Cardiff University (CF)

Concise study notes for A-level and undergraduate French students who receive feedback such as “trop général” or “manque de précision” on written assignments. These notes explain what généralités are in French academic writing, why they weaken introductions, and how to write more direct, focused openings — even when the assignment question is broad. Includes clear explanations, practical examples, and a short checklist to help improve French language assignments and essay writing...

Notes covering: - Graham Swift's Waterland - The ideas of progress and how war interacts with this - Pre and post enlightenment ideas of progress -Structure of the narrative of Waterland

PowerPoint presentation covering: - Sebald's life and career - Sebald and war - Austerlitz - Narrative style - War, the Holocaust and ideas of progress

Covers the following: - race relations and relations between men and women - domestic and imperial spaces - shared frustrations of race and feminism - gender and race hierarchies - Jane Eyre - Comparisons of Shirley and Villette to people of non-white races - Class, race and gender oppression

Summary of key Quotes from Lady Audley's Secret

Notes covering: - Origins of Magical Realism - Alternative realities of magical realism - Combination of reality and fantasy - Locations and dislocations - El boom and the new novel - Post colonial Latin America - Marquez and One Hundred Years of Solitude

Summary of Jane Eyre including: - Feminism and challenging patriarchy - Victorian values - Unrepresentative experiences of Jane - middle class - Colonialism - Indian colonialism

Presentation covers: - McEwan's life and early career - McEwan and War - Atonement - Legacy of WWI and impending WWII - McEwan and Auden, - Realism and the 'real' - Trauma as a missed encounter with the real - Narrative technique and the evocation of trauma

Presentation covering the following: - Swift's Life and early career - Importance of war in Swift's fiction, especially WWI - Waterland - WWI and shell shock - Role of WWII - war and philosophies of progress - threat of nuclear war - style and narrative structure

Notes looking at the way in which magical realist texts are feminist in their approach. Explores the core themes of: - The use of spirits, ghosts and haunted spaces - Story telling as survival - Gender and the decolonisation of language