The setting in Regeneration by Pat Barker: Craiglockhart as a second battlefield
Analyse the setting in Pat Barker’s Regeneration: Craiglockhart, the home front, darkness, nature, war trauma and symbolic spaces.
Littérature
Études, cours et fiches de littérature française, britannique, américaine et espagnole : auteurs, œuvres, mouvements, contextes, méthodes d’analyse et préparation aux épreuves littéraires.
English Literature: Periods, Authors, Works and Study Guide
Explore English literature through its major periods, authors, genres and works, from Beowulf to Shakespeare, Romanticism and modern war writing.
Introduction to Regeneration by Pat Barker: war trauma, history and fiction
Introduction to Pat Barker’s Regeneration: historical fiction, Craiglockhart, shell shock, Rivers, Sassoon, Owen and the trauma of World War One.
War Poet: Wilfred Owen, Poetry and the Pity of War
Study Wilfred Owen’s war poetry, biography, influences, shell shock, Craiglockhart, Sassoon, realism, irony and the famous “pity of war”.
Edward Thomas: nature, England and the quiet poetry of war
Edward Thomas turned English landscape, memory and doubt into haunting war poetry. Discover his life, themes, poems and quiet modern voice.
Rupert Brooke: idealism, patriotism and the myth of the war poet
Rupert Brooke, English war poet of 1914, became famous for The Soldier, patriotic idealism and the myth of beautiful youth sacrificed in WWI.
World War One poetry: why war poetry became a literary problem
World War One poetry changed English literature by moving from patriotic idealism to pity, trauma, irony and disillusionment.
Richard III : Order and Disorder, the Elizabethan problem
It is very often an issue in Shakespeare’s plays. It deals with order and degree: each thing in the Universe has a place in a scale of things.
Richard III: the ambiguity of Richard’s evil
Richard generates a special relation between word and deed. He tells the audience what he is going to do, then does it, and finally recalls what he did.
Why Is A Midsummer Night’s Dream a Comedy?
Discover why A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a comedy through romantic confusion, festive disorder, Bottom’s farce, dramatic irony and its comic ending.
Structure in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Plots and Patterns
Analyse the structure of A Midsummer Night’s Dream through its four dramatic worlds, Athens–forest–Athens movement, parallel plots and play within a play.
Background of A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Myth, Folklore and Festivity
Explore the Greek myths, Ovidian sources, English fairies, seasonal customs and Elizabethan theatre behind A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Introduction and Context
Explore A Midsummer Night’s Dream through its date, sources, characters, opening scene, major themes, theatrical form and place in Shakespeare’s work.
The Dramatic Quality in Macbeth: Violence, Prophecy and Stage Tension
Analyse the dramatic quality of Macbeth through prophecy, violence, dramatic irony, stage action, rhythm, disorder and Shakespearean tragedy.
Political Questions in Macbeth: Kingship, Tyranny and Legitimacy
Analyse political questions in Macbeth: kingship, tyranny, legitimacy, rebellion, prophecy, violence and Shakespeare’s vision of power.
Introduction to Macbeth: Plot, Characters, Themes and Tragedy
A clear introduction to Macbeth: plot summary, characters, ambition, evil, witchcraft, guilt, kingship and Shakespearean tragedy.
Lord Jim: how is Conrad’s first-hand experience of seamanship perceptible throughout the Patna episode ?
Conrad was a sailor and gave us a flavour of seamanship: read ch1-20, there are segments that should not be missed.
Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad : « A free and wandering tale »
Explore Lord Jim as a free and wandering tale, from narrative frames and moral failure to honour, guilt, colonial spaces, and Conrad’s irony.
Family in Cider with Rosie: Characters and Relationships
Analyse Laurie Lee’s family in Cider with Rosie, including his mother, absent father, sisters, brothers and the relationships shaping his childhood.
The Short Story and the Novel
Compare the short story and the novel through structure, character, plot, unity, scale, narrative focus, reader effect, and literary form.
Edgar Poe : une Descente dans le Mäelstrom
L’action se situe au sommet d’une montagne, le Helseggen, sur la côte de Norvège dans la province de Nortland. Le panorama est effroyablement désolé…
Edgar Poe : Metzengerstein
Une époque lointaine, moyenâgeuse (châteaux) dans une région centrale de la Hongrie aux mœurs si étranges que l’on croit à la métempsycose.
Électre : tragédie et originalité du drame giralducien
Analysez Électre de Giraudoux : tragédie, mythe antique, ironie moderne, originalité dramatique, justice, vérité et tension politique.
Death of a Salesman: Introduction, Context, Plot and Themes
Explore Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman through its historical context, plot, characters, themes, dramatic form and modern tragic hero.
The ordering of events in The Great Gatsby
Literary analysis : The ordering of events in “The Great Gatsby” by Francis Scott Fitzgerald.
Structure and Narration in The Great Gatsby
The Great Gatsby is the third novel of Fitzgerald, published in 1925 after This Side of Paradise (1920) and The Beautiful and the Damned (1922).
American Modernism in literature
Explore modernism in literature through fragmentation, subjectivity, urban life, experimentation, time, consciousness, and the break with tradition.
The American Renaissance
Emerson’s literary and philosophical importance in the American Renaissance has been associated with his lasting influence in American intellectual life.
American Literature: a Declaration of Literary Independence
Explore America’s declaration of literary independence, from British influence and national identity to Emerson, originality, and cultural freedom.
Puritanism : a New World Vision
English Puritans were divided: some accepted Oliver Cromwell’s Commonwealth, and were persecuted, many Puritans ran away to the New World.
An authentically American Literature
Explore the rise of an authentically American literature through national identity, democracy, language, frontier myths, and cultural independence.
American Literature
Explore American literature through its major periods, authors, works and themes, from Puritan writing to Gatsby, modernism and American drama.
Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. Without surrender be on good terms with all persons.