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Advanced Higher English

An introduction to the Advanced Higher English Dissertation, covering its structure, requirements, and text choices. Learn about selecting an appropriate topic, analyzing literary techniques, and linking texts thematically or by the same author.

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Advanced Higher English

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  1. Advanced Higher English Introduction to Dissertation

  2. Advanced Higher English Dissertation What is it? • An independent study of literature • Often of two or three texts (if prose/drama)... • ..but can be a single text, if substantial • ...or a representative selection of texts (if poetry or short stories) • 2500 to 3000 words in length • Submitted by 10th March

  3. Advanced Higher English Dissertation What should it contain? • An appropriate topic agreed between mentor and student • A clear line of argument stemming from the topic and focusing on key literary techniques • Detailed analysis of those techniques

  4. Advanced Higher English Dissertation What should it contain? • Clear comparisons between the techniques/styles employed across the different texts or detailed analysis of techniques used in a single text • Some reference to secondary sources (either to reinforce your point or to offer an opinion for you to explore and challenge)

  5. Advanced Higher English Dissertation Text Choice • Consider any texts you have read recently (you cannot use texts which you have been taught) • Consider the literary eras/movements to which you have been introduced • Spend time in the library browsing suggested texts or websites

  6. Advanced Higher English Dissertation Text Choice • Consider whether you are going to study a single text, more than one text by the same writer or texts which can be thematically linked in some way

  7. Advanced Higher English Dissertation Thematically Linked • ‘A Clockwork Orange’ (Burgess) and ‘The Wasp Factory’ (Banks) – society’s response to a disturbed protagonist • ‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ (Remarque) and ‘The Kite Runner’ (Hosseini) – the impact of war/conflict on the protagonist • ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ (Wilde) and ‘Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde’ (Stevenson) - portrayal of the divided self via characterisation and theme

  8. Advanced Higher English Dissertation Linked by the same author • ‘The Remains of the Day’ and ‘Never Let Me Go’ (Ishiguro) • ‘The Woman Who Walked Into Doors’ and ‘Paddy Clark, Ha Ha Ha’ (Doyle) • ‘Metamorphosis and other stories’ (Kafka) – short stories • ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and ‘The Glass Menagerie’ (Williams) - drama

  9. Advanced Higher English Dissertation Challenging single texts • ‘The Waste Land’ (TS Eliot) – poetry • ‘Shakespeare’s Sonnets’ – poetry • ‘Orlando’ (Woolf) – prose • ‘Ulysses’ (Joyce) – prose • ‘Lanark’ (Gray) - prose • ‘Angels in America’ (Kushner) – drama • ‘The Oresteia’ (Aeschylus) – drama

  10. Texts to consider avoiding(?) • Catcher in the Rye • One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest • 1984 • Brave New World • A Clockwork Orange • Trainspotting • To Kill a Mockingbird • The Great Gatsby • Fahrenheit 451

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