text, non-fiction)
British Library, ”William Blake vs the World: Why he matters more than ever”, 2021 (documentary, non-fiction)
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-57419544
Paul Glynn, "William Blake: Biography offers glimpse into artist and poet's visionary mind", 2021 (article, non-fiction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVtLe1H6Jqs
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LW: William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Macbeth, 1606 (first performed)/1623 (first published)
Secondary Texts
Literary criticism
Wilson, A., ”The Elizabethan World View”, British and World Literature, Weebly
https://wilsonsbritworld.weebly.com/uploads/7/0/9/1/7091916/theelizabethanworldview.pdf
Films with a somewhat intertextual focus: Shakespeare remediated through cinema
Philip Casson/The Royal Shakespeare Company, Macbeth, 1979 (authentic theatre version, filmed)
Marc Brozel, ShakespeaRe-Told: Macbeth, 2005 (Macbeth as chef) - excerpts
Geoffrey Wright, Macbeth, 2006 (Macbeth as Aussie crimelord) - excerpts
Rupert Gould, Macbeth, 2010 (Macbeth as Communist dictator) - excerpts
Justin Kurzel, Macbeth, 2015 (Attempt at 11th century historically correct version)
Joel Cohen, The Tragedy of Macbeth, 2021 (black and white traditional production as a film) - excerpts
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BoW: Edward Burtynsky's photo-series, "the Anthropocene", 2018
Primary Texts (photos)
https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/anthropocene
Building Ivory Tusk Mound, April 25, Nairobi, Kenya, 2016 (Carl, Jose)
Carrara Marble Quarries, Carbonera Quarry #1, Carrara, Italy, 2016 (Sofia)
Clearcut #4, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2016 (Karina)
Coal Mine #1, North Rhine, Westphalia, Germany, 2015 (Alina, Jacob)
*Dandora Landfill #3, Plastics Recycling, Nairobi, Kenya, 2016 (AC, Filip)
*Freeman Island, Long Beach, California, USA, 2017 (Amanda, Matteo)
Lithium mines #1, salt flats, Atacama Desert, Chile, 2017 (Emily)
Log Booms #1, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada, 2016 (Baltasar)
Makoko#2, Lagos, Nigeria, 2016 (Leah, Muhsin, Ruby)
Oil Bunkering #7, Niger Delta, Nigeria, 2016 (Ife)
Salinas #5, Aquaculture, Cadiz, Spain, 2013 (Kristina)
*Sidarth Nagar, Worli, Mumbai, India, 2016 (William)
Uralkali Potash Mine #1, Berezniki, Russia, 2017 (Sergiu)
Uralkali Potash Mine #4, Berezniki, Russia, 2017 (Julie)
Secondary Texts
Edward Burtynsky, "Artist's Statement", The Edward Burtynsky webpage, extract from Edward Burtynsky, "Life in the Anthropocene", 2018 (essay, non-fiction)
https://www.edwardburtynsky.com/projects/photographs/anthropocene
Nicholas de Pencier, Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky, "Anthropocene, The Human Epoch", 2018 (documentary, non-fiction)
Phuong Le, "Anthropocene: The Human Epoch review – colossal eco doc prettifies disaster", The Guardian, Sep 4, 2021 (review, non-fiction)
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/sep/01/anthropocene-the-human-epoch-review-jennifer-baichwal-nicholas-de-pencier-edward-burtynsky
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Body of Work: Penn's Into the Wild
Primary Text (film)
Sean Penn, Into the Wild, 2007
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AoE: Readers, Writers, Texts
Global Issues: Culture, identity and community / Beliefs, values and education / Politics, power and justice / Science, technology and the environment
Key Concepts: Identity / Culture / Communication / Perspective / Transformation / Representation
LW: Hans Christian Andersen, selected literary folk tales (leaning intertextuality)
Primary Texts
The Ugly Duckling
The Little Match Girl
Clumsy Hans
The Nightingale (Intertextual focus: compare to Wilde)
The Little Mermaid (Focuses: Feminism (theory), Intertext: Disneyfication)
The Emperor’s New Clothes (Contextual Focus: satire, social critique)
The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Biographical focus)
Secondary Texts
Jeremy Watts, "About Folk Tales", 2004
Joseph Jacobs, Lazy Jack, 1890
Oscar Wilde, The Nightingale and the Rose, 1888
