Thursday, 27 September 2012

Use the Library!

Mrs Murray has been busy sorting out the Library, and she has kindly come up with some more Wider Reading suggestions that you can borrow:

Tender Is The Night - F Scott Fitzgerald (1934)
The Beautiful and damned - F Scott Fitzgerald (1922)

The Age of Innocence - Edith Wharton (1920)

First Love and Other Stories - Ivan Turgenev (1860)

Monday, 17 September 2012

Course work reading suggestions


Love and Marriage:

The Franklin's Tale Chaucer
Sense and sensibility by Jane Austin
Written on the body Jeanette Winterson
Sexing the Cherry Jeanette Winterson
The World's Wife  Carol Ann Duffy
Feminine Gospels Carol Ann Duffy
The Bloody Chamber  Angela Carter
Tess of the D'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 
Portrait of a Lady  Henry James
The Great Gatsby  F. Scott Fitzgerald
Streetcar named Desire Tennessee Williams
Love Poems by Brian Pattern
Atonement  Ian McEwan
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
Beloved Toni Morrison
The Color Purple  Alice Walker
Possessing the secret of Joy
The Heart of the Matter  Graham Greene



Representations of women/ gender:

All of the above
Orlando Virginia Woolf
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
Top Girls Caryl Churchill
Dancing at Lughnasa Brian Friel

Post-colonial:

Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte
Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rees



Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Anna Karenina

We're going to see the latest film version of 'Anna Karenina' next week. Let's read Tolstoy's novel, too, to see how we think the director did!