Exploring
Genre
Crime Fiction
Horror
Revenge Tragedy
by Barbara Stanners
Each title in this series of teacher resource books, intended for use with students in middle and senior secondary years, starts with a detailed definition of the genre, followed by an examination of a wide range of texts with
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·background information
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·information about text and context
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ideas on genre conventions, representation of themes, characters, style
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suggestions and strategies for dealing with the texts
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a wide range of student activities to suit different year levels, with emphasis on what is being said and how it is being said, with questions
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response tasks
Exploring Genre is an invaluable resource with in depth analysis and student exercises to help students analyse, question, interpret and articulate their understanding of the text.
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Revenge Tragedy- Contents |
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Genre |
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Defining Tragedy |
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Evolution of the Genre |
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Typical Conventions and Motifs |
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Classic Tragedy |
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Electra |
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Medea |
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Renaissance “Blood Tragedy” |
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The Spanish Tragedy |
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Hamlet |
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The Revenger’s Tragedy |
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Gothic Vengeance |
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Frankenstein |
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Wuthering Heights |
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Poe-The Cask of Amontillado |
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Browning – Soliloquy at a Spanish Cloister |
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The Vendetta-Guy de Maupassant |
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The Poison Tree – William Blake |
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Contemporary Revenge Tragedy |
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The Tragedy of the Common Man |
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High Noon |
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The Crucible |
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Daddy |
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Cell Block Tango – Chicago |
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Black Medea |
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Cinematic Vengeance |
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Memento |
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Road to Perdition |
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Revengers Tragedy |
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Responding and Composing |
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Responding to Revenge Tragedy |
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Sample Student Response |
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Horror Contents |
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Genre |
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Defining Horror |
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Defining Genre |
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Gothic Horror |
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Typical Gothic Conventions and Motifs |
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Monsters, Vampires and Aliens |
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Beowulf-epic poem |
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Frankenstein - Mary Shelley |
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Dracula - Bram Stoker |
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Salem’s Lot (extract) - Stephen King |
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The War of the Worlds (Radio Play) |
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Howard Koch |
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The War of the Worlds (novel extracts) |
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H.G.Wells |
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Supernatural, Surreal and Macabre |
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Porphyria’s lover - Browning |
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Coleridge |
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Strange Fits of Passion –Wordsworth |
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The Red Room - H.G.Wells |
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The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart & |
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The Raven - Poe |
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Chronic Ward - Skrzynecki |
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Thriller - Michael Jackson |
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They call me the Wild Rose - Minogue & Cabe |
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Film Horror |
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Film Genre |
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Nosferatu – Murnau |
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The Mummy |
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Pyscho & The Birds – Hitchcock |
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Appropriations- Dracula & Buffy |
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Film Glossary |
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Writing Horror |