First of all, after making the decision to do H2 Literature, I have to pick my texts. Here are my choices:<\/p>\n
Section B: Prose<\/p>\n
* E.M. Forster: A Room with a View Section C: Drama<\/p>\n * Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party PAPER 2: THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE 1558\u20131660 (3 hours)\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n This paper focuses on writing in English from the years 1558-1660.\u00a0The student will study three of the following texts:<\/em><\/p>\n * Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller I picked Wuthering Heights primarily because it’s a book that has been sitting on my shelf for years, and my literature teacher from secondary school mentioned it once in passing- so I’ve always had a fascination from it, and always needed an excuse to read it.<\/p>\n I picked The Importance of Being Earnest because I wanted to get to know Oscar Wilde a little better- he seemed like an interesting, intelligent and fun guy with a great sense of humour, and I thought it would be a great opportunity to learn from and about him.<\/p>\n I chose the English Renaissance because I was more interested in it than the other topics (Contemporary British, Post-Colonial Asian, and Women). I’ve always been interested in the actual European Renaissance- with Da Vinci and Michelangelo and Machiavelli- so I figured it would be pretty interesting to get to learn about the English equivalent (Wikipedia has provided some interesting perspective- including ideas about how there never really was an actual “English Renaissance”, and we’re kind of getting a biased picture from, well, the English!). Francis Bacon is a familiar name and a character of interest, so we’ll go with that.<\/p>\n I picked Hamlet because all I knew about it was “To be or not to be?”, and from it was quoted “Brevity is the soul of wit” (Thanks, Polonius), and I wanted to learn more about one of Shakespeare’s most famous poems. I ended up greatly enjoying getting into Hamlet’s reflective, contemplative mind. I think anybody who has a habit of spending a lot of time inside his or her own mind would enjoy Hamlet.<\/p>\n I picked Shakespeare’s sonnets because they’re supposed to be really good, right? I wanted to know more than “shall I compare thee to a summer’s day”. I wanted to understand poetry a little deeper, \u00a0a little better.<\/p>\n I picked Francis Bacon because he’s a philosopher who’s contributed significantly to human knowledge!<\/p>\n The cool thing about being a private candidate with some years under my belt is that I have more contextual knowledge- I have a better idea of what I’m interested in, and so I can make an informed decision about what I’d like to delve deeper into.<\/p>\n Next post in this series will be about how I get around to studying Literature, now that I’ve got my texts in order.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First of all, after making the decision to do H2 Literature, I have to pick my texts. Here are my choices: Section B: Prose * E.M. Forster: A Room with a View * Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea * Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights * J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace Section C: Drama… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[142],"class_list":["post-5457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-education"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5gxNz-1q1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n* Jean Rhys: Wide Sargasso Sea
\n* Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights<\/strong>
\n* J.M. Coetzee: Disgrace<\/p>\n
\n* Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest<\/strong>
\n* William Shakespeare: Richard III
\n* David Auburn: Proof<\/p>\n
\n* Francis Bacon: The Major Works<\/strong>
\n* William Shakespeare: Sonnets<\/strong>
\n* William Shakespeare: Hamlet<\/strong>
\n* George Herbert: The Complete English Poems
\n* John Donne: The Complete English Poems
\n* Christopher Marlowe: The Jew of Malta
\n* Cyril Tourneur: The Revenger\u2019s Tragedy
\n* Ben Jonson: The Alchemist<\/p>\n