Disney's two remediated versions of The Little Mermaid (excerpts), 1983/2023
Danish folklore: Agnete and the Merman
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LW: Yoko Tawada, The Last Children of Tokyo, 2016 (leaning ‘time and space’)
Secondary Texts
Le Mans Université, “Narrated Time vs. Narrative Time”, 2020 (literary criticism)
Source: https://perso.univ-lemans.fr/~xlachaz/2%29%20Litterature%20%28L1,%20L2,%20L3,%20CAPES%20&%20Agregation%29/1%29%20Licence%201/2%29%20Cours%20du%20Semestre%201/Time.pdf
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BoW: Liza Donnely’s cartoons
https://lizadonnelly.com/cartoons
Primary texts (cartoons)
Cartoons by Liza Donnelly:
"Punch", 1996
"Liking Trucks", 2008
"Women Holding Globe", 2012
"Am I Going to Be Raped", 2013
"Your dad's a feminist!", 2014
"I am Suppossed to be Here", 2015
”Assume I’m a snowman”, 2016
"my rape allegations believed", 2019
"I can't decide what I'm going to be when I grow up - a good girl or a slut.", 2020
"Feminist Viewpoint", 2022
Secondary texts
TED Talks
Liza Donnelly, "Drawing upon humor for change", TED TALK, 2010
Bob Mankoff, "Anatomy of a New Yorker cartoon", TEDTALK, 2013
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AoE: Intertextuality
Global Issues: Culture, identity and community / Beliefs, values and education / Politics, power and justice / Art, creativity and the imagination / Science, technology and the environment
Key Concepts: Identity / Culture / Creativity / Perspective / Transformation / Representation
Primary text
LW: Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, 1818/1831
(incorporating ’reader, writer, text’ as well as ’time and space’)
Secondary Texts
Literary Criticism
Glennis Byron, “Narrative Techniques”, 1988, York Notes Advanced, York Press, pp. 71-73
Andrew Green, “Features of Gothic” and “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” from “Philip Allan Literature Guide for A-Level: Frankenstein, Mary Shelley”, 2010, Philip Allan Updates, Oxfordshire, pp. 59-61, 64-65
Robert Harris, “Elements of the Gothic Novel”, 2020, VirtualSalt webpage
Source: https://www.virtualsalt.com/elements-of-the-gothic-novel/
Epic poems, Shelley’s inspiration
John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book 10, ll. 706-764, excerpt), 1667
Source: https://milton.host.dartmouth.edu/reading_room/pl/book_10/text.shtml
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere, 1798
Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Lyrical_Ballads_(1798)/The_Rime_of_the_Ancyent_Marinere
Film - adaptation, remediation
James Whale, Frankenstein, 1931, Universal Pictures
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LW: Edgar Allen Poe, "Tales of Mystery and Horror" (selected short stories)
(incorporating ’reader, writer, text’)
Primary texts (short stories)
The Tell-tale Heart, 4p (Macbeth allusions)
The Black Cat, 7p (biblical and mythological allusions)
The Pit and the Pendulum, 10p (bible)
The Premature Burial, 10p (Buchan/Night Thoughts)
https://skullsinthestars.com/2008/06/01/edgar-allan-poes-the-premature-burial-and-its-references/
The Fall of the House of Usher, 13p (Beranger?)
Secondary texts
The Raven (poem, mythological allusions/references)
Excerpt from "The Philosophy of Composition" (literary criticism)
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/69390/the-philosophy-of-composition
Intertextuality: The Simpsons (s2:e3)
Intertextuality: Netflix, The Fall of the House of Usher (s1:e1)
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/the-fall-of-the-house-of-usher-poe-references
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BoW: Fincher’s Fight Club
Primary Text (film)
David Fincher, Fight Club, 1999
Secondary Texts
David Tysowki, "David Fincher’s Fight Club and Consumerism 20 Years Later", 2020 (article)
Kamil Mozel, "The Life Lessons of Fight Club", 2021 (article)
Analytical Approaches (TOK-links)
Psychoanalytical terms and film analysis; reflected by cinematic techniques.
Jungian archetypes, spc. shadow, animus, anima, individuation
Consumerism
Masculinity/femininity
Gender performativity
Toxic masculinity
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