VCE English & Literature guide - units 3 & 4

Copies of the text

• Things fall apart by Chinua Achebe 
• The African trilogy by Chinua Achebe, including Things fall apart (book 1) 

Study guides

• Insight guide 
• NEAP guide 
• Wizard study guide 

Reviews & newspaper articles

• After empire: Chinua Achebe and the great African novel 
• Things fall apart: Chinua Achebe and the languages of African literature 
• Episode 10: Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe by Literate Podcast [1 hour] 

Analyses

• Bartleby literature guide 
• Penguin Random House teachers' guide 
• The politics of magic in Things Fall Apart 
• Culture in Things Fall Apart 
• Re-imagining gender in Things Fall Apart 

Interviews

• Achebe Discusses Africa 50 Years After ‘Things Fall Apart’, PBS News Hour [8 min 48 sec] 
• An African voice, The Atlantic (August 2000) 
• An Evening with Chinua Achebe, Library of Congress (2008-11-03) [1 hour 12 min] 
• Chinua Achebe, The Art of Fiction 

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources 
• SLV catalogue 
• Other works by Chinua Achebe available at the Library

Copies of the text

• Flames by Robbie Arnott 

Study guides

• Robbie Arnott on Flames [9 min] - Author summary of Flames 

• Flames on Text Publishing (publisher website) - View their teaching guide, and links to other reviews and interviews

Reviews

• Not the Booker: magic works in a wild Tasmania 
• Australian Book Review 

Interviews

• Robbie Arnott, author of Flames and The Rain Heron, interviewed by bookseller Penny Robinson (2020) [8 min 36 sec] 
• A conversation with Robbie Arnott (2018), Readings podcast [25 min] 
• Working with Words: Robbie Arnott (2015-08-20), The Wheeler Centre

Further resources

• SLV catalogue 

Copies of the text

• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 
  • our Library holds multiple editions in print and online
  • editions are freely available via Project Gutenberg
  • editions are freely available via the Internet Archive

Study guides

• The annotated Pride and Prejudice
• Insight guide
• Text response guide

Analyses

• Crash Course Literature: Pride and Prejudice, [11 min 43 sec] 
• Bartleby literature guide
• An examination of gratitude in Pride and Prejudice
• Themes of love and marriage in Jane Austen

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources
• SLV catalogue

Study guides

• CAE Book Group notes on All the light we cannot see

Reviews

• 'All the Light We Cannot See' cackles with life, artful writing
• Hope in spite of cruelty: "All the Light We Cannot See"
• A story of morality, science and Nazi occupation 

Interviews

• Simon & Schuster Books - Author statement/interview, [3 min 44 sec] 
• Literary Jackpot, Against the Odds
• The Booklist Carnegie Medal Interview

Analyses

• The Judgement Dilemma

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources
• SLV catalogue

Reviews

• The Guardian (2017-09-23)
• World Literature Today 
• The lives of others: a review of Jenny Erpenbeck's Go, Went, Gone by Ruth McHugh-Dillon, The Lifted Brow (2018-12-07)
• Kirkus Review 
• Strangers among us, The New Yorker (2017-09-25) 

Analyses

• Remembering Colonialism and Encountering Refugees: Decolonization in Jenny Erpenbeck's Go, Went, Gone
• Trauma, Postmemory, and Empathy: The Migrant Crisis and the German Past in Jenny Erpenbeck’s Gehen, ging, gegangen [Go, Went, Gone] 

Interviews

• Nicole Krauss and Jenny Erpenbeck (jump to author talk at 8 min), 92nd Street Y, New York event (2017-10-09) [1 hour 3 min]  
• Jenny Erpenbeck : Not a novel : a memoir in pieces (transcript), Between the Covers Podcast [2 hours 10 min]  
• Writers Speak | Jenny Erpenbeck in conversation with Claire Messud, Harvard University (2018) [1 hour 45 min] (article)  

• Jenny Erpenbeck: "If words are not enough, then violence enters" | In Conversation with Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold on How to Proceed Podcast (2020-12-30) [1 hour 4 min]  

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources 
• SLV catalogue 

Copies of the text

• Nine days by Toni Jordan

Study guides

• CAE Book Group Notes

Reviews

• Emotional postcards of a family drama 
• Angela Savage on Nine Days 
• Australian Book Review 

Interviews

• ABC radio (external site)
• Interview (external site)

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources
• SLV catalogue

Reviews

• The Guardian
• Kirkus Reviews
• Tor (external site)

Analyses

• The World is Ending, to the Joy of Readers
• Books to give you hope: Station Eleven
• Shakespeare, Survival, and the Seeds of Civilisation
• Station Eleven study guide 
• Bartleby literature guide 

Interview

• Station Eleven address at the 2015 Conference on The First-Year Experience® Author Dinner

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• We have always lived in the castle by Shirley Jackson

Analyses

• Chapter Ten of Shirley Jackson's American gothic by Darryl Hattenhauer
• 'House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic' by Roberta Rubenstein
• 'The Establishment and Preservation of Female Power in Shirley Jackson's "We Have Always Lived in the Castle"' by Lynette Carpenter 
• 'Food Symbolism and Traumatic Confinement in "We Have Always Lived in the Castle"' by Esther Muñoz González
• Shirley Jackson: A Companion by Kristopher Woofter

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources
• SLV catalogue