English Resources (page 28)

That s what we all want for our children and their learning. And that can be a lot easier than it seems, at least when it comes to their writing! This time of year can seem p...

Your child has just finished reading an extract of writing. It could have been fiction, it could have been non-fiction, but either way they got it . They understood what they read ...

“The text must clearly declare itself as belonging to a known genre or type.” (J. A. BURROW)Discuss in relation to any domain of language. The titular quotation is tak...

[W]e are as separate from ourselves as other people (Adam Phillips).Discuss. The separation of the self, from the self and from others, is a preoccupation across Phillips w...

GRAPHIC NOVELS AS PASTICHEJameson sees pastiche as a practice that arises from the "disappearance of the individual subject" and the "unavailability of the personal style". Postmod...

Performativity, Power Plays and the Postcolonial Body: applying Butler s consideration of materiality and identity to Kincaid, Cliff and Dangarembga s novels. You know, darling, ca...

Speaking Shakespeare: Complexities and Complicities in Controlling Community through ConversationThe Oxford English Dictionary contains two over-arching results defining the noun â...

Social Anxieties in Shakespeare s Imagined City SpacesAdam Hansen notes that it is due to the factors and conditions of London at the time of his writing that Shakespeare s pla...

But It s Not Shakespeare : (De)Constructing Aspirations of Authenticity, from Irving to Granville BarkerProductions of Shakespeare are regularly met with complaint against t...

As the title suggests, The Remains of the Day examines the last stretch of the protagonist s life. Time, and the opportunities life presents, are referenced through the seasons, tim...