A Level English Language and Literature Coursework NEA
Proposal for Coursework Topic
Fiction
Stimulus Text:
Wise Children – Angela Carter
Your idea for the creative task
- Topics in
- Use of symbols to portray themes (grandfather clock for absent father, pairing
opposites)
- Rarer themes; illegitimacy, incest, culture
- Allusion (to other works); Shakespeare
- Influenced by Japanese literature, and gothic styles – enjoys the macabre, bringing
out the sexual and violent natures of little red riding hood.
- Marquis de Sade.
- Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic fiction
- Music hall and variety, popular entertainment that features successive acts starring
singers, comedians, dancers, and actors and sometimes jugglers, acrobats, and
magicians. (Wise Children)
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Non-Fiction
Stimulus Text:
How to be a Woman – Caitlin Moran
Your idea for the creative task
Genre
- Semi-autobiographical/biographical
- Intertwined with fact,
Proposal for Coursework Topic
Fiction
Stimulus Text:
Wise Children – Angela Carter
Your idea for the creative task
- Topics in
- Use of symbols to portray themes (grandfather clock for absent father, pairing
opposites)
- Rarer themes; illegitimacy, incest, culture
- Allusion (to other works); Shakespeare
- Influenced by Japanese literature, and gothic styles – enjoys the macabre, bringing
out the sexual and violent natures of little red riding hood.
- Marquis de Sade.
- Edgar Allan Poe’s Gothic fiction
- Music hall and variety, popular entertainment that features successive acts starring
singers, comedians, dancers, and actors and sometimes jugglers, acrobats, and
magicians. (Wise Children)
-
-
Non-Fiction
Stimulus Text:
How to be a Woman – Caitlin Moran
Your idea for the creative task
Genre
- Semi-autobiographical/biographical
- Intertwined with fact,