VCE English and EAL, English Language, and Literature guide - units 3 & 4

Copies of the text

• Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

Study guides

• Book discussion notes

Reviews

• Antipodes

Analysis

• Indigenous sovereignty and the crisis of whiteness in Carpentaria
• Orality and narrative intervention in Carpentaria
• Carpentaria and the search for a new order
• Shifting the literary aesthetic: representations of time in Carpentaria
• Carpentaria Reading Australia information trail (AustLit)
• Indigenous transnationalism: essays on Carpentaria

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• Slessor, Kenneth Selected Poems North Ryde, NSW: Angus and Robertson, 1988.

Study guides

• Teacher guide
• Sciortino, Sue., and Kenneth Slessor. Insight guide Selected Poems : Kenneth Slessor . Elsternwick, Vic: Insight Publications, 2007.

Analysis

• Kirkpatrick, Peter (2015)  Essay ReadingAustralia
• We hold a range of books of criticism and interpretation on Kenneth Slessor. (None of these are eBooks so can only be accessed within the Library)

Individual poems

Poems for study: ‘Earth-Visitors’, ‘Pan at Lane Cove’, ‘Winter Dawn’, ‘Stars’, ‘The Night-Ride’, ‘Realities’, ‘Music’ (sections I–VI), ‘Captain Dobbin’, ‘Five Visions of Captain Cook’, ‘Country Towns’, ‘Out of Time’, ‘North Country’, ‘South Country’, ‘William Street’, ‘Five Bells’, ‘Beach Burial’

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

​Analysis

• Identities in the Australian gothic
• Caterson, Simon.True fakes [The Way That Fiction Can Somehow Become Fact.].” Eureka Street 16, no. 2 (2006): 34–35.
• Tilley, Elspeth. “The Uses of Fear: Spatial politics and the white-vanishing trope Antipodes 23, no. 1 (2009): 33–41.

Video

• Joan Lindsay's Picnic at Hanging Rock (external site)

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• Speaking in tongues by Andrew Bovell
• Lantana - original screenplay by Andrew Bovell based upon the play, Speaking in tongues

Reviews

• Globe & Mail
• New York Times
• further reviews

Interviews

• Variety
• Globe & Mail

Further resources

• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• The Boy Behind the Curtain by Tim Winton

Interviews

• Herrick, Linda ‘The guy was all over the road like a spilt pizza’ The Spinoff October 19, 2016

Reviews

• The bard of the beach-front; essays from Australia. (2017, May 20). The Economist, 423, 81.
• Antipodes Mulcrone, K. (2017). Winton maintains mystique behind the curtain/The boy behind the curtain. Antipodes, 31(2), 451-452.
• Knox, Malcolm (October 08, 2016) Opening the door on a writer’s inspiration Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, p.2
• Kroenert, T. (2016). Faith and humanism behind Tim Winton’s curtain . Eureka Street, 26(21), 34–36.

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue