Cardiff University (CF)

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

Summary of the core themes of Said's Culture and Imperialism work

Presentation summarising Pat Barker's Another World Explores: - Life and background of author - WWI - Summary of the novel and its core themes

Summary of Pat Barker's Another World Includes: - Pat Barker's background - Setting of Another World - Focus on the character Geordie - Theme of trauma

Summary of Arthur Miller's play, A View From The Bridge. Exploration of: - Eddie Carbone - Alfieri - Dramatic techniques used (language, symbolism)