VCE English & Literature guide - units 3 & 4

Copies of the text

• Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Study guides

• CAE notes on Alias Grace

Books on the author and her novels

• Print and e-Books on Margaret Atwood

Reviews

• Kimmel, D. (1999) In search of alias grace: On writing Canadian historical fiction. The Canadian Historical Review, 80(2), 312-313.
• Auerbach, Nina. Alias Grace The Women's Review of Books, vol. 14, no. 7, Apr. 1997

Analysis

• Peters, Joan Douglas. Feminist narratology revisited: dialogizing gendered rhetorics in Alias Grace.  Style, vol. 49, no. 3, fall 2015, pp. 299-320
• Ravizza, E. (2019). Exploring otherness in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace. Ethical and epistemological reflections on historiographic metafiction British and American Studies, 25, 143-152,282.
• Lovelady, Stephanie. I Am Telling This to No One But You: Private Voice, Passing, and the Private Sphere in Margaret Atwood's Alias Grace Studies in Canadian Literature, vol. 24, no. 2, 1999, pp. 35-63.

Further resources

• Gale Literary Sources
• Article search

Copies of the text

• As I lay dying by William Faulkner
• Online edition at the Internet Archive

Reviews

• The Observer

Analysis

• The Function of Function Words in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying
• When a Mother Lays Dying or The Creative Power of Words: A Pragmatic Analysis of Addie's Section in William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying (external site) 
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• A Little Music Ain't About the Nicest Thing a Fellow Can Have”: Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and Country Songs
• William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: What the Grotesque is Trying to Say At (external site)

Further resources:

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV Catalogue

Copies of the text

• Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay

​Analyses

• Identities in the Australian gothic
• True fakes
• Spatial politics and the white-vanishing trope

Video

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

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• The Ladies Paradise by Emile Zola
  • editions are available online via the Internet Archive

Analyses

• Retail store atmosphere: the art of seduction
• Gender, war and the department store
• Crippled by sight: detail in The Ladies' Paradise

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
  • our Library holds multiple editions in print and online
  • editions are available online via the Internet Archive, including the first edition from 1818

Criticism & analysis

• Northanger Abbey. Novels for Students, edited by Ira Mark Milne, vol. 28, Gale, 2009, pp. 194-214
• The Cambridge companion to Jane Austen / edited by Edward Copeland and Juliet McMaster. 
  • Includes chapter on Northanger Abbey
• Heydt-Stevenson, Jillian.(2013) “Northanger Abbey, Desmond’, and History.” The Wordsworth Circle 44, no. 2/3 140–48.
• Benis, T. R. (2015). The neighbourhoods of Northanger Abbey The Eighteenth Century, 56(2), 179-192,277.
• Niebuhr, T. (2012). The ethos of humor: a study of the narrator in Northanger Abbey Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal, 34, 150+.
• Hudson, John. Gothic, romance and satire in Northanger Abbey The English Review, vol. 12, no. 1, Sept. 2001, p. 21
• Kearful, F. J. (1965). Satire and the form of the novel: the Problem of Aesthetic Unity in Northanger Abbey. ELH (John Hopkins University), 32(4),

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

Study guides

• Kazuo Ishiguro's the Remains of the Day: A Reader's Guide ebook

Analysis

• A Rhetorical Approach to Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
• Serving a new world order: Postcolonial politics in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day
• Reconstructing the Past as a Means of Rationalizing the Present: A Study of Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of The Day (1989)
• Desire, the gaze and suture in the novel and the film: The Remains of the Day
• Zen Comedy in Postcolonial Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• Dracula by Bram Stoker
  • Annotated text
  • Authoritative text

Study guide

• Teacher text guide and worksheet

Analysis

• Bram Stoker's Dracula as Saviour: Nietzschean reading
• "Complete and in Order": Bram Stoker's "Dracula" and the Archival Profession
• Crucifix, Communion, and Convent: The Real Presence of Anglican Ritualism in Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Un/speakability and radical Otherness: the ethics of trauma in Bram Stoker's Dracula
• Mass production and the spread of information in Dracula: "proofs of so wild a story"

Further resources

• Gale Literary sources
• SLV catalogue

Copies of the text

• Carpentaria by Alexis Wright

Study guides

• Book discussion notes

Reviews

• Antipodes

Analyses

• 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

• The Yield by Tara June Winch

Reviews & analysis

• Tara June Winch’s The Yield
• The Yield by Tara June Winch review – reclaiming Australia's indigenous voices.
• The Yield (ABR)