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Advanced Higher English. Introduction to Dissertation. 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
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Advanced Higher English Introduction to Dissertation
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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