EXTENDED DEADLINE - Critical Concepts and Readings: English Literature GCSE
EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 JANUARY 2021
Critical Concepts and Readings: English Literature GCSE.
Editors: Dr Kate Watson and Dr Sally O’Gorman
This original collection invites teachers and academics to contribute a book chapter on a GCSE text, applying a theory and considering a new and innovative aspect of the literary text.
The study of GCSE literature enables students to develop their knowledge of a vast literary heritage that spans over two centuries of societal, psychological and philosophical reactions. GCSE English Literature encourages students to read widely for pleasure, preparing for their engagement with literature at a higher level of interpretation.
Students of this millennium continually engage with the metafiction of artificiality or literariness of texts with an expectation that they will understand and adhere to methodological conventions in their own interpretations. This collection of indispensable interpretations on GCSE narratives is a departure from traditional readings offering under-researched, multifaceted concepts that relate to today’s multicultural reader ensuring students can make closer conceptual links between the past and the present.
Contributors would also be expected to include a brief advisory section at the end of the chapter detailing ways to engage students through both online and classroom modes of teaching.
We invite proposals for 6000-word book chapters. Topics can include the following:
An Inspector Calls
Lord of the Flies
Blood Brothers
Never Let Me Go
Animal Farm
The History Boys
A Taste of Honey
Pigeon English
DNA
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
A Raisin in the Sun
The Woman in Black
The Empress
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
Much Ado About Nothing
The Tempest
The Merchant of Venice
Julius Caesar
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
A Christmas Carol
The Sign of Four
Great Expectations
Jane Eyre
Frankenstein
Pride and Prejudice
Concepts that can be applied to your reading:
Intertextuality/ Metafiction and self or inter-referentiality
Postcolonial criticism
Psychology and Psychoanalysis (Freud/Jung/Lacan etc.)
Eco criticism
Feminist criticism
Allegory
Allusion
Archetype
Binary opposition
Canon
Carnival (Bakhtin)
Desire
Conventions
Semiotics
Structuralism (e.g. Barthes) and Poststructuralism
Ideology
Irony
Metaphor
Metonymy
Motif
The Death of the Author
Queer theory
Marxist criticism
Narratology
New Criticism
New Historicism and Cultural Materialism
Reader-response criticism
Narrative structure
Realism
Dramatic structure
Ouspensky
Brecht (epic theatre)
Performative interpretations
Dramatic irony
Editors: Dr Kate Watson and Dr Sally O’Gorman
We welcome proposals from secondary school English practitioners and university academics. Please email your 200-word proposal, four key words and short biographical note including your school/university affiliation to watsonk2@outlook.com and sallyogorman@hotmail.com no later than 15th January 2021. Comments and queries should be directed to the same addresses